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Geoscientists confirm millions-year-old dripping of Earth's crust beneath Andes Mountains

July 19, 2022

Just like honey slowly dripping from a spoon, parts of the rocky outermost layer of Earth’s shell are continuously sinking into the more fluid layer of the planet’s mantle over the course of millions of years.

U of T researchers studying an ecological time capsule from Toronto Port Lands excavation site

June 17, 2022

In early 2021, keen-eyed workers at a Toronto Port Lands construction site on the city’s waterfront spotted plants that had sprouted from soil recently exposed by the removal of tons of earth. The plants were hard stem bulrush and cattails which are commonly found in freshwater marshes.

2022 Arts & Science Postdoctoral Fellowship Program recipients announced

May 06, 2022

A group of outstanding scholars will receive advanced training in their field of study through the support of the Faculty of Arts & Science’s Postdoctoral Fellowship program.

A&S alumnus David Moore creates earth sciences scholarship to support learning beyond the classroom — and sustainable development

April 19, 2022

In some ways, David Moore’s destiny was etched in stone from an early age.

“I started collecting rocks when I was five years old, so I was probably predestined to be a geologist,” he jokes.

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Nearly 50 years after graduation, David Brace is still fascinated by earth sciences at U of T

April 08, 2022

Though the University of Toronto represents a brief period in alumnus David Brace’s life — and close to 50 years ago, at that — it left a lasting impression on him.

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Arts & Science in your feed: A roundup of podcasts and videos reflecting the diversity of expertise in the Faculty

April 06, 2022

Reflecting the diversity of expertise and thought-leadership in the Faculty of Arts & Science, here is a short list of podcasts and videos that explore topics as broad-ranging as artificial intelligence, Martin Luther King Jr., diversity and inclusion in earth sciences, and Baby Yoda.

Andrei Swidinsky is helping find climate change solutions lying beneath our feet

February 16, 2022

Perhaps the most unusual use of geothermal energy that geophysicist Andrei Swidinsky ever encountered was at the Colorado Gators Reptile Park in southern Colorado.

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High levels of hazardous chemicals found in Canadian nail salons

February 15, 2022

Researchers at U of T’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH), in collaboration with Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre and the Healthy Nail Salons Network, have found that nail technicians in discount salons are exposed to several chemicals widely used as plasticizers and flame retardants.

New philanthropic gift sends students into the field to study earth sciences up close and in person

December 09, 2021

U of T alumnus Justin Reid is on a mission to get students out of the classroom and into the world.

“Our industry needs people,” says Reid, who earned his master’s degree in geology from U of T in 2002 and who now serves as CEO and director of Troilus Gold.

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Massive new animal species discovered in half-billion-year-old Burgess Shale

September 24, 2021

University of Toronto palaeontologists based at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) have uncovered the remains of a huge new fossil species belonging to an extinct animal group in half-a-billion-year-old Cambrian rocks from Kootenay National Park in the Canadian Rockies.

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