Congratulations to Kyle ! Recipient of 1 of 2 Hugh C. Morris Experiential Learning Fellowship. Administered by the Kimberley Foundation, the fellowship supports a student-designed self-guided experiential program related to studies in earth sciences, climate change, sustainability, or the social impact, social sciences or design sciences concern with earth, sustainability of environmental issues.

Classified as: Graduate Students, geology, fellowship
Published on: 26 Mar 2020

A research team led by McGill University geochemist Peter Douglas has used a new method for measuring the rate at which methane is produced by microbes breaking down thawing permafrost. “There is a lot of concern about methane being released from permafrost, but we don’t know how available carbon that has been frozen for thousands of years is to microbes,” says Douglas, an assistant professor in McGill’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Classified as: geochemistry, geology, permafrost, Greenhouse gases, Arctic
Published on: 26 Mar 2020

How did life survive the most severe ice age? A McGill University-led research team has found the first direct evidence that glacial meltwater provided a crucial lifeline to eukaryotes during Snowball Earth, when the oceans were cut off from life-giving oxygen, answering a question puzzling scientists for years.

Classified as: ice age, Snowball Earth, eukaryotes, iron deposits, geology, extreme climate change, Maxwell Lechte, Galen Halverson, Sustainability
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Published on: 2 Dec 2019

As an entrepreneurial geologist, Bob Wares, (BSc’79, DSc’12), became a mining rock star when he discovered one of Canada’s largest gold deposits in the Abitibi region of Quebec. Now, he is bringing that Midas touch to his alma mater in the form of a landmark $5-million gift that will support research programs, fellowships, innovative research, a lecture series and outreach efforts in McGill University’s Faculty of Science, with a particular focus on his home department, Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS).

Classified as: Faculty of Science, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Bob Wares, geology, mining
Published on: 26 Sep 2018

The world’s oldest algae fossils are a billion years old, according to a new analysis by earth scientists at McGill University. Based on this finding, the researchers also estimate that the basis for photosynthesis in today’s plants was set in place 1.25 billion years ago.

Classified as: photosynthesis, algae, Fossils, geology, Bangiomorpha, evolution, chloroplast, eukaryote, Timothy Gibson, Galen Halverson
Published on: 20 Dec 2017

Chemical analysis of some of the world’s oldest rocks, by an international team led by McGill University researchers, has provided the earliest record yet of Earth's atmosphere. The results show that the air 4 billion years ago was very similar to that more than a billion years later, when the atmosphere -- though it likely would have been lethal to oxygen-dependent humans -- supported a thriving microbial biosphere that ultimately gave rise to the diversity of life on Earth today.

Classified as: McGill, Boswell Wing, Quebec, Nunavik, Earth, ancient rocks, geology, isotopic memory, microbial biosphere, Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt
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Published on: 14 Jan 2015
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