Earth and Environmental Science

The AGS was as always an excellent occasion to appreciate the wonderful variety of research work being done in the Atlantic region, to catch up with old friends, make new ones, and get inspired about science!

Thank you you to the Department of Earth and Environmental Science for supporting student attendance through the Cheslock Fund.

Acadia was also well-represented in the awards for the evening. Congratulations!!!

Kayla Youngchief won the Rob Raeside Award for the Best Undergraduate Student Poster for “Seeing inside basal Windsor Group microbial reefs: serial-slab-based 3D reconstruction” with co-authors from Cape Breton University Graydon MacIsaac, Zailynne Durant, and Edward (Ted) Matheson (pictured here).

Leslie Boateng-Dwomoh won the Graham Williams Award for the Best Graduate Student Poster for “Lithology, geochronology, and tectonic setting of the Rockville Notch Group in the western Meguma terrane” with co-authors Deanne van Rooyen and Chris White.

Dr. Mo Snyder was awarded the Nelly Koziel Award. The Nelly Koziel Award is given to a person who recently has made a significant contribution to geoscience, beyond the call of duty, in the Atlantic Provinces. Dr. Snyder’s award recognized their work in creating a Field Safety Guidebook for geoscience and their contributions towards creating a culture of inclusive and accessible field work in geoscience.

 

Undergraduate student presentations:

Karen Brookman, Deanne van Rooyen and Chris White

Timing and kinematics of deformation relative to contact and regional metamorphism in the Tor Bay area, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Tiernan Davies, Sandra Barr, Chris White and Deanne van Rooyen

Distinguishing Tonian and Ediacaran rocks in the northern Cobequid Highlands, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Zailynne Durant and Edward (Ted) Matheson

Cryptic microbial carbonates of the basal Windsor Group: a sedimentologic and petrographic reappraisal of the Macbeth Brook Formation, Cape Breton.

Rowan Kennedy, Deanne van Rooyen^, and Chris E. White

Deformation and metamorphism in the southernmost Chebogue Point shear zone of the Meguma terrane, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Rowan Norrad, Shannon Sterling^, and Ian Spooner

Assessing the impacts of river-based carbon sequestration: effects of river alkalinity enhancement on dissolved metal concentrations in the West River, Nova Scotia.

Brook Penner and Zhenhao Zhou

Depth controls on metamorphic decarbonation: insights from metacarbonate rocks from the Sierra Nevada arc, California.

Eve Pole, Ian Spooner, Sarah Hines, and Nelson O'Driscoll

Arsenic accumulation in alder trees at a legacy gold mine tailings impoundment in southwest Nova Scotia: Implications for environmental risk.

Kayla Youngchief, Graydon MacIsaac, Zailynne Durant, and Edward (Ted) Matheson

Graduate student presentations:

Leslie Boateng-Dwomoh, Deanne van Rooyen and Chris E. White

Lithology, geochronology, and tectonic setting of the Rockville Notch Group in the western Meguma terrane.

Ethan Geraci, Ian Spooner and Mark Mallory

Antifouling paint particles as a source of metal and microplastic pollution in harbour sediments: Chester Back Harbour, Nova Scotia.

Dylan J. McKeen, Deanne van Rooyen, Sandra M. Barr, Chris E. White^, and Robert P. Raeside

Age and tectonic evolution of the Clyburn Brook Formation, Nova Scotia, Canada.

 

Next year in Fredericton!