Dr. Carolyn Eyles, P.Geo.
Director, APGO Education Foundation

Dr. Carolyn Eyles is a tenured Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Science and a member of the School of Geography & Earth Sciences at McMaster University. She holds a B.Sc. in Environmental Sciences from the University of East Anglia, a postgraduate Certificate of Education from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Toronto. She is certified as a Professional Geoscientist in Ontario (P.Geo.) Her research involves analysis of glacial sediments and their origin and she has conducted fieldwork in Iceland, Alaska, Australia, Peru and Brazil. She has been a faculty member at McMaster since 1988 and has been involved in many course and curriculum design initiatives for the Faculty of Science. Dr. Eyles is a 3M National Teaching Fellow and has won numerous teaching awards including several McMaster Student Union teaching awards, an OCUFA Teaching Award, an Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance Teaching Award, and the McMaster President’s Award for Excellence in Instruction.