2024 Winner of the Bancroft Award of the Royal Society of Canada
2023 Awarded the Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellowship
2022 Elected Fellow of the Geological Society of America
2021 Awarded the Logan Medal of the Geological Association of Canada
2020 Winner of the Faculty of Science Graduate Student Mentoring Award at the University of Alberta
2020 Awarded the Geobiology and Geomicrobiology Division Distinguished Career Award by the Geological Society of America
2019 Elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
2019 Awarded the McCalla Professorship by the University of Alberta
2019 Awarded the Great Supervisor Award by the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research at the University of Alberta
2019 Awarded the Vladimir Vernadsky Medal of the European Geosciences Union
2017 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
2017 Elected Fellow of the Geochemical Society
2015 Awarded the University of Alberta Killam Annual Professorship
2015 Inducted into the University of Alberta Teaching Honour Roll
2013 Awarded the Geobiology & Geomicrobiology Division Contribution Award by the Geological Society of America
2013 Honourable mention in the 2012 Prose Awards by the American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence for the book "Fundamentals of Geobiology"
2012 Winner of the Most Inspirational Instructor for the Faculty of Science at the University of Alberta
2011 Co-recipient of the President’s Achievement Award in Teaching at the University of Alberta
2002 Canada Research Chair in Geomicrobiology, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada