A new report released today provides a road map for the search for extraterrestrial life in the universe. Geochemist Barbara Sherwood Lollar, a University Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences in the Faculty of Arts & Science lead an international panel that produced the recommendations.
Faculty of Arts & Science professor Barbara Sherwood Lollar honoured with the Geological Association of Canada’s Logan Medal for sustained distinguished achievement in Canadian earth science.
In Northern Ontario, researchers have found “geochemical fingerprints of life” and the energy sustaining it, in waters more than two kilometres below the surface of Earth.
Linda Hutcheon and Barbara Sherwood Lollar, both holders of the prestigious distinction of University Professor, have been selected for special accolades by the Royal Society of Canada.
The Order of Canada is recognizing six leaders from the University of Toronto — including two from the Faculty of Arts & Science — for their contributions to the country across a diverse range of fields.
Arts & Science faculty members Stephen Wright and Barbara Sherwood Lollar are among an elite group of Canadian researchers being honoured today by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
University Professor Barbara Sherwood Lollar in the Department of Earth Sciences has won the prestigious NSERC John C. Polanyi Award for her pioneering research into billion-year-old water and the clues it may provide to ancient life on Earth and Mars.
“Deciphering the many pathways by which methane is produced is one of the holy grails of organic geochemistry.” — Barbara Sherwood Lollar
A team of scientists, led by the University of Toronto’s Barbara Sherwood Lollar, has mapped the location of hydrogen-rich waters found trapped kilometres beneath Earth’s surface in rock fractures in Canada, South Africa and Scandinavia.
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