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EES Job Openings

The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences invites applications for the following positions:

• , with a focus on biogeochemical cycling and flux pathways along the听Land to Ocean Aquatic Continuum.听
  Review of applications will begin on 23 September 2024 and will continue until the position is filled. To guarantee consideration of your application please submit it by 23 September 2024.听听
• 听in the broad area of Earth surface processes.
  Review of applications will commence on October 1, 2024, and applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

New Class Winter 2025:

This course aims to understand the structures and dynamics of the Solid Earth system from the surface tothe inner core and from the ocean to the continent. Topics covered will include the internal structure of the Earth, plate tectonics, earthquakes, seismology, gravity, magnetic field, heat flow, and mantle convection.

By the end of this course, students will be able to:
鈥� Explain fundamental earth science concepts and phenomena using sketches.
鈥� Gain knowledge of plate tectonics and its driving forces.
鈥� Understand the Earth as a unified dynamic system.
鈥� Appreciate the importance of multidisciplinary approaches in Earth sciences.
鈥� Read, analyze, and critique scientific papers, and effectively communicate听 听 听 听 听 听 听scientific concepts.

For more information, contact Dr.听Miao Zhang, miao.zhang@dal.ca

Congratulations to Meg Langlais, one of our Queen Elizabeth Scholarship students, who had a new paper,听 , published in the journal Marine Biology, as a result of her work at the Cape Eleuthera Institute. This would not have been possible for Meg without the QES program, the CEI鈥檚 amazing guidance and collegial workspace, and the whole shark team at CEI welcoming Meg into their research group.

Congratulations to all those who received awards at the 2024 Earth and Environmental Sciences End-of-Year Awards Banquet:
MacEachern-Ponsford Award: Wednesday Gillespie
Douglas Award: Evelyn Ferguson
The Milligan Undergraduate Award for Excellence in Geology: Emma McCarron
James L. Hall Award: Emily Theben
Pearson Education Canada Book Prize: Robyn Holysh
Art and Dorothy Cooke Scholarship: Sarah MacDonald
Owen Hertzman Prize: Sasha Chilibeck and Elena Milito
Environmental Science Award: Liam Bendzsa
Michael Keen Research Award: Hannah Freeman
David Barlow Memorial Award: Catherine Potvin
Best Honours Thesis: Lauren Kew (Earth Sciences) and听 Rosie Bleyer (Environmental Science)
Best Thesis Presentation: Lauren Kew (Earth Science) and Sarah MacDonald (Environmental Science)
Professor of the year: Caroline Franklin
TA of the year:听Tristan LeClerc (Earth Sciences) and Hannah Freeman (Environmental Science)
Summer Research Awards:
Sobey Award: Hannah Freeman, Environmental Science, Supervisor:Craig Brown
Sobey Award: Lenka听Tomlinson, Combined Honours ESS/ENVS. Supervisor:Tarah Wright
NSERC USRA: Lauren Gover, BSc Biology (External: MUN). Supervisor: Sian Kou-Giesbrecht
NSERC USRA: Catherine Potvin, Environmental Science. Supervisor: Glenn Crossin
Sobey Award: Isaac Bahler, Double Major Earth/Physics. Supervisor: Sian Kou-Giesbrecht
John R. Dingle Research Scholarship听(through SRES): Mary Legorburu. Supervisors:听Ben Collison and Alana Westwood

Congratulations to fourth-year environmental science student Kiah Heneke-Flindall was chosen as one of Dal鈥檚 Top Co-op Students of the Year for 2023! Kiah spent her three work terms with Folklore Reforestation in British Columbia, Ravenwood Silviculture in New Brunswick, and Hope Blooms in Halifax, where she remains the program coordinator for Hope Blooms鈥� climate action youth program, Green Labs.

Shout out to all the EES students who attended the Science Atlantic Environment Conference at UPEI last weekend. Congratulations to who won the Acadian Forest Region Award for her poster. And thank you to UPEI for hosting the conference - it was a great success.

