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the Department of Earth Sciences at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador
05/13/2025
B.Sc. Earth Sciences (Honours) student Maria O'Neill was selected to participate in the PDAC’s 16th annual Student-Industry Mineral Exploration Workshop (S-IMEW), a two-week all expenses paid geoscience workshop. Maria shares her story and a recap of her time at the S-IMEW below, check it out!
03/20/2025
Graduate students from Dr. David Lowe's Hibernia Tectonostratigraphy Lab, Eric Hutton (PhD) and Chidera Ikechukwu (MSc), represented our department at the Atlantic Geoscience Society (AGS) Colloquium 2025 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia! Check out their research below 💡🗺️
Eric Hutton – Hyperspectral imaging of reservoir cements in the Jeanne d’Arc Basin, NL
Abstract link: https://lnkd.in/d3V2UPqp
Chidera Ikechukwu – A preliminary facies characterization and stratal evolution of the Ediacaran post-glacial redbeds, Bonavista Peninsula, central Avalon Zone, Eastern Newfoundland: Implications for the Neoproterozoic Oxidation Event
Abstract link: https://lnkd.in/dwXf6ihm
03/14/2025
Dr. J. Kim Welford, PhD, PGeo, has published her first sole-author paper in the journal Geology: 'Unusually fracture-free seafloor in the southern North Atlantic between Newfoundland and Iberia explained through compounding tectonic inheritance since the Paleoproterozoic.'
Congratulations Dr. Welford on this research milestone! 👏
Read the article here: https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/doi/10.1130/G53057.1/652879/Unusually-fracture-free-seafloor-in-the-southern
10/03/2024
Welcome to the Department of Earth Sciences at Memorial University!
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