News Stories

Friday, April 16, 2021

OCGC Graduate Student Geosciences Seminars a success!!

On Wednesday April 15th, the Graduate students in Earth Sciences from both Carleton University and Ottawa University presented their OCGC Seminars.

There were 19 students presenting on a varied number of topics that were all successful. Congratulations and thank you to all who participated in the event.

Thursday, March 25, 2021

Adjunct Professor, Dr. Michael Ryan, has been published in Scientific Reports

The Department of Earth Sciences Adjunct Professor, Dr. Michael Ryan, has recently been published in Scientific Reports on newly excavated skeletal remains of an ankylosaurid-

Thursday, March 18, 2021

Dr. Hanika Rizo co-authors publication: Iron isotopes trace primordial magma ocean cumulates melting in Earth's upper mantle

Dr. Hanika Rizo of the Earth Sciences Department at Carleton University has co-authored a publication in Science Advances about research that was performed on ancient rocks from Greenland and how they contain in their chemical composition, information of a period in the young Earth when its surface was molten.

Monday, March 15, 2021

Tim Patterson contributes to article on rehabilitation to Frame Lake

In collaboration with the Department of Earth Sciences alumni Dr. Jennifer Galloway (PhD 2006; GSC, Calgary), Hendrik Falck (MSc '89, Northwest Territories Geological Survey) and many others in Yellowknife, researchers in the Patterson Lab have for the past few years been investigating the causes behind the degradation of Frame Lake in the heart of Yellowknife, NWT.

Thursday, February 18, 2021

New Late Cretaceous Marine Reptile publication by M. Ryan and J. Campbell

Dr. Michael Ryan, Adjunct research professor in Earth Sciences, and his former Earth Sciences MSc student Dr. James Campbell recently published the description of a new Late Cretaceous marine reptile from the Dinosaur Park Formation of southern Alberta in the journal PeerJ.

Monday, February 8, 2021

Kaitlyn de Moree van Lierde has won the GAC-PDAC Logan Prize

Current undergraduate student, Kaitlyn de Moree van Lierde, has won the 2021 GAC-PDAC Logan Student Prize. This award supports the career and academic advancement of geoscience students.