News Stories 2020-2021

Dr. Richard Ernst, the Scientist in Residence at the Department of Earth Sciences, has had a manuscript accepted into Nature Communications. 

Dr. Hillary Maddin, a Faculty member in the Department of Earth Sciences at Carleton University, is one of five Faculty to receive financial support from the NFRF (New Frontiers in Research Fund).

The Department of Earth Sciences Professor George Dix has created a virtual Sedimentary Geology Field trip to help students continue with their geology studies online

The Department of Earth Sciences would like to say congratulation to all of the graduates during this Fall 2020 Convocation week. The Department has both Undergraduate and Graduate students completing their degree's this Fall. While we won't be on campus for the ceremonies this month, we want to commemorate this moment and congratulate all the students for their hard work.

The Department of Earth Sciences Professor Tim Patterson was awarded research funding last week from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), to investigate the environmental impact of corroding chemical weapons dumped in the years after WWII in the Baltic Sea.

Prof. Richard Ernst, his master’s student and lead author Sara Khawja along with co-authors have published a paper in Nature Communications. This paper provides the first geological evidence in support of a dramatic climate change event on Venus.

The study was led by Master’s student, Sara Khawja and published in Nature Communications.

What do abandoned old mines in northern Canada and munitions buried deep in the Baltic Sea after World War II have in common?