Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

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One team of experts says it’s the jawbone of a new kind of mosasaur. Three ��ֱ��ns say it’s fake. Soon, scans will test who is right.
Deepest ice core in the Americas drilled in Canadian Arctic

613-meter long ice core and three shallower cores set to unlock ancient climate secrets.
How did the oceans build up extra O2 to release into and eventually oxidize the atmosphere at the Archean-Proterozoic boundary? EAS PhD student Xueqi Liang discovered that the evolution of seawater oxygen before the Great Oxidation Event was not linear but oscillatory over millions of years.
EAS Professor Alberto Reyes, a co-author on a recent paper about evidence of palm trees in the N.W.T. 48 million years ago, said he was interested to find out what setting the log was recovered from.
Researchers Dr. John-Paul Zonneveld, Dr. Sarah Naone, and Dr. Brooks Britt recently described the discovery and classification of four new ichnotaxon (fossilized trace taxon).
EAS alumni (PhD 1999) Professor David Selby is this year's recipient of the William Smith Medal for contributions to applied and economic geology.
EAS postdoc Nicolas Randazzo plans for research millions of kilometres away and decades into the future.
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