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The vanishing archive

There’s a race underway to save a record of Earth’s climate history. The catch? The data is locked in the ice and frozen ground underfoot. And it’s melting away.
Student-led crew brings Albertosaurus named Rose to the screen

The second season of BBC’s hit show Walking With Dinosaurs features a team of U of A graduate students helping excavate an Albertosaurus and bring it to life on screen.
A visiting geologist makes a case to UNESCO for recognition for the Cabox Aspiring Geopark in Western Newfoundland

EAS Professor John Waldron has helped make the case for Cabox Aspiring Geopark to receive UNESCO designation as a Global Geopark.
The fossil feud

One team of experts says it’s the jawbone of a new kind of mosasaur. Three Albertans say it’s fake. Soon, scans will test who is right.
Deepest ice core in the Americas drilled in Canadian Arctic

613-meter long ice core and three shallower cores set to unlock ancient climate secrets.
Fluctuating evolution of seawater oxygen before the Great Oxidation Event

How did the oceans build up extra O2 to release into and eventually oxidize the atmosphere at the Archean-Proterozoic boundary? EAS PhD student Xueqi Liang discovered that the evolution of seawater oxygen before the Great Oxidation Event was not linear but oscillatory over millions of years.
'Holy smokes': Huge log believed to be 50 million years old unearthed at N.W.T. mine

EAS Professor Alberto Reyes, a co-author on a recent paper about evidence of palm trees in the N.W.T. 48 million years ago, said he was interested to find out what setting the log was recovered from.
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