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Paul Harrison's Book Launch at book Warehouse
Thursday Nov 27th, Paul Harrison (Emeritus OCGY) is doing a book launch and signing at the book Warehouse (4118 Main) on Main and King Ed from 7pm to 9pm. His book, The sea Among us - The Amazing Strait of Georgia, is beautiful and tells the scientific story of our local waters.
Brett Gilley's classroom efforts have been highlighted in Macleans.
Multiple choice, multiple students: Brett Gilley discusses the merits of the "two-stage test" "...A recent study co-authored by Gilley showed higher retention of course material when students have collaborative group tests immediately after the individual test..." read more.
William W. Hsieh will be presented the Patterson Medal
David Grimes, the Assistant Deputy Minister of the Meteorological Service of Canada, part of Environment Canada, will present the Patterson Medal for Distinguished Service to Meteorology to William Hsieh on November 25th in the PME from 10:00-11:00 am. Please join us for this intimate celebration. See website for the Patterson medal.
Sean Crowe: Life in Earth's Archean oceans was starved for sulfate
Sean Crowe published a remarkable paper in Science on Nov 7th showing for the first time that Earth's early oceans were starved of sulfate. Using an elegant combination of novel mass spectrometric techniques on samples from the floor of Lake Matano, Indonesia and modeling studies Crowe and coauthors find that sulfate levels were below 0.01% of their concentrations in modern seawater. Critically, at such low concentrations Crowe argues that "...sulfate would have been poorly mixed and short-lived in the oceans and this sulfate scarcity would have shaped the nature, activity and evolution of early life on Earth". Sean Crowe's paper in Science Yuichiro Ueno's perspective
UAlberta's next president is a UBC Oceanography alumnus
The University of Alberta announces David Howard Turpin as its 13th president and vice-chancellor. David was a PhD student of Dr. Paul Harrison here at UBC. http://uofa.ualberta.ca/news-and-events
EOAS ATSC Alumnus first across line in Clipper Round the World Race
After 11 months, 64,000 kilometres and six continents, the Henri Lloyd sailed across the finish line of the s longest yachting race in first place Saturday, largely because its skipper is also a weatherman. Canadian Eric Holden, 33, and his crew completed the final leg of the event, from Den Helder, the Netherlands, to London, England, to win the Clipper Round the World Race. Full Story.