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Professor Gordon Osinski receives a Faculty of Science Distinguished Research Professorship

Professor Gordon “Oz” Osinski leads a large interdisciplinary research team focusing on planetary geology and the development of technologies and techniques for Earth and space exploration. This Distinguished Research Professorship will enable him to focus on activities related to the Artemis III mission. Scheduled for launch in mid-2027, this will be the first human mission to the Moon since 1972. Dr. Osinski’s team is contributing to the characterization of potential landing sites for this mission and the development of plans for the characterization of samples returned to Earth by the Artemis III astronauts.

Professor Emeritus Guy Plint and collaborators discover signs of dinosaur footprints in South Africa

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Check out the FACULTY RESEARCH AND RECOGNITION UPDATES for 2025

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Announcing the James M. Franklin Graduate Scholarship

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Announcing Dr. Wyatt Bain as our new Robert W. Hodder Chair in Economic Geology

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Uncover the history of our planet through the rocks, minerals, and signs of past life

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The Impact Project

Graduate Student Ben Kalman Publishes Science Fiction Novel

Graduate Student James Thayer awarded 2023 Kerry Kelts Research Award from the Limnogeology Division, Geological Society of America

GSA Today November 2023

Takes of Long Ago, Far Away

Fulbright Scholar to Link Synchrotron Tech, Mining

Model Shakes Up Earthquakes Forecasting

深夜福利站 Takes First Steps Toward the Moon

DragonFly will Soar Across Saturn Moon

Research Resets Timeline for Life on Mars

Giant Beavers Didn't Eat Wood and That's Likely Why They Didn't Survive the Last Ice Age

Students Land Project - After a Lost Year

Close Pass of 'Swarm' Calls for Close Observation

Lunar Researchers Prepare for Next 'Giant Leap'

Elite Researchers Share in CFI-JELF Funding

深夜福利站 Gives Canadian Space Agency Astronaut's Mission a Boost

深夜福利站 Researcher Wants to Pull History of Mars from its Rocks

深夜福利站-led Team May Unlock Rocky Secrets of Mars

Earth Sciences News 2018

Geology and Grapes a Winning Pair

Student Wastes No Time in Conservation Efforts

Work-Integrated-Learning Work at 深夜福利站

The Best New Research: Finalists Announced for the 2018 Frontiers Spotlight Award - September 2018

Mega quakes pose major threats to modern society, generating casualties and fatalities, disrupting socioeconomic activities, and causing enormous economic loss across the world. Recent major disasters, such as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2011 Tohoku Japan earthquake and tsunami, and the 2015 Gorkha Nepal earthquake, are vivid reminders that complex risk cascades drive most earthquake crises. New research that addresses multidisciplinary aspects of cascading hazards and risks is essential to mitigate future catastrophic earthquake disasters globally.

深夜福利站 seismologists, Drs Katsu Goda, Hadi Ghofrani, Sheri Molnar and Gail Atkinson, contributed to the Frontiers' Mega Quake Research Topic. This collection of research articles has been shortlisted for the 2018 Frontiers Spotlight Award as one of 10 finalists among 400 article collections across a wide range of academic fields. The winning team will receive UK100K to organize an international conference.