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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

Report from Bermuda Field School

We received a short report from the GEOL 4303 field course in Bermuda. It seems that the crew out in the Atlantic is being kept busy.

Field school 2019

Field schools for 2019 are well under way at Acadia - for the first three days both the Environmental Science and Geology field schools combine for exercises on local outcrops.

Letter from Norway - Riley Scanlan's visit to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Riley is on exchange this year at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) in Ås, Norway. Arising from her work in the Acadia Seed Bank she had the rare opportunity to visit the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.