Congratulations to all the presenters at "" on March 4th.
EES' Lauren Kew took home the "Crowd Favourite" award for her presentation "Reconstructing Changes in the Northwest Atlantic Depth Gradient Using Deep-Water Gorgonian Corals" and Sana Salehi won the "Best Talk" award for her presentation "The Impact of Precipitation Phase on Changing Groundwater Recharge in Mountain Regions of Canada and the US". EES's Hannah Freeman also presented. Her presentation was title: "Determining Effectiveness of Forestry Beneficial Management Practices for Olive-sided Flycatcher, a Species at Risk Bird in Nova Scotia".

Congratulations to Peteris Rozenbaks who received the Sandra Barr Award for the best graduate student presentation at the recent Atlantic Geoscience Society (AGS) annual meeting in Moncton, NB.听

Congratulations to EES' Amy Mui and project collaborators Sue Gass (EES), Melanie Zurba (School for Resource & Environmental Studies), and Georgia Klein and Laurel Schut (College of Sustainability) who were awarded an Anne Marie Ryan Teaching & Learning Enhancement Grant for their proposal 鈥淓co-Hope: Developing Strategies to Counter Eco-Anxiety and Build Resilience in Students鈥� in December of 2023.

Congratulations to , recipient of the Art and Dorothy Cooke Memorial Research Scholarship for 2023-24. This award recognizes an Environmental Science Honours student whose thesis research proposal is judged to be of strong merit.听

Congratulations to EES MSc student, Anna Ryan (along with her supervisor Vittorio Maselli and fellow Dal researcher Tony Walker) on their recent publication in Nature Communications documenting microplastics that were scooped up from the North Atlantic and deposited on land (Newfoundland) during Hurricane Larry in 2021:

Congratulations to all award recipients from the recent Earth and Environmental Sciences Memorial Awards Ceremony:
MacEachern-Ponsford Memorial Award: Wednesday Gillespie
James L. Hall Scholarship: Emily Theben
G. V. Douglas Memorial Award: Evelyn Ferguson

Congratulations to , who received the "Atlantic Geoscience Society Environmental Geoscience Award" for her presentation, "Reconstructing changes in the Northwest Atlantic 14C depth gradient using deep water bamboo corals" at this year's AUGC (Atlantic Universities Geoscience Conference) at Memorial University, St. John's, NL (October 19-22, 2023).

Congratulations to Marcos Zentilli, Emeritus Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences on receiving the 鈥淧rofessor Juan Br眉ggen Medal of Merit鈥� from the College of Geologists of Chile: "In recognition of his outstanding and extensive academic career, his scientific publications and the awards obtained, both in Canada and in Chile." It is the highest honor, and restricted to Chileans. Br眉ggen was a German professor at the university of Chile, a pioneer of Chilean geology (1887-1953).

Congratulations to EES graduate student, Alexandra Del Favero-Campbell, for receiving a for research exploring the effect of environmental factors on mental health outcomes in Nova Scotia. Alexandra is supervised by Kelvin Fong.听

, recipient of the 2023 Early Career Faculty Award of Excellence for Teaching at 马会论坛. Congratulations Amy on this amazing accomplishment!

A shout out to Natashia Drage (M.Sc., 2022) who was just selected as the 2023 Gelinas Silver Medalist for Outstanding M.Sc. thesis from the Volcanology/Igneous Petrology Division of the Geological Association of Canada. Her thesis helped to constrain models for the origin of chromite deposits, the primary ore of chromium, an important critical metal. That work was also just published in the Journal of Petrology

