News Stories 2018-2019

The Conversation is a popular Science news journal written by Researchers. Dr. Hanika Rizo in the Earth Science Department at Carleton University has had an article published in their most recent edition.

The Department of Earth Sciences Dr. Tim Patterson has received funding from the Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) Clean Growth Program to develop rapid, cost-effective protocols and technology for the mining sector to determine environmental baseline conditions.

The Department of Earth Sciences PhD student, Arjan Mann, has identified two new species in his research into carboniferous period creatures. The two species date from about 310 million years ago, when the ancestors of modern reptiles, birds and mammals were moving permanently onto land

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.

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.

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.

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".