Rate My Professor Steven Denyszyn

Steven Denyszyn is an Adjunct Research Fellow in the School of Earth and Oceans at the University of Western Australia, a position he has held since 2019. He previously served as Lecturer at the same institution from 2012 to 2019 and Research Associate in 2011. Denyszyn earned his PhD from the University of Toronto in 2008, after which he completed a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Berkeley Geochronology Center and University of California, Berkeley from 2008 to 2011. He is also Research Associate at Carleton University since 2019 and Associate Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Denyszyn's research centers on high-precision U-Pb geochronology, primarily using the CA-ID-TIMS method, applied to mafic rocks especially those related to ore deposits, large igneous provinces with emphasis on ore deposits, environmental effects, and paleocontinental reconstructions, granites mainly concerning continental growth, and lower-crustal rocks chiefly for formation of continental crust, ore deposit generation, and transport of heat, fluids, and magmas. He maintains capabilities in paleomagnetism, geochemistry including isotopes, and igneous petrology. With 55 research outputs including 43 peer-reviewed articles, his key publications include "Continental flood basalt weathering as a trigger for Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth" (Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2016), "Precise age determination of mafic and felsic intrusive rocks from the Permian Emeishan large igneous province (SW China)" (Gondwana Research, 2012), "Magmatic duration of the Emeishan large igneous province: Insight from northern Vietnam" (Geology, 2020), "Paleomagnetism and U-Pb geochronology of Franklin dykes in High Arctic Canada and Greenland" (Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2009), "Post-collisional alkaline magmatism as gateway for metal and sulfur enrichment of the continental lower crust" (Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2018), and "Formation of lower arc crust by magmatic underplating revealed by high-precision geochronology" (Geology, 2023). His work has received 1,946 citations and involves ARC projects on Proterozoic multistage rift basins key to mineral systems.