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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

AGS Colloquium, Truro 2020

The 46th Colloquium and Annual General Meeting of the Atlantic Geoscience Society were held at the Holiday Inn, Truro, Nova Scotia, on February 7 to 8, 2020. Twenty Acadia students and professors attended the two days of talks and posters and two Acadia alumni were recognized for the long-time commitment to science.

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Ian Spooner appointed as Director of Research at the KC Irving Environmental Science Centre

Acadia University today announced the appointment of Dr. Ian Spooner as the Director of Research at the K.C. Irving Environmental Science Centre and Harriet Irving Botanical Gardens.

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Lauren Muzak-Ruff at Fisheries and Limnology conference in Halifax

Lauren Muzak-Ruff (Acadia University E&ES M.Sc. candidate) presented a poster at the 2020 joint meeting of the Canadian Conference For Fisheries Research and the Society of Canadian Limnologists.

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