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Ted had a long career at the University of British Columbia as a stratigrapher, and was known for his contributions to sedimentary geology more broadly, palaeontology, and the geology of B.C. and Northern Washington.Ted's passion for geology influenced several generations of UBC students. Indeed, he taught for many years after his retirement. He continues to support learning in the Earth Sciences through an undergraduate field school bursary that he established some years ago. See the "In Memorium" from our Alumni Newsletter(updated Jul 19/12).

"Fast moving diamonds": Recent work published in Nature by Dr. Russell (EOS/UBC) and colleagues have found that the rapid release of carbon dioxideand water can transport kimberlites (diamond bearing rock) at speedsof 10 to 30 kilometers per hour. More information is available at Natureand from UBC Science.

EOS researchers Dominique Weis, Mark Jellinek and James Scoates, inconjunction with colleagues at the Universities of Hawaii and Massachusetts, have published an invited review paper in a special issueon ocean islands in Nature Geoscience.Their study is the first to conclusively relate geochemical differences in surface lava rocks fromHawaii's two main volcano chains to differences in their deep mantlesources, 2,800 kilometres below the Earth's surface, at the core-mantleboundary. More information is available at Nature GeoScience and UBC Science news.

Doug Oldenburg has been selected Distinguished Lecturer by the Society ofExploration Geophysics. Selection as a Distinguished Lecturer is viewed as amajor honor and a recognition of excellence in contributions to the scienceor application of geophysics. More information is available at www.seg.org.

EOS Researchers [R.Clowes, P.Hammer] have constructed a lithospheric cross section that spans the continent and extends down to the base of the North American tectonic plate (up to 270 km depth). The 6000-km-long corridor across southern Canada and its margins illuminates the assembly of the North American continent at an unprecedented scale. See GSA Today(poster) and UBC-Science.

EOS Researchers [R.Clowes, P.Hammer] have constructed a lithospheric cross section that spans the continent and extends down to the base of the North American tectonic plate (up to 270 km depth). The 6000-km-long corridor across southern Canada and its margins illuminates the assembly of the North American continent at an unprecedented scale. See GSA Today(poster) and UBC-Science.