PowerGeolab

A successful last field trip for EGEO3003 at the Canada Talc Mine in Madoc, Ontario. Four students gave excellent field talks on the mine’s history and geology, stromatolites, mine closure and remediation, and some unique minerals, including E

EGEO3003 Class setup phytoremediation plots at Cordova Mines. Students had access to limestone, soil, compost, a variety of seeds, fertilizer, and other materials to make square meter plots. They also evaluated plots from previous years and tested

EGEO3003 Class visited Sulphide, Ontario to explore the historic Pyrite Mines. A bustling town that supplied sulphuric acid to the uranium industry near Bancroft, Ontario. Waste rock, tailings, and some building foundations are what remains. We lear

Welcome to the Power Environmental Geoscience Laboratory, the PowerGeolab, led by Ian Power, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Environmental Geoscience, and based in the School of the Environment at Trent University in beautiful Peterborough, Canada.

The solid Earth is intricately connected to the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere with such complexity that many questions remain regarding how the interactions between these “spheres” shape the environment. The goal of our research is to better understand fundamental geochemical, mineralogical, and geobiological processes that are relevant to addressing environmental challenges including carbon dioxide removal, an emerging field in geosciences that is ripe for scientific inquiry and technological advances.