Congratulations to all those who received awards at the 2023 Earth and Environmental Sciences End-of-Year Awards Banquet:
MacEachern-Ponsford Award: Megan MacDonald
Douglas Award: Yarden Gedalia
Brian MacLean Memorial Prize: Brooke Reid
Milligan Undergraduate Award: Sana Salehi
David Barlow Memorial Award: Ingrid Helmke
Michael Keen Research Award: Lauren Kew
Art and Dorothy Cook Scholarship: Geneva Bahen
Environmental Science Award: Joi-Elle Charlemagne
Owen Hertzman Prize: Catherine Brenan and Emma Taniguchi
Pearson Education Canada Book Prize: Keir Jack
Professor of the year: Lexie Arnott
TA of the year: Ray Beazley
Best Honours Thesis: Megan MacDonald (Earth Sciences) and Geneva Bahen (Environmental Science)
Best Thesis Presentation: Erin Hilliard (Earth Science) and Catherine Brenan (Environmental Science)

Congratulations to EES' Levyn Radomske and Geneva Bahen who represented the department at the Science Atlantic Environment Conference on Saturday, March 25.

Congratulations to the EES graduate and undergraduate students who all did such an excellent job presenting their research at the in Truro on Fri-Sat. Our own Maureen Mathew received the Sandra Barr Award for Best Graduate Student Presentation. Also, Dr. P. K. Mukhopadhyay (Muki), a good friend of EES for many years, was awarded the Gesner Medal, which recognizes " a person who has developed and promoted the advancement of geoscience in the Atlantic Region in any field of geology". Grant Wach accepted the award on Muki's behalf.

Congratulations to EES' Maureen Matthews, recipient of the 's Best Grad Presentation at the 49th AGS Colloquium (Truro, NS, February 3-5).

Congratulations to Mladen Nedimovic on his 5-year appointment to a Killam Professorship. This award is meant to recognize the careers of only the most outstanding scientists. Dr. Nedimovic has been recognized for his outstanding contributions in the field of marine geophysics.

Congratulation to Dr. Kelvin Fong on being selected one of thirteen early-career health researchers in Nova Scotia to received a New Health Investigator Grant.听 The grant will aid Dr. Fong in the investigation of the environmental contribution to health inequalities in Nova Scotia.

Congratulations to Emeritus Professor Marcos Zentilli, who was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee Medal by Lt.-Governor Arthur J. LeBlanc on Nov 24th 2022. This award is presented to Nova Scotians who have made a significant contribution to Canada, Nova Scotia, or their community. The award was made to Marcos in recognition of his volunteer work and 鈥淐ontributions to International Relations鈥� as Honorary Consul of Chile for the Atlantic Provinces since 2010.

Congratulations to Dr Les Eliuk (PhD with Grant Wach) for recent honorary membership into the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists. Honorary Membership is the oldest award bestowed by the CSPG and made to persons who have contributed distinguished service to the cause of energy geosciences.

Min Liu, our previous visiting PhD student and current OFI Postdoc Fellow, received the distinguished PhD thesis award from the Chinese Geophysical Society (ranked#3 out of 5). This award is based on an assessment of theses in all fields of Geophysics, and there are thousands of Geophysics PhD students in China! Congratulations Min!

Humanities and social science researchers receive $1.5M in new grants, including ESS' Tarah Wright for her project "Leveraging art to create a sustainable future".

马会论坛 ranked 8th (out of 20) in MacLean's Canada鈥檚 best university environmental science programs 2021:

Congratulations Dr. Heather Cray on receiving the Contract and Limited鈥慣erm Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching. Your focus on Universal Design for Learning and accessibility is a model for others, and your supportive, service-oriented teaching is appreciated by both students and colleagues.

Congratulations to the Biodiversity Working Group (and EES' Susan Gass, Amy Mui and Heather Cray) recipient of the 马会论坛 2022 Academic
Innovation Award. They were commended for providing students with connections to real-world problems & hands-on field experiences. https://tinyurl.com/ycksxr8h

Congratulations to EES' Kathleen Clark, the 2022 Volcanology and Igneous Petrology (VIP) Gelinas Medal for the best BSc thesis. The selection committee were very impressed by Kathleen's work and exceptional research. The medal will be awarded on May 26 at the GAC-VIP AGM.

Congratulations 2022 Earth Ring recipients!

