Dr Rebecca Montsion

https://people.csiro.au/m/r/rebecca-montsion

Biography

Hailing from Canada, Rebecca (Becki) Montsion is comfortable in a canoe braving bears and mosquitoes while mapping remote wilderness. Her research aims to bridge gaps between traditional knowledge and data science techniques. Current projects focus on integrating multi-disciplinary datasets for prospectivity, mineral systems modelling, and accelerating drill logging methods. In previous work, she integrated airborne geophysics, petrophysics, geochemistry, and structural geology while mapping terranes ranging from complex Archean greenstone belts to Quaternary landforms. While working in Archean and Proterozoic settings, Becki captured a range of mineralization controls in magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE, volcanogenic Cu-Zn-Pb-Ag±Au massive sulphide (VMS), orogenic Au, and Sedimentary Exhalative (SEDEX) Ag-Fe-Pb-Zn mineral systems.

Academic Qualifications

2024

PhD
Laurentian University/University of Western Australia
2017

MSc
University of Ottawa
2015

BScH
Carleton University

Achievements and Awards

2024-2024

Best paper
Geoscience Frontiers
01/2021-06/2021

Young Mining Professionals Alamos Northwestern Ontario Scholarship
Young Mining Professionals
2020-2022

Post-Graduate (Doctoral) Scholarship
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
2020-2021

Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology
Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities
2020-2020

Michael Smith Foreign Study grant
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
2020-2020

Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysics Foundation award
Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysics Foundation
2019-2019

Innovation in Mining
Young Mining Professionals and Orefinders
2019-2019

Joan Bath Bursary
Prospector and Developers Association of Canada and CSM Global
2019-2019

Best presentation in Economic Geology
Geoscience Society of Australia - WA Earth Sciences Student Symposia
2018-2018

Goodman School of Mines Fellowship
Goodman School of Mines
2017-2017

Frank Arnott Award Challenge (now Next Generation Exploration Award) - First Prize: International Experienced Category
Prospector and Developers Association of Canada and Exploration 17
2014-2014

Brian Rust Scholarship
Carleton University

Current Roles

Geospatial Research Scientist
Data fusion in all dimensions

Fields of Research

Current

Former

Community and Corporate Citizenship

2023-present

Australian Institute of Geoscientists
2024-present

AusIMM – Associate
2018-2022

Women Geoscientists in Canada (WGC)
2013-2023

Professional Geoscientists Ontario (PGO) Geoscientist in Training (GIT)
2018-present

Society of Economic Geologists
2012-2023

Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada
2019-2020

Society of Exploration Geophysicists
2018-2020

Geological Society of Australia
2016-2019

Geological Association of Canada