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Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Faculty of Science

January 15, 2026
EES Departmental Seminar:Flaming tap water revisited: The science behind the occurrence of methane in groundwaters overlying unconventional oil, gas, and coal fields
Dr. Owen Sherwood, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Dalhousie University

January 22, 2026
EES Departmental Seminar: Are We Digging Deep Enough to Get Permafrost Carbon?
Dr. Melissa Schwab, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Dalhousie University

January 29, 2026
EES Departmental Seminar: The Energy Transition and Greening of Nova Scotia
Dr. Grant Wach, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Dalhousie University

February 12, 2026
EES Departmental Seminar: Science Atlantic Lecture Tour Lecture: What is at the bottom of Archean crust?
Dr. Jillian Kendrick, Department of Earth Science, Saint Mary’s University

March 19, 2026
EES Ph.D. Research Seminar: Echoes from the Deep: Seismicity and Whale Call Analysis in Southeastern Canada Using Ocean Bottom Seismometers
Elahe Sirati, EES Ph.D. Candidate

April 2, 2026
EES Ph.D. Research Seminar: Zircon as a tracer of mantle processes and kimberlite magmatism
Alisa Yakimenko, EES Ph.D. Candidate

April 7, 2026
M.Sc. Thesis Defence: Combining cosmogenic nuclide depth profiles and in situ 14C to measure erosion-adjusted exposure ages of sedimentary landforms
Dr. Cody Paige

April 10, 2026
EES Ph.D. Research Seminar: The Effect of Environmental Factors on Mental Health in Nova Scotia
Alexandra Del Favero-Campbell, Ph.D. Candidate

September 25, 2025
EES Departmental Seminar: CSEG Distinguished Lecture Tour, Doug Angus

October 23, 2025
EES Departmental Seminar: Elucidating food-web dynamics at the Makkovik Hanging Gardens off northern Labrador using compound-specific δ¹⁵N of deep-water corals and associated fauna
Dr. Wilder Greenman, Post-Doctoral Scholar (Earth and Environmental Sciences, Dalhousie University)
Link to recorded lecture (YouTube)

October 27, 2025
CanGeotechSoc Cross Canada Lecture Tour: Geotechnical Lessons Learned
Dr. Paul Dittrich, WSP

October 30, 2025
2025 Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecture: Tidal and seasonal groundwater-surface water mixing zones: hot or cold spots for arsenic contamination?
Dr. M. Bayani Cardenas
Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas

November 6, 2025
EES Ph.D. RESEARCH SEMINAR: A Study of the Potential of Rare Earth Elements (REE) Extraction from Diamond Mine (Processed Kimberlite) Tailings
Rifkhan Nayeem, EES PhD Candidate

November 17, 2025
M.Sc. Thesis Defence: Variations in Subduction Bending-Related Normal Faulting of the Incoming Juan De Fuca Plate Along the Cascadia Margin
Pinar Gurun, EES MSc Candidate

November 20, 2025
GAC 2025-2026 Howard Street Robinson Lecture Tour: Metals, Vapours and Volcanoes
Dr. Anthony (Willy) Williams-Jones
Link to recorded lecture (YouTube)

November 26, 2025
EES PhD Candidate Lecture: Experimental determination of high field strength element partition coefficients
Michael Powell, EES PhD Candidate

Thursday November 27, 2025
EES Departmental Seminar: Municipal Flooding in Nova Scotia
Denise Brushett, Department of Environment and Climate Change

December 4, 2025
EES Departmental Seminar: Geological Carbon Storage (GCS) in Atlantic Canada
Bill Richards & Grant Wach, Basin & Reservoir Lab, EES, Dalhousie U

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