AUGC 2025
EES was well-represented at AUGC 2025, held at St. FX on October 30 – November 1. Eight students and four faculty members attended the conference, and four students presented work from their honours research projects. Dr. Sandra Barr was a keynote speaker at the Awards dinner with Dr. Brendan Murphy from St.FX.
Emilie Snow was awarded the CSEG prize for the best presentation related to geophysics, and Brook Penner was awarded an Honourable Mention in the overall Best Presentation category. Congratulations!
Student presentations:
Brook Penner “Depth effect on metamorphic decarbonation: insights from petrography and mass balance constraints in the Sierra Nevada continental arc”
Émilie Snow “A Geomorphological Analysis of Coastal Change in Port Joli, NS. Using Remote Sensing and GIS Methods”
Karen Brookman “Using coticules and porphyroblasts to characterize deformational and metamorphic events in the eastern Meguma terrane, Nova Scotia, Canada”
Rowan Kennedy “Kinematics and stratigraphy in the Chebogue Point shear zone, Yarmouth, NS”
Students at the Awards Dinner
Brook Penner answering questions after his presentation.
Presenters Karen Brookman, Rowan Kennedy, and Emilie Snow.
Dr. Sandra Barr giving her dinner talk.