Adrian and Will are just back from a fieldcourse in Namibia from the 20th to the 29th of April 2018. The course was organised and hosted by Dr Pete Siegfried of GeoAfrica Consultants through the HiTech AlkCarb consortium. We looked at several alkaline igneous complexes North of Windhoek, particularly focussing on some that have commercial …
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I'm pleased to say that the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG) has just awarded St Andrews the status of an SEG student chapter. This reflects our teaching and research success in Economic Geology. This makes us one of a handful of SEG student chapters in the UK and part of an elite group worldwide. Well …
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It has been a busy quarter for the research group with seven new publications, 12 conference presentations, two keynotes, outreach and an invitation to the Houses of Parliament. Our activities have included: Publications Hutchison, W, Mather, TA, Pyle, DM, Boyce, AJ, Gleeson, MLM, Yirgu, G, Blundy, JD, Ferguson, DJ, Vye-Brown, C, Millar, IL, Sims, KWW …
Adrian Finch and his group have become a part of the St Andrews and Dundee Universities Centre for Magnetic Resonance, led by fellow mineralogist Professor Sharon Ashbrook. The Centre combines the knowledge of some of the world's leading experts in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) studying a variety of materials from …
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Congratulations to Dr Will Hutchison who was given the Willy Aspinall award from the UK Volcanic and Magmatic Studies group. The award is "made to the lead author of an outstanding paper on applied volcanology within three years of being awarded a PhD at a university in the UK". Will Hutchison saw off stiff competition …
The HiTech AlkCarb consortium review paper on fenites has just been published in Ore Geology Reviews. The article is on open access for the next 50 days. Please feel free to upload it. https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1WFl~cTGxwVYu
It's not long to Christmas and the A-team are presenting at several important conferences over the Christmas - New Year period. A list of the presenters, conferences and topics are given below. Where the abstract is published, please find a hyperlink to it. Magma reservoir architecture and dynamics – Theo Murphy meeting Monday 27 – …
Adrian Finch, Anouk Borst and Nicky Horsburgh gave invited presentations to the SOS RARE: Brazilian symposium on rare-earth elements, held in São Paolo, 6-10 November 2017. Our hosts were Professor Daniel Atencio and Professor Marcelo Andrade (both Universidade do São Paolo). The symposium comprised a series of invited talks followed by field excursions to the CBMM …
Anouk (Aka the 'human metal detector') was interviewed by the Daily Record for a piece about women in Scottish science. It was illustrated by some of her work from Greenland. She was identified as one of ten top female scientists in Scotland working on Earth and Environmental sciences in Scotland.
See the blog on peralkaline melts by A-team members Will Hutchison and Anouk Borst on the blog of the Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology (GMPV) Division of the European Geosciences Union (EGU).
