Please share: The 🇨🇦 government has announced the new Impact+ Research Training Awards. One of the focus areas is the #Arctic +/- #ClimateChange - contact me if you're currently outside 🇨🇦 & interested in a #PhD or #postdoc in either of these 2 areas. nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/news/laun...

Congratulations to Marc Mechem on a successful MSc defence on #Apollo 16 breccia 66075 @westernuearth.bsky.social @westernuspace.bsky.social @westernuresearch.bsky.social

Meet our 1st #CountdowntoArtemisII expert: "Training astronauts using terrestrial analogues" with @drcrater.bsky.social prof of #EarthSci at @westernu.ca. Oz specializes in impact cratering processes, and takes astronauts through field expeditions in impact craters. 🔗www.spacerocks.ca

Huge congratulations to my MSc student Lauren McFarlane (co-supervised with Roberta Flemming) who successfully defended her thesis today on hydrothermal alteration of the Brent Crater 🇨🇦 @westernu.ca

Looking forward to being at @brocku.ca today to meet faculty & students & to give a talk on the return to the #Moon with robots & humans - highlighting the 🇨🇦 rover mission & my involvement in the #Artemis program. #ToTheMoon @westernu.ca

That’s my superstar wife! So proud of @lmisene.bsky.social - the new Dr. Frank J. Hayden Endowed Research Chair in Sport and Social Impact @westernu.ca @westernuresearch.bsky.social uwo.ca/fhs/news/202...

Although I might submit a print only abstract that talks about how diversity, equity, and inclusion is fundamentally important for science & how it drives my research program.

Well, I was on the fence but this makes the decision easy. No LPSC for me.

Thanks so much @cmdr-hadfield.bsky.social for sharing the @westernu.ca news story about our paper on the beneficial effects of meteorite impacts for microbes!

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...