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2025 Earth Sciences Alumni News

June 18, 2025

The latest edition of the U of T Earth Scineces Alumni News is now online. Read about reserach activities in the department, honours and awards, students in the field, news from alumni, and more.

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Professor Miriam Diamond named Earth Commissioner

March 26, 2024

Professor Miriam Diamond has been named an Earth Commissioner with the Earth Commission, an international team of social and natural scientists engaging over 60 researchers around the globe, coordinated by its scientific secretariat hosted by Future Earth

New research in plate tectonics: U of T geoscientists refine the theory that explains how our planet works

February 02, 2024

Arts & Science News featured a story on the work of Erkan Gün, a postdoctoral fellow and alumnus of the department, Professor Russ Pysklywec; Phil Heron, an assistant professor in the Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences; as well as researchers from the Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Instnabul Technical Universit

Earth Sciences professors featured in The Water Brothers

November 16, 2023

Several professors from the Department were featured in The Water Brothers, an eco-adventure documentary series.

Dr. Kim Tait "first Canadian" to observe material from asteroid Bennu

October 04, 2023

Professor Kim Tait, Senior Curator of Mineralogy at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is the "first Canadian involved with the mission to directly view material from the asteroid Bennu" retrieved by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft three years ago.The mission's capsule arrived safely back on Earth on September 24 and Dr Tait was at the Johnson S

ROM researchers discover one of the world's oldest jellyfish

August 31, 2023

Earth Sciences alumni Joe Moysiuk and Justin Moon, and Jean-Bernard Caron, a cross-appointed professor to Earth Sciences, discover fossils of the world’s oldest jellyfish and have been receiving media coverage.

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Dr. Corliss Sio named Distinguished Lecturer of the Mineralogical Society of America

August 30, 2023

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Corliss Sio on being named a Mineralogical Society of America Distinguished Lecturer! Corliss will offer the Peter Buseck Public Lectures on: Enigmatic archives of magmatic processes: Decoding mineral zoning and melt inclusions w

"Forever chemicals" found in Canadian blood samples

July 21, 2023

Professor Miriam Diamond talks about their research on "forever chemicals", or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), on CBC's Front Burner podcast.

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Dr. Kirsten Kennedy maps the geo-cultural heritage of Georgian Bay

July 14, 2023

Dr. Kirsten Kennedy of U of T Scarborough maps the Georgian Bay watershed using a drone with LiDAR (light detection and ranging) technology to highlight the geo-cultural landscape of the area.

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Dr. Sarah Finkelstein weighs in on the importance of peatlands in Canada

July 13, 2023

"Canada really is a peatland superpower."

Sarah Finkelstein, Professor and Chair of the Department of Earth Sciences, talks about the importance of peatlands for carbon storage in Canada and how peatlands are vulnerable to the ongoing climate crisis.

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