Sandra M. Barr
Earth and Environmental Science
Acadia University
Canada
Biography
Dr. Sandra M. Barr is a professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia. She is originally from St. Stephen, New Brunswick, completed her BSc with honours in geology at the University of New Brunswick in 1968, and her PhD in geology at the University of British Columbia in 1973. After 1.5 years of post-doctoral work at Dalhousie University and Bedford Institute of Oceanography, she taught at Chiang Mai University in northern Thailand for two years as a CUSO volunteer. She returned to Canada in 1976 to assume a faculty position in the Department of Geology at Acadia University, and was promoted to associate professor in 1980 and full professor in 1986. She currently teaches courses in introductory geology, igneous petrology, global tectonics, geological mapping, and Appalachian geology, and during her career has supervised nearly 100 undergraduate and graduate thesis projects.
Research Interest
Dr. Barr's research is focused on the geological evolution of the northern Appalachian mountain belt of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, with strong emphasis on field mapping. She also has had projects in Labrador and Thailand. In 1995, she was awarded the Gesner Medal of the Atlantic Geoscience Society in recognition of her contributions to the geosciences in Atlantic Canada.
Publications
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Miller, B.V., Barr, S.M., Tesfai, F., and White, C.E. Tonian Fe-Ti-P ferronorite and alkali anorthosite in the northern Appalachian orogen, southern New Brunswick, Canada: Amazonian basement in Ganderia? Precambrian Research, in revision.
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Kuiper, Y.D., Thompson. M.D., Barr, S.M., White, C.E., Hepburn, J.C., and Crowley, J.L. 2017. Detrital zircon evidence for Paleoproterozoic West African crust along the eastern North American continental margin, Georges Bank, offshore Massachusetts, USA. Geology, in press. doi:10.1130/G39203.1
