Congratulations to Jared Janzen for finishing his Honours thesis! Jared has produced the first assessment of the carbonation potential of northern Alberta kimberlites. Now that he’s finished his Hns. B.Sc., Jared has accepted a geologist position with Kingfisher Metals. Congratulations Jared!
Even more good news from the EEGL: Maija Raudsepp has been awarded the 2018 Mineralogical Society of America Grant from the Edward H. Kraus Crystallographic Research Fund. This is an internationally competitive grant that is awarded once annually. The Kraus Grant supports research by early career scientists working in the field of mineralogical crystallography, encompassing mineralogy, …
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Congratulations to Connor Turvey on completing his Ph.D. in carbon mineralization and stable carbon, oxygen and magnesium isotope geochemistry of hydrotalcite supergroup minerals! Awesome work, Connor! Further congrats on the Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at The University of British Columbia. Best wishes for success in your PDF!
Congratulations to Jessica Hamilton on passing her Ph.D. on transition metal cycling during passive and enhanced carbonation of mine tailings! Huge congrats on taking up a Postdoctoral Fellowship at in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at The University of Queensland. Well done, Jess, and best wishes for your PDF!
Congratulations to Alastair Tait, who is now a Commonwealth Rutherford Fellow at the University of Stirling! He is now searching for stony meteorites on Mars. This is wonderful news and very well deserved! All the best for the next exciting chapter of your career in combining in geomicrobiology and meteoritics, Al!
Welcome to Dr. Maija Raudsepp who has joined the EEGL team a as Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Maija is a geomicrobiologist who is working on the biogeochemistry of sediments in hypersaline lakes. She has a wealth of experience studying how microorganisms cycle sulfur, iron and methane in sedimentary environments, including in the deep subsurface via an …
Applications are welcome for several M.Sc. and Ph.D. projects starting September 2018 in the Environmental Economic Geology Laboratory at the University of Alberta. Graduate researchers will join an interdisciplinary research team under the supervision of Dr. Siobhan (Sasha) Wilson. We are looking for independent, creative and collaborative students who are interested in developing new ideas …
Applications are now open for three postdoctoral research positions in the geochemistry/biogeochemistry of accelerated carbonation of ultramafic mine wastes. One position will be held at each of Trent University, the University of Alberta and the University of British Columbia in Canada. All applications will be considered together and full details can be found here. Review of …
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The lab is relocating to the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada for January 2018. We’ll have two nodes, one at the University of Alberta and one at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia for the first few months of 2018. By mid-2018, all of our work will be done at our new base at the …
Hot off the press: In a new study led by Alastair Tait, we have shown that environmental microorgansims from Australia’s arid Nullarbor Plain very commonly colonise stony meteorites that have fallen to Earth. Microbes take advantage of the composition and properties of minerals in meteorites to scavenge water, regulate pH, and derive nutrients and energy. …