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EES Research in the News

EES' Miao Zheng's recently published paper "Reexamination Confirming Additional Seismic Evidence for the 12 May 2010 Low-Yield Nuclear Test" ) is being highlighted in Science Journal's News at a Glance (second news item: Seismic Data Point to Nuke Test):

EES' Dr. Sian Kou-Giesbrecht co-authored two new reports examining the impact of climate change on wildfires(ٲɲ):
(Nature Climate Change)
(Nature Climate Change)

Meet EES' Dr. Sian Kou‑Giesbrecht, biogeochemist(Dal News): Get to know Dr. Sian Kou‑Giesbrecht, 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 Ƶ University:

(New York Times article featuring Dr. Shannon Sterling)

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: ٳٱ://ɷɷ../Աɲ/Բ岹/ԴDZ-dzپ/ԴDZ-dzپ---پ-ܴڴڱ-ڰdz---ٴǰԲ-ٳ-dzܱ---ٳ-ٱ-1.7239696?=

: 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)

Where Ideas Meet Impact: Hydrologist's [Dr. Shannon Sterling] research positions her to take a global lead in atmospheric carbon dioxide removal(ٲɲ)

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: ٳٱ://ڰDzԳپٱ.dz/ɰپԲ/ڲ-2023-ܰ󲹲 CarbonRun got a nice shout-out in Bloomberg as well: ٳٱ://ɷɷ.Ǵdz.dz/Աɲ/پ/2023-09-07/ڰDzԳپ-ٱ-󲹲Բ-ڳܲԻ--7-Dz--Ա-Dz-𳾴DZ-dzٳԳٲ 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.

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. The grant will aid Dr. Fong in the investigation of the environmental contribution to health inequalities in Nova Scotia.

Researchers from Ƶ 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)

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. Nedimović, Juan Pablo Canales, K. W. Helen Lau) offers new insights into the rifting event that created the Atlantic Ocean:

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 Ƶ'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’Arcy 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.

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’s Highlight on Eos.org:

| 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‑year‑old 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