Excited to share our paper on the Lappajärvi impact crater just published in Nature Communications - Traces of life found in meteorite crater offer clues to life’s origins news.westernu.ca/2025/09/life... @westernu.ca

Check out this article highlighting the work done by my PhD student @whereisananya.bsky.social www.space.com/space-explor...

It was great to wrap up #Kamestastin2025 with a visit to the Innu Nation’s Sheshatshui Youth Centre to talk about the #Moon #Artemis & our training at Kamestastin Lake 😀

Such a fantastic team! #Kamestastin2025 #fieldwork #Artemis #geology #ToTheMoon

Today was capstone day: an EVA traverse on the central uplift of the Kamestastin impact structure. Time to put all the training together! #Kamestastin2025 #geology #artemis #impactcraters #geology #fieldwork

Another great day at Kamestastin. A beach of impact breccias & melt rocks makes for an excellent analogue for the lunar regolith! #Kamestastin2025 #Artemis #geology #fieldwork

A fantastic day of #geology at Kamestastin Lake - investigating impactites (rocks produced by meteorite impact) from anorthosite target rocks = amazing analogue for the #Moon #Kamestastin2025

Our first full day of #geology training at Kamestastin Lake. A vista to behold: hiking up the eroded remnant of an impact melt pond with the central uplift in the middle of the lake behind us #Kamestastin2025 #Artemis #ToTheMoon

As if to remind us why we are here. The #Moon rising over #Kamestastin lake #ToTheMoon #Artemis

Our advance team has made it to Kamestastin Lake and set up phase 1 of our basecamp 😀 #fieldwork #Artemis #geology #outdoors #camping #Kamestastin2025

We made it! Our advance team from @westernu.ca and #NASA has arrived in Goose Bay #Labrador. We’ll spend a day here doing logistics and then it’s off to the Kamestastin Lake impact structure for field geology astronaut training #Kamestastin2025 #geology #Artemis

Excited to share my first full-length article for @cangeo.bsky.social - From Labrador to Luna: Training future moon explorers canadiangeographic.ca/articles/fro... @westernu.ca

A nice @BBCWorld article about our 🇨🇦 rover mission to the #Moon 😀 @westernu.ca #ToTheMoon www.bbc.com/news/article...

Exciting times for Canada’s space community! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Thank you #Algonquin for the memories from another wonderful backcountry #canoe trip ❤️😀

Happy Independence Day Ukraine #StandWithUkraine

It was amazing to participate in a little bit of history this week - the 1st #ArtemisIII NASA SMD (Science Mission Directorate) Science Team Meeting 😀 #ToTheMoon

A couple of cool firsts today. First time at #NASA Headquarters. First ever all hands #ArtemisIII Science Team Meeting 😀 #ToTheMoon

Where else can you be heading to the airport to fly home and take a quick detour to see a volcanic eruption?! Gotta ❤️ #Iceland 😀

Woo hoo! Our 🇨🇦 rover has a ride to the Moon! Excited to work with the other payloads on this mission to explore the Moon’s south polar region! www.nasa.gov/news-release...

I was happy to contribute to this article "From Apollo 11 to Artemis: Why Nasa's legacy is under threat" www.thenationalnews.com/future/space...

Back from a few days in Labrador visiting the Mushuau Innu First Nation in Natuashish to discuss our upcoming #geology and #astronaut training expedition to the #Kamestastin Lake impact structure. Lots of great ideas for community involvement and training Innu youth in geology 😀

I am so happy and proud of my PhD student Ananya Srivastava who has been awarded an uber prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship 😀🎉 @westernu.ca @westernuspace.bsky.social news.westernu.ca/2025/07/vani...

