Leanne Pyle

Leanne Pyle is a Geologist with research and teaching interests in stratigraphy, sedimentology, paleontology, paleoecology, basin analysis and Cordilleran geology. She earned a PhD in Earth and Ocean Sciences from the University of Victoria (2000) and a Bachelor of Science, Honours in Paleobiology from the University of Saskatchewan (1994).

She's registered as a Professional Geologist with the Engineers and Geoscientists British Columbia (EGBC). She has published many scientific papers and technical government reports.

Dr. Pyle has enjoyed teaching Geoscience at Camosun since 2019. She currently teaches GEOS 100 Physical Geology and GEOS 110 Earth-Ocean-Atmosphere System and is enthusiastic about incorporating practical field experiences into courses. Her interest in instruction began during her undergraduate degree as a teaching assistant in Biology. She taught a variety of Geoscience laboratories and field courses while she was a graduate student and went on to instruct classes while she was a Postdoctoral researcher.

Throughout her professional career, she has trained and supervised students in the field during her term as a Research Scientist with Natural Resources Canada, and during projects managed through her geological consulting company.

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Deom, E., Johns, M., and Pyle, L.J., 2018. British Columbia’s fossil heritage – from Fossil Management Framework to tangible outcomes in the community; British Columbia Paleontological Alliance 2018 Paleontological Symposium, Courtney, BC.

Pyle, L.J. and Barnes, C.R., 2017a. Upper Cambrian to Lower Silurian stratigraphy of a MacDonald Platform-Kechika Trough-Cassiar Terrane transect, Ware, Tuchodi Lakes, Kechika and Cry Lake map-areas (94F, K, L, 104P), northeastern British Columbia; in Central Foreland NATMAP Project: Proterozoic to Devonian stratigraphic sections in British Columbia and Yukon; Lane, L.S. and MacNaughton, R.B. (eds.), Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 603, p. 7-51. 

Pyle, L.J. and Barnes, C.R., 2017b. Lower Ordovician to Middle Devonian stratigraphy, Macdonald Platform-Ospika Embayment transect, Halfway River, Ware and Trutch map-areas (94B, F, G), northeastern British Columbia; in Central Foreland NATMAP Project: Proterozoic to Devonian stratigraphic sections in British Columbia and Yukon; Lane, L.S. and MacNaughton, R.B. (eds.), Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 603, p. 53-83.

Pyle, L.J. and Gal, L.P., 2016. Reference Section for the Horn River Group and Definition of the Bell Creek Member, Hare Indian Formation in central Northwest Territories; Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, v. 64, p. 67-98, doi:10.2113/gscpgbull.64.1.67.

Pyle, L.J., 2012. Cambrian and Lower Ordovician Sauk mega sequence of northwestern Canada, Northern Rocky Mountains to the Beaufort Sea. In J.R. Derby, R.D. Fritz, S.A. Longacre, W.A. Morgan, and C.A. Sternbach (eds.), The Great American Carbonate Bank: The Geology and Economic Resources of the Cambrian- Ordovician Sauk Megasequence of Laurentia; AAPG Memoir 98, p. 675-723.

Gal, L.P. and Pyle, L.J., 2011. Geological Field Guide for Cambrian to Cretaceous Strata in Northern Mackenzie Plain, Franklin Mountains, and Northern Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories (NTS 096 C, D, E, F & 106 H); Northwest Territories Geoscience Office, NWT Open File 2011-06, 68 p.

Pyle, L.J. and Jones, A.L. (editors), 2009. Regional Geoscience Studies and Petroleum Potential, Peel Plateau and Plain, Northwest Territories and Yukon: Project Volume; Northwest Territories Geoscience Office and Yukon Geological Survey, NWT Open File 2009-02 and YGS Open File 2009-25, 549p.

Pyle, L.J., Barnes, C.R., and McKenzie McAnally, L., 2007. Conodont biostratigraphy of the latest Cambrian-Early Ordovician upper McKay Group, southeastern British Columbia; Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 44, p. 1713-1740.

Pyle, L.J., Roots, C., Allen, T.L., Fraser, T.A., Bond, J., Jones, A.L., and Gal, L.P., 2007. Roadside Geology of the Dempster Highway, Northwest Territories and Yukon, A traveller’s guide to the Geology of Canada’s most northwestern road; Northwest Territories Geoscience Office and Yukon Geological Survey, NWT Open File 2007-05 and Yukon Open Report 2007-4, 92p.

Pyle, L.J., Narbonne, G.M., Nowlan, G.S., Xiao, S., and James, N.P., 2006. Early Cambrian metazoan eggs, embryos, and phosphatic microfossils from northwestern Canada; Journal of Paleontology, v. 80, p. 811-825.

Pyle, L.J., Narbonne, G.M., James, N.P., Dalrymple, R.W., and Kaufman, A.J., 2004. Integrated Ediacaran chronostratigraphy, Wernecke Mountains, northwestern Canada; Precambrian Research, v. 132, p. 1-27.

Pyle, L.J. and Barnes, C.R., 2002. Taxonomy, evolution and biostratigraphy of conodonts from the Kechika Formation, Skoki Formation and Road River Group (Upper Cambrian to Lower Silurian), northeastern British Columbia; National Research Council of Canada Monograph Series, 44461, 227p.