Phil McCausland (Arrival and Recovery of the Tagish Lake Meteorite) a final-year doctoral student in the Department of Geophysics (Paleomagnetism) at the University of Western Ontario, has a deep interest in the evolution of the Earth and the Solar System. In the spring of 2000 he participated in the recovery of a meteorite that fell on Lake Tagish in northwestern B.C.

His presentation will document the circumstances of the Tagish Lake meteorite's arrival as a brilliant Yukon fireball in January 2000, the efforts directed at its recovery, from the slowly thawing surface of Tagish Lake, and its importance as a possibly unique carrier of information from the early Solar System.