Professor Lee Groat has been a faculty member at the University of
British Columbia since 1989. His main research interests are the geology
of gem deposits, pegmatites, the crystal chemistry of minerals, and
economic geology. Many of his projects have entailed fieldwork in remote
parts of northern Canada. In 2003 Dr. Groat was elected a Fellow of the
Mineralogical Society of America, and in 2009 the new mineral, groatite
was named in his honour.