Super excited for my #PhD student Simona Ruso who is defending her thesis today on the characterization of subglacial channels on Earth & Mars 😀 @westernuspace.bsky.social @westernu.ca

Huge congratulations to Jack on the publication of his 1st #PhD paper! If you’re interested in the #Artemis exploration zone, check it out: all the potential landing sites will have material from the Amundsen-Ganswindt impact basin! @westernuspace.bsky.social @westernu.ca

Check out this great video that the Canadian Space Agency put together for #InternationalAsteroidDay that highlights the field #geology training we did a couple of years ago at the Kamestastin Lake impact structure #Labrador x.com/i/status/193... @westernuspace.bsky.social @westernu.ca

In 1788, Hutton discovered almost vertical layers of sedimentary rock at Siccar Point. This allowed him to explain key geological processes like deposition, folding and erosion, which shape today's landscapes. View more geological photos via our archive: bgs.assetbank.app

Interested in gullies on Mars? Then check out the latest paper from my PhD student Axel Nobelt: Mapping gully-susceptible hillslopes on Mars: implications for their mode of formation and evolution www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @westernuspace.bsky.social @westernuresearch.bsky.social

It was amazing to be there to witness the opening of the Science Evaluation Room where our #ArtemisIII science team will support the astronauts during the first human mission to the #Moon in my lifetime 😀 #ToTheMoon www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...

I don't know about others in the space community, but I've been struggling to focus recently given everything going on in the world... But came across this quote and it really resonated.

“People are all hardwired to explore, and it’s essential to realizing our fullest potential” www.cbc.ca/radio/thecur...

This suddenly feels a lot more real! Got to see the brand new #Artemis Mission Control Center for the first time 😀 I am forever grateful to family, friends, colleagues & funding agencies who have supported me to get to get here. #ToTheMoon #ArtemisIII #Teamwork

Shocked & sad to hear of the passing of Marc Garneau. I hope his words will continue to inspire: "Although my gaze will remain on the future… I hope that you, the young people of this country, will fashion that future and protect our democracy." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Happy to be back at #NASAJSC for the #ArtemisIII #geology team meeting 😀 #ToTheMoon @westernu.bsky.social

Check out this article produced by @FUTURUMCareers about my research. This was fun to write and is a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in #STEM @westernu.bsky.social @westernuresearch.bsky.social

It never gets old. Had a blast leading a field trip down to the floor of Barringer (aka Meteor) Crater, a 180 m deep 1.2 km diameter hole in the ground!

A great article by @tanyaofmars.bsky.social - Trump’s Space Cuts Should be a Wake Up Call for Canada spaceq.ca/trumps-space...

#London #Ontario peeps- if you have a used laptop laying about please consider donating to help a child or youth in need. www.steameducation.ca/rebuildit.html

Jeeze, and this is still spring.... a deadly reminder that we're still in a #ClimateCrisis despite it not being on the front page.... www.bbc.com/news/article...

‘Tis a beautiful morning on the beautiful @westernu.bsky.social campus 😀

Indescribably heartbreaking. A hospital doctor loses 9 of her 10 children. Another grim statistic adding to the over 16,000 Palestinian children killed in Gaza by Israel #FreePalestine #GazaUnderAttack www.bbc.com/news/article...

Had a blast today talking to Grade 9 science and geography classes at London South Collegiate Institute @tvdsb.bsky.social about the 🇨🇦 rover mission and 🇨🇦 involvement in the #Artemis program to return humans #ToTheMoon @westernu.bsky.social #Canadensys #CanadianSpaceAgency

Great to see this paper out from recently-graduated PhD student Catheryn Ryan - Putative biosignatures in hydrovolcanic tuffs from a Mars-relevant environment #mars #astrobiology #geology @westernuspace.bsky.social @westernuresearch.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Space archaeology. It’s a thing! www.bbc.com/future/artic...

A great turn out for the Monday morning planetary geoscience session at #GACMAC2025 in Ottawa - Insights into solar system geology from astromaterials & missions.

Never, ever, say that “my vote doesn’t matter” - 1 single voter decided the outcome of this riding in Quebec!! www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Another great day at the Ries crater and our final one as a group before a few of the team leave tomorrow. More great rocks, discussions about the #ExoMars mission & checking out the historic town of Nördlingen! #geology #fieldwork #mars #impactcraters

Happy birthday Sir David Attenborough. You’ve been inspiring me for my entire life. 99 years old. Unbelievable.

A lot of the sites we visited today and our discussions focused on how meteorite impact events can create habitable environments - e.g., hydrothermal systems & crater lakes - and how the @esa.int #ExoMars rover might identify such habitats on #Mars

What a great first couple of days in the Ries crater! We have a large team here from 🇨🇦 & 🇬🇧 as part of a @csa_asc- funded project to support the #PanCam & #Enfys instrument teams on @esa.int #ExoMars mission & explore how impact craters can form clays on Mars.