News


2025

July 2025

  • David, Julie, and Greg are off to the Yucatan, Mexico to collect some more water and microbialite samples from cenotes. Have a safe trip!
  • Libby is off to Perth, Australia to present her research on meteorites at the 2025 Meteoroids conference. Good luck and have fun in Western Australia!

May 2025

  • David, Julie, and Greg are off to the Yucatan, Mexico to collect some more water and microbialite samples from cenotes. Have a safe trip!
  • A handful of the lab students are presenting their research at the 2025 GAC-MAC conference held in Ottawa, Canada. Good luck and have fun!

March 2025

  • Congratulations to Han Bao for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis titled Characterizing and assessing the transport and fate of hydrocarbons in association with methanogenesis in oil sands reclamation scenarios.
2024

December 2024

  • A warm welcome to Dr. Muhammad Faheem, our lab’s latest postdoctoral addition. Dr. Faheem is an Environmental Microbiologist specializing in microbial ecology, biogeochemistry, and soil-plant-microbe interactions

October 2024

  • Safe travels Greg and Julie to Armenia where they will meet with Dr. Claude Colombié to sample freshwater microbialites from Lake Sevan.

August 2024

  • The lab is off to the annual Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference held this year in Chicago, IL during which students will be giving talks and presenting posters.

July 2024

  • Safe travels Lucas and Greg to Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut

April 2024

  • Congratulations Libby and Julie for successfully passing their comprehensive exams
2023

September 2023

  • Welcome Dr. Claude Colombié from Université Lyon I. Claude will spend her sabbatical in our lab to learn new analytical techniques.

June 2023

  • Congratulations Jacob Bothen for successfully defending his Masters’ thesis

May 2023

  • Safe travels Greg and Julie to the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico to have a look at and hopefully bring back some freshwater microbialites
2022

September 2022

  • Welcome students Libby, Lucas, and Julie into the Astrobiology Collaborative Program!
2016

November 2016

  • Allyson and Erin head out to Hawaii for Canadian Space Agency funded research into microbial life in basalts in collaboration with NASA

September 2016

  • Welcome new students Mohamed El-Waraky and Sian Ford

July 2016

  • Have fun in Idaho Allyson and Erin

June 2016

  • Congratulations to Dave Bowman on being awarded the best student presentation in the Environment Division at the Canadian Society for Chemistry meeting in Halifax
  • Welcome undergraduate thesis students Kevin Yang and Erin Gibbons

2015

September 2015

  • Congratulations to Mark Belan on the successful completion of his Master’s thesis.

March 2015

  • Welcome to Jenny Ni, a new undergraduate member of the lab!


January 2015

  • Happy New Year!

2014


December 2014

  • Good luck to undergraduate students writing exams this month.

  • Wishing all a safe and happy holiday!

October 2014

  • Farewell and good luck to Dr. Allyson Brady as she travels to Lake Untersee, Antarctica for new research prospects at the end of the month.


September 2014

  • Congratulations to Samantha Clay and Lauren Bradford on successfully defending their theses. Good luck to your futures!

  • The Slater Environmental Organic Geochemistry lab would like to welcome Caitlin McEwan into the lab as she begins her Masters studies.

  • We welcome a new IRMS to the lab!

  • Window upgrades to GSB are finally complete in time for the new school year!


June 2014

  • Happy travels to Dr. Allyson Brady and Mark Belan as they travel to Pavilion Lake for the 2014 sampling season