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Charlie Roots
GSC Research Scientist
Charlie Roots, a Natural Resources Canada regional mapping geologist with the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC), is seconded to the Yukon Geological Survey (YGS). He spends his summer traversing in the Yukon bush and mountains, the autumn preparing interim maps and reports, and strives to produce bedrock maps and reports throughout the seasons. He collaborates with others of the YGS in office projects such as Yukon-Tanana stratigraphic correlation, and assists with GSC-inspired projects such as Geoscape and the National Mapping program.
Charlie’s major projects in the last decade include bedrock geology of Mayo area (DIAND Bulletin 7), maps of the Lansing area and southwestern Wolf Lake areas, which are east of Mayo and Teslin, respectively. He has struggled to complete "Geoscape Whitehorse", a poster which presents the geological attributes and substrate constraints for Yukon students and residents. He is part of the Yukon Ecoregions Working Group, which has described the biophysical attributes of the entire territory.
Charlie first played in the St. Elias Mountains in 1966 and returned to work and climb there in 1977 and 1992. His M.Sc work addressed Cretaceous volcanism on Montana Mountain, south of Carcross, and his PhD concerned Proterozoic volcanic rocks in the western Ogilvie Mountains (GSC Bulletin 492). Earning degrees from Dartmouth College and Carleton University, he has been employed by Anaconda Canada Exploration (now defunct), Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, and three offices of the GSC. Charlie was the first geologist to occupy the newly created Canada/Yukon Geoscience Office in April, 1992. He is currently still working out of the Yukon Geological Survey office.