April 21, 2015 New funding received from the Canadian Space Agency Happy to announce some new funding – $200,000 over 2 years – from the Canadian Space Agency’s Science and Operational Applications Research (SOAR) program. The…
April 8, 2015 Double honours for Dr. Osinski From the Faculty of Science: Double Honors – Gordon Osinski wins the Florence Bucke Award and the Mineralogical Association of Canada’s Young Scientist Award…
February 4, 2015 New Global Map of Gullies on Mars Published! Congrats to Tanya Harrison who has a new paper in Icarus entitled “Global Documentation of Gullies with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Context Camera and…
December 2, 2014 New publication – Revisiting the Rochechouart impact structure, France A paper by ex-PhD student and current post-doc, Haley Sapers, is featured in this month’s issue of Meteoritics and Planetary Science. In this paper…
November 27, 2014 Western space explorers ready to capture new images of the surface of Mars Led by my Research Scientist, Dr. Livio Tornabene, “A team of Western University space explorers are capturing new images of the surface of Mars with…
October 26, 2014 New age dating of the Clearwater Lake impact structures – Not the binary asteroid impact it seems? I’m happy to be a co-author on a new paper published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, which provides some surprising new age data suggesting that…
October 21, 2014 New article: Using Martian single and double layered ejecta craters to probe subsurface stratigraphy Congratulations to post-doc Eriita Jones for her paper that is now in press in Icarus entitled “Using Martian single and double layered ejecta craters…
September 25, 2014 West Clearwater Lake Expedition a Success With all participants now safely home from the field, it’s safe to say that our expedition to the West Clearwater Lake impact structure was…
August 18, 2014 West Clearwater Lake impact structure expedition From August 18th to September 14th 2014, our group will lead a field expedition to the ~36 km diameter West Clearwater Lake impact structure…
August 18, 2014 Tanya wins a prestigious Vanier Canada graduate Scholarship! I’m very proud to be able to announce that Tanya Harrison, a PhD Candidate in my group and co-supervised by Dr. Livio Tornabene, has…