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

Postdoctoral Researcher

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
​McGill University
​Montréal, Canada

​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

​​09/20:
Thanks to funding from Moore–Simons Project on the Origin of the Eukaryotic Cell, I'm excited to be starting a new postdoc at the McGill Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences on the environmental conditions of Proterozoic eukaryotes with Galen Halverson, in collaboration with Leigh Anne Reidman and Susannah Porter!

​​09/20:
Presented some of my research into ironstones from the Yukon—and shallow marine iron cycling in the Tonian—at GSA Connects Online 2020. Thanks to session chairs Tim Gibson, Ash Hood, Anne-Sofie Ahm and Peter Crockford for inviting me and organising a fantastic session on reconstructing the environmental conditions and evolutionary trends of the Tonian Period.

02/20:
Thanks to Geotop for having me present my research as part of their departmental seminar series at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

Brennan O'Connell's paper (with Malcolm Wallace, Ash Hood and Noah Planavsky) on the peritidal deposits of the Cryogenian Angepena Formation was just published in Precambrian Research, offering insights into the shallow marine redox state in between the two Snowball Earth events.
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Teepee structures and intraclast breccias within hematite-rich, dolomitic siltstones of the Angepena Formation, indicating deposition in an intertidal environment during of the nonglacial interlude of the Cryogenian. Arkaroola, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
​01/20:
It was great to visit Kingston, present some of my work to Queen's University​ Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering, and see the incredible collection of Ediacaran fossils of Guy Narbonne.

12/19:​
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!
Press coverage: New York Times; CNN; Radio Canada; Science
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Hematitic siltstones of the Holowilena Ironstone show evidence for the delivery of oxygenated subglacial meltwater into the anoxic oceans during the ca. 720–660 Ma Sturtian glaciation. Holowilena South, South Australia
11/19:​
Had a successful field trip to Sanjiang County, Guanxi Province (China) to look at Cryogenian rocks with Prof. Weiqiang Li and Prof. Chang-zhi Wu from Nanjing University. Thank you to Prof. Li for hosting me at the State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research (Nanjing University)!
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Exploring the riverbanks at Rongyang for Cryogenian glacial diamictite outcrops with Qingyu, Gan Kai, Prof. Li and Prof. Wu
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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