The Professional pages of the Research Group of Adrian Finch
We are pleased to say that Will Hutchison's recent paper in Nature Communications was picked up by a major topics journal called 'The Conversation' who invited us to produce a layman's summary of the work. It is targeting a relatively young audience, so the bigger picture science is presented. Anouk came up with the M&Ms …
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There have surely been fewer more successful times for our Research Group which has included three published papers, significant press coverage, two field expeditions, two short courses, grant awards and several published abstracts. We have also been involved in an outreach visit to Angola. Publications van de Ven M, Borst AM, Davies GR, Hunt EJ …
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St Andrews University recently took part in a workshop and fieldcourse in Angola, hosted by the Universidade Agonstinho Neto. The purpose of the trip was to outreach our work on alkaline igneous rocks and to learn more about similar rocks found in Angola. It started with a day workshop on frontiers in the study of …
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Our work led by Will Hutchison on the use of sulfur isotopes has been published on open access in the journal Nature Communications. The work was led by the St Andrews team in collaboration with colleagues at Tübingen and Glasgow Universities. The group at St Andrews included four of our group (Will Hutchison, Adrian Finch, …
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It has been another busy and successful time for members of our Research Group which has included three published papers, two grant awards, three invited attendances, several published abstracts and preparing for the next round of world conferences which will include 9 presentations, a short course on alkaline rocks and a session at Goldschmidt 2019. …
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Adrian Finch and Anouk Borst were delighted to be invited to be part of the Rare Earth Industries Association (REIA) launch in Brussels 25-27 June 2019. We both gave presentations on the geology of Rare Earth deposits, with Adrian focussing on the magmatic history of such deposits and Anouk on the late-stage alteration that can …
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My old PhD supervisor, Ian Parsons, asked me to draw attention to the Lochaber Geopark project: Lochaber Geopark, based in Fort William, is a not-for-profit organization, run mainly by volunteers. Lochaber District covers 4648 km2, includes Britain’s highest mountain and has a wild western coastline of exceptional beauty. Our objective is to tell the story …
