Eddie Goldenberg Research Chair of Canada<\/a>, the university announced Wednesday.<\/p>\nThe research program is part of a $1-billion (US$720-million) Government of Canada investment to recruit internationally recognized researchers working abroad to strengthen Canada\u2019s research and innovation capacity. Walton is one of 64 chairholders unveiled as part of the program deployed across the country. He will officially join Queen\u2019s summer 2027.<\/p>\n
\u201cQueen\u2019s is one of the top geological engineering schools in the world,\u201d he said. \u201cThe opportunity to not only have this research program, but also be embedded in a community with an outstanding group of students and faculty, collaborators, both in the department and across the university, that\u2019s a very special opportunity as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Walton is currently a professor and associate department head at the Colorado School of Mines. At Queen\u2019s, he will join the Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering. The program will provide $8 million in federal funding over eight years to support the work.<\/p>\n
His research team will focus on slope hazards, studying how slopes fail and respond to environmental changes, including thawing and permafrost changes in northern environments.\u00a0The team will also study open-pit mines and other critical infrastructure projects in remote areas, where slope failures can have serious consequences for safety, access and operations.<\/p>\n
\u201cBringing leading researchers to Canada is essential to strengthening our nation’s research capacity, and this appointment will create new opportunities for research,\u201d said Nancy Ross, the university\u2019s vice-principal of research.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont. Credit: Adobe Stock Gabriel Walton, an internationally recognized mining engineer, will join Queen\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-331945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont. Credit: Adobe Stock<\/p>\n