The Professional pages of the Research Group of Adrian Finch
Myself and colleagues in the Applied Mineral and Petrological Sciences are advertising PhD topics to be filled in 2021. We are also looking for candidates for the two taught MSc programmes in Strategic Earth Resources and Geochemistry. A full list of PhD topics offered by the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of St …
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The student group from St Andrews who were in Southern Greenland in 2019 have given an presentation on their work and the implications for magmatism in the Gardar province of South Greenland. The talk was given to the Edinburgh Geological Society by Alasdair Murphy, Lot Koopmans, Lucy Mathieson, Rob Webster and Rory Changleng on 12 …
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I am pleased to say that Anouk Borst has been awarded the Max Hey Medal by the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland. This medal is awarded "to recognise existing and on-going research of excellence… [by an early career researcher] evidence of which is provided in the form of work published in highly-regarded, international …
It has been an important quarter with several important manuscripts moving forwards into the public domain. It has seen the publication of major papers by Anouk Borst and Will Hutchison as well as EPSRC grant success for Nicky Horsburgh. This has been a particularly productive time for Tim Kinnaird, whose research group focussing on landscape …
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Will Hutchison's paper with his co-authors, which looks comprehensively at the modelling of sulfur isotopes, has just been published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. This work builds upon his successful publication in Nature Communications which put forwards a hypothesis that sulfur was cycled through the Earth's mantle. Left - Will and Adrian in Motzfeldt with …
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Modern technologies, such as those producing green energy from renewable resources like wind and water, require many tonnes of rare, so-called e-tech metals. Mining of e-tech metals can be costly, environmentally challenging and energy intensive. Most of the world's high-value 'heavy' rare earths are found in 'Ion Adsorption Deposits' in Southern China, but so far …
It has been one of the strangest quarters that any of us have experienced, but it has also been one of the most productive with several manuscripts submitted (awaiting review) along with many datasets processed, now moving forwards towards the public domain. We have also welcomed a new member of the group - Dr Aayush …
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Nicky Horsburgh's PhD thesis has recently been accepted by the University of St Andrews following her successful defence, so congratulations to Dr Horsburgh. The purpose of the work was to explore the luminescence of rare earth-bearing minerals as a tool for smart sorting. She was able to show that most rare-earth ore minerals can be …
It has been a strange time for the research group, ending with the new norm of social distancing and lockdown in the UK, but it has nevertheless been a successful quarter. This period has also seen the end of two major SoS RARE and HiTech AlkCarb consortia, and the process of developing the legacy of …
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It has been a period of writing up following our successful publications and fieldwork in the Summer and approaching the end of the SoS RARE and HiTech AlkCarb consortia. The two consortia had valedictory conferences at which some of the key findings were presented. In addition, our work was picked up by several national newspapers …
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