Dr. Heather Jamieson
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Heather Jamieson is a Professor Emerita at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. Her expertise is in the area of environmental geochemistry, particularly the mineralogical controls on the mobility and bioaccessibility of metals and metalloids in mine waste. She has pioneered the application of automated mineralogy and synchrotron-based X-ray experiments to metal speciation in mine tailings, soils and sediments. Dr. Jamieson was awarded the 2017 Peacock Medal from the Mineralogical Association of Canada which is given to a scientist who has made outstanding contributions to the mineral sciences in Canada. She was the 2018 Adrian Smith Lecturer at the University of Waterloo. In 2019, she was awarded the Rick Hutson Memorial Award for Mentorship from Women in Mining at the 2019 Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada Annual Meeting Much of her fieldwork is in the Canadian North but she has also conducted research in Nova Scotia, Chile, Peru, USA, Spain and Australia.