Earth Sciences News Archive

February 17, 2016 — 
Debra and Ross Pitman Graduate Scholarship in Geological Sciences

February 5, 2016 — 
Caldwell Teaching Assistant Award

November 23, 2015 — 
Geological Sciences alumnus establishes a unique award to support teaching assistants

May 5, 2015 — 
'You can’t understand something until you see it'

March 3, 2015 — 
Over the ten-year history of the Riddell Faculty, numerous working relationships with organizations, communities, and institutions in Canada’s North have been developed. Two important partnerships, with the University College of the North (UCN) and the Northern Manitoba Mining Academy (NMMA), seek to provide greater access to training and educational opportunities for northern Manitobans.

January 22, 2015 — 
Robert Bury Ferguson, Professor Emeritus in the department of geological sciences, died on Jan. 18, just shy of his 95th birthday

December 19, 2014 — 
The Province of Manitoba's Hydrologic Forecast Centre announced on December 16, 2014, that flow rates and levels for most major rivers and lakes are above normal. The Centre continues to gather information that will contribute to flood forecasts for the Spring of 2015. In the Riddell Faculty at the University of Manitoba, water quality and quantity is the focus of a number of researchers including Dr. Genevieve Ali of the Department of Geological Sciences. Her research described here reveals the challenges flood forecasters face.

July 25, 2014 — 
All is not well on this spangled landscape