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Grant Abbott
Project Geologist
Grant has recently retired from the Director position, but will be continuing on in the capacity of Project Geologist.
Grant Abbott graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1971 with a Bachelors Degree in Geological Engineering and from Queens University in 1977 with a Masters Degree in Geological Engineering. Since 1970 his career as a geologist has largely been spent in the Yukon where he worked as an exploration geologist for Archer Cathro and Associates, and as a student for the Geological Survey of Canada. In 1980, he moved to Whitehorse and joined the Exploration and Geological Services Division, Northern Affairs Program, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development as a project geologist. In the early years with DIAND, he carried out regional mapping and metallogenic studies throughout the Yukon. He then went on to become Chief Geologist and eventually Director of the Yukon Geological Survey and its predecessor, the Yukon Geology Program.