News Stories 2019-2020

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 students Sara Khawja, Nico Kastek and Erin Bethell had the opportunity to present their work on ancient volcanic events at a conference in Siberia.

The study presents results of a survey of 90 lakes in subarctic Canada variously contaminated by arsenic (As) as a result of legacy gold-mining, and statistically demonstrate the sensitivity and tolerance limits of Arcellinida, an important group of shelled protozoa, to various As concentrations.

Carleton University is featuring 10 Faculty members, leaders and doctoral students among the many women at Carleton who are changing the world through innovation teaching, groundbreaking research and vital community outreach.

An Alumni Master's student from the Department of Earth Sciences at Carleton University, Ryan Paterson, has been featured in a CBC news articles detailing his research on Corumictis wolsani

Carleton University’s Department of Earth Sciences Adjunct Research Professor, Dr. Michael J. Ryan, has co-authored a paper in Royal Society Open Science describing the new genus and species of horned dinosaur, Stellasaurus ancellae, from northwestern Montana.

Michael J. Ryan, a Carleton University Adjunct Research Professor and James Campbell, a Carleton University Earth Sciences graduate have co-authored a paper in the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences.

The Department of Earth Sciences, Professor Hillary Maddin, working on a team let by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, has discovered Martensius bromackerensis, a basal synapsid from the Late Paleozoic.