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Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

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Departmental Seminars

Fall 2022 Schedule

October 6, 2022
CSEG Distinguished Lecture Tour: Geophysics …the future is so bright, we have to wear shades
Dr. Rachel Newrick

October 20, 2022
EES Departmental Seminar: A Major Hurricane in the Little Ice Age
John Dickie

November 3, 2022
EES Departmental Seminar
Dr. Lauren Somers (Assistant Professor, Civil and Resource Engineering, Dalhousie University)

November 17, 2022
Science Atlantic - Atlantic Geoscience Society Speaker Tour
Dr. Shawna White

November 21, 2022
MSA Distinguished Lectures Lecture Tour
Dr. Matthew Steele-MacInnis (Assistant professor from University of Alberta)

November 25, 2022
GAC's 2022 Medalist Lecture Tour: Progress and prospects for tephrochronology at the intersection of volcanology and paleoenvironmental studies
Dr. Britta Jensen (University of Alberta)

Summer 2022 Schedule

August 9, 2022
Hadean zircon formed due to hydrated ultramafic protocrust melting
Dr. Anastassia Borisova
Géosciences Environnement Toulouse, GET (CNRS, UPS, CNES), Université de Toulouse, France, Geological Department, Moscow State University, Vorobievy Gory, 119899, Moscow, Russia

Winter 2022 Schedule

January 13, 2022
Halogen cycle in the mantle seen through melt inclusions
Dr. Estelle Rose-Koga, Laboratoire Magma et Volcans, Université de Clermont-Auvergne, France

January 20, 2022
Elevated Fe oxidation states, like H2O and select trace elements, are linked to material recycling in Izu-Bonin-Mariana lavas in space and time
Dr. Maryjo Brounce, University of California Riverside

January 27, 2022
2021 Hutchison Medalist Speaker tour: Sending probes into the deep Earth to understand subduction
Dr. Vincent van Hinsberg, McGill University

February 3, 2022
Decoding the sedimentary record of early eukaryotes in Arctic Canada
Dr. John Wilder Greenman, McGill University

February 24, 2022
Geological storage of carbon and the role of Geophysics
Dr. Don White, 2021-22 CSEG Distinguished Lecturer

March 31, 2022
Basal processes at glacial cycle scale in an ice sheet systems model
Matthew Drew, Doctoral Candidate, Dept. Physics & Physical Oceanography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, Newfoundland

April 14, 2022
Compound-specific isotope analyses of amino acids
Shaomin Chen, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Dalhousie University

April 21, 2022
The sediment routing systems of the Guyana Shield: from the Atlantic Rifting to the Andean Rise
Dr. Delphine Rouby, Université de Toulouse, France

April 28, 2022
Tree Restoration as a Natural Climate Solution: The case for planting on marginal industrially polluted landscapes
Dr. Michael Preston, University of Northern BC

May 5, 2022
High-Precision Earthquake Locations Reveal How Earthquakes Nucleate, Migrate and Their Associated Seismogenic Structures
Min Liu, Ocean Frontier Institute, Postdoctoral Fellow Dalhousie University