UBC Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
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We're hiring! Assistant Professorship in Earth Science Discipline-Based Education Research, at UBC Vancouver. We seek an innovative researcher and educator who will conduct internationally-recognized research on the development, application, and assessment of best-practices in DBER in the Earth Sciences. UBC recognizes that equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence and we particularly encourage applications from members of marginalized groups. For details, ch...eck out: https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/about/job-opportunities. #BlackinNature @BlackWomenPhDs @500womensci @WOCinSTEMChat @Lotus_STEMM @LatinasinSTEM @QueersInSTEM @MinoritySTEM @IWS_Network #InclusiveinSTEM #diversityinSTEM #BIPOCinSTEM

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Geophysics PhD Candidate, Sam Anderson has a new publication hot off the press in Nature Climate Change! Sam has developed a new way to understand how to identify which communities are most vulnerable to the loss of glaciers in terms of municipal water supply across Alberta. Congrats Sam! Check out some beautiful photos from his field work and check out the Nature publication: https://rdcu.be/b53pJ

Congrats to Kate Smith and Dr. Dominique Weis on the New York Times coverage of their honey research tracing toxic fallout from Notre-Dame fire.

Did you know honeybees can help monitor metal distributions in urban environments? Check out a Lead map of Vancouver, BC in a new paper by PCIGR’s Kate Smith and Dominque Weis. To learn more follow the link to their paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com//10.1/2020GH000264

New research about Canada's deadliest volcanic eruption ! For a quick review check out our blog post about the Tseax volcano: https://bit.ly/3gbzbEr From Simon... Fraser University, University of Lethbridge, UBC Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Paleomagnetism and Petrophysics Laboratory (Geological Survey of Canada), and Université Clermont Auvergne See more

Statement on Anti-Racism by EOAS Department Head, Philippe Tortell excerpt: "We must redouble our efforts, as individuals and organizations, to dismantle them [anti-black police brutality, racism, injustice and oppressive violence] once and for all." Find the full statement here: https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/news-events/news/1591686000

Coronavirus: Is it safe to swim in a pool, lake or the ocean? We catch it by inhaling the virus, and don't catch it by drinking it. Even if there was #Coronavir...us in water for humans it doesn't represent a problem, says Curtis Suttle. https://www.theweathernetwork.com//coronavirus-is-it-safe- UBC Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences

On 12 July 2012, an extremely rapid flow of soil, rock, and timber swept down Gar Creek, located on the shores of Kootenay Lake, British Columbia. This paper pr...esents a back-analysis of this event using numerical runout modelling, showing that undrained flow can explain the observed channel avulsion with fewer model parameters than needed by previous analyses. "Dynamic analysis of the 2012 Johnsons Landing landslide at Kootenay Lake, British Columbia: the importance of undrained flow potential" ETH Zürich UBC Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences See more

New #EOAS Assistant Professor Spotlight! Meet geologist Dr. Joel Saylor, who studies past climates, tectonic basins, and sediments. Outside of his research and teaching, Dr. Saylor enjoys anything that gets him outside including running, hiking, and rock climbing. His field work has taken him to Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Tibet, and Western USA. Go check out some of his awesome field work photos on the most recent EOAS instagram posts. (https://www.instagram.com/ubceoas/?hl=en) (https://twitter.com/UBCeoas/status/1267519488045445120?s=20)

A new study published in @ScienceAdvances by #EOAS Dr. Anna Mittelholz and Professor Catherine Johnson that talks about the timing of Mars' dynamo; it was active 4.5 and 3.7 billion years ago! photocredit: NASA @ubcnews https://news.ubc.ca//ubc-researchers-establish-new-timeli/