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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

Chris White and Sandra Barr - best paper award in Can. J. Earth Sci.

Chris White and Sandra Barr, along with co-author Ulf Linnemann, from Dresden, Germany, will be recognised at the annual meeting of the Geological Association of Canada in Quebec in May as the authors of the best paper in the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences in 2018. 

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Ring Ceremony 2019

Thirteen soon-to-graduate students received their Earth Science rings at a ceremony in Dalhousie University on 5 April.

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Gelinas Silver Medal: Gabriel Santos

Acadia graduate (MSc 2018) Gabriel Sombini dos Santos has been named as the recipient of the 2019 Gelinas Silver Medal for the best MSc thesis in Volcanology and Igneous Petrology by the Volcanology and Igneous Petrology Division of the Geological Association of Canada.

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