👇🏻Very excited to finally be amongst the products of one mantle plume system, Hawai’i, to talk about stable Fe isotopes in another, the Galápagos - and to listen to Olivia Hogg smash her first in/person international conference 🌋🌎

What a great way to finish up a PhD @goldschmidt2022 - thank you to co-authors @HelenWCam @simonwmatthews Oliver Shorttle, as well as Dennis Geist and Esteban Gazel. Watch this space for the publication of the full story (hopefully) soon!

The end of an era for our office Ayesha Landon-Browne! Congratulations Nicholas Barber🌋, you have been the best PhD buddy and the department has been lucky to have you.

Newest rock doctor at Cambridge Earth Sciences 👇🏻 So pleased for you 🌋🎉

Thesis submitted! What a 4 year adventure. Thank you to everyone who has been a part of this (too many to list right now) 🌋 Just a viva to go…

Caer Caradoc and Shropshire looking gorgeous with the incoming second years Cambridge Earth Sciences, working on field sketching and taking in some wonderful views #nearlypostdoclife

Term is just around the corner and as autumn beckons, you might be wondering what happened to a summer of fun research and conferences 🍂🏖️ On our blog: Alasdair Knight takes us to Hawaii for a reminder of July’s #Goldschmidt2022 conference. 👉 bit.ly/3Use2Ld

I suppose this is the time to share that I’ll be joining Selwyn College as a research fellow in October! St John's College, Cambridge has been a wonderful Cambridge home, and I’m grateful for my 8 years there, but I’m very excited to meet new colleagues and students at Selwyn 🌋🌎 #nearlypostdoclife

Two contrasting days of weather @sedbergh2022 Cambridge Earth Sciences ☔️☀️

Our new fellows were installed in a traditional ceremony in the college chapel last night. Welcome to Zeina Al Azmeh, Leo Impett, Ernesto Vargas Weil, Carrie Soderman, Arabella Milbank Robinson & honorary fellow David Dabydeen.

It has been a very fun 4 years 🎉🌋 #phdone

👇🏻🌋 Ready for volcano outreach day Natural History Museum!

Thank you for this award @GeochemGroup👇🏻🌍 - this paper showcases some of the work that I’m most proud of from my PhD and I’m thrilled that others think it’s interesting too!

My final thesis chapter has been published - a very satisfying conclusion to my PhD👇🏻🌋 We use Fe isotopes to look at lithological heterogeneity over the evolution of the Galápagos mantle plume 🌎

A small fraction of recycled crust, possibly from the lower mantle, has consistently carried through the #Galapagos mantle plume for 90 million years, according to a new #geology study. scim.ag/1Rc

Lavas reveal the life story of the Galápagos mantle plume. New research by our Dr Carrie Soderman, with @HelenWCam, Oliver Shorttle & @simonwmatthews 🌎🌋 Using Fe isotopes, they show how the ingredients making up the plume have changed over its lifetime. ➡️bit.ly/3JzNW5H

Our #REEDRILL ICDP workshop at the beautiful Sunbird Kuchawe Hotel in #Malawi, supported by Mkango Resources #MKA, is in full swing. Really interesting talks and discussions on #scientificdrilling #RareEarths, #groundwater and #microbiology.

First fieldwork of 2024, and some geological highlights ticked off my bucket list ⛰️

This summer, @cbeardgeo Dr Carrie Soderman Owen Weller-Gibbs headed to Greenland to investigate how #criticalmetals form in alkaline igneous rocks. Look at the cool minerals they encountered: pegmatite veins containing amphiboles, feldspars and blood-red eudialyte. #igneous #petrology

Very excited that the first application study (with Owen Weller-Gibbs) of our new thermodynamic model for alkaline silicate igneous rocks has just been published! We identify a key fractionation pressure to form Qz and Ne-bearing rocks, and look at implications for their REEs budgets.