In recognition of an excellent paper entitled "A Review of Iron Oxide Copper-Gold Deposits, with Focus on the Wernecke Breccias, Yukon, Canada, as an Example of a Non-Magmatic End Member and Implications for IOCG Genesis and Classification."

Julie Hunt received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in geology from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. She completed a PhD at James Cook University, Queensland, Australia. Before joining the Yukon Geological Survey as mineral deposits geologist, she worked as an exploration geologist and a regional mapper. She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Tasmania.