Raymond A. Price came to Queen’s
University in 1968 from the Geological Survey of Canada. He has been Professor
Emeritus of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering since 1998, but has
remained active in research and in supervision of thesis research projects.
His research in structural geology and tectonics is focused on the evolution
of the continental lithosphere, particularly in the Canadian Cordillera and
other modern orogenic belts. His extensive geological mapping for the
Geological Survey of Canada in the southern Canadian Rocky Mountains has
provided the basis for new insights on the structure and tectonic evolution of
the Cordilleran foreland thrust and fold belt in Canada, and of its
implications for the tectonic evolution of the rest of the Canadian
Cordillera, and for other thrust and fold belts worldwide. Prof. Price’s other
research interests include: the role of science in public policy development,
nuclear fuel waste disposal, earth system science, and the human dimensions of
global change. Click Here for Prof. Price's
recent publications
Prof. Price is currently Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Sudbury
Neutrino Institute, Chair of the Advisory
Committee of the Earth Systems Evolution Program of the Canadian Institute of
Advanced Research, and a Member of the Board on Earth Sciences and Resources
of the U.S. National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences. He was
Chair of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency Scientific Review Group
that evaluated the scientific and engineering aspects of Atomic Energy of
Canada Limited’s proposed concept for the disposal of Canada’s Nuclear Fuel
Waste, a Member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Global Change
Program, and a Member of the Commission on Geosciences, Environment and
Resources of the U.S. National Research Council.
Prof. Price graduated from the
University of Manitoba in 1955 with a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Geology, and in 1958 he
received a Ph.D. in Geology from Princeton University. From 1958 to 1968 he
was a member of the Petroleum Geology Section of the Geological Survey of
Canada and was engaged in geological mapping and structural and tectonic
studies in the Cordillera of western Canada. He then moved to Queen’s
University where he was Head of the Department of Geological Sciences from
1972 to 1977, and a Killam Research Fellow from 1978 to 1980. Between 1981
and 1988 Prof. Price was the Director-General of the Geological Survey of
Canada and an Assistant Deputy Minister in the Department of Energy, Mines and
Resources in Ottawa. He was President of the International Lithosphere
Program from 1980 to 1985, and President of the Geological Society of America
in 1989-90.
Prof. Price is an Officer of the
Order of Canada, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Foreign Associate
of the US National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, and an Honorary Foreign Fellow of the European
Union of Geosciences. He received the R.J.W. Douglas Medal from the Canadian
Society of Petroleum Geologists in 1984, the Sir William Logan Medal of the
Geological Association of Canada in 1985, the Leopold von Buch medal from the
Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft in 1988, and the Major Edward Coke Medal
from the Geological Society of London in 1989, and he was made an Officer in
L’Ordre des Palmes Académique of France in 1988. He was awarded the degree
D.Sc. (honoris causa) by Carleton University in Ottawa and the Memorial
University of Newfoundland.
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