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About 250 million years ago, the Permian-Triassic mass extinction killed over 80 per cent of the planet's species. In the aftermath, scientists believe that life on earth was dominated by simple species for up to 10 million years before more complex ecosystems could evolve. Now this longstanding theory is being challenged by a team of international researchers – including scientists from ۲ݮƵ University and Université du Québec à Montréal.

Classified as: Fossils, ocean, ecosystem, Permian-Triassic, mass extinction, climate change, Sustainability
Published on: 9 Feb 2023

Three projects will fill knowledge gaps about the environmental and economic impacts of greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen Canada's capacity to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050

Published on: 25 Nov 2022

Using real geochemical data from the archaeological site of Itzan, Guatemala, and computer-generated artwork, PhD candidate Benjamin Keenan has produced a video that brings ancient Mayan civilization to life.

Read the full story in the .

Published on: 16 Nov 2022

Alfonso Mucci, Emeritus Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,has been elected an American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fellow. He joins 53 other individuals in the 2022 Class of Fellows. AGU, a nonprofit organization that supports 130,000 enthusiasts to experts worldwide in Earth and space sciences, annually recognizes a select number of individuals as part of its Honours and Recognition program. Since 1962, the AGU Fellows Committee has selected less than 0.1% of members as new Fellows.

Published on: 29 Sep 2022

ٱ𲹻Ա:November1, 2022for the $2000(Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicist) aimed at undergraduate students enrolled in a programdirected toward a career in geophysics.

Classified as: geophysics, Scholarships, undergraduate students
Published on: 7 Sep 2022

۲ݮƵ undergraduates have a unique opportunity to expand their climate science literacy and acquire tools for taking action to reduce the impacts of the unfolding climate crisis.

Registration is now open to students in every program for FSCI 198: Climate Crisis and Climate Actions, a new undergraduate course featuring a team of multi-disciplinary instructors who will present diverse perspectives on the scientific and social dimensions of climate change.

Published on: 14 Jul 2022
Deadline: April 30, 2022 for KEGS Foundation Scholarships (Canadian Exploration Geophysical Society) aimed at undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in a program that emphasizes geophysics.
Find out more and download the application form from .
Classified as: Scholarships, geophysics
Published on: 14 Feb 2022

When did the Earth reach oxygen levels sufficient to support animal life? Researchers from ۲ݮƵ University have discovered that a rise in oxygen levels occurred in step with the evolution and expansion of complex, eukaryotic ecosystems. Their findings represent the strongest evidence to date that extremely low oxygen levels exerted an important limitation on evolution for billions of years.

Classified as: Earth, oxygen, evolution, space, exploration, atmosphere, ironstones, Maxwell Lechte
Published on: 31 Jan 2022

unEarth is one of the finalists' andtheir platform and supplemental educator's manual are designed to reach out andteach youth about sustainability through environmental systems thinking.

Classified as: STEM Outreach
Published on: 21 Oct 2021

group members have recently published a blog post with Cell Mentor, and a paper in Trends in Ecology.

Classified as: STEM Outreach
Published on: 24 Sep 2021

, ۲ݮƵ’s Climate Change Artist-in-Residence, will curate the Faculty of Science’s Bicentennial Science/Art Exposition, billed as a “celebration of science in all its forms”.

The art show organizers are calling on all members of the ۲ݮƵ community to submit works in any medium, expressing what science means to them.

The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2021.

Published on: 30 Aug 2021

Jeffrey McKenzie, Chair of ۲ݮƵ's Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, has been elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of America (GSA). In its citation, the GSA noted:

Published on: 14 Jul 2021

The launched on June 30th, 2021, and ۲ݮƵ Outreach is participating!L'Archipel Virtuel is the firstdigital edition of the festival.

Classified as: STEM Outreach, Redpath Museum, EPS
Published on: 6 Jul 2021

A ۲ݮƵ-led study has shown that the size of the Maya population in the lowland city of (in present-day Guatemala) varied over time in response to climate change. The findings, published recently in , show that both droughts and very wet periods led to important population declines.

Classified as: Maya, Itzan, Population, Benjamin Keenan, peter douglas, climate change, Sustainability
Published on: 30 Jun 2021

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