Summer Stories
Kathleen McInnis, a 1st year ENVS student writes: “I worked for Roseville/Miminegash Watersheds Inc. on PEI during the summer which was a super fun and exciting experience that relates to the program I am taking. We planted trees, cleaned beaches, took riparian stream assessments and engaged the community in various events while collaborating with other watershed management groups on the island! I learned a lot this summer and hope to learn more at Acadia and apply my studies into my work in the future.”
Kathleen and a very big tree!
Taya Lucas-Desmond, a 4th year Environmental Science student had an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award. Taya writes: “I started my Honours project, looking at native Nova Scotian plant species. I worked outside in the Harriet Irving Botanical Gardens and inside in the E.C Smith Herbarium this summer!”
Taya in the K.C. Irving Environmental Science Center with archived botanical specimens.
Jason Covey, a 3rd year geology students worked at the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources and Renewables as a co-op students. Jason writes: “My position was to help my supervisor with daily tasks concerning the development of a Critical Mineral Geoscience Database (CMGD), an initiative to catalogue the mineral deposits of our province that will be vital to our supply chain that provides us with our everyday items such as automobiles, phones, computers and building materials. I also worked in the Core Library and worked as a geological field assistant for mapping projects.”
Jason at a field site with NS DNRR.
Amanda Tracy, a 3rd year environmental science student writes: “I worked for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Kentville doing native pollinator research in agricultural systems. I collected bee specimen in apple orchards and grape vineyards to understand the diversity and abundance of their populations around these systems.”
Amanda collecting pollinators among the dandelions...
Jesse Demaries-Smith, MSc geology student writes: "This summer I did field work on Windsor Group rocks for my masters project. I spent a lot of time in the Miller Creek quarry near Windsor, Nova Scotia, and saw really cool deformation structures such as sheath folds, recumbent folds, isoclinal folds, and great evidence of some faulting. I also saw some fascinating rocks that I am interpreting as salt dissolution structures , which I am very excited about as a piece to the puzzle for the deformation story of the Windsor Group rocks."
Jesse examining some wonderfully folded rocks of the Windsor Group.