Rank: Professor
Office location: Huggins Science Hall,
Rm. 329
Telephone: +1-902-585-1340
E-mail: sandra.barr@acadiau.ca

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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 two 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 has supervised over 70 undergraduate and graduate thesis projects.

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 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. Over the years, her research work and that of her students has been funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Geological Survey of Canada through Federal-Provincial research agreements, NATMAP, and TGI projects, the Nova Scotia and New Brunswick Departments of Natural Resources, and various industry contracts. Dr. Barr has over 100 publications in peer-reviewed research journals, as well as numerous government reports and open files.

She is also active in the Canadian earth science community, and has served on numerous committees, including the NATMAP Coordination Committee (1998-2002) and the NSERC Grant Selection Committee for Solid Earth Sciences (1994-1997). She was a member of the Canadian delegation to International Geological Congresses in Beijing (1996) and Kyoto (1992). She has been co-editor of the Atlantic Geoscience Society journal "Atlantic Geology" since 1986, and served as a member of the Local Organizing Committee for the Halifax 2005 GAC-MAC-CSPG-CSSS meeting, in the role of chair of the Field Trip Subcommittee. During 2004-2005, she was President of the Geological Association of Canada, and is currently the GAC Books Editor.