Congratulations to all those who received awards at the 2022 Earth and Environmental Sciences End-of-Year Awards Banquet:
MacEachern-Ponsford Award: Michael Powell
Douglas Award: Brooke Reid
James L. Hall Scholarship: Samantha Shapira
Brian MacLean Memorial Prize: Sadie Jacobs-Peters
Milligan Undergraduate Award: Megan MacDonald and Sana Salehi
David Barlow Memorial Award: Megan MacDonald
Michael Keen Research Award: Catherine Brenan
Art and Dorothy Cook Scholarship: Hope Moon
Environmental Science Award: Lauren Lowther and Levyn Radomske
Owen Hertzman Prize: Catherine Brenan and Emma Taniguchi
Pearson Education Canada Book Prize: Kiah Heneke-Flindall
NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards: Elena Milito and Kailyn Hanke
Professor of the year: Amy Mui
TA of the year: Jessica Needham
Best Honours Thesis: Kathleen Clark (ERTH) and Hope Moon (ENVS)
Best Thesis Presentation and Defence: Michael Powell (ERTH) and Camryn Gallagher (ENVS)

Congratulations participants and award recipients, including EES' own Ashlynn Fleming, Science Atlantic Undergraduate Research Award First Place (Examining the relationship between marginalization and change in Toronto鈥檚 urban forest between 2008 and 2018) and Camryn Gallagher, Science Atlantic Undergraduate Research Award Second Place (Evaluating the historic change in consumption of high-impact animal products in Canada).

Congratulations to Earth and Environmental Sciences' MSc student (supervised by Mladen Nedimovic) and Physical Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada, Dustin Whalen, and the Tuktoyaktuk Community Climate Resiliency Project team, recipients of a听 prestigious Arctic Inspiration Prize valued at $500,000!

Congratulations to former Earth Sciences faculty member and chair, Prof Peter Reynolds (1973-2006) who was honoured this past weekend with the , the Distinguished Scientist Award, from the Atlantic Geological Society.
The award is made to a person who has, through their own efforts (maps, publications, memoirs, etc.) developed and promoted the advancement of geoscience in the Atlantic Region in any field of geology; of large enough scope to have made an impact beyond the immediate Atlantic Region.听

Congratulations Kathleen Clark, winner of Science Atlantic best paper at the AUGC 2021.听

Congratulations to EES' Bailey Milos on achieving U SPORTS Academic All-Canadian status during the 2020-21 season:

Congratulations to Prof Emeritus Marcos Zentilli for his appointment as an honorary member of the Geological Society of Chile "in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the knowledge and dissemination of Geology in Chile to the national and international community, as well as to society".

Congratulations Catherine Brenan, recipient of the Atlantic Chapter Dillon Consulting Limited Scholarship for 2021! 听

Congratulations to Dr. Arthur Dyke (Geological Survey of Canada, Retired and EES Adjunct) on being named a Fellow in . For more information see:

Congratulations Alexandra (Lexie) Arnott, recipient of The Centre for Learning and Teaching's Contract and Limited-term Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching for 2021.听Excellence in education: Meet this year鈥檚 马会论坛 teaching award winners

Congratulations to Vittorio Maselli! His paper on the Mafia mega-slide and its relation with EARS earthquakes, "Large-scale mass wasting in the western Indian Ocean constrains onset of East African rifting", published last year in Nature Communications, has been selected for a collection of Nature papers focusing on Natural Hazards:

Congratulations to all those who received awards at the 2021 Earth and Environmental Sciences End-of-Year Awards Banquet:
Michael Keen Memorial Award: Rosa Toutah (ERTH)
David Barlow Memorial Award: Bailey Milos (ERTH)
Art and Dorothy Cook Scholarship: Sage Mosgrove (ENVS)
Environmental Science Award: Brooklin Craig (ENVS)
Owen Hertzman Prize: Michelle Mann and Chiara Ferrero-Wong (ENVS)
Pearson Education Canada Book Prize: Roberto Noriega Burrill (ENVS)
Professor of the Year: Heather Cray (ENVS), Michael Young (ERTH)
TA of the Year: Nina Garrett (ENVS), Lauren Morris (ERTH)
Best Thesis Presentation and Defence: Andrew Willms (ENVS), Anna Ryan (ERTH)
Best Honours Thesis: Nina Garrett (ENVS), Michael Kishchuk (ERTH)

Congratulations Mariah St. Pierre, one of 马会论坛's Top Co-op Students of the Year for 2020. Mariah is an ENVS Major COOP with a Minor in Statistics and the GIS Certificate.

