Kerstin Brauneder

Kerstin completed a BSc in Environmental Science with Major in Geology.

She conducted a comprehensive study examining the geochemistry of peatwaters in the Victor kimberlite field as her BSc thesis project.

Kerstin was awarded a Student Research Grant from the Society of Economic Geologists, and also a grant-in-aid from American Association of Petroleum Geologists

Kerstin has completed MSc project on the geochemistry of forest rings in 2012. During her program, she travelled many places as a guide of cruise ships to Antarctica, Greenland and Mediterranean Sea (not related to her thesis project).

Air photo showing forest rings. Northern Canada has thousands of such forest rings (several hundred meters in diameter in most cases, but some are over 3 km in diameter)

From L; Mudar, Stew Hamilton (OGS), Keiko, Kerstin, Gordon Southam (UWO), pilot

Summer, 2007. From L: Stew Hamilton (OGS), Kerstin, Keiko, Laura, Jamil Sader

Kerstin Brauneder’s work

Brauneder, K., Hamilton, S.M., Hattori, K., 2016. Geochemical processes in the formation of ’forest rings’ examples ofreduced chimney formation in the absence of mineral deposits. Geochemistry: Exploration,, Environment, Analysis. Vol. 16, p. 85-99. Pdf file (5.7 Mb).

Sader, J.A., Hattori, K., Brauneder, K., Hamilton, S.M., 2013. The influence of buried kimberlite on methane production in overlying sediment, Attawapiskat region, James Bay Lowlands, Ontario. Chemical Geology, vol. 360, p. 173-185. Pdf file

Sader, J.A., Hattori, K.H., Hamilton, S., Brauneder, K., 2011. Metal binding to dissolved organic matter and adsorption to ferrihydrite in shallow peat groundwaters: Application to diamond exploration in the James Bay Lowlands, Canada. Applied Geochemistry, vol.. 26, p. 1649-1664. Pdf file

Brauneder, K. Hattori, K.H. & Southam, G., 2009, Investigation of physical, chemical and microbiological processes in the development of forest rings in Ontario. Extended Abstract, International Applied Geochemistry Symposium. pdf file

Brauneder, K., Hamilton, S., Hattori, K. Southam, G., 2008. Detailed Investigation of chemical and microbiological parameters over forest-ring edges in Northern Ontario. Ontario Geological Survey, Open File Report, OFR 6226 p.028-1  to p. 028-8. pdf file

Brauneder, K., Hattori, K.H., Hamilton, S., Januszczak, N., 2007, Geochemical signatures of concealed kimberlites in shallow groundwaters in wetland: Case study in the Attawapiskat area, northern Canada. International Applied Geochemists Symposium June, 2007- The paper was accepted but could not be delivered due to time conflict as she was in the field.

Brauneder, K., Hattori, K. and Hamilton, S., 2007.  Peatland waters overlying concealed kimberlites in the Attawapiskat region, northern Ontario. Ontario Geoscience Forum and Ontario Prospectors Symposium, December, 2007, pdf file of her poster (4 Mb)

Kerstin in the helicopter with black fly bites.	Working hard to collect shallow ground water below the caribou moss in the Attawapiskat area.