2023-2024 Seminar Series
Date: Thursday, December 7, 2023
Speaker: Dr. Graham Pearson, University of Alberta
Title: Diamonds illuminate Earth’s Interior
Time & Place: Seminar Room (ES2093) at 12 pm.
November 30, 2023, 12:26 pm
November 24, 2023, 8:04 am
Dr Corliss Sio is awarded a 2023 Dorothy Shoichet Women Faculty In Science Award of Excellence
Assistant Professor Corliss Sio is the recipient of a 2023 Dorothy Schoichet Women Faculty in Science Award of Excellence.
The award was created to help early career female faculty focus on reserach and is awarded in any of the physical or life sciences, computer sciences or mathematics within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. With the new GEMINAE lab being built in the Department of Earth Sciences, the awards teaching release will let Professor Sio invest time to get the lab running smoothly.
The Arts & Science News announcement of the award can
he read here.
November 10, 2023, 5:45 pm
Professor Miriam Diamond appears on The Water Brothers episode “The Forever Chemicals” on TVO
October 30, 2023, 5:44 pm
Join us for a Graduate Studies in Earth Sciences Information Session on Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Are you interested in pursuing graduate studies in Earth Sciences?
Join Professors Miriam Diamond and Phil Heron, and Graduate Student Administrator Scott Moore, at an information session and Q & A about the programs, funding opportunities, research projects and application processes in our department.
Date: Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Location: ES1062
Pizza lunch will be provided.
Session will be in-person and via Zoom
October 25, 2023, 10:23 am
Special Seminar October 26 at noon – Professor Jay Ague, Yale University: The Oxidation of State of Arc Magmas and Why it Matters
October 11, 2023, 9:56 am
Professor Miriam Diamond will present a talk “Can We Reduce Inevitable Exposures to Chemicals of Concern” at the Occupational and Environmental Health Seminar on Oct 12. Registration required.
About this event:
What: Occupational and Environmental Health Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Miriam L. Diamond
When: Friday October 13, 2023 from 12:10 to 1:00pm (ET). Please click here to register.
Dr. Miriam L. Diamond will present on “Can We Reduce Inevitable Exposures to Chemicals of Concern?”. Please see below for additional details and to register.
Title: “Can We Reduce Inevitable Exposures to Chemicals of Concern?”
Populations are inevitably and inequitably exposed to chemicals of concern which is causing population-wide adverse health effects. The inevitability of exposure comes from basic thermodynamic theory coupled with high chemical production volumes and human activities. Failure of chemicals management is the root cause of population-wide adverse effects due to, for example, the growth in chemical production and proliferation in the number of chemicals produced. I will present four reasons for, and offer five solutions to redress this failure, ranging from promoting hazard and not risk assessment to putting a hard cap on chemical production.
Presenter: Dr. Miriam L. Diamond
Miriam L. Diamond, a professor at the University of Toronto, has advanced knowledge of chemical emissions, their transport processes, and resultant human and ecological exposure, and chemicals management policy. This work has been published in over 200 peer-reviewed articles and chapters, in addition to receiving media attention. Diamond is an Associate Editor of the journal Environmental Science and Technology, was the co-chair of the Canadian Chemical Management Plan Science Committee from 2017 to 2021, is the Vice-Chair of the International Panel on Chemical Pollution, and is the chemicals and waste member of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel of the Global Environment Facility. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.
Full link to registration page: https://phesc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwkc–uqT4jE9CzsqQZhIYY__nLjOPeqK3o
(Please note, registration for this seminar will be through Zoom, not Eventbrite)
The 2023-2024 seminar series will be held online via Zoom. Webinar details will be sent to all registered participants. Please read your confirmation email to find the Zoom link, meeting ID and passcode. As always, this is an open invitation so please distribute this invitation throughout your organization and professional networks. More information on upcoming seminars can be found on the OCRC website.
October 5, 2023, 4:56 pm
Seminar Series October 12 at noon – Professor Margarete Jadamec: Implications of slab edge dynamics on arc volcanism in the Pacific Ring of Fire
September 7, 2023, 5:05 pm
The 2023-24 Seminar Series kicks off on Thursday, September 14 at Noon in ES 2093 with Professor Chris Yakymchuk
August 31, 2023, 3:12 pm
Assistant Professor Corliss Kin I Sio is named a Mineralogical Society of America 2023/24 Distinguished Lecturer
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Corliss Sio who has been named a
Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) 2023/24 Distinguished Lecturer
Corliss will offer the Peter Buseck Public Lectures on
Enigmatic archives of magmatic processes: Decoding mineral zoning and melt inclusions with Fe-Mg isotopes
and
The silver lining of disequilibrium: Iron isotope perspectives on planetary petrology
To learn more about her research, visit Corliss’ faculty profile page and her website.
August 31, 2023, 2:36 pm
2022/23 Laurence Curtis Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in Earth Sciences
Nelson, holding a sample of a pebble dike from the Tintic Mining District, Utah USA, while attending the Yellowstone field trip organized by the UofT SEG Student Chapter in May 2023.
Congratulations to Nelson Roman Moraga, recipient of the 2022/23 Laurence Curtis Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in Earth Sciences. Nelson is a Chilean economic geologist with five years of working experience in the mining industry, working as exploration geologist, mine geologist, geochemist and geometallurgist in various companies. He got HBSc and MSc degrees in geology at University of Chile, and currently he is a third year PhD candidate in Earth Sciences at UofT, in Professor Dan Gregory’s research team. His research aims to understand the source of metals, metallogeny and main geochemical features of the orogenic gold deposits in Yukon, Canada, through the study of sulfides and gold alloy in these systems.