Congratulations participants and award recipients. The day was highlighted by impressive performances and presentations all around, with our students bringing home the following awards:
Undergraduate Research Award (best research presentation): 2nd place Samantha Howard
Communication Award (the student who is best able to communicate a science topic to his or her peers: 1st place Nina Garrett
Acadian Award (best presentation on Acadian fauna or flora): Andrew Willms
Science Atlantic Graduate Research Award: 1st place, Rachel Noddle

Grant Wach has been awarded the prestigious D鈥橝rcy McGee Beacon Fellowship by the Ireland Canada University Foundation (ICUF). This fellowship enables leading Irish and Canadian academics, researchers, and thinkers to connect and engage, via online lectures. Dr. Wach will showcase his research in a lecture on Energy Sustainability, Atlantic Margin Geology, and Geoforensics.

: Congratulations to EES' Bailey Milos, Rupert McNeil Award recipient for the best undergrad presentation and Anna Ryan, Honourable Mention recipient.

Siobhan Takala who was a double major in Environmental Science (Faculty of Science) and the Environment Sustainability and Society program (College of Sustainability) has been named one of the 听听 for 2020 by the Starfish Group. She has been recognized for her work in co-founding 鈥淟et鈥檚 Sprout鈥� 听which creates spaces for youth to learn and grow, with a special focus on important issues within society, such as the environment and gender. Two Recent Dal Grads Named to Top 25 Environmentalists Under 25 List (DalNews 2021/01/29)

Kudos to Samantha Howard (Combined Honours in Environmental Science and IDS) in winning the Inaugural Margaret R. Crickard Scholarship (DalNews 2020/11/26).

Congratulations Earth and Environmental Sciences Fall 2020 Memorial Award Recipients:
Michael Powell, James L. Hall Scholarship
Megan MacDonald, G.V. Douglas Memorial Award
Michael Kishchuk, MacEachern-Ponsford Memorial Award听

Congratulations Nina Garrett, Joy M Cunningham Award Recipient, one of the top three finalists in the FoS' 2020 Summer Research Contest: How similarity to parental calls affects call discrimination in noise by...

Congratulations Anna Ryan, NSERC Award Recipient, Honourable Mention in the FoS' 2020 Summer Research Contest:Tracking ocean currents through time

Congratulations听 new Canada Research Chair, Dr. Vittorio Maselli, Canada Research Chair in Coastal Zone Processes: /news/2020/08/26/dalhousie-team-of-canada-research-chairs-continues-to-grow.html

Congratulations to Susan Gass, this year's recipient of the Faculty of Science Award of Excellence for Teaching.

Congratulations 2020 Earth and Environmental Sciences' Earth Ring Recipients!

Watch 3 Minute Thesis competition finalist, Caitlin McCavour's presentation:

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Joining forces
Introducing the Department of Earth and Environmental Science

This summer, CarbonRun, co-founded by EES' Dr. Shannon Sterling, is conducting a river alkalinity enhancement project in Pictou County that aims to help restore the salmon population while removing CO2 from the atmosphere: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/nova-scotia-s-rivers-still-suffer-from-acid-rain-restoring-them-could-also-help-the-climate-1.7239696?cmp=rss听

: What is a seismologist, and what does she or he do all day? The At Work column gives you a chance to meet our members and learn more about the broad span of disciplines and careers within seismology (Seismological Society of America)听

Where Ideas Meet Impact: Hydrologist's [Dr. Shannon Sterling] research positions her to take a global lead in atmospheric carbon dioxide removal听(DalNews)

