For those of you in the Kingston area or those who will be attending the 2017 GACMAC conference, be sure to come out to the Queen's Geology alumni reception! Please note you do not have to be registered at the conference to attend.
RSVP to geolalum@queensu.ca
Sunday, May 14, 2017
**Time correction: 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
The 2017 Annual meeting of the GAC/MAC in Kingston will coincide with the 175th anniversary of the founding of the GSC in Kingston. The Geological Survey of Canada, Canada’s oldest scientific agency, was established by the legislature of the Province of Canada in 1842, in Kingston, Canada West.
The Department of Geological Sciences & Geological Engineering at Queen’s and the GSC will be hosting this celebratory event at Queen’s University.
Please join us at the conference May 14-18, 2017.
Registration will...
Congratulations to all award winners! Named TAship awards acknowledge a TA who has gone above and beyond to assist students in the classroom.
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Congratulations to Dr. Guy Narbonne who has been awarded the E.R.Ward Neale Medal from the Geological Association of Canada (GAC). He is receiving this award in recognition of his research and public outreach. The medal will be presented to Dr. Narbonne at the GAC-MAC annual conference, taking place May 15-17 in Kingston.
Dr. Narobnne comments, "“I feel tremendously honoured to be recognized by the Association with this award,” says Dr. Narbonne. “Just as the research isn’t done until you’ve written the publication, the research also isn’t done until you’ve told all the stakeholders what they got out of it. We went from...
Miller Museum of Geology Curator, Mark Badham, was featured in the Kingston Whig Standard for the "Beyond Classrooms" program he runs annually through the museum.
"Beyond Classrooms" is a program that sees elementary level students moving their classroom into different venues in the community, such as the Miller Museum of Geology.
The program hosted 26 grade 5 students from Molly Brant Elementary School for the entire week (27-31 March).
Read the article in the Kingston Whig Standard.
Graduate student, Sarah Cain and professor Dr. Mark Diederichs are featured in the most recent issue of the Tunneling Association of Canada (TAC) Magazine, Tunnels and Tunelling. They are featured for their article, "Shape Matters", about the impact of tunnel shape and profile details on brittle damage development.
Read the article in the month's TAC Magazine.
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ongratulations to Dr. Laurent Godin, who has been appointed as one of the 3 Science Editors for the GSA journal Lithosphere (3 yr term). The appointment was made based on his "broad and versatile background in geoscience, an open mind approach to science, and a progressive attitude towards alternative interpretations".
"Lithosphere provides timely publication of interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and cross-disciplinary research on tectonic processes that affect the crust and upper mantle, from the surface to the base of the lithosphere. The journal highlights research that addresses how the surface, crust, and mantle interact to shape the physical and chemical evolution of the lithosphere at all spatial and temporal scales."
More information can be found on the GSA website.http://lithosphere.gsapubs.org/
Congratulations Dr. Godin!
Congratulations to Michelle Thompson, BSc'11, who is a top 32 candidate to become an astronaut for the Canadian Space Agency.
Michelle is currently a NASA postdoctoral fellow at the Johnson Space Center.
The selection process began with ~3700 applicants and which was narrowed...
Congratulations to Dr. Alexander Braun who received $180,000 in research funding from the Government of Ontario. The funding comes from the Ontario Research Fund – Research Excellence and Research Infrastructure programs.The $180,000 will be used to "support the acquisition of a superconducting gravimeter – one of only 12 such devices in the world. The device...
