Our Expertise

Chief Geoscientist – Dr. Bryan Schreiner, PhD, P.Eng., P.Geo.

SRC’s Chief Geoscientist, Dr. Bryan Schreiner, provides technical leadership and expert guidance on geological sciences to clients and to management and researchers across SRC. Dr. Schreiner identifies new opportunities for geological services, helps to build new programs and supports existing programs where geological sciences and/or services can support the mineral and resource industries.

He focuses on identifying and supporting project work applicable to clients in Saskatchewan and elsewhere in the world, primarily in the areas of geology: geochemistry, hydrogeology and hydrology, geological modelling, mineral processing, sustainable mining, environmental monitoring and minerals (e.g., uranium, potash, coal and rare earths), petroleum (including oil sand and oil shale) and water resources (particularly groundwater).

View Dr. Bryan Schreiner's interview on Mapping Groundwater in Saskatchewan.

Research Scientist – Dr. Steven Creighton, PhD

Steven Creighton operates the SX-100 electron microprobe and oversees the SRC Advanced Microanalysis Centre™. He completed his PhD in geology at the University of Alberta in 2009. His studies there focused on clarifying the role of mantle metasomatism in the formation, preservation and destruction of diamonds.

Associate Scientist – Dr. Radhika Udinoor-Palliath, PhD

Radhika Udinoor-Palliath started in SRC’s Minerals group in 2007. Her main responsibilities include the operation and maintenance of the 3D Virtual Reality Centre™ and operation of the XRD facility at the Advanced Microanalysis Centre™. She completed her PhD in geology at the University of Kerala, India, and worked in various fields including metamorphic petrology, geographic information systems, X-ray diffraction analysis and 3-D modelling.

XRF Lead - Marion McConnell, RSO

Marion McConnell is the XRF lead at SRC’s Advanced Microanalysis Centre™ and is responsible for the maintenance and operation of the XRF and quality control of the data generated through the Advanced Microanalysis Centre™ lab. She has worked in a laboratory environment for approximately 25 years and is experienced in the maintenance and operation of XRF, ICP, Fluorometry, Alpha spectrometry, Atomic Absorption and general lab equipment.

Her first analytical job was at SRC as a lab technician in the radiochemistry department. She has acquired a Quality Management Certificate from the University of Manitoba, a Radiation Safety Officer Certificate and she completed two geology courses from the Athabasca University.

Thin Section Technician - Jennifer Doxey, BA (Geology)

Jennifer Doxey is a proficient technician who has received training in the use of advanced polishing techniques. Doxey has also received training in precision materials technology from the process development engineers at the LOGITECH laboratory in Glasgow, Scotland.

She is knowledgeable in all aspects of sample and equipment measurement at a theoretical and practical level. She holds a bachelor’s degree in geologic science from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. She began thin sectioning rocks for Wright State University in 1996.

Jennifer’s formal training as a geologist allows her to fully understand and appreciate the attention to detail required to produce high quality petrographic thin sections that are representative, properly marked and finely polished.

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