Indigenous community partners are an important part of research in the Northwest Territories. The Patterson Lab uses many environmental proxies when examining core records to help understand how climate variability impacts regional lake ecosystems.

Tim Patterson is working on refining technologies that will help determine environmental baseline conditions, with the dual goal of helping partners in the mining sector meet environmental regulations.

Carleton University's Department of Earth Sciences, Hillary Maddin, is looking for evidence of that first proto-reptile in the fossilized tree stumps slowly eroding out of the cliffs that line Nova Scotia's Bay of Fundy coast.

Earth Sciences Hillary Maddin is one of six Faculty members to receive early Research Awards from the Ontario Government.

Mining Magazine has published an article with Dr. James Mungall from Carleton University's Earth Sciences department, having collaborated on. The article is entitled: Precious metals may lie beneath Moon's Surface

Al Donaldson, a retired professor from Carleton University's Earth Sciences department, was interviewed by CBC News on the resurfacing of stromatolites along the Ottawa River.

Earth Sciences Professor, Dr. Jim Mungall, has published an article in Nature Geoscience entitled: "Abundance of highly siderophile elements in lunar basalts controlled by iron sulfide melt".

Carleton University researcher, Richard Amos and a team have received combined funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF) for work that will improve the healthy behavior of Canadians and prevent the contamination of groundwater.

The Patterson lab is part of a group carrying out research to have Crawford Lake, near Milton Ontario, designated as the Global Boundary Stratographic Section and Point "golden Spike", type section of the newly proposed Anthropocene. It has been determined that the boundary will be based on the "Atomic Age", when humans first detonated nuclear weapons. The resultant radiation has left a clear signature in sedimentary records all around the world.

CBC has published a news article that describes the significance of new Natural Resources Canada Clean Technology funding received by Tim Patterson's lab to both industry and indigenous groups. They are developing an integrated freeze core-ITRAX technology to obtain extremely high resolution records of climate/environmental change in lakes to help industry become compliant with the Northwest Territories Mine Site Reclamation Policy and to help indigenous groups better understand ecosystem health on their traditional lands.