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MAXWELL LECHTE
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Maxwell Alexander Lechte
PhD, Earth Sciences
maxwell.lechte@mail.mcgill.ca

Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University
​Montréal, Canada
Bourses d'excellence pour étudiants étrangers (Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies)
PhD 2019
Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne
MSc (Distinction) 2014
Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne
BSc 2011
Geology, University of Melbourne
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NEWS


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12/19:​
Some of my research on Cryogenian iron formations (with Malcolm Wallace, Ash Hood, Weiqiang Li, Ganqing Jiang, Galen Halverson, Dan Asael, Steph McColl and Noah Planavsky) has been published in PNAS!
Subglacial meltwater supported aerobic marine habitats during Snowball Earth
New York Times 
CNN

11/19:​
Had a great field trip to Sanjiang County, Guanxi Province (China) to look at Cryogenian rocks with Prof. Li Weiqiang and Prof. Chang-zhi Wu from Nanjing University.
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10/19:​
​Awesome work by Jackson McCaffrey (of the University of Melbourne Sedimentology and Earth's Surface Evolution research group), who published his research which describes a submerged Miocene reef system similar in scale to the modern Great Barrier Reef off the northwest shelf of Australia. Read some press coverage of his work here.

10/19:​
Thanks to Susannah Porter, Leigh Anne Riedman and the rest of their research group at UCSB for hosting me in Santa Barbara this week!

08/19:​
Arrived in Montreal to begin my postdoc at McGill! 
I have joined the
Precambrian Research Office & Publican Society, the research group headed by Galen Halverson.

06/19:​
Returned from a successful field trip to the Yukon, studying the Tonian and Cryogenian stratigraphy of the Ogilvie and Wernecke Mountains with Galen Halverson, Wilder Greenman, Malcolm Wallace, Ash Hood, Brennan O'Connell, Kelsey Lamothe and Tim Gibson.

The Polar Continental Shelf Program — Science Report 2018 describes some of our work conducted in the Werneckes in 2018.
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Brennan, myself, Wilder and Ash take in the views of the late Tonian Calliston Lake Formation, Ogilvie Mountains.
05/19:​
I will be taking on a Postdoctoral Fellowship to work on the Tonian sedimentary archive of the Yukon with Prof. Galen Halverson at McGill University, funded by the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies.

Had a great session at GAC-MAC 2019 in Québec with Alessandro Ielpi entitled 'Precambrian sedimentology: Open session on recent advancements in paleogeographic and paleoenvironmental reconstructions in deep time​'. 

04/19:​
Graduated from the University of Melbourne alongside and my supervisors and colleagues from the Sedimentology and Earth's Surface Evolution research group, headed by Malcolm Wallace and Ash Hood.
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