EES MSc student, Anna Ryan's (along with her supervisor Vittorio Maselli and fellow Dal researcher Tony Walker) research documenting microplastics that were scooped up from the North Atlantic and deposited on land (Newfoundland) during Hurricane Larry in 2021 featured in the following news outlets:

• DalNews

Volunteer Spotlight:

Meet Shannon Sterling, environmental scientist

CarbonRun, founded by EES' Dr. Shannon Sterling, is among 12 startups who had $7M worth of carbon removal services purchased by the Frontier fund. Read more about CarbonRun's project and the funding commitment made: https://frontierclimate.com/writing/fall-2023-purchases听 CarbonRun got a nice shout-out in Bloomberg as well: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-07/frontier-climate-change-fund-makes-7-million-in-new-carbon-removal-commitments听 Congratulations to Shannon and the whole CarbonRun team, including some of our EES technicians and undergraduate summer students: Alex Bevilacqua, Kristin Hart, Rowan Norrad and Elena Milito.听

Kelvin Fong makes the link between urban greening and issues of health equity in Axios article on the importance of urban forests:

, featuring Grant Wach (Global National News, January 4, 2023)

Congratulations to EES alum (BSc Honours ENVS, 2021), Samantha Howard,听 on being named one .听

Congratulations to EES' Tarah Wright for the success of the QEII Scholars Program, a field experience in the Bahamas, run through EES and which she is the coordinator of: Research in paradise: Dal's newest Queen Elizabeth Scholars will soon be off to the Bahamas

Researchers from 马会论坛 and several European institutions, including EES' John Gosse, determined that DNA found preserved in ice in Greenland was over two million years old. TV news stories: (CTV News) and (Global News)

How a group of Dal educators (including EES' own Susan Gass and Amy Mui) has transformed the outdoors into a classroom

Have a listen to a 2-part Geology Bites podcast with Emeritus Professor Martin Gibling on rivers and their geological history:

Going coastal: Science students (including EES') dive into adventure as field courses return (see photo essay): 听

Recent work highlighted by the American Geophysical Union by Dal researchers (Hanchao Jian, Mladen R. Nedimovic虂, Juan Pablo Canales, K. W. Helen Lau) offers new insights into the rifting event that created the Atlantic Ocean: 听

Congratulations EES alum, Lily Barraclough (BSc Honours ENVS, 2020), for being selected as one of Canada's Top 25 Under 25 Environmentalists in 2021:

Grant Wach's Q&A with CBC's Information Morning on Premier Tim Houston's pledge to get Nova Scotia to 80 per cent renewable energy by 2030: Listen to Grant's full interview with CBC's Information Morning Cape Breton here:

Minas Basin fossil discovery by 马会论坛 Biology instructor and EES alumn (PhD 2018), Jennifer Frail-Gauthier, may help fill gaps in evolutionary record:

Follow the progress of the 2021 CCGS Amundsen expedition to explore deep-sea coral and seep habitats of the Northern Labrador Sea and Baffin Bay. Six members of 马会论坛's Earth and Environmental Sciences and Oceanography departments and the Flux Lab are on board for the 4 week journey:

, senior instructor at Earth and Environmental Sciences. When the COVID pandemic forced universities to move classes online, Mike took matters into his own hands. (Inteview with EduCanada)

(CBC News). Story features Tim Fedak, geological curator of the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History, Earth and Environmental Sciences' Adjunct and past Earth Sciences' lecturer.

Watch as he speaks with Anderson Cooper about Mount Fagradalsfjall. He also speaks about the role drones could play in future Mars missions. (See also DalMagazine's profile: )

鈥楨arth and Marine Sciences', 鈥楪eology鈥�, 鈥楪eophysics鈥� and 鈥楶etroleum Engineering' all secured spots in the top 100 in global ranking that considers nearly 1,500 universities.

(a talk with Siobhan Takala, Environmental Science/ Environment Sustainability and Society program alum).

