At June’s RFG2018 conference, we interviewed more than 30 student researchers as part of the Data Speaks! storytelling contest. We challenged them to explain their research and data in a way anyone could understand, in five minutes or less. They all delivered with passion, positivity, and great understanding of the real-world context their research applies in.

Our Seequent judges had a tough time choosing winners from the pool of high-calibre interviews (you can watch them all below). Ultimately, the top five students received cash prizes on the final day of the RFG2018 conference.

First Place: Evelyn Freres

Seequent Chief Research Officer Adam Pidlisecky announces Evelyn Freres as first prize winner of Data Speaks! Here she is holding the cheque for $1,500 with Nicole Doucette (right), Seequent’s Science Communications Specialist.

It’s vitally important that when industry or government discuss how to use natural resources and how to develop water and energy management strategies, that they use reliable scientific data to make sustainable, smart decisions. That’s what these student researchers at RFG 2018 were there to contribute, and why we wanted to support and reward the communication of their work through this contest.

(1st) Evelyn Freres 5:50

Do you trust your data?

(2nd) Adebayo Ojo 5:29

Developing Accurate Images of the Subsurface Using Three Types of Data for Natural Hazard Reduction

(3rd) Mark Klapheke 5:23

How Earth’s Changing Environmental Conditions Affect Volcano-Related Ore Deposits at Continental Margins: A Canadian Case Study

(4th) Antonina Calahorrano Di Patre 4:59

Gravity Changes before Volcanoes Erupt? Monitoring a South American Volcano by Detecting Changes in Gravity

(5th) Maria Alejandra Rodriguez Mustafa 3:38

Using chemistry to understand how the millions of tonnes of iron in Chilean mines concentrated

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Micheal Anenburg 4:31

Fighting climate change with magma that flows better than water: a journey of rare metals through Earth’s crust

Ryan Shaw 5:09

Dirt Soup; It’s all in the recipe!

Marius Kern 4:59

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Sterling Vanderzee 4:50

Mining for the environment, a how-to guide to mitigate climate change by mining nickel

Wycliff Tupiti 5:43

Polymetallic nodules as a source for important metals

Rhy McMillian 5:03

Increasing Our Confidence in the Interpretation or the Identification of the Geologic Source of Obsidian Belongings Found At Archaeological Sites

Erin Boss 5:25

The Mary River Group, northern Baffin Island, Nunavut: unravelling the geological history of 2.8 billion year old sedimentary, volcanic, and iron formation rocks