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Mars Science Laboratory - Curiosity Rover

Ben Tutolo and Steve Larter have been selected as Participating Scientists on the NASA Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity Rover team as Curiosity explores Gale Crater 2022-2025. They will be working with the MSL team to interpret the signals of planetary habitability recorded in the Gale Crater sediments analyzed by Curiosity. The PRG Mars team(Lloyd Snowdon, Renzo Silva, Mengsha Yin, Steve Larter) will be examining radiation impacts on Martian organic matter production and alteration and also studying model systems relevant to understanding results from the Mars science laboratory.

Thank you to Scotiabank for supporting our large-scale carbon dioxide removal project Peach

Congratulations to Qianru Wang on the successful defense of her PhD thesis entitled “Molecular geochemical anatomy of the Paleogene petroleum system in the Dongying Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, NE China and solutions to a range of Petroleum Geology and Earth History problems”.  

Congratulations to Mengsha Yin on the successful defense of her PhD thesis entitled “Using Chemometrics and Geochemistry to Assess Heavy Oil Fluid Heterogeneity in Southeastern Mexico Heavy Oil Fields”.  

Congratulations to Damien Weleschuk on the successful defense of his Master's thesis entitled “Fate of Spilled Oil in the Gulf of Mexico and the Canadian Arctic”

Steve Larter attended a celebration of 70 years of the People’s Republic of China. Steve was invited to Beijing by the Chinese Government for his contribution to the development of modern China.