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Dr. Geoff Pignotta has been honoured with a nomination as a 2019-2020 Favourite Faculty Member by the students in Residence at Carleton University.

Graduate student, Arjan Mann and Undergraduate student Emily McDaniel have co-authored a paper on a new species, the Carbonodraco lundi. This is a small, lizard-like predator that lived in ancient swamps

Tom Dudgeon, a recent graduate from the Earth Science Master's program at Carleton University, received the Senate medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement-Graduate, at this November's 2019 convocation ceremonies.

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".