This has been fun to contribute a small piece to this project by using X-ray Fluorescence in the Earth and Planetary Materials Analysis Laboratory that I direct to to study these "poison books" 😀 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... @westernuresearch.bsky.social

Excited to see this paper published! Impactful dates: Coordinated 40Ar/39Ar geochronology and shock study of Kamestastin lake impact structure, Canada www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @cubouldearth.bsky.social @westernuspace.bsky.social @westernuresearch.bsky.social

Through rain & sun the #SudburyImpact field school continues with the students working in groups to map & document shatter cones around the Sudbury impact structure #geology #fieldwork @westernu.ca

Last week we held a fantastic meeting of the science team for the Canadian Lunar Rover mission at at the Canadian Space Agency - Canada's first ever rover mission to the Moon! We made important progress on mission operations development, including a nigh time simulation #ToTheMoon #CdnSpace

The afternoon continued by looking at the Onaping Formation breccias that overlie the melt sheet and then the post-impact sedimentary fill. Lots of cool rocks! #SudburyImpact #ImpactEarth

Enjoying a beautiful morning looking at the #geology of the Sudbury impact structure: beginning in the crater floor with pseudotachylite & working our way upwards through the 3 km think impact melt sheet! #SudburyImpact @westernu.ca

After a morning of lectures and hand sample exercises, we headed out in to field for an introduction to Sudbury #geology #SudburyImpact #impactcraters #impactearth @westernu.ca

Good to be back in Sudbury to teach my impact cratering short course and field school. What better place to teach than a 200 km diameter meteorite impact structure! #impactcraters #SudburyImpact #Apollo #Artemis @westernu.ca

A Flash, a Boom, a New Microbe Habitat - Check out this great @agu.org EOS article on our recent paper on the Lappajärvi impact structure, Finland - life in an impact crater! @westernuspace.bsky.social @westernu.ca eos.org/articles/a-f...

A great interview with Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen about the historic #ArtemisII mission! Exclusive: Artemis 2 'is not the peak of our mountain, in Canada' says astronaut Hansen spaceq.ca/exclusive-ar...

Check out this paper by my recent PhD grad James Burley and Livio Tornabene - Distal impact-related surface flows associated with the well-preserved Tokmok Crater, Noachis Terra, Mars www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @westernuresearch.bsky.social

Wrapping up a great few days of #fieldwork in eastern #Quebec at a potential new meteorite impact crater. Stay tuned for details of what we found - hint: the brutal field conditions were worth it 😉 #geology #impactcraters #fieldwork #science

For the geologists: introducing the finalists for today’s best outcrop! #fieldwork #geology

Camp life #fieldwork #camping #outdoors #eatwelllivewell

The less glamorous side of #fieldwork - after a promising start, we lost a drone & then the rain started. And the outcrops were, well, less than impressive! We returned soaked to the skin back to camp. But a dry sleeping bag feels like the best thing in the world 😊 #fieldwork #outdoors #camping

Enjoyed two days of adventures so far checking out a potential new meteorite impact crater 😀 Some of the most challenging terrain I’ve ever worked in, but stunning scenery. And cool rocks 😉 #fieldwork #geology #outdoors

Yesterday was an adventure, even by my standards! With no suitable beaches, the float plane dropped us off 50 m from the shore 🤪 #fieldwork #geology

Well, after 3 flights & a 3 hr drive I’ve made it to as far east in Quebec I’ve ever been: Havre-Saint-Pierre. Our stop off point where we’ll take a float plane north tomorrow #fieldwork #geology #adventure

Very sad to hear of the passing of Jane Goodall. But what a life well lived and what a legacy she leaves behind. www.bbc.com/news/live/c9...

Here we go again! #fieldwork #research #geology

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.