Saskatchewan Geological Survey
1945 Hamilton Street S4P 2C7 Regina, SK, Canada

Interested in summer student jobs? Deadline for applications is January 19th, 2021.

Interested in a summer student position with the Saskatchewan Geological Survey? Find information here: https://publications.saskatchewan.ca/#/products/84178 Deadline to apply is January 19th, 2021. ... *Currently, we are proceeding as normal for hiring students, but COVID-19 might affect the number of people we hire and the type of positions we can hire for.

Did you know that two of SGS's bedrock mappers were educated in Nova Scotia? Check out some of NS's spectacular geology in this virtual field trip! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtjWOWS2U1o&feature=youtu.be

One of our former summer students is currently working on his PhD at U of R. Check out this short read on his work on modelling evaporation from local water bodies and soils. https://www.discoursemagazine.ca/climate-in-a-box/2020//24/

Survey geologists Svieda Ma, Samantha Van De Kerckhove and Ryan Morelli looking at outcrops on Amisk Lake during a recent autumn field trip to Flin Flon and La Ronge. Northern Saskatchewan is gorgeous at any time of the year, but particularly special in September!

Today is #AskACurator Day! Nicole sent us this photo and asked: My 3 year old found this rock in our back yard. What is this!? He's convinced it's a meteor. I ...think it looks like something you would find at a beach? Although, a meteor would be much cooler. Our palaeontologist Emily Bamforth answered: Well, it’s not a meteor, but it is something pretty cool! This is a marine rock with fossilized bivalves (clams) in it. The white material is the fossilized shell material itself, and you can also see the impressions where other shells had been and have since weathered out. These kinds of fossils are quite common along the South Saskatchewan River valley, and other places where this package of marine rocks, which paleontologists call the Bearpaw Formation, can be found on the surface. These fossils are probably about 74-72 million years old, and came from a time when Saskatchewan was covered by a warm, shallow sea. Cool find! --- Do you have a question you want to ask us about palaeontology, archaeology or biology? Ask here: https://royalsaskmuseum.ca/rsm/education/ask-a-curator

Fossil detectives in southern Saskatchewan.

Dinosaur database anyone?

Enter your hometown and see where it was over the past 750 million years.

Spectacular timelapses of Alaskan glaciers using Landsat imagery.

Literal rock map of Canada's major geologic formations. (GSC, 1967)

Saskatchewan is no longer home to the world's largest T-rex coprolite.

Could you have outrun a dinosaur? A long, but fun read.

Happy #NationalTapeMeasureDay. Here's some examples of us using tape measures during fieldwork.

Courtesy of the Yukon Geological Survey.

Our new publications from the past 6 months.

Check out this short video about one of the pilots that has flown some of our northern field crews in past years.

108 years since the deadliest tornado in Canadian history, which happened here in Saskatchewan.