Graduate Geosciences Society Launches New Website
February 01, 2012
The new GGS website has officially launched! Check it often for regular updates on graduate student and earth science related news and events.
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Earth Sciences News
February 01, 2012
The new GGS website has officially launched! Check it often for regular updates on graduate student and earth science related news and events.
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XRF2012 - Short Course in Modern X-ray Spectrometry
May 01, 2012
The 2012 Short Course in Modern X-ray Spectrometry will be held from June 4 to June 15 (2012) at the Dept of Earth Sciences. Twenty-three registrants from various industrial sectors is going to attend this two-week course to learn the X-ray fundamentals, instrumentation, qualitative and quantitative analysis and sample preparation methods through lectures and hands-on exercises in the next two week. This course has earned its reputation as the most comprehensive and intensive course in North America. It has been recommended by all the major X-ray fluorescence spectrometer manufacturers to their users as a basic training requirement for successfully carrying out routine analysis. The Dept of Earth Sciences has been offering this short course since 1990 under the direction of Dr. Charles Wu.
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Three New Faculty Appointments in Earth Sciences
July 01, 2012
The Department of Earth Sciences is very pleased to announce three new Faculty Appointments in our Department.
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Researchers uncover new hypothesis on crater debris
September 27, 2011
A team of researchers partnered with the NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) has developed a new hypothesis for the origin of crater ejecta - debris that is launched out of a crater during meteorite impacts.
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A mission to the Moon... without leaving Earth
August 29, 2011
Conducting a mission to another planet or moon requires literally thousands of hours of revolutionary research and thought-provoking investigation. An important step in that preparation is to run a mission simulation to test operational, scientific, and technological concepts.
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Earthquake
August 23, 2011
An earthquake of about 5.9 magnitude occured at 1:51 PM EST, centred near Richmond, Virginia. Tremors were felt in the London area.
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Prof. Emeritus Aleksis Dreimanis, 1914-2011
July 09, 2011
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Dr. Aleksis Dreimanis (Professor Emeritus) in the Earth Sciences department. Dr. Dreimanis passed away Friday July 8th at the age of 98.
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Going to the moon, while staying on Earth
June 22, 2011
To the uninformed, you would have sworn the group of almost 30 students and graduate students huddled in the close confines of Western’s science building basement labs were part of a real planetary exploration mission.
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Sulfur important in formation of gold mines
January 06, 2011
Collaborating with an international research team, an economic geologist from The University of Western Ontario has discovered how gold-rich magma is produced, unveiling an all-important step in the formation of gold mines.
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Professors reorient researchers, history with discovery
February 10, 2011
Two professors emeriti from the Department of Earth Sciences have helped add another chapter to the story of a historic geological landmark.
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Ph.D Student Haley Sapers Wins NSERC Andre Hamer Postgraduate Prize
February 14, 2011
University of Western Ontario PhD student Haley Sapers has been awarded the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Andre Hamer Postgraduate Prize.
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Tsujita, Hicock deliver a rock solid textbook
March 24, 2011
In the 1980s when Cameron Tsujita was an undergraduate student at The University of Western Ontario, there was no geology above the 49th parallel. At least according to his textbook.
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