Acadia ALERT - Full Campus Closure Due to Weather

Today, February 16, 2024 at 2pm, Acadia University will close the entire campus, with the exception of residences and Wheelock Dining Hall, due to the forecasted weather. Wheelock Dining Hall may adjust their hours due to the weather and any change in hours will be communicated through Residence Life. The Acadia Athletic Complex, Vaughan Memorial Library, KC Irving Environmental Science Centre and the Manning Memorial Chapel will be closed in addition to the rest of the campus. Any events scheduled for today will be postponed or canceled.

The campus will remain closed until 12pm on Monday February 17, 2025. An update on campus conditions will be provided no later that 11am on Monday. Should conditions allow campus will reopen at 12pm.

Updates will be posted on www.acadiau.ca and pre-recorded on Acadia’s Information Line: 902-585-4636 (585-INFO) and on 585 phone system voicemail. If you need emergency-related information, please contact the Department of Safety and Security by dialing 88 on all 585-phone systems, or by calling 902-585-1103.

If you have any questions, please contact:

Acadia University

Department of Safety & Security

902-585-1103

security@acadiau.ca

(Sunday February 16, 2025 @ 12:59 pm)

AUGC held at Dalhousie University October 24–27, 2024

Well done EES students!

It was wonderful to see how well the students supported each other at the conference. All five presenters did an amazing job.

Above: Morning smiles from the student presenters Abbey Smith, Tiernan Davies, Bella MacQuarrie, Hayley Newell, and Tess Gates-Flaherty

 

Acadia students won 4 of the possible 6 awards given at the conference!

 

Tess Gates-Flaherty, who works with Dr. Snyder, won the Canadian Energy Geoscience Award for their talk, titled "The taxa world sure can be taxing: Creating an open source Windsor Group fossil database".

 

Abbey Smith, who works with Drs Spooner and Snyder, won the Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists Award for their talk, titled: "Get off my lawn: Coastal erosion in Hantsport, NS".

 

Tiernan Davies, who works with Dr. Barr, won the Frank S. Shae Memorial Award for their talk, titled: "Geology and economic mineral potential of the central Jeffers block, Cobequid Highlands, Nova Scotia, Canada".

 

Hayley Newell, who works with Drs O'Driscoll and van Rooyen, won the Atlantic Geoscience Society Environmental Geoscience Award for their talk, titled: "Mercury in soil horizons from southwestern Nova Scotia: Relationships with vegetative bioindicators and mineralogy".

 

The students represented Acadia well but deserved to let off some steam once the banquet ended!

 

 

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