Chad Morgan

Dr. Chad Morgan serves as an Assistant Professor in the Earth Sciences program at Yukon University, jointly administered by the School of Science and the Centre for Northern Innovation in Mining. He additionally holds an Adjunct Assistant Professor position in the Department of Earth, Energy, and Environment at the University of Calgary and collaborates with the Geological Survey of Canada in Calgary.

He earned his PhD from the Department of Geoscience at the University of Calgary.

As a stratigraphic palaeontologist specializing in Cambrian trilobite biostratigraphy and carbonate sedimentology, his research focuses on the Stephen Formation (lateral equivalent of the Burgess Shale) in the Canadian Rocky Mountains and the Mount Cap Formation in Northwest Territories subsurface. His core expertise spans biostratigraphy, invertebrate palaeontology, trilobite taxonomy, carbonate sedimentology, and ichnology.

Dr. Morgan conducts helicopter-supported fieldwork in Yukon to study Upper Triassic carbonate reefs and Mid-Cambrian exposures, while providing relative-age control for Geological Survey of Canada mapping projects using northern trilobite collections from Northwest Territories and Yukon.