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).
Anouk spent a week at the ANKA Light Source at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology in Germany to continue a series of synchrotron-based studies of eudialyte-hosted REE ores. This visit was part of an ongoing collaboration with Platon Gamaletsos at the Center for Electron Nanoscopy, DTU Denmark to study the micro/nano-scale distribution of REE and …
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Adrian gave his inaugural lecture to the University on the 25th October 2017 in School III, adjacent to St Leonard's Quadrangle. The audience included the Principal's Office of the University and the Principal herself. The note of thanks was given by Professor Douglas Philp, Dean of the Faculty of Science. https://earthsci.st-andrews.ac.uk/2017/10/17/inaugural-lecture-by-professor-adrian-finch-25th-oct-2017/ https://memos.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2017/10/11/inaugural-lecture-by-professor-adrian-finch-25th-oct-2017/
Three speakers from my research group (Adrian Finch, Anouk Borst and Nicky Horsburgh) have been invited as keynote speakers to the "SOS RARE: Brazilian symposium on rare-earth elements" http://www.ifsc.usp.br/~emulabram/symposium.html to be held in early November in Sao Paolo, Brazil. The symposium will also involve field excursions to the carbonatite at Araxa (the world's largest Nb …
