Drone Survey
Just completed collecting aerial photographs from a site in the Whitefish Falls area of Ontario - where U of T runs their 3rd year field camp. Had a great experience working with Brad Nesbitt of realdrone.ca!
Doug Burbank visits
Doug Burbank from UCSB opened the CPS Colloquium series with a talk on January 4th:
Developing a Record of Late Cenozoic Paleo-Erosion Rates in the Argentinian Andes: The Roles of Mountain Building and Orbital Eccentricity
It was great for all of us to have a chance to talk research and other stuff with Doug!
Left to right: Mark Higgins, Jeremy Rimando, Erin Seagren, Lindsay Schoenbohm, Doug Burbank, Tasca Santimano, Heidi Daxberger
Congratulations to Renjie Zhou
Renjie was just awarded the 2015-16 CPS Best Student Paper Award for his GSA Bulletin masterpiece:
Renjie Zhou, Lindsay M. Schoenbohm, Edward R. Sobel, Donald W. Davis, & Johannes Glodny (2016). New constraints on orogenic models of the southern Central Andean Plateau: Cenozoic basin evolution and bedrock exhumation. GSA Bulletin.
Goodbye (for now) to Yang Wang
Yang headed back to China at the end of August for his final PhD year at Peking University. He had an amazingly productive time here, submitting two papers. We'll miss you, Yang! Come back soon!
Renjie Zhou's paper out in GSA Bulletin
Renjie's paper on the Antofogasta basin is available online! Congrats on some great work, Renjie.
http://gsabulletin.gsapubs.org/content/early/2016/08/12/B31384.1.abstract
Javed Malik visits UTM
Dr. Javed Malik from IIT-Kanpur visited our group and gave an excellent talk on Neotectonics in NW India. It was a pleasure speaking with him!
Yang Wang at EGU
Yang Wang, a 1-year visiting PhD student from Peking University, gave a poster at EGU in April. You can find it posted on the resources page. Check it out!
Congratulations to Mark Higgins
Recent MASc graduate, Mark Higgins, was selected as the winner of the David Elliott award for best paper from the Canadian Tectonics Group of the Geological Association for his paper:
Nice work, Mark!
Good luck to Renjie!
After almost 6 years, Renjie Zhou is off on his next adventure. We wish him the best at his new position in Johnathan Aitchison's lab at the University of Queensland, Brisbane... but we'll really, really miss him here!
Visit by Peter DeCelles and Barbara Carrapa
Was great to spend some time talking with these two about geology! Had a great dinner too with the whole group at Lamesa. From left to right: Peter DeCelles, Barbara Carrapa, Tassos Venetikidis, Jeremy Rimando, Renjie Zhou, Erin Seagren, Yang Wang, Lindsay Schoenbohm
AGU 2015
Renjie, Tassos and Jeremy all gave AGU posters, and AGU chaired a session. You can see their posters under the Resources tab!
Morphometric Analysis guide
I just created a new tab called "resources." I've started by posting a guide to morphometric analysis put together by my graduate students from a recent class. Hopefully someone out there finds it useful!
U of T Graduate Admissions Deadline
Information on how to apply for the U of T Earth Science Graduate program is here:
http://www.es.utoronto.ca/programs/graduate/how-to-apply/
The deadline is January 23rd!
Graduate student opportunities
I'm looking to add one PhD student to my group for the fall of 2015, to work either in Argentina or Turkey. I'm looking for students with a strong background in field mapping, geology and geomorphology. Please contact me if you're interested! U of T's application deadline is in January 2015.