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Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Faculty of Science

For Current Students

Departmental Seminars

Winter 2024 Schedule

January 18, 2024
EES Departmental Seminar: Science Atlantic – Atlantic Geoscience Society – Speaker Tour 2023-24
Ted Matheson, Cape Breton University

Fall 2023 Schedule

September 14, 2023
EES Departmental Seminar: Reaction of Ilmenite and Chromite with the Kimberlite Magma: Implications for Crystallisation and Emplacement of Kimberlites
Lydia Fairhurst, Graduate Student Symposium

September 21, 2023
EES Departmental Seminar
Gerald Gloade, Program Development Officer for the Mi’kmawey Debert Cultural Centre
*This talk has been cancelled

September 28, 2023
EES Departmental Seminar:A Land to Sea Perspective on Coastal Geohazards in High-Latitude Fjords
Maureen Matthew, Graduate Student Symposium

October 5, 2023
CSEG Distinguished Lecturer
Dr. Martyn Unsworth, University of Alberta
“Magnetotellurics: Using Natural Radio Waves to Look Inside the Earth”

October 26, 2023
EES Departmental Seminar: Monitoring Fin and Blue Whales in the Lower St. Lawrence Seaway with Onshore Seismometers
Dr. Alexandre Plourde, Geological Survey of Canada (Atlantic)

October 31, 2023
EES Departmental Seminar: Enigmatic archives of magmatic processes: Decoding mineral zoning and melt inclusions with Fe-Mg isotopes
Dr. Corliss Kin I Sio, University of Toronto
MSA Distinguished Lecturer

November 30, 2023
EES Departmental Seminar: From Chemometrics to Pedometrics: The Pathway Towards Modernizing Canada’s Soil Data Infrastructure
Dr. Brandon Heung, Faculty of Agriculture, Dalhousie University

December 1, 2023
EES Departmental Seminar: When earthquakes go slow motion
2023 W.W. Hutchison Medalist: Dr. Jamie Kirkpatrick, McGill University

Summer 2023 Schedule

June 27, 2023
Source discrimination for small-magnitude events (~M1-3) at local scale
Dr. Ruijia Wang
Assistant Professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology

July 12, 2023
Black Scholar Initiative Search Research Seminar
Dr Egide Kalisa, Research Scientist, Air Quality Research Division, Environment Canada and Climate Change

July 13, 2023
Black Scholar Initiative Search Teaching Seminar
Dr Egide Kalisa, Research Scientist, Air Quality Research Division, Environment Canada and Climate Change