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There will be technical talks by key Nu Instruments personnel, followed by tours of this new $7.5 million, 2200 sq ft state-of-the-art facility. The afternoon will feature engaging speakers, who are leaders in their fields, addressing how modern mass spectrometry and geochemistry are being used to drive cosmochemical discoveries, unravel Earth formation, reconstruct past rainfall, and as biomarkers of disease. Please see the flyer for talk/tour schedules. Also see the talk abstracts and Biographies.REGISTER at: http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/pcigr-nubc-grand-opening-tickets-9446604047

At a gathering on November 28th, the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia will be formally recognizing Professor Hungr's achievements and exemplary dedication to the geoscience profession.

The Society of Economic Geologists has announced that Dr Shaun Barker has been conferred with the Waldemar Lindgren Award for 2013. This international award is bestowed annually to a young geoscientist in recognition of published research that represents an outstanding contribution to economic geology, and who shows tremendous potential for making ongoing contributions.Dr Barker, now on faculty at the University of Waikato, completed his BSc Hons degree at the University of Otago in 2004, and his PhD at the Australian National University in 2007. From October 2007 until November 2012, Dr Barker was a Post-Doctoral Fellow and then Research Associate at the Mineral Deposit Research Unit (MDRU) at the University of British Columbia. The Waldemar Lindgren Award conferred on Dr Barker reflects, to a large degree, the contribution his research made to economic geology over the five years he worked at the University of British Columbia.

Susan Allen has been awarded the 2015 President's Prize by the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society for her meritorious work on the dynamics of advection-driven upwelling over submarine canyons. Her research provides long-needed, useful estimates of the flux of water across the shelf-break at canyons. Congratulations Susan!

Roger Francois has been awarded the Timothy R. Parsons Medal established by Fisheries and Oceans Canada to recognize achievement in ocean sciences. Roger accepted the award at the June, 2016 congress of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society in Frederickton, NB.

Congratulations to Dr. Philippe Tortell on his appointment as Director of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies! The Institute, founded at UBC 25 years ago, is committed to excellence in research by supporting collaborative, creative and interdisciplinary initiatives. Prior to this appointment, Philippe was an Early Career Scholar in 2004 and a Wall Scholar in 2014 - 2016 at the Institute. Philippe has been a faculty member of EOAS and Botany since 2002, studying biological and chemical oceanography as it relates to climate change in the Arctic and Antarctic.