News Stories

Friday, June 11, 2021

Lauren MacLellan paper published in Earth-Science Reviews

Third year student Lauren MacLellan (under the supervision of Dr. Richard Ernst, Scientist in Residence) is the lead author on a 29 page paper just published in Earth-Science Reviews “Volcanic history of the Derceto large igneous province, Astkhik Planum, Venus”

Friday, June 4, 2021

Dr. James Mungall and Post Doctoral Fellow Zhuo-sen Yao have published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Dr. James Mungall and Post Doctoral Fellow Zhuo-sen Yao have published this month, with their paper entitled: Kinetic controls on the sulfide mineralization of komatiite-associated Ni-Cu-(PGE) deposits GCA 305 185-211

Friday, May 28, 2021

Zoe Landry and Adjunct Prof. Danielle Fraser's Research Discovers Ancient Gray Wolves Adapted to Survive

Zoe Landry and Prof. Danielle Fraser analyzed and determined that gray wolves survived the last ice age by shifting their diet.

Friday, May 28, 2021

ERTH 4303 Resources of the Earth received about 1.39M page views on Wikipedia

61 articles our students were editing reached about 1.39M views! Click here to read more.

Monday, May 17, 2021

GEOLOGY paper by Dr. Fred Gaidies and Dr. Freya George

Dr. Fred Gaidies and former Earth Sciences PhD student Dr. Freya George publish a paper in GEOLOGY about the influence of interface properties on rock microstructure formation.

Friday, May 7, 2021

Earth Sciences Alumni Dr. Andrée Blais-Stevens publishes a series of maps from across Canada

The Department of Earth Sciences alumni, Dr. Andrée Blais-Stevens (PhD, 1995), a research scientist at the Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, has published a series of maps that document the threat of geological natural disasters across Canada. Andrée was the first PhD student of Professor Tim Patterson.