News & Events

'Microbial ecosystem dynamics within the shallow sediments of the Scotian Slope'

Date & Time: 1:00 PM on Wed, 3 December
Location: Science Building - 411

GEOL 4650: Research Methods Thesis Presentations

GEOL 4650 - Thesis Presentations

Date & Time: 11:30 AM on Wed, 3 December
Location: Science - 411

Careers in Geoscience Presentation: Geohazards, Geochemistry, and Hydrogeology

Date & Time: 1:00 PM on Mon, 1 December
Location: Science Building - 411

'The geology and colonial history of cobalt deposits'

Date & Time: 1:00 PM on Mon, 24 November
Location: Science Building - 411

'A history of geochronology'

Date & Time: 1:00 PM on Wed, 19 November
Location: Science Building - 411

Dr. Hilary Corlett, AGS-SA Speaker Tour

Date & Time: 1:00 PM on Wed, 5 November
Location: Science Building - 411

“Exploration to Mining 101“ & career path discussion

Date & Time: 1:00 PM on Wed, 29 October
Location: Science Building - 411

GEOL 4650 – Research Methods Poster Presentation

Date & Time: 11:30 AM on Mon, 27 October
Location: Science Building - 411

Seminar talk by: Dr. Wilder Greenman

Date & Time: 1:00 PM on Wed, 22 October
Location: Science Building - 411

Seminar talk by: Dr. Nicholas B. Harris

Date & Time: 1:00 PM on Mon, 20 October
Location: Science Building - 411

PhD in Applied Science Thesis Defence

Date & Time: 10:00 AM on Thu, 28 August
Location: Loyola 271 / Teams

Winter 2026 | GEOL 1212: Mining & Society

New Course Offering: GEOL 1212 - Mining and Society

Date & Time:
Location: Science Building

Honours Theses Defence

Date & Time: 1:00 PM on Tue, 22 April
Location: Science Building - 411

MSc in Applied Science Thesis Defence

Date & Time: 3:30 PM on Wed, 16 April
Location: Loyola 274 / Teams

MSc Thesis Opportunity: Survival in an Extreme Environment - Microbial activity and organic matter preservation within high arctic lake bottom sediments

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MSc in Applied Science Thesis Defence

Date & Time: 2:00 PM on Tue, 17 December
Location: Loyola 274 / Teams

PhD Applied Science defence - Kevin Neyedley

PhD in Applied Science Thesis Defence

Date & Time: 1:00 PM on Fri, 6 December
Location: Atrium - 216 / Teams

MSc in Applied Science Thesis Defence

Date & Time: 11:00 AM on Fri, 6 December
Location: Loyola 274 / Teams

Honours Theses Interim Presentations

Date & Time: 1:00 PM on Thu, 5 December
Location: Science Building - 408

Congratulations to Dr. Hanley for receiving the 2024 President’s Award for Excellence in Research

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SMU GEOL Guest Speaker Series - Dr. Marcos Zentilli

SMU Geology Guest Speaker Series: Dr. Marcos Zentilli of Dalhousie University

Date & Time: 1:00 PM on Fri, 29 November
Location: Science Building - S408

AGS Speaker Series: Dr. Celeste Cunningham of St. Francis Xavier University

Date & Time: 1:00 PM on Fri, 22 November
Location: Science Building - 408

'The Mechanism of Archean Continental Growth: Evidence from Field Relationships, and Volcanic Rock and TTG Geochemistry'

Date & Time: 2:00 PM on Wed, 13 November
Location: Science Building - 408

The Association of Professional Geoscientists of Nova Scotia (APGNS) Student Awareness Presentation

Date & Time: 1:00 PM on Fri, 11 October
Location: Science Building - 408

Applications are open for fully funded MSc project at SMU Geology

Date & Time:
Location: Science Building

New Course Offering: GEOL 1211 - Atlantic Ocean: Formation, Fossils, Phenomena

Date & Time:
Location: Fall 2024 On Campus or Remote

PhD Proposal Defense

Date & Time: 1:00 PM on Thu, 29 February
Location: Loyola - 188 & Remote

Blue Beach Field Trip

Date & Time:
Location: Blue Beach Minas Basin

2023 Atlantic Universities Geoscience Conference (AUGC)

Date & Time:
Location: Memorial University, Newfoundland

Research Proposal Presentation

Date & Time: 10:00 AM on Wed, 29 May
Location: Science Building - 411

Honours Theses Defence

Date & Time: 10:00 AM on Thu, 11 April
Location: Science Building - 411

The Association of Professional Geoscientists of Nova Scotia (APGNS) Presentation + Q&A

Date & Time: 1:00 PM on Sat, 23 March
Location: Science Building - 408

Science Atlantic AGS Speaker Series: Dr. Sian Kou-Giesbrecht

Date & Time: 11:30 AM on Fri, 15 March
Location: S408

“Fundamentals of Mineral Resource Estimation” by Mr. Garth Kirkham

Date & Time: 10:15 AM on Thu, 29 February
Location: Science Building - 408

PhD. Proposal Defense

Date & Time: 1:00 PM on Thu, 22 February
Location: Science Building - 411

Doctoral Qualifying Examination (PhD in Applied Science)

Date & Time: 1:00 PM on Fri, 9 February
Location: Atrium - 217

PhD Proposal Defense

Date & Time: 1:00 PM on Mon, 5 February
Location: Atrium - 217 & Remote

'The Earth Ring' Presentation

Date & Time: 1:00 PM on Fri, 26 January
Location: Science Building - 408

The SMU Geology Guest Speaker Series welcomes Dr. Alan J. Anderson

Date & Time: 10:31 AM on Tue, 5 December
Location: Science Building - 408

“Reading the trackways of tectonic faults” by 2023 W.W. Hutchison Medalist, Dr. Jamie Kirkpatrick

Date & Time: 10:30 AM on Thu, 30 November
Location: Science Building - 411

The SMU Geology Guest Speaker Series welcomes Dr. Mo Snyder

Date & Time: 1:00 PM on Fri, 24 November
Location: Science Building - 408

"New development in the history of the Maritimes Basin: More that a pinch of salt" by Professor John Waldron

Date & Time: 1:00 PM on Thu, 12 October
Location: Science Building - 408

"Shocking Rocks on Earth and Beyond" by Professor John Spray

Date & Time: 10:00 AM on Fri, 15 September
Location: Science Building - 408

MSc Thesis Defense

Date & Time: 1:00 PM on Tue, 9 May
Location: Science Building - 411

Honours Thesis Defense

Date & Time: 1:00 PM on Wed, 12 April
Location: Science Building - 408

The SMU Geology Guest Speaker Series welcomes Dr. Catheryn Ryan

Date & Time: 3:00 PM on Thu, 6 April
Location: Science Building - 408

"Archaeology and Geology of the Ancestral Sites of the Mi’kmaw" by Gerald R. Gloade

Date & Time: 1:00 PM on Thu, 9 March
Location: Science Building - 408

"Secret of the Temple of Doom: A Tale of Subduction and Exhumation, Western Gneiss Region, Norway"

Date & Time: 1:00 PM on Wed, 1 March
Location: Science Building - 408

Congratulations SMU Earth Science @ AGS 2026

Congratulations to all of the students and researchers in our department who presented this weekend at the 2026 Atlantic Geoscience Society Colloquium in Truro. We had a great group of undergraduate and graduate students, professors (current and emerita), part-time faculty, adjuncts, and even alumni representing our department!

And a special congratulations to Geena Morse for winning the best undergraduate talk (for the second year in a row!).

Please see attached for photos provided by Howard Donohoe – thanks Howard!