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


  • Non-marine evaporite sedimentology
  • Modern non-marine carbonate sedimentology
  • Clastic sedimentology and diagenesis
  • Geolimnology
  • Petroleum geology
  • 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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