Helen Belyea

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Helen R. Belyea (February 11, 1913 – May 20, 1986) was a Canadian geologist best known for her research of the Devonian System, a geologic period of the Paleozoic era, in Western Canada.

In 1976, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. ^[1] In 1962, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

A teacher who had also served as a lieutenant in the Canadian Navy, Belyea was hired as a technologist in 1945 by the Canadian Geological Survey, and was promoted to geologist in 1947. After oil was struck at Leduc, Alberta, she was one of two geologists sent in 1950 to monitor the discovery. An accomplished equestrian, Belyea went on many field excursions by horseback, travelling for days through the mountains of Alberta and BC. Belyea's many awards included the Barlow Memorial Award for an economic geology paper; she was the first woman honoured this way.

Birthdate

   November 13, 1913

Birthplace

   St. John, New Brunswick

Date of Death

   May 20, 1986

Place of Death

   Calgary

Family Members

Other Interests

   Mountaineering, skiing, walking, swimming, horseback riding. Membeer, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra League. Assoc. Director of Calgary Zoological Society.

Title

   research scientist emeritus

Office

   Institute of Sedimentary and Petroleum Geology (ISPG)

Status

   Deceased

Degrees

       * BSc (Geology), Dalhousie U, Nova Scotia
       * MSc (Geology), Dalhousie U, Nova Scotia
       * PhD, Northwestern U, Evanston, Illinois, USA, 1939

Awards

       * Barlow Memorial Medal (Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 1959
       * Honorary Member of the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, 1962
       * Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, 1962
       * Officer of the Order of Canada, 1967