Earth & Environmental Sciences Resource Center
Room 106, Memorial Hall

Hours of Operation – Winter 2010

Monday 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Tuesday 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. – Specifically for Environmental Science Students
Thursday 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Friday 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

There will be additional hours scheduled around exam times.
The Resource Centre is available to all students looking for help in classes such as:

61-110
61-140
61-213
Also available to 2^nd year students requiring assistance
Computers are available for homework, lab assignments

Seminars

Monday, March 1 at 10:00 a.m.
Student Seminar Speaker:
Hua Huang, University of Windsor
Geochemistry of the Neorchean Fiskenaesset anorthosite complex and associated tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite (TTG) gneisses, Southwestern Greenland
Room 211A, Memorial Hall

Wednesday, March 3 at 2:00 p.m.
Student Seminar Speaker:
Nelson Orlando Campos Alvarez, University of Windsor
Fluid-rock Interaction Around Mafic to Intermediate Intrusions: Evidence from Trace Element and Isotopic Geochemistry of Minerals
Room 211A, Memorial Hall

Friday, March 5 at 9:00 a.m.
Student Seminar Speaker:
Daniel D'Alimonte, University of Windsor
Synthetic Sensor Observations: Integrating Computer Simulations with the Sensor Web
Room 201, Memorial Hall

News

EES faculty member gives keynote address

Alan Trenhaile has been invited to give the keynote lecture (Feb. 26th) at a Geological Oceanography session at the American Geophysical Union's 'Oceans 2010' conference in Portland, Oregon. The talk is entitled: Modelling the response of hard and soft rock coasts to climate change'. Alan has also been appointed by the French organising committee as a foreign representative to the Scientific Committee for 'Paris 2013', the next international conference of the International Association of Geomorphologists.

New additions to the Department

Earth and Environmental Sciences would like to welcome several new people to the department.

Maryam Shahabifar (right) is from Iran, and is beginning a PhD with Iain Samson and Joel Gagnon.

Dr. Baocheng Pang (below left) is a visiting Scholar from Guilin University of Technology, China, and will be doing research with Iain Samson and Jianwen Yang.

Dr. Ming Kang (below right) is a visiting Scholar from Chang'an University in China, and will be doing research with Jianwen Yang.

UWindsor pledges collaboration with twin-city universities

Dr. Frank Simpson was instrumental in developing an exchange agreement between the University of Windsor and two universities in Windsor's twin city of Lublin, Poland. This agreement will facilitate collaborative research and exchanges of students, faculty, and staff.

Formal signings of memoranda of understanding in August brought to a conclusion a six-month period of consultation and negotiation between UWindsor and Maria Curie-Skłodowska University and the J ohn Paul II Catholic University of Lublin.

Besides exchange of students and researchers, the agreements set the stage for the exchange of publications, research materials and other information, says Earth and Environmental Sciences professor Frank Simpson, the coordinator of International and Development Research, Education and Training, who spearheaded the discussions and wrote the initial draft of the documents.

He notes the final agreements include reference to collaborative research; cooperation in the preparation of seminars, conferences and workshops; and specialized training projects and the delivery of credit and non-credit courses.

Both universities offer selections of courses in English. Poland’s membership in the European Union makes researchers from both institutions and their foreign collaborators eligible for financial support, through funding instruments, such as the Research Framework Program of the European Commission. An example is the Seventh Framework Program, which runs from 2007 to 2013. Information is available at http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/home_en.html. More information on these agreements is available here. 

Frank Simpson presented an invited paper, entitled “Minimizing the Societal Impact of Global Climate Change: Lessons from Multi-disciplinary, Environmental Research in Diverse Climatic Settings”, at the Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors, “Achieving Excellence through Change”, 2009 Ontario Branch Educational Conference, London, Ontario (October 4-7, 2009).  (Posted Nov. 5/09)

Ali Polat has just published an invited review paper in a Geological Society of London Special Paper on accretionary orogens:  Polat, A., Kerrich, R., and Windley, B.F., 2009. Archean crustal growth processes in the southern Superior Province and southern West Greenland: geodynamic and magmatic constraints. In: Cawood, P. and Kröner, A. (Eds.), Accretionary Orogens in Space and Time, Geological Society of London, Special Publication 318, 155-191. (Posted Nov. 5/09)

Earth and Environmental Sciences UWin Week Fieldtrip a great success!
Thursday, October 15, 2009

A busload of intrepid University of Windsor students braved blustery, cold and rainy weather to participate in a UWin Week field trip organized by the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences (EES). The field trip, titled Essex County: From the Bottom Up, introduced a cross-section of first and second year students to a number of earth and environmental attractions that are available to them in their own backyard. Activities ranged from interpreting ancient climate by observing 380-million year old corals in bedrock exposed in a limestone quarry near McGregor, understanding glacial movement and processes by hiking over glacial sediments and landforms near Albuna, appreciating the historical and economic importance of the local oil industry by touring a Talisman Energy oil field battery near Leamington, and understanding climate change patterns by banding migrating hawks at Holiday Beach. Despite the weather, the students had a great time and developed a greater understanding of the diversity of the environment, and potential environmental careers, even within Essex County. An Environmental Studies student commented that the trip was “truly wonderful and a once-in-a-lifetime experience” and that the University needs to do more of these types of activities. In light of the very positive student response, EES plans to make the UWin Week field trip an annual event and is considering other opportunities to provide students with similar experiential learning opportunities. Go here for more photos from the fieldtrip.

Examining limestone deposits in Amherst Quarries' McGregor operation and discussing paleoclimate and the geological history of southern Ontario.

Measuring water chemistry and observing shoreline processes at Holiday Beach Conservation Area.

• The December 2006 edition of the our Earth and Environmental Sciences Newsletter is available here as a color PDF, The previous edition is available on our News and Events page.

Earth-UWindsor-newsletter-Dec06.pdf

Previous Seminars:

Thursday, February 4 at 4:00 p.m.
Seminar Speaker:
Dr. Richard Smith, Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists
A Tutorial on Airborne Electromagnetic Methods and Some Examples from Mineral Exploration, Hydrocarbon Exploration and Water Exploration
Room 201, Memorial Hall

Thursday, January 21 at 4:00 p.m.
Seminar Speaker:
Professor Grant Garven, Geology Department, University of Tufts
"The Geohydrology of Faults in Southern California"
Room 201, Memorial Hall

Thursday, January 14 at 4:00 p.m.
Seminar Speaker:
Dr. Dan Marshall, Howard Street Robinson Lecturer
"Gem Occurrences and Exploration Models within the Canadian Cordillera"
Room 201, Memorial Hall

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