News Stories 2018-2019

The Department of Earth Sciences Outreach Coordinator, Beth McLarty-Halfkenny, has been awarded the 2019 E.R. Ward Neale Medal from the Geological Association of Canada.

Our Graduating 4th year students completed their GeoSoc mural in the tunnels of Carleton this past Winter 2019 term.

Alumni Nicole Williamson and adjunct Professor Marie-Claude Williamson of the Earth Science Department at Carleton University have been published in The Arctic Institute.

Freya George, a PhD student with Dr. Fred Gaidies, receives a Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement at the Convocation Ceremony on June 11, 2019. This medal is awarded for outstanding graduate work at the doctoral level.

Dr. Hanika Rizo, from the Department of Earth Sciences at Carleton University, is the lead author on research that indicates material from the Earth's core had been leaking into the mantle shell since 2.5 billion years ago.

In 1996, Tim Patterson began giving students the option of contributing to an online museum instead of writing a term paper. At the time the idea was considered innovative enough to merit an articles in the New York Times.

Dr. Hillary Maddin in the Earth Science department at Carleton University was interviewed July 11, 2019 by CBC Radio in Ottawa. Her team as received a 300-million year old tree stump, and they are hoping to find evidence of the first recognizable forms of animal life