(Environmental Studies grad, BA鈥�05). Lily describes the role environmental studies (and EES' Tarah Wright) played in her trajectory as an environmental educator.

The potential of Geographic Information Systems in COVID-19 response: student, Leah Fulton, developes web application to visualize recent exposure locations.

EES' Shannon Sterling contributes to Chronicle Herald article on global warming:

NS Salmon Association research scientist & EES adjunct, Edmund Halfyard, on the Todd Veinotte Show discussing study co-authored by Shannon Sterling that found aluminum concentrations in NS rivers are too high to sustain healthy aquatic life. Many former EES students (Marley Geddes, Siobhan Takla, Sarah MacLeod and Lobke Rotteveel) contributed to the study he discusses. .

You can find the paper in the Hydrology and Earth System Sciences journal:

Vittorio Maselli's recent paper published in Geophysical Research Letters was selected as an Editor鈥檚 Highlight on Eos.org:听

| The Chronicle Herald (Featuring EES' Shannon Sterling)

Susan R. Eaton, Earth Sciences Class of 1980 (BSc Honours):

马会论坛 Originals: Kathryn Sullivan (PhD 马会论坛 Geology 1978)
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Jane K. Willenbring, Stanford University (PhD 马会论坛 EES 2006, 鈥楯ane Staiger鈥�) wins the inaugural Marguerite T. Williams Award

EES student Leah Fulton spent her summer developing guided online campus nature walks. Focused on some of the interesting trees on campus, it's an alternative the lunchtime urban nature walks held last year. Check out the project's story map:

Mike Young and coop student Rosa Toutah are leading an ambitious project to create virtual field trips for many of our Fall Term courses. See for preliminary 3D models of field sites and sample.

Going the distance: Recent grad, Graeme Wach, ran 53 kilometres in 24 hours to raise donations for victims of Nova Scotia鈥檚 mass shootings

Grad Profile: Lily Barraclough, Building more physically active communities

Congratulations to Vittorio Maselli for leading this groundbreaking research on tsunami deposits just published in Geology and now featured in Dal on-line: How a 1,000鈥憏ear鈥憃ld tsunami in the Indian Ocean points to greater risk than originally thought

Check out this article featuring retired Earth Sciences' professor Dr. Barrie Clark:

Can liming N.S. forests help fight climate change?
NS: Mainstreet Halifax's Jeff Douglas spoke with EES' Shannon Sterling, who is researching whether liming forests can help them absorb more carbon dioxide.


Listen to Shannon answer Quirks and Quarks' question of the week: "As water covers most of the Earth, why isn't it completely shrouded in clouds?"


Meet EES' John Gosse, a geologist with a passion for landscape evolution and teaching the science of natural disasters.

Moon metals: New research considers what lies below the moon's surface

Please check out Miao Zhang鈥檚 recent paper in the听Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth:听

Sian Kou-Giesbrecht recently co-authored the paper听 in the journal Nature, take a look.

Check out Sian Kou-Giesbrecht's most recent publication in the journal Biogeosciences:

Just published: A huge advancement was made for Canada鈥檚 EQ prediction, and Mladen Nedimovic was a coauthor: . (Science Advances, 2024; 10 (23) DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adl3198)

Meg Langlais, one of our Queen Elizabeth Scholarship students, has had a new paper, , published in the journal Marine Biology, as a result of her work at the Cape Eleuthera Institute.

Sian Kou-Giesbrecht recently co-authored the new in Earth System Science Data. The article was featured in听 The Conversation:

Check out two recent publications by Sian Kou-Giesbrecht:听 in Elsevier's Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry and in the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.

