Geological Technician Co-op Program Student Blog
Who was my co-op with? I did my Earth Resource Technician (ERT, now Geological Technician) co-op with AMG Environmental Monitoring. My six-month co-op at AMG began on May 10th. AMG Environmental provides flow monitoring services for storm sewers, sanitary sewers and rivers. AMG also offers …
For my summer and fall co-op term I worked for Aurora Geosciences as a geo-technician. Aurora is a Canada-wide exploration consulting company that specializes in geological consulting and conducts a wide variety of geophysical surveys. As I was eager to being my co-op, I started …
For my co-op term, I worked at Generation Mining as a Geotechnician in a remote township in North Western Ontario called Marathon. Working in Marathon was a great opportunity because it is in one of the most mining rich areas of Ontario.. My experience with …
This summer I worked as a Soil Sampler for Big River Mineral Exploration in the Yukon. I found out about this opportunity through our ERT (now Geological Technician) Program Coordinator, Joanna Hodge. During my time with this company I learned a lot about the practical …
I completed my co-op for the Earth Resource Technician Program (ERT, now known as the Geological Technician Program) as an Environmental Remediation Student with Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL). Overall, my position was largely administrative which meant that I spent a lot of time at a …
During this co-op semester, I worked for Bayside Geoscience. They are a geological consultation company based out of Thunder Bay, Ontario. I found this position through networking on LinkedIn. My position in the company was as a Geological Technician. With Bayside being a consultation company …
My co-op term was spent at the engineering consultancy firm WSP in their Peterborough office. My role at the company was officially “Co-op student – geotechnical” however the equivalent role was geotechnical technician. I found my opportunity to be an excellent learning experience overall, the …
Over this past summer I had the good fortune of working for a mineral exploration company in northern Canada. The company is called Appia Rare Earths & Uranium Corp. The focus of our camp in northern Saskatchewan was looking for thorium-rich monazite that contains rare …
My co-op for the ERT course was working as a Geotechnical field technician in Ottawa with the company Golder Associates. Working at Golder was a very good opportunity for me to learn, grow, and get a taste of what type of industries I can go …
I applied to the ERT program with the intent to get into mineral exploration and wanted to take the co-op as an opportunity to get introduced into the profession. I spent some time in my first semester getting excited about the co-op, researching different companies, …
