Primary Job Title Chief Geologist Primary Organization 
Corridor Resources
Location Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Gender Male
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Dr. Martel completed a B.Sc. (Hons) in geology from Dalhousie University in 1979. He was employed by TransCanada Pipeline Ltd. as a petrophysicist and reservoir geologist (1981 to 1983) and subsequently by the New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources as a petroleum geologist (1983 to 1986). He returned to Dalhousie University and completed a
Ph.D. on lake and continental sedimentology and stratigraphy in 1990. After a year of teaching at St. Francis Xavier University, Dr. Martel was awarded a N.A.T.O Post-Doctoral Fellowship to Oxford University to study tidal sedimentation in the European Alps. Following the fellowship, he lectured at Oxford (1993) and then returned to Halifax where he taught at Dalhousie University (1994-1995).
In 1995 he was hired as an Assistant Professor of Research at Dalhousie University to work on the hydrogeology and sedimentology within Carboniferous coal-bearing formations in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He began consulting to Corridor in June 1995 before being hired on full time in 1998.
