Theses in Progress
- MSc (Geology) theses
- MSc (Applied Geomatics) theses
- BSc theses (Environmental Science, Geology, other programs)
- Theses supervised by Acadia faculty at other universities
Master of Science (Geology) Theses
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Ironstone of north Wales, United Kingdom: biogeochemical cycling of Fe and P in the Ordovician Sarah Dunn Supervisor: P. Pufahl |
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TBA Caleb Grant Supervisor: S. Barr |
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Petrology, age, and tectonic implications of the Western Highlands Shear Zone, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada |
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Ironstone of the Neda Formation, Wisconsin, and paleoenvironmental evolution of the late Ordovician |
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Factors controlling intrusion-related mineralization in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia: A comparison of Silurian-Devonian plutons in Ganderia and Avalonia |
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Ordovician ironstone from the Western Asturian-Leonese Zone, Spain, and evolution of the Rheic Ocean |
Bachelor of Science (Honours) Theses
(Environmental Science, Environmental Geoscience and Geology)
* asterisk indicates proposal is complete
*Philicity Byers (Environmental Science)
Identification of the fungal associates of the endangered plant Crocanthemum canadense (L.) Britt. in Nova Scotia
Supervisors: A Walker, R Evans, K Hillier
*Garrett Hooey (Geology)
Investigating the potential for economic mineralization in the Faribault Brook Formation, Cape Breton Highlands, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: S Barr
*Hannah Machat (Environmental Science)
Influences of treatment to mimic florivory from the insect Mompha capella on populations of the plant Crocanthemum canadense (L.) Britt.
Supervisors: R Evans, A Walker, K Hillier
*Megan MacIsaac (Environmental Science)
Effects of granite dust treatment on herbivory and volatile emissions of lilies (Lilium spp. L.)
Supervisors: K Hiller, N Faraone
*Anna Murphy (Environmental Science)
Identification and characterization of matrix metalloproteinases in the epidermal mucus of Atlantic sturgeon
(Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus)
Supervisor: M Stokesbury
*Crystal Smith (Geology)
Geochemical and mineralogical dispersal in till from the East Kemptville Sn-Zn-Cu-Ag deposit, southwest Nova Scotia
Supervisor: D Brushett, I Spooner
*Sarah Stewart (Environmental Science)
Running on empty: determining the presence of feeding behaviour in anadromous alewife in Jolicure Lake, New Brunswick
Supervisor: M. Stokesbury
*Garrett Velkjar (Geology)
Cecil Lake, British Columbia: a paleolimnological analysis of natural and anthropogenic environmental change
Supervisor: I Spooner
*Dylan Wyles (Geology)
A paleolimnological assessment of sediment in Sitmu’k Lagoon to determine the influence of geogenic and anthropogenic activity on water quality change through time, Pictou Landing, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: I Spooner
Theses supervised by Acadia faculty at other universities
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Sedimentology and geochemistry of phosphorite from the Devonian Parnaíba Basin, Brazil (PhD thesis, Federal University of Salvador, Brazil) |
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Environmental significance of phosphorite and glaucony in the Neoproterozoic Bambui Group, Brazil (PhD thesis, Queen's University) |