Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Jeremy Powell was awarded the 2018 Jack Henderson Prize for Best PhD Thesis given by the Geological Association of Canada. His thesis was entitled: "Burial and Exhumation History of the Mackenzie Mountains and Plain, NWT, Through Integration of Low-Temperature Thermochronometers." Jeremy is currently a post-doc at the Geological Survey of Canada in Ottawa.

In a new study published in the March 7^th edition of Science Advances, Pascal Audet, Associate Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Ottawa, and Banting Fellow Andrew Schaeffer, describe how they used technology akin to ultrasonography - an imaging technique using sound-waves to view an internal structure – to finally confirm how the friction responsible for earthquake rupture varies downward along the fault line.

Congratulations to former graduate student Alberic Botella, whose MSc work was recently published in a landmark study that used fossil coral microatolls from French Polynesia to reconstruct sea-level changes for the past 6,000 years. The study was part of an international collaboration including researchers from France, Germany and Canada.  Read the complete article.