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Georgia Pe-Piper was born in Greece, and gained her B.Sc. from the University of Athens, Greece and Ph.D. from Cambridge University, England. She then taught and did research at the University of Patras, Greece. She joined the Department of Geology at Saint Mary’s University in 1981, teaching a very wide range of courses and supervising many students. As department chair she introduced and fostered the Cooperative Education program in Geology. As the first Director of Graduate Studies and Research, she laid the groundwork for the present Faculty of the same name, and introduced the M.Sc. in Applied Science. She was the early promotor of, and helped initiate, the Environmental Studies program, later serving as Coordinator.
Her early research was on the igneous rocks of Greece and her book on this topic is widely used in Greek universities. In Nova Scotia, she continued research on the igneous rocks of the Cobequid Highlands and on volcanic rocks offshore. Twenty years ago, she redirected her skills in mineralogy to the Scotian Basin, where she developed new methods to define provenance and diagenesis of sandstone petroleum reservoirs and sedimentary basins in general. In 2018 she was appointed Professor Emerita. She continues with research and work with graduate students.
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