DELTAS Research Group
WHAT’S UP
April 2024 Congratulations to Anna Whelan for winning the best Earth Science Poster at the Scientific Endeavours in Academia (SEA) conference.
October 2023 Congratulations to Heidi Kavanagh, a former DELTAS member, who was awarded Prime Minister’s award for high school teaching in STEM subjects.
Sept. 19, 2023 Penny’s interview with Matt Galloway on CBC Radio One, The Current. https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-63-the-current/clip/16010348-this-newfoundland-landscape-hold-clues-life-mars. Here’s a link to the follow up story: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/do-newfoundland-s-tablelands-hold-the-answer-to-life-on-mars-this-researcher-is-trying-to-find-out-1.6963649.
June 2023 Precious moments. Anna and Ben graduating together.
May 2023 Matthew Gill, winner of NSERC’s PGS-D. Congrats Matt!
May 2023 Timilehin Oguntuyaki’s story covered by MUN’s School of Graduate Studies, and featured on Memorial’s front page. Click here, for Timilehin’s story, and a video of his life here at MUN and his family https://www.mun.ca/become/graduate/student-success/ambition-without-borders/
April 2023 Award season has begun. Here are some fun ones from the Earth Sciences’ Formal. Thanks to the undergrads for organizing such a fun event.
Nov. 4, 2022 Congrats to Anna Whelan winning the Silver Jubilee Scholarship from CIM (Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy, and Petroleum).
Oct. 29th, 2022 Congrats to Anna Whelan for receiving the Atlantic Geoscience Society (AGS) Environmental Geoscience Award for her presentation at AUGC.
Introducing Dr. Cook!
June 22, 2022 Congrats to Melissa Cook for successfully completing her PhD defense!!!
May 31, 2022 I’m so proud of Kendra Revoy and Ian Coxon. Today I am reminded of the Yann Martel quote from Life of Pie, “I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.”
May 26th, 2022 Congratulations to Zhanae Sutherland who was awarded the title of ‘Fellow of the School of Graduate Studies”, and also received the Moire A. Wadleigh Graduate Award for Excellence in Environmental Science for the best project report.
May 25, 2022 Congratulations to Ian Coxon who was awarded the Captain Bartlett Science Award for academic excellence and embracing spirit of scientific and wilderness exploration.
Feb. 23, 2022 Congratulations to Kendra Revoy and Timilehin Oguntuyaki for winning Outstanding Student Presentation awards at this years GACNL conference.
March 17, 2021 Congratulations to Timilehin Oguntuyaki for winning Memorial University’s Graduate Student Union Award for Academic Excellence!
Feb. 11, 2021 Celebrating Women in Science Day, our very own Zhanae Sutherland is featured on MUN’s homepage.
Dec., 2020 Let the flow-through experiments begin.
Sept., 2020 Welcome new group members (Matt, Zhanae, and Timilehin) to DELTAS.
Dec., 2019 Congratulations to Kayla Lawrence who presented her undergraduate thesis data at this year’s AUGC and won the Atlantic Geoscience Society (AGS) Environmental Geoscience Award.
Nov., 2019 Welcome new group members to DELTAS.
April, 2019 PI Penny Morrill in the News. MUN Gazette Story – Canadian Space Agency funding research into finding extraterrestrial life
Jan. 2019 DELTAS welcomes our new laboratory member, Ali Ahmed, to the team. Ali will be studying lipids and their degradation rates in ultra-basic reducing groundwaters.
Nov. 2018 Congratulations to Mattea McRae who won BEST POSTER PRESENTATION at this year’s AUGC conference held in Halifax, NS. Mattea’s poster was entitled, “Comparing CO2 Sequestration Experimental Methods and Investigating CO2 Sequestration using Type I and Type II Serpentine Groundwaters”.
Nov. 2017 Penny Morrill is awarded the Terra Nova Young Innovator Award https://gazette.mun.ca/research/making-an-impact-2/
May 2016 Extreme Methane-Producing Microbes Found At Earth’s Surface Hint At Life On Mars http://www.iflscience.com/environment/extreme-methane-producing-microbes-found-surface-hint-life-mars/
March 2016 Melissa Cook wins an Ocean Industries Student Research Awards (OISRA) https://gazette.mun.ca/research/critical-support/
Jan. 2015 Reducing challenges related to reservoir souring in province’s offshore http://www.mun.ca/engineering/news.php?id=5595&type=news
Jan, 2013 CurioCity Careers http://explorecuriocity.org/Explore/ArticleId/2220
July 2010 Life on Mars http://www.thewesternstar.com/living/life-on-mars-140903/
Feb. 2010 A Moment with Dr. Penny Morrill http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2010JRASC.104…27M
Aug. 2009 Searching for Signs http://www.mun.ca/gazette/issues/vol42no1/research.php