New Sulfur Isotopes Paper Out

A new paper led by Will Hutchison has just been published in the journal Earth & Planetary Science Letters. The paper uses modelling of sulfur isotopes across the entire Gardar Province to understand the sources of rare element enrichment. It presents a model in which Ketilidian subduction enriched the Sub-Continental Lithospheric Mantle, and we propose …

Paper Honoured with the Howie Award by the Mineralogical Society

I am pleased to announce that the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland have awarded the Howie Medal to one of our papers on eudialyte-hosted rare earth deposits. The award recognises the 'best paper' in mineralogy for the previous year and includes analysis of its "1. Novelty, 2. Inter-disciplinarity, 3. Applicability and 4. How …

A-Team Quarterly Update – First Quarter 2021

It has been an important quarter with honours for Anouk, Adrian and Nicky. Tim has had some important coverage on British TV for his archaeological work and we are also pleased that the undergraduate group has published their data from fieldwork on the Younger Giant Dyke Complex in Southern Greenland. The view lNE from Central …

A-Team Quarterly Update – Final Quarter 2020

It has been an important quarter with a major award for Anouk Borst and several important manuscripts moving towards publication, which we hope to have out in 2021. We are welcoming five new members of the team, including Lot Koopmans, who is working on a research degree with Adrian and Will McCarthy on the magnetic …

MSc and PhD Opportunities in Applied Mineralogy and Petrology

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 …

Research Presentation on the Younger Giant Dykes of Greenland

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 …

Anouk wins Prestigious Award

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 …

A-Team Quarterly Update – Third Quarter 2020

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 …

Will’s Modelling of Sulfur Isotopes Paper published

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 …

New Sources for Rare Metals Vital to Modern Technology – New Paper on Rare-Earth bearing Clay Deposits published by Anouk

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 …