At FLOGEN’s Shechtman International Symposium held in Cancun, Mexico from June 29 to July 4, Professor John Meech was presented with the Fray International Sustainability Award in recognition of his leadership of UBC-CERM3′s research into Sustainable Mining. Dr. Meech attended the conference with 10 members of the CERM3 team who presented 12 papers on recent work done at UBC
A list of papers presented by the CERM3 team is shown below:
4. Development of Sustainable Small Businesses in Mining-Affected Communities
- Suzette McFaul, Andre Xavier, and John Meech
UBC-CERM3 Team at the Shechtman Conference L to R: Dottie and Jim Higgins (Guelph University), Emma and Chris Anderson (Massey University, NZ), Claudia and Andre Xavier (UBC-Mining), John and Elaine Meech, Ricky Gu and Peipei Shi (UBC), Suzette McFaul (SEF-Canada), and Sixto Aguero (UBC)
http://mining.ubc.ca/professor-john-meech-received-the-fray-international-sustainability-award/