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EOAS PhD Student Evelyn Freres wins Data Speaks Competition at RFG

Evelyn Freres won the Data Speaks! storytelling competition at the Resources for Future Generations (RFG) conference in Vancouver last week (June 16-21).  Students were challenged to reimagine their research with a non-specialist audience in mind, and were judged on the accessibility of their research, their reasoning and their creativity.

Evelyn’s original abstract title “Can you really trust your neodymium isotopic ratios?” was revised to “Do you trust your data?”  In her video, Evelyn explains that her research aims to discover the limitations to acquiring precise and accurate data, which will in turn help other researchers “understand our planet in the best possible way.”

Link to Evelyn’s video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bInUp8CA18g&t=9s

For more information, check out this link: https://pcigr.eos.ubc.ca/pcigr-phd-student-evelyn-freres-wins-rfg-2018-…

 

Research

May 5, 2018 InSight Launch to Mars

Professor Catherine Johnson and students Anna Mittelholz, Megan Russell, Natasha Urbancic, Anna Grau, Georgia Peterson, Camille Defrenne, and Thomas Aubry as they wait to board a 3 am bus to view the May 5, 2018 InSight Launch to Mars. https://www.ubyssey.ca/science/ubc-prof-and-NASA-Mars-mission/?ref=frontpage

Teaching

Successful third-year field school in the Okanagan!

UBC geology and geological engineering students complete another successful third-year field school in the Okanagan!  The Oliver field station has been in operation for 50+ years and more than 5000 undergraduate students have been trained in aspects of geological field mapping, a key skill for all professional geoscientists.  Over 3 remarkably hot and sunny weeks, the 40 students were immersed in the geology and tectonics of the Okanagan Valley and surrounding mountains.
 
Photo credit: Tyler Ambrose
Teaching

CREATE MAGNET Field course

CREATE MAGNET Field course, February 2018, group photo at the Mauna Kea observatory visitor center. In this Mars analog landscape, the trainees worked on an exercice designing a Mars Rover equipped with geochemical instruments. Photo credit: D. Weis.

Research

Active Kilauea aa lava flows

Active Kilauea aa lava flows, south of Kalapana on Hawaii big island. Field course, CREATE MAGNET, February 2018. 20 km hike to reach the active flows. The temperature of the lava was measured at > 1100°C.. Photo credit: D. Weis.

Research

Field work adventure in Devon Island

Prof. Mark Jellinek and PhD Candidate Anna Grau setting up their home basecamp for a three week field work adventure in Devon Island, high Arctic, studying the nature and morphology of ice sheet drainage conduits incised into the ground. The two bigger domes in the right side were our dining/research area and kitchen, separated a hundred meters from the sleeping area, which was also surrounded by a bear fence. The Haughton river valley cuts through the Haughton crater rim and ejecta deposits (the light grey domes to the left), and provided water for our camp. Photo credit: M. Jellinek