The application deadline for ComSciConCAN applications as been extended to February 16th at 11:59 PM EST. This workshop is the only Canada-wide science communication training opportunity designed for graduate students. www.comsciconcanada.org/application

EES at the 52nd AGS (Atlantic Geoscience Society) Colloquium and Annual Meeting in Truro, Nova Scotia, Feb 6-7. Congratulations to Cameron Greaves for Best Grad presentation!

REMINDER: EES Honours Information Session Winter 2026 TOMORROW: Wednesday, February 4, 5:30 to 6:30 PM, Milligan Room

Calling all salamander lovers! Here is a great field opportunity with the Riley Lab in Sackville, NB for this summer and fall. Deadline to apply is March 2, 2026.

Graduate & Professional Program Fair January 23, 12:00–3:00 PM McInnes Room, DSU Building Register Now: apply.dal.ca/portal/gradf...

On Thursday, January 15, you are invited to attend the 17th annual Douglas M. Johnston Lecture, "Lived Experience and Climate Justice – Reframing Priorities," with guest speaker Eliza Morgera, the United Nations special rapporteur on climate change. For more details: bit.ly/3Niev3u

EES Honours Information Session Winter 2026 Wednesday, February 4, 5:30 to 6:30 PM, Milligan Room

January 15 - 11:30 AM, Milligan Room, LSC EES Departmental Seminar: Flaming tap water revisited: The science behind the occurrence of methane in groundwaters overlying unconventional oil, gas, and coal fields Dr. Owen Sherwood, EES www.dal.ca/faculty/scie...

EES' Grant Wach Talks all Things Salt with CBC: Grant Wach stops by CBC's Mainstreet NS with Jeff Douglas to talk all things salt: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Former colleagues and students of Dr. Gunter Muecke gathered to honour him on December 1st at the Old Triangle in Halifax.

Hot off the press! Environmental Informatics students are armed with their Infographics and looking to communicate science. Please scan their posters and give them some engagement. Look around the LSC for their posters and learn something new!

EES Students, We'd love to get your feedback. Take a survey on three upper-year Earth Science ERTH/GEOG 3302 – Quaternary Sedimentary Environments, ERTH 4350/5350 – Tectonics and ERTH 4153 – Petroleum Geology & Energy Systems and help inform and improve course offerings and scheduling.

The Great Anthropocene debate was held this week between students in the 3rd year Stratigraphy class(ERTH 3303). The debate was vigorous with excellent arguments on both sides, but in the end the AGAINST team was voted the winning team.

Thank you to EES Departmental Seminar speaker, Denise Brushett, Project Lead: Nova Scotia Municipal Flood Line Mapping Program, from the Government of Nova Scotia, who gave a talk to EES on Mapping the Risk: Advancing Flood Resilience in Nova Scotia on Thursday, November 27 in the Milligan Room.

November 30th at 1pm, EPSS is hosting a field trip to Hope for Wildlife and we are hoping you could join us! Hope for Wildlife is a charitable wildlife rehabilitation centre located in Seaforth, Nova Scotia. This trip will include a tour of the facility and the chance to ask your burning questions.

Wed, Nov 26, 5:30-6:30, Rm 2055 Please join us for a presentation on careers in geoscience! BGC geotechnical staff will present their experiences in different geoscience careers, including geohazards, geochemistry, and hydrogeology.

Today (Nov 24) and tomorrow (Nov 25) at 4:40 pm, CBC Radio's Mainstreet will be airing an interview with EES' Grant Wach as part of a two-part programme on natural gas storage in salt: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

For more details about the opportunity or to apply (deadline December 1), please contact Sophia Katzell ([email protected]) with the subject line SATA Environmental Communication Internship, including your resume and a short cover letter.

Dalhousie researchers stood out at the 23rd annual Discovery Awards in Halifax last night (November 20) with four top honours, including EES' Shannon Sterling for her work with the company she founded, CarbonRun.

A big thank you to GAC 2025-2026 Howard Street Robinson Lecture Tour speaker Dr. Anthony (Willy) Williams-Jones from Earth and Planetary Sciences at McGill University, who gave a talk to EES on Metals, Vapours and Volcanoes on Thursday, November 20 in the Milligan Room.

Celebrating Dalhousie's 95th Rhodes Scholar, Isaac Bahler: www.dal.ca/news/2025/11...

Dalhousie’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences 2025-26 Departmental Photo, October 2025.

Dal Alumni Sana Salehi and Mariam Knakriah are co-hosting "Women of Colour in Climate" event this Monday. The event is designed to bring together students and early-career professionals to explore the intersections of identity, leadership, and climate action.

Additional AUGC photos from the Goldboro gold mine field trip, oral presentations, posters, and awards. Thanks @dalgeology for sharing!

Congratulations to all participants in this past weekend's Atlantic Universities Geoscience Conference (AUGC) at St. FX University.

Ph.D. RESEARCH SEMINAR Rifkhan Nayeem EES Ph.D. Candidate Title: A Study of the Potential of Rare Earth Elements (REE) Extraction from Diamond Mine (Processed Kimberlite) Tailings Thursday, November 6, 11:30 a.m. Milligan Room, 8th Floor, Life Science Centre www.dal.ca/faculty/scie...

EES at the Atlantic Universities Geoscience Conference (AUGC), St. FX University, October 30 to November 2.

ERTH 3303 students describing drill cores from Western Canada

Exciting Environmental Communication Internship Opportunity – Winter, 2026. Deadline December 1.

EES Departmental Seminar: Elucidating food-web dynamics at the Makkovik Hanging Gardens off northern Labrador using compound-specific δ¹⁵N of deep-water corals and associated fauna Dr. Wilder Greenman Post-Doctoral Scholar, EES Thursday Oct 23, 11:30 am Milligan Room, 8th Floor LSC

EES Adjunct, John Dickie, talks storms and shipwrecks: A big thank you to EES Adjunct, John Dickie, of the Nova Scotia  Department of Natural Resources and Geological Survey who gave a great lecture Thursday (Oct 13) to the 3rd year Stratigraphy module of Event Stratigraphy.

Join the Environmental Programs Student Society (@dal_epss) this Saturday on a fall nature hike. Make your own trail mix, enjoy the fall colours, and make new friends. Open to all. Connecting with nature is one of the best ways to remain hopeful!🌳🌎🍂🐞🦋

PhD Position in Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry at Dalhousie University (Beginning Winter 2026) Deadline for the application is 31 October 2025

Are you interested in developing your skills at the intersection of sustainability and leadership? The RBC Sustainability Leadership Certificate teaches students the skills needed to be engaged citizens equipped to tackle sustainability issues in their communities. Questions? Email [email protected]

FREE PUBLIC LECTURE: Monday, October 6 (2025) at 7:30 PM (Atlantic Time) The Surprising Social Lives of Insects Access this NSIS seminar in-person in Mulroney Hall room MULH2034 at St.FX, 2332 Notre Dame Ave, Antigonish, NS or via Zoom (see our website for link: nsis1862.ca/public-lectu...)

The Dalhousie students of the Petroleum Geoscience and Energy Systems course were guests of CAPP and the Nova Scotia Department of Energy (Minister Boudreau) today at the Halifax Chamber of Commerce.

ERTH 4153 Springhill Geothermal Energy Visit: ERTH 4153 were hosted by the Minister of Natural Resources and renewables Tory Rushton the Mayor of Cumberland County, Rod Gilroy and Councillor Scott Lockhart. Former Earth Sciences PhD grad, Dr. Trevor Kelly (orange jacket), facilitated the visit.