The Department of Earth Sciences will be holding a National Engineering and Geoscience Month Open House on March 9th. Please check back soon for more information.

We are proud to announce that fourth year undergraduate honours student Mervin McDonald has been selected to attend the seventh annual Student‐Industry Mineral Exploration Workshop (S‐IMEW) hosted by the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada.

Chris Boyd, an MSc student in the Department of Earth Sciences won the best oral presentation at the International Ichnological Association's four-yearly Ichnia III meeting for his work on three dimensional reconstruction of trace fossils. Chris is part of the ichnology group in the department and is supervised by Duncan McIlroy. His thesis is focussed on three dimensional reconstruction of shallow marine trace fossils from the Carboniferous of the UK.