Category Archives: News

Advances in Marine Geology and Geodynamics and Their Application to Understanding Modern and Ancient Seafloor Metallogeny

Geological Association of Canada Annual Meeting, London, May 2021, Special Session SS-08 The present-day oceans provide a natural laboratory to observe the structural, kinematic and magmatic history of oceanic and arc crust, which comprise a significant proportion of greenstone belts and accreted terranes. Details of the spatial and temporal relationships of crustal growth observable in…

Read Article

iMAGE-CREATE News

Deep-sea study of the Earth’s crust receives $1.65 million NSERC-CREATE grant

Professor Mark Hannington maps the site of an active volcano in the Atlantic Ocean from a submarine belonging to GEOMAR, a marine research institute based in Germany. Photo: GEOMAR To address the challenges of a dwindling global supply of energy and mineral resources, Professor Mark Hannington of the University of Ottawa’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences has set…

Read Article

Meeting the Resource Challenge: Back to the Future

Professor Mark Hannington (University of Ottawa), Laurentian University, and the Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research (GEOMAR) The already limited supply of raw materials that are easily accessible on Earth are rapidly declining, and this will soon be a major problem for the ever-growing population that calls this planet home. Funded by the Canada First Research…

Read Article