Check out geophysics PhD student Alireza Niksejel鈥檚 (along with his supervisor Miao Zhang) recent work in Geophysical Journal International. They introduce a deep-learning seismic phase picker for OBS data using automated labeling and transfer learning (named OBSTransformer).听

Check out EES MSc student, Anna Ryan's (along with her supervisor Vittorio Maselli and fellow Dal researcher Tony Walker) recent publication in Nature Communications documenting microplastics that were scooped up from the North Atlantic and deposited on land (Newfoundland) during Hurricane Larry in 2021:

Check out Miao Zhang's new article in the Science Direct Tectonophysics journal: . Dr. Zhang and co-authors investigate seismogenic structures and earthquake mechanisms based on seismicity distribution, velocity models, and reflection profiles. The Changning area accommodates both tectonic and induced earthquakes.

New Review Article in the Nature Reviews Earth & Environment: , co-authored by EES' Yana Fedortchouk exploring the composition, formation and evolution of kimberlite melts and the mechanisms of their ascent.

Check out Miao Zhang's new work in The Seismic Record:

Dr. Kelvin Fong recently published a paper on the intersection of immigrant and environmental health in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives:听

Check out Miao Zhang and team's new paper "Machine Learning鈥怋ased Earthquake Catalog and Tomography Characterize the Middle鈥怤orthern Section of the Xiaojiang Fault Zone" at .

How to apply machine-learning phase picker to seamlessly build high-precision earthquake catalogs from continuous waveforms? Please check out Miao Zhang鈥檚 new publication in Seismological Research Letters. LOC-FLOW: An End-to-End Machine-Learning-Based High-Precision Earthquake Location Workflow, . Codes are available on GitHub: https://github.com/Dal-mzhang/LOC-FLOW

Stunning 3D seismic reflection data from the Levant basin (eastern Mediterranean Sea) show how active faulting influence turbidite deposition. Check out the last paper published in GEOLOGY by Vittorio Maselli and colleagues, and the beautiful cover image of the December issue!

MES student, Shizhou Ma's MES thesis, , was recently published by Springer. Shizhou was supervised by SRES' Karen Beazley. EES' Chris Greene served on the supervisory committee.

Congratulations to Martin Gibling on the publication of . River Planet introduces readers to the epic geological history of the world鈥檚 rivers, from the first drop of rain on the Earth to the modern environmental crisis.

A new study lead by Alexandre Normandeau and co-authored by Vittorio Maselli is just published in Nature Geoscience and shows that icebergs colliding with the seafloor can generate submarine landslides in Arctic and Subarctic environments. If interested, have a look at this link: (Free-to-read link: )

Check out Miao Zhang's new paper published in Seismological Research Letters: .

Vittorio Maselli's paper on the Mafia mega-slide and its relation with EARS earthquakes, "Large-scale mass wasting in the western Indian Ocean constrains onset of East African rifting", published last year in Nature Communications, has been selected for a collection of Nature papers focusing on Natural Hazards:

Check out Owen Sherwood's new paper published in PNAS on oil and gas wellbore integrity from more than 100k wells in CO/NM/PA:

Check out Miao Zhang's new paper published in Geophysical Research Letters: Real-time Earthquake Early Warning with Deep Learning: Application to the 2016 M 6.0 Central Apennines, Italy Earthquake.听

Check out Owen Sherwood's new paper published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta: Amino acid 未13C and 未15N patterns from sediment trap time series and deep-sea corals: implications for biogeochemical and ecological reconstructions in paleoarchives

Check out Owen Sherwood's new paper: Microbial and Biogeochemical Indicators of Methane in Groundwater Aquifers of the Denver Basin, Colorado:

Aluminum concentrations in Nova Scotia rivers are too high to sustain healthy aquatic life, according to a study by EES' Shannon Sterling and team. You can find the paper in the Hydrology and Earth System Sciences journal:

Recent paper published in Nature Geoscience on the origins of iron ore deposits highlighted in this News and Views by James Brenan:

Check out Vittorio Maselli's paper "A 1000-yr-old tsunami in the Indian Ocean points to greater risk for East Africa":
and online at the National Geographic Society's website:

Check out Vittorio Maselli's paper just published in the journal GEOLOGY and his new OFI-funded project:

Check out this paper just published in Nature Geoscience co-authored by EES' James Brenan: