The Brandon University Geology Club is a club for all students with an interest in Geology! Whether it is your major or your minor everyone is welcome! We hold our meetings during a free block at 12:40 on Tuesdays in room 2:48 on the Brodie Building second floor. Right now, we are fundraising to go to CCMEC – Central Canada Mineral Exploration Convention – held in Winnipeg during November 6 and 7 of 2023. We are also fundraising to go to PDAC – Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada – in Toronto. PDAC runs from March 2-6 of 2024 and we plan on being in Toronto for a whole week. Conventions like the ones we plan on attending are a great place to network and find connections for summer employment.
We have a lot of fun activities planned for our club this year, such as a fieldtrip to the Souris Agate Pit, Saskatchewan Pot Ash Mine, and more. Last year some of the activities we did include going to see a Brandon Wheat Kings Game and bowling at T-Birds. Our club is a great place to make friends and connect with people who can help advise you in your academic years to follow. Geology is a great stream of science to go into. At Brandon University there are three streams of geology you could go into, Geology, Environmental Geoscience, and Paleontology and Stratigraphy. There are so many careers that come with geology such as, Critical Minerals Exploration, Environmental Geologist, Mining Industries, and Teaching/Research.
The Brandon University Geology Club is a great way to make connections for summer employment and to talk with your peers about classes that are nice to take together vs classes you should not take at the same time if you don’t want a heavy course load. The Geology Club is hosting a Jeopardy Night at Bailey’s on September 22 in the evening to fundraise for our upcoming trips! Keep your eyes out for posters in the hallway with more information! Follow the Brandon University Geology Club on Instagram @bugeologyclub