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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 13^th, 2025 until August 15^th, 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

AUGC held at Dalhousie University October 24–27, 2024

Students flocked to Halifax to attend the Atlantic Universities Geoscience Conference (AUGC) this weekend, held at Dalhousie University. Acadia was well represented with five student presenters, nine peers, and three professors at the conference.

Acadia banquet attendees: Dylan McKeen, Brook Penner, Karen Brookman, Hayley Newell, Émilie Snow, Maria O'Neill, Tiernan Davies, Abbey Smith, Tess Gates-Flaherty, Rowan Kennedy, Amy Almond, Mo Snyder, Bella MacQuarrie, and Gabriel Grover

Field trips all round!

Student in EES courses have many chances to apply their classroom skills out in the field... Read on to see some of the recent field trips our students have attended!

Jara de Hoog talks policy with CBC Radio

Jara DeHoog graduated with Honours this spring, and worked with Dr. Alice Cohen and Dr. Andrew Biro this summer to write a report about her research. The report, Challenging Nova Scotia’s Climate Change Plan to Do Better, was published by the Nova Scotia Branch of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The report can be downloaded here, and you can hear Jara talk about it with Radio Canada here. Congratulations, Jara!