Awards

Jake McDonald Memorial Scholarship

To encourage student participation in reclamation-related fields, the BC Technical and Research Committee on Reclamation awards the Jake McDonald Memorial Scholarship, which is given to support a student (or students) in a scientific field related to reclamation. This scholarship was established in honour of Jake McDonald, former Senior Reclamation Inspector in the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources.

>> 2010 Student Information on nominations and/or scholarship applications (30KB PDF)

In 2009, a $1,000 scholarship was awarded to the following student:

Sara Duncan – MSc program at School of Environmental Studies at UVic. Thesis topic involved the investigation of the use of lichen transplants in reclamation of terrestrial lichen- containing communities in the northeast coal block in BC (First Coal) and the Athabasca oil sands (Suncor).

Gavin Dirom presents the scholarship cheque to Sara Duncan on behalf of the committee.

>> Previous winners of the scholarship