About Lee Groat
I grew up in Kingston, where Lake Ontario meets the Canadian Shield. I graduated from Queen's University with a B.Sc. (Honours, Geology) in 1982. From there I went to the University of Manitoba, graduating with a Ph.D. degree in 1988. In 1988-1989 I was a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at Cambridge University.
I came to UBC in July 1989. In 1999 I was awarded the Young Scientist Medal of the Mineralogical Association of Canada. Throughout the 1990's I was at various times an Associate Editor for both Canadian Mineralogist and American Mineralogist, and from 2001 to 2006 I was Editor of American Mineralogist.
In 2002 I was awarded a Killam Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
In 2003 I was elected a Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America.
In 2009 the new mineral groatite, NaCaMn2+2(PO4)[PO3(OH)]2, was named in my honour.
I am currently Director of the Integrated Sciences program at UBC.