William M. Last
P.Geo.; FGSA
Professor
Telephone Office: (204) 474-8361; Lab: (204) 480-1058
Fax: (204) 474-7623
Mailing & Courier Address:
Department of Geological Sciences
125 Dysart Road
Winnipeg, Canada R3T 2N2
Research Interests (& Publications)
- Non-marine evaporite sedimentology
- Modern non-marine carbonate sedimentology
- Clastic sedimentology and diagenesis
- Geolimnology
- Petroleum geology
- Petroleum Source Rock Geochemistry
Ongoing Research Projects
- Late Holocene lake level fluctuations in the northern Great Plains
- Sedimentology, geochemistry, and evolution of saline lakes in the northern Great Plains of western Canada
- Dolomite genesis and diagenesis in saline environments
- Microbialite carbonates in salt lakes
- Ikaite formation in salt lakes of western Canada
- Sedimentology and geochemistry of saline lakes in southern Australia
- Stable isotope geochemistry of Lake Manitoba
- Sedimentology and geochemistry of saline lakes in the Galapagos Archipelago
- Holocene evolution of the Aral Sea
- Geochemistry, mineralogy, and sedimentology of organic-rich sedimentary rocks in Manitoba and southeastern Saskatchewan
- Sedimentology and reservoir quality of the Mississippian Bakken (Exshaw) Formation in southwestern Manitoba
- Diagenesis of the Winnipeg Formation in southern Manitoba
- Sedimentary History and Sediment Geochemistry of Lake Winnipeg
- Geochronological discrimination of climatic change versus cultural stress in representative prairie watersheds of western Canada
- El Niño records in lakes from southeastern Australia
- Environmental geology, water quality changes, and heavy metal pollution of Lake Manitoba
- Microbialites and dolomite: the coastal salt lakes of South Australia
- A paleolimnological record of flooding in the Red River Basin, Manitoba and North Dakota
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