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*Please note that due to Acadia's 4 day work week program the Earth and Environmental Science Main Office will be closed on Fridays from June 13th, 2025 until August 15th, 2025. Emails will be answered in order when it reopens on Monday morning.*

Earth and Environmental Science at Acadia offers programs leading to B.Sc. degrees in Environmental Science, Geology and Environmental Geoscience, and M.Sc. degrees in Geology, Environmental Science and Applied Geomatics.


Departmental News

2022 Donald Stanley Award for the Best Paper in Environmental Engineering

Dr. Ian Spooner was one of 5 authors who, on behalf of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering were awarded the 2022 Donald Stanley Award for the best paper in environmental engineering.

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Congratulations to Harrison McCain Awardees Drs O'Driscoll, Snyder, and van Rooyen

The Department of Earth and Environmental Science is very appreciative of the Harrison McCain Foundation Awards that were awarded to three of our professors this summer.

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EES students have a great experience at S-IMEW 2023

Keaton Markham, Amanda Smith, and Mitch Maracle represented Acadia well at the Student-Industry Mineral Exploration Workshop (S-IMEW) in Sudbury, Ontario

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