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New Joggins director comes back to the Maritimes for dream job

A woman holds a flashlight and leans into a set of fossils.
Jade Atkins, new director/curator of the Joggins Fossil Centre, examines a fossil. Photo contributed.
Erica Butler - CHMA - Sackville • NB | 22-07-2022
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Ever have a hankering to travel back in time?

Visitors to the Joggins Fossil Cliffs can take a walk back into the Carboniferous period of roughly 300 million years ago. The cliffs are a Unesco World Heritage Site right across the Bay of Fundy from Rockport, not too far from River Hebert, Nova Scotia.

When Jade Atkins takes over as director/curator of the Joggins Fossil Centre at the end of August, she’ll be starting her dream job.  Atkins just finished a PhD at Carleton University in Ottawa and will be packing up and making the move to the Amherst area for the end of August, when she starts at Joggins.

CHMA called up Atkins to find out more about her, and the Joggins Fossil Centre where she’ll be based:

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