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Please join me in congratulating Professor Becky Jamison on her recent appointment to Professor Emeritus status.

 

According to the 1997 Senate policy, recommendations for this

prestigious appointment: “shall be made only for individuals who have

made outstanding academic contributions that were substantially above

the norm for a Professor in their discipline at Dalhousie. Academic

contributions include a superlative record of research or scholarship, a

teaching performance that has been recognized as exceptional, a truly

outstanding contribution to the academic administration of Dalhousie

University, or some combination of these.”

 

Becky clearly met these criteria through her career-spanning

contributions in research, teaching and service.

Congratulations to Emeritus Professor Martin Gibling for his recent recognition with the Middleton Award during the International Sedimentological Congress held in Quebec City.  The award is in acknowledgment of Martin’s career contributions in this research area. Well done Martin!

 

 

Ask A Scientist: a summer-long set of appearances featuring profs and students in high-traffic areas across the city. We set-up a booth and encourage people to come talk with scientists about their research and answer questions related to their fields. With this campaign we aim to humanize science and break down the “ivory tower” stereotype. We need more volunteers for our upcoming events on Friday August 3^rd (Buskers Festival) and 18^th (location TBC). If you or a graduate student of yours is interested in communicating science to the public please contact the facilitators of this event Shauna Bulman (shauna.bulman@dal.ca) and Niecole Comeau at (Niecole.comeau@dal.ca). They will share more details. We’ve been fortunate to have the following people participate so far: Kimberley Davies and Delphine Durette-Morin, Owen Sherwood and Yana Fedortchouk, and Jeff Simmons and Katherine Styrnatka. You can read about the campaign on Dal News:https://www.dal.ca/news/2018/06/06/curious–just-ask-a-scientist.html.

Event Information: Petroleum Systems and Source Rocks of Atlantic Canada

Date and time: Thursday, July 19th, 2018 at 1:00 pm Atlantic Time (AST) (9 am Pacific; 12 noon Eastern; 4 pm GMT)  Web Link Description: Presented by: Professor Grant Wach, Dalhousie University The research conducted at the Basin and Reservoir Lab at Dalhousie University focuses on understanding Petroleum Systems through analyses of the sequence stratigraphy, depositional environments, tectonics, geo-pressure conditions, basin modeling and the provenance of sediment in basins. Source rock is a fundamental component of petroleum systems; coupled with reservoir distribution they are the two key risk elements of the Atlantic Canada margin. Previous studies (Beicip-Franlab, 201; CNSOPB 2013) proposed a model with a regional Lower Jurassic source rock extending beyond the Sable Subbasin, with an increased potential for new oil and gas discoveries. Our team investigated source rocks in Atlantic Canada offshore within the Triassic–Jurassic time interval. We re-evaluated existing organic geochemistry datasets and completed new analyses of selected cores and cuttings and integrated these with time-equivalent source rock outcrops in Canada and conjugate margins of Morocco, Portugal, Spain and Ireland. Our investigation of known, probable and possible source rocks in the eastern Canada offshore shelf and deepwater offshore regions and knowing how these organic-rich intervals developed and evolved through time, will contribute to mitigating drilling and production risks and may aid to identify new exploration opportunities in the Scotian Basin and conjugate margins.