ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Research

What do abandoned old mines in northern Canada and munitions buried deep in the Baltic Sea after World War II have in common…

BY SUZANNE BOWNESS | DEC 15 2020

Department of Earth Sciences

The Department of Earth Sciences Professor Tim Patterson was awarded research funding last week from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), to investigate the environmental impact of corroding chemical weapons dumped in the years after WWII in the Baltic Sea.

NOV 17 2020

YouTube

Presented by Professor Tim Patterson at the Atlantic Geoscience Society Webinar that took place on May 21st, 2020.

EOS

A 3-year project documents how climate change is affecting the sequestration of decades-old mining by-products in Canadian lakes.

BY TY BURKE | OCT 4 2019

ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Research

Tim Patterson has spent many research hours in the past decade helping to boost awareness of the environmental composition of lakes in Canada’s north.

BY SUZANNE BOWNESS | SEPT 30, 2019

IC

A 3-year project documents how climate change is affecting the sequestration of decades-old mining by-products in Canadian lakes.

BY TY BURKE | SEPT 27, 2019

Ontario Construction News

ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´â€™s Tim Patterson received funding from the Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) Clean Growth Program.BY CAROLYN GRUSKE | AUG 07, 2019

CBC

New technology will help Indigenous groups understand more about lakes with year-by-year data.

BY PRISCILLA HWANG | AUG 06, 2019

Mining Magazine

ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University’s Tim Patterson has received funding to accelerate the development of technology aimed at making mining more sustainable.

AUG 06, 2019

Nature

Researchers are hunting for nuclear debris, mercury pollution and other fingerprints of humanity that could designate a new geological epoch.

BY MEERA SUBRAMANIAN | AUG 06, 2019

NNSL Media

Researchers from ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University are developing innovative technology to create clarity on natural background contaminants, and natural climate cycles, in Northern lake sediment.

BY TIM EDWARDS | AUG 03, 2019

ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Newsroom

ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University’s Tim Patterson has received funding from the Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) Clean Growth Program

BY CHRIS CLINE | JULY 29, 2019

ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Newsroom

ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´’s Leading Role

BY TYRONE BURKE | JULY 5, 2019

The Brock News

When a group of researchers returned to Crawford Lake to continue the search for evidence of a possible new geological era, they came with a film crew to document the occasion.

BY DEVON GRIBBLE | MARCH 07, 2019

ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Newsroom

Humans have been shaped by our environments, and now, we shape them in return. It’s not just that we intentionally alter landscapes, or that our emissions impact the air.

By TY BURKE | OCT 26, 2018

YouTube

Canada’s Crawford Lake near Toronto may play a crucial part in determining the march of geological time and what might be done about human impact on the planet.

BY DANIEL LAK | DEC 03, 2018

CBC

Team from Brock, ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ and McMaster universities hopes sediment will reveal new geological epoch

BY RACHEL LEVY-MCLAUGHLIN | AUG 18, 2018

CBC

Tim Patterson is looking for a correlation between early ice departures and algae blooms

BY SHANE FOWLER | AUG 04, 2016

The Star

The indigenous peoples of northern Canada and other Arctic regions around the world have long argued they are the first to experience and suffer from the effects of global warming.

BY JOANNA SMITH | MARCH 12, 2016

University Affairs

Faced with cutbacks and other significant challenges, university field schools are forging ahead by using their difficulties as their strengths.

BY TIM JOHNSON | APRIL 10, 2013

The New York Times

Three years ago, Tim Patterson, an associate professor of earth science at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University in Ottawa, started giving his undergraduate students a choice: they could turn in traditional term papers on topics in paleontology, or they could create relevant Web pages.

 BY  BETH SCHACHTER | JAN 14, 1999