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Upcoming Earth Sciences Events: (Past Events)
EARTH (Excellence and Achievement in Research, Teaching, and Helping) Accolades
April, 2012 |
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| Grant Wach |
AAPG Foundation Professor of the Year (first such award)
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| Rebecca Jamieson |
Earth Sciences Professor of the Year
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| Martin Gibling |
Honours Co-ordinator
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Mladen Nedimovic
John Gosse
Isabelle Coutand
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ERTH 6300 Co-ordinators
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Undergraduate Students
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| Mark Higgins |
Best Thesis Award
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Sara Mason
Ella Goldberg |
Effective Writing Award
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| Ian Borg |
Dave Barlow Award
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Graduate Students
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| Holly Steenkamp |
Earth Sciences TA of the Year
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Notable Publications
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Mladen Nedimovic
Omid Aghaei |
Canales, Carton, Carbotte, Mutter, Nedimovic, Xu, Aghaei, Marjanovic & Newman: Network of off-axis melt bodies at the East Pacific Rise, Nature Geoscience, April 2012, p. 279-283.
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March, 2012 |
Jimmy Burg
Carla Dickson
John Hirschmiller
Dillon Kolla
Dawn Tobey
Faculty Advisor: Grant Wach
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Congratulations to the Dalhousie Imperial Barrel Award (IBA) team, who placed 2nd in Canada at the recent IBA competition in Calgary (March 16-17). The Dal team was the only undergraduate team in this year's competition!
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| Nicole Marshall |
Summer Student Fellowship, Wood's Hole Oceanographic Institution:
This involves a 10-12 week research project with a senior scientist at WHOI. Fellows complete a research project, learn oceanographic sampling techniques aboard a research cruise, attend a summer lecture series, and interact with MIT/WHOI Joint Program graduate students. At the end of the summer fellows present their projects as an oral presentation accompanied by a final written report.
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| Jason Mintz (supervisor Martin Gibling) |
Killam Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2012-14
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January-February, 2012 |
| Shannon Sterling |
NSERC Early Career Research Discovery Grant Supplement
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| Grant Wach |
ExxonMobil (SOEP) Petroleum Geoscience grant (3 yrs)
Grant was also elected Vice-President of the Atlantic Geoscience Society
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| Martin Gibling |
As Honours Co-ordinator, Martin was instrumental in our students' success at the recent Atlantic Geoscience Society meeting (Moncton, 3-5 Feb; details below). Supervisors are also thanked for their contributions.
Martin and former Research Associate Neil Davies also published a paper in Nature Geoscience (Feb 2012), their second in recent months.
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Student Awards, Atlantic Geoscience Society, 3-5 Feb. Moncton, NB |
Mark Higgins
(B.Sc., supervisor: M Young) |
Best Undergraduate Presentation; runner-up was Derrick Midwinter (B.Sc., supervisor: M Gibling)
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Janice Allen
(Ph.D., supervisor: C Beaumont) |
Best Graduate Student Poster
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Zabrina Prescott
(supervised by Brian Hall, Biology) |
Best Graduate Student Presentation (for work done on microbial mats in Paleozoic sedimentary rocks at Joggins)
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Other |
Janice Allen
(Ph.D. student) |
winner of one of the Change One Thing awards
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Alumni News
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Susan R. Eaton, ( BSc. (Homours), 1980) is a geologist, geophysicist, journalist and 'extreme' snorkeler with an intense curiosity about planetary processes, the marine environment, climate change and global sustainability issues. A blog of her many exploits can be followed at: susanreaton.com/ |
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News
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The Dalhousie Earth Sciences team of Anne Belanger and Matt Vaughn were victorious in the Atlantic regionCSEG Challenge Bowl at the AUGC at Acadia. Anne and Matt win an all expense trip to Calgary in May to compete in the National competition. |
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CSEG Award for Best Geophysical Presentation (Matt Vaughn)
The CSEG Award for the Best Geophysical Presentation was established by the
Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists in 2008 and will be presented annually
at the AUGC. The recipient of the Best Geophysical Presentation Award will be provided with a
$300 cheque to assist in his/her development as a geophysicist.
The Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists began in 1949 at around
the time of the petroleum production boom of the Leduc and Redwater discoveries. As a result
of these significant discoveries there was a need for increased knowledge, skill and
professional attributes in the field of geophysics. Today the CSEG is a thriving organization.
CSEG's mandate is to promote fellowship and co-operation among those persons interested in
geophysical prospecting. |
Awards
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The 2011 - CJES Best Paper Award is an annual award given jointly by the National Research Council Press and the Geological Association of Canada. It will be awarded to the authors of the "Best" paper published in the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences within a calendar year (volume year). This year's award goes to: R.A. Jamieson, C. Beaumond, C.J. Warren and M.H. Nguyen for their paper entitled:
"The Grenville Orogen explained? Applications and limitations of integrating numerical models with geological and geophysical data".
This award will be presented at the President's Reception to be held during the Ottawa 2011 GAC-MAC-SEG-SGA conference, May 25th-27th, 2011.
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Jack Henderson awards for best thesis 2011: PhD Award
First prize: Dawn Anne-Marie Kellett
Thesis Title: Tectonic Evolution of the South Tibetan Detachment System, Bhutan Himalaya (PDF)
Supervisor: Djordje Grujic
University: Dalhousie University
Judge's comment: Dawn Kellett is to be congratulated for her Ph.D. thesis. The thesis is very well written. Data and observations in each of the four critical chapters, two of which are already published in reputed international journals (Lithosphere and Journal of Metamorphic Geology), are well documented and clearly separated from interpretations. The conclusions and interpretations reached with respect to the cause or causes for detachment of upper-crustal strata from low-angle normal faults within the "compressional" Bhutan Himalaya are all viable and of high scientific importance in my opinion. In this regard Dawn Kellett's Ph.D. thesis follows the tradition of geodynamicists from Dalhousie University in significantly advancing our knowledge on the geodynamics of hot orogens, and the Himalaya in particular. I truly enjoyed reading the thesis and learned tremendously. Without doubt, this is a solid piece of work that deserves to be honoured. |
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