Carleton Earth Sciences

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Dr. Peter Crockford, Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, has been awarded a 2025 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Earth System Science—one of the most prestigious honours for early-career researchers in North America.

Recognizing the exceptional impact of his work in geochemistry and Earth history, Dr. Crockford is one of 10 Earth System Science scholars to receive the 2025 fellowship, joining an elite group of scientists whose discoveries have shaped our understanding of the natural world.

2024 Herzberg Lecture
The NASA Psyche Mission: An Electric Journey to a Metallic World

Dr. Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Principal Investigator, NASA Psyche Mission and, Arizona State University (ASU) Vice President, ASU Interplanetary Initiative.

7:00 p.m. Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Richcraft Hall, 2nd Floor Conference rooms

Those in the Ottawa area may be interesting in attending this sure to be fascinating free lecture hosted by Department of Earth Sciences.

Abstract: When our solar system was just an infant, thousands of planetesimals (tiny planet-like objects) formed in fewer than one million years. Many melted, allowing metal cores to differentiate from rocky mantles. One of these metal cores may still exist, revealed in the asteroid (16) Psyche. I’ll discuss what is known and what is hypothesized about the asteroid, how we have planned a mission and built a spacecraft to study this unknown object, how we progressed with the mission through COVID, with its intense challenges to teams, and an update of where we are one-year post-launch.

2024 Herzberg Lecture
The NASA Psyche Mission: An Electric Journey to a Metallic World
presented by Dr. Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Foundation and Regents Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University

Tuesday, November 12, 2024, 7:00 pm
Richcraft Hall, 2nd Floor Conference rooms
For more information and registration: https://science.carleton.ca/events/herzberg-lecture/

Geoheritage Day is this Saturday September 28!! Our expert volunteers will be at 7 geosites this year from 10am to 3pm to help explain the geological features and how they fit into the story of the building of our regional landscape.

Thank you to our community partners, the Ottawa Gatineau Geoheritage Project, Cardinal Creek Community Association, Biodiversity Conservancy International and the Metcalfe Geoheritage Park.

More information - https://earthsci.carleton.ca/outreach/explore-geoheritage-day

Supported by the Canadian federal government’s New Frontiers in Research Fund, Carleton University Earth Sciences professor Hanika Rizo and her team are investigating the microbial processes of some very small organisms to address big questions like:

How and when did life on Earth begin?
Are we alone in the universe?
How can we create a more sustainable society?

Read all about this exciting research at the link below.

No Detail Too Small: Probing the Origins of Life and Other Big Questions How and when did life on Earth begin? Are we alone in the universe? How can we create a more sustainable society? To tackle these big questions, Carleton University geoscience researcher Hanika Rizo and her team are investigating the microbial processes of some very small organisms. And because she....

Congratulations to Carlos Braga, MSc Carleton 2024, on winning the 2024 Silver Léopold Gélinas Medal from the Geological Association of Canada for his outstanding MSc thesis in Volcanology and Igneous Petrology!

Congratulations to Professor Brian Cousens who is the 2024 winner of the Career Achievement Award of the Volcanology and Igneous Petrology Division of the Geological Association of Canada in recognition of career achievements in the field of volcanology and/or igneous petrology

Congratulations to Dana Korneisel on receiving a Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement.

She was supervised by Dr. Hillary Maddin and completed her thesis on The Evolution and Development of the Tetrapod Neck

Congratulations to Richard Ernst who has been elected as a 2024 Fellow of the Geological Society of America in recognition of a sustained record of distinguished contributions to the geosciences and to the Geological Society of America