Acadia ALERT - Campus Closed (Weather)

Today, Monday, February 23, 2026, Acadia University will remain closed, with the exception of residences and Wheelock Dining Hall, due to the forecasted weather. Wheelock Dining Hall may adjust their hours due to the weather and any change in hours will be communicated through Residence Life.

Employees and students are not expected to come to campus and only employees deemed essential are required to report to work. Non-essential employees are not expected to work during the closure. Any events scheduled for today will be postponed or cancelled.

Updates will be posted on www.acadiau.ca and pre-recorded on Acadia’s Information Line: 902-585-4636 (585-INFO). If you need emergency-related information, please contact the Department of Safety and Security by dialing 88 on all 585-phone systems, or by calling 902-585-1103.

If you have any questions, please contact:

Acadia University

Department of Safety & Security

902-585-1103

security@acadiau.ca

(Monday February 23, 2026 @ 5:55 am)

A visit to the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary

tl_files/sites/ees/Images/recent/FortuneHeadBoundary.jpgSandra Barr recently had an opportunity to visit the internationally recognized "global stratotype" (type section) for the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary at Fortune Head, Newfoundland. In the photograph her left hand is on the boundary (age 542 million years). This site was selected because sediment deposition was continuous across the boundary at this location. Evidence of abundant life on the sea floor in the form of trace fossils begins about 2 metres (a few million years) above this boundary in the Early Cambrian. The field trip was organized by the Newfoundland Section of the Geological Association of Canada.

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