Op Ed in the Toronto Star!
This was very fun to write…
This was very fun to write…
On this episode, Professor Lindsay Schoenbohm talks about her work that uses the landscape to read tectonics, with tectonics being the process that affect the properties and the structure of the Earth’s crust and its evolution over time. We also cover some of the faraway locales she has travelled to in order to conduct her fieldwork – venturing most commonly to ‘seismically active parts of the world,’ where earthquakes can occur – as well as some of the more exciting and memorable trips that have occurred over the course of her academic career. With this second season of the podcast focused on Women in Academia, Lindsay also discusses the associated challenges and frustrations for women in the work environment but she sees hope on the horizon with the open dialogue and debates that have been sparked over the past year or so. Lindsay is an Associate Professor and an Associate Chair in the Department of Chemical & Physical Sciences at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Her research explores Tectonic Geomorphology, which is the study of the surface of the earth and the forces that are involved in shaping it – both the constructive agents that build features like mountains and continents, but also the destructive elements like erosion caused by rivers, landslides and glaciers. Resources See Lindsay's website at http://www.lindsay-schoenbohm.com/ for more information on her research, as well as some great videos with her and her team in the field.
I did four interviews over the course of about two weeks on the eruption of the Kilauea volcano! Fun and interesting, but also really weird. :)
• May 17, 2018, CTV News: https://www.facebook.com/CTVNewsChannel/videos/1787720017955988/
• May 23, 2018, Breakfast TV: https://www.bttoronto.ca/videos/kilauea-volcano-still-active/
• May 23, 2018, CTV News: https://www.facebook.com/CTVNewsChannel/videos/vb.231176056943733/1794225060638817/
• May 28, 2018, CTV News: https://www.facebook.com/CTVNewsChannel/videos/1799148050146518/
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 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
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.
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'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
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, 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!
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!
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!
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
Renjie, Tassos and Jeremy all gave AGU posters, and AGU chaired a session. You can see their posters under the Resources tab!
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!
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!
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.