EES Research in the News
EES' Dr. Sian Kou-Giesbrecht co-authored two new reports examining the impact of climate change on wildfires听(顿补濒狈别飞蝉):
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Meet EES' Dr. Sian Kou鈥慓iesbrecht, biogeochemist听(Dal News): Get to know Dr. Sian Kou鈥慓iesbrecht, who shares how her early fascination with ecology and climate change sparked her interest in environmental science.
Sciographies talks to biogeochemist Dr. Sian Kou-Giesbrecht from the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at AV俱乐部:听听
(New York Times article featuring Dr. Shannon Sterling)听
This summer, CarbonRun, co-founded by EES' Dr. Shannon Sterling, is conducting a river alkalinity enhancement project in Pictou County that aims to help restore the salmon population while removing CO2 from the atmosphere: 丑迟迟辫蝉://飞飞飞.肠产肠.肠补/苍别飞蝉/肠补苍补诲补/苍辞惫补-蝉肠辞迟颈补/苍辞惫补-蝉肠辞迟颈补-蝉-谤颈惫别谤蝉-蝉迟颈濒濒-蝉耻蹿蹿别谤-蹿谤辞尘-补肠颈诲-谤补颈苍-谤别蝉迟辞谤颈苍驳-迟丑别尘-肠辞耻濒诲-补濒蝉辞-丑别濒辫-迟丑别-肠濒颈尘补迟别-1.7239696?肠尘辫=谤蝉蝉听
: What is a seismologist, and what does she or he do all day? The At Work column gives you a chance to meet our members and learn more about the broad span of disciplines and careers within seismology (Seismological Society of America)听
Where Ideas Meet Impact: Hydrologist's [Dr. Shannon Sterling] research positions her to take a global lead in atmospheric carbon dioxide removal听(顿补濒狈别飞蝉)
EES MSc student, Anna Ryan's (along with her supervisor Vittorio Maselli and fellow Dal researcher Tony Walker) research documenting microplastics that were scooped up from the North Atlantic and deposited on land (Newfoundland) during Hurricane Larry in 2021 featured in the following news outlets:
Meet Shannon Sterling, environmental scientist
CarbonRun, founded by EES' Dr. Shannon Sterling, is among 12 startups who had $7M worth of carbon removal services purchased by the Frontier fund. Read more about CarbonRun's project and the funding commitment made: 丑迟迟辫蝉://蹿谤辞苍迟颈别谤肠濒颈尘补迟别.肠辞尘/飞谤颈迟颈苍驳/蹿补濒濒-2023-辫耻谤肠丑补蝉别蝉听 CarbonRun got a nice shout-out in Bloomberg as well: 丑迟迟辫蝉://飞飞飞.产濒辞辞尘产别谤驳.肠辞尘/苍别飞蝉/补谤迟颈肠濒别蝉/2023-09-07/蹿谤辞苍迟颈别谤-肠濒颈尘补迟别-肠丑补苍驳别-蹿耻苍诲-尘补办别蝉-7-尘颈濒濒颈辞苍-颈苍-苍别飞-肠补谤产辞苍-谤别尘辞惫补濒-肠辞尘尘颈迟尘别苍迟蝉听 Congratulations to Shannon and the whole CarbonRun team, including some of our EES technicians and undergraduate summer students: Alex Bevilacqua, Kristin Hart, Rowan Norrad and Elena Milito.听
Congratulations to Mladen Nedimovic on his 5-year appointment to a Killam Professorship. This award is meant to recognize the careers of only the most outstanding scientists. Dr. Nedimovic has been recognized for his outstanding contributions in the field of marine geophysics.
Congratulation to Dr. Kelvin Fong on being selected one of thirteen early-career health researchers in Nova Scotia to received a New Health Investigator Grant.听 The grant will aid Dr. Fong in the investigation of the environmental contribution to health inequalities in Nova Scotia.
Researchers from AV俱乐部 and several European institutions, including EES' John Gosse, determined that DNA found preserved in ice in Greenland was over two million years old.
TV news stories: (CTV News) and (Global News)听
Have a listen to a 2-part Geology Bites podcast with Emeritus Professor Martin Gibling on rivers and their geological history:
Recent work highlighted by the American Geophysical Union by Dal researchers (Hanchao Jian, Mladen R. Nedimovic虂, Juan Pablo Canales, K. W. Helen Lau) offers new insights into the rifting event that created the Atlantic Ocean: 听
Follow the progress of the 2021 CCGS Amundsen expedition to explore deep-sea coral and seep habitats of the Northern Labrador Sea and Baffin Bay. Six members of AV俱乐部's Earth and Environmental Sciences and Oceanography departments and the Flux Lab are on board for the 4 week journey:
Grant Wach has been awarded the prestigious D鈥橝rcy McGee Beacon Fellowship by the Ireland Canada University Foundation (ICUF). This fellowship enables leading Irish and Canadian academics, researchers, and thinkers to connect and engage, via online lectures. Dr. Wach will showcase his research in a lecture on Energy Sustainability, Atlantic Margin Geology, and Geoforensics. 听
EES' Shannon Sterling contributes to Chronicle Herald article on global warming:
NS Salmon Association research scientist & EES adjunct, Edmund Halfyard, on the Todd Veinotte Show discussing study co-authored by Shannon Sterling that found aluminum concentrations in NS rivers are too high to sustain healthy aquatic life. Many former EES students (Marley Geddes, Siobhan Takla, Sarah MacLeod and Lobke Rotteveel) contributed to the study he discusses. .
You can find the paper in the Hydrology and Earth System Sciences journal:
Vittorio Maselli's recent paper published in Geophysical Research Letters was selected as an Editor鈥檚 Highlight on Eos.org:听
| The Chronicle Herald (Featuring EES' Shannon Sterling)
Mike Young and coop student Rosa Toutah are leading an ambitious project to create virtual field trips for many of our Fall Term courses. See for preliminary 3D models of field sites and sample.
Congratulations to Vittorio Maselli for leading this groundbreaking research on tsunami deposits just published in Geology and now featured in Dal on-line: How a 1,000鈥憏ear鈥憃ld tsunami in the Indian Ocean points to greater risk than originally thought
Check out this article featuring retired Earth Sciences' professor Dr. Barrie Clark:
Can liming N.S. forests help fight climate change?
NS: Mainstreet Halifax's Jeff Douglas spoke with EES' Shannon Sterling, who is researching whether liming forests can help them absorb more carbon dioxide.
Listen to Shannon answer Quirks and Quarks' question of the week: "As water covers most of the Earth, why isn't it completely shrouded in clouds?"
Meet EES' John Gosse, a geologist with a passion for landscape evolution and teaching the science of natural disasters.
Moon metals: New research considers what lies below the moon's surface