From john.fox at basf.com Fri Feb 1 10:50:49 2019 From: john.fox at basf.com (John M Fox) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 15:50:49 +0000 Subject: [MSA-talk] XRD quant micronizing options Message-ID: We use a micronizing mill to prepare XRD samples. Recently we purchased a new set of corundum grinding beads and found they are releasing a significant amount of corundum into the samples. The new beads are white, while the previous beads that release a trace of corundum are pink. I welcome any thoughts on an alternative option for grinding beads. Maybe it time to go to a ring and puck mill or some other option? Thanks, John Fox BASF Petrographic Lab 23700 Chagrin Blvd. Cleveland, OH 44236 216-839-7428 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chakoumakobc at ornl.gov Fri Feb 1 11:24:20 2019 From: chakoumakobc at ornl.gov (Chakoumakos, Bryan C.) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 16:24:20 +0000 Subject: [MSA-talk] Crystal Growth Conference - Colorado, USA - Abstract Deadline: 28 February In-Reply-To: <80501DD2-5A57-4A2F-A0E9-5466504E2B8B@ornl.gov> References: <80501DD2-5A57-4A2F-A0E9-5466504E2B8B@ornl.gov> Message-ID: <2617B5B6-B261-4879-B6A1-E9BE86558115@ornl.gov> [https://files.constantcontact.com/398d98d3101/2abc0933-6b24-424e-8d06-cf75afca4a66.jpg] ICCGE-19/OMVPE-19 CALL FOR PAPERS Abstract Submission Deadline in one month - 28 February 2019 WEB SUBMISSIONS ONLY Abstract submission must be submitted online. Click here or visit the conference website. Email, fax, or mail submissions will not be accepted. The 19th International Conference on Crystal Growth and Epitaxy (ICCGE-19) and the 19th Biennial Workshop on Organometallic Vapor Phase Epitaxy (OMVPE-19) will be held in Keystone, Colorado, USA from 28 July - 2 August 2019, following the 17th International Summer School on Crystal Growth (ISSCG-17), will be held in Granby, Colorado, 21 July - 26 July, 2019. ICCGE-19/OMVPE-19 will feature plenary sessions, parallel topical sessions, special topical symposia, poster sessions, and an industrial exhibition that are related to all aspects of crystal growth, epitaxy, characterization, and applications. SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM The 4?-day Conference will feature oral and poster presentations covering 27 topics in the following areas: OMVPE Workshop Symposium on 2D and Other Low Dimensional Materials Symposium on Epitaxy of Complex Oxides Symposium on Ferroelectric Crystals and Textured Ceramics Fundamentals of Crystal Growth Modeling of Crystal Growth Processes Bulk Crystal Growth Nonlinear Optical and Laser Host Materials Biological and Biomimetic Materials Detector Materials: Scintillators and Semiconductors Industrial Crystal Growth Technology and Equipment Advanced Equipment and Growth Technology Surfaces and Interfaces In situ Observation and Characterization Characterization Techniques for Bulk and Epitaxial Crystals Thin Film Growth, Epitaxy, and Superlattices Nanocrystals, Quantum Dots, and Nanowires 2D and Other Low Dimensional Materials and Devices Materials for Photovoltaics and Other Energy Technology Selective and Patterned Epitaxial Growth III-V Epitaxial Growth for Devices III-V's on Silicon III-V Wide Bandgap Nitride Semiconductors and Devices Narrow Bandgap Semiconductors and Devices BN Epitaxial Growth and Characterization Silicon Carbide Materials and Devices Gallium Oxide Materials and Devices IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission closes 28 February 2019 Early-Bird Registration is now open: https://www.iccge19.org/conference-registration Conference Website Accommodations fill quickly. Special rates have been secured for attendees, so please visit the accommodations page as soon as possible. Updates on accommodations, travel, and the program, can be found on the conference website: https://www.iccge19.org/ Follow the conference on Facebook: Iccge-19 / Omvpe-19 Conference Chairs Vincent Fratello, Quest Integrated, LLC Jeffrey Derby, University of Minnesota ICCGE Co-Chairs Andrew Allerman, Sandia National Labs OMVPE Workshop Chair Program Chairs Christine Wang, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Peter Schunemann, BAE Systems ICCGE Program Co-Chairs __________________________________ AACG Headquarters 10922 Main Range Trail Littleton, CO 80127 U.S.A. Phone: 1.303.539.6907 Email: aacg at comcast.net AACG Homepage: www.crystalgrowth.org American Association for Crystal Growth (AACG), 10922 Main Range Trail, Littleton, CO 80127 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bbickmore at comcast.net Fri Feb 1 13:00:47 2019 From: bbickmore at comcast.net (Barry Bickmore) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 11:00:47 -0700 Subject: [MSA-talk] XRD quant micronizing options In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <0D9CD28F-D92B-412C-A39F-249DEBE6A3DC@comcast.net> Here is the info for zirconia grinding elements used for preparation with a corundum internal standard. This is from the RockJock 11 manual?hopefully it is still valid. In any case, these are harder than corundum, and work great. Zirconia grinding beads 1/2" VHD ZrO Cylinders Very High Density Zirconium Oxide Grinding Media sp.gr. 6.0 (Yttria stabilized) Catalog No. 7361-012700CY GLEN MILLS INC. Stanley Goldberg Director 973-777-0777 x11; Fax: 973-777-0070 http://www.glenmills.com/ Barry Bickmore Professor of Geological Sciences Brigham Young University > On Feb 1, 2019, at 8:50 AM, John M Fox wrote: > > We use a micronizing mill to prepare XRD samples. Recently we purchased a new set of corundum grinding beads and found they are releasing a significant amount of corundum into the samples. The new beads are white, while the previous beads that release a trace of corundum are pink. I welcome any thoughts on an alternative option for grinding beads. Maybe it time to go to a ring and puck mill or some other option? > > Thanks, > > John Fox > > > BASF Petrographic Lab > 23700 Chagrin Blvd. > Cleveland, OH 44236 > 216-839-7428 > _______________________________________________ > MSA-talk mailing list > MSA-talk at minlists.org > http://lists.minlists.org/mailman/listinfo/msa-talk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dillesj at geo.oregonstate.edu Fri Feb 1 21:27:43 2019 From: dillesj at geo.oregonstate.edu (John Dilles) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 18:27:43 -0800 Subject: [MSA-talk] Consider submitting an abstract (NEW DEADLINE IS TUESDAY FEB. 12): T15. Magmatism in the Cascades: Variations in Space and TimeGSA Cordilleran Section Portland (May 15-17) Message-ID: <9FF9081C-28D1-4824-A336-E31833C23541@geo.oregonstate.edu> Dear Colleagues, The Feb 5 abstract deadline for the GSA Cordilleran Section meeting is soon here. The Cordilleran section meeting is in Portland this year (May 15-17) at the Oregon Convention Center. If you have work to share about the the Cascades, please submit to Session ID#: 46531 T15. Magmatism in the Cascades: Variations in Space and Time Although the Cascades are one of Earth?s most studied subduction zones, considerable uncertainty exists about how tectonic, igneous, and other processes vary through space and time. We welcome contributions on ancestral to modern Cascade arc magmatism, including geochemical and geophysical segmentation and evolution, hydrothermal processes, and ore deposit formation. (Oral; posters possible.) If you have questions, please contact any of the conveyors (all at Oregon State University). Adam Kent adam.kent at geo.oregonstate.edu John Dilles dillesj at geo.oregonstte.edu Anita Grunder grundera at geo.oregonstate.edu INFO from GSA Hello all -- As we enter the heart of the abstract submission season, and after the federal shutdown turmoil -- on Tuesday, we (the program coordinators: Matt Brunengo, Erick Burns, Anita Grunder) got trained about the GSA conference system, so we think (hope) we know what we're doing going forward; but there's a learning curve, so please bear with us. So, time for some useful communication to you folks. First: The abstract deadline has been pushed back a week, to Tuesday, Feb 12 (2359 PST). We hope that will allow our federal colleagues who were furloughed enough time to get their abstracts written, approved and submitted. (GSA meeting web pages still say Feb 5 in some places, but Feb 12 is the real deal.) Second: Just in case this insanity happens again, after Feb 15 -- please make sure that there are ways we can communicate. Nine of the 34 proposed theme sessions have primary and/or entirely federal organizers/conveners; we might need alternate email addresses for you, or the names/emails of non-feds deputized to make decisions regarding your sessions. Third: Some of you have already done this (evident from the list-serve announcements we've seen) -- time to beat the bushes for speakers and posters for your sessions, among your colleagues, students, whoever. Fourth: Based on some differences between section and national meetings, we passed some bad information to some of you about invited speakers. There are no official invited speakers in GSA section meetings (there are in the continental/annual meeting). On the other hand, there also is no "one oral abstract per person" rule for the section meetings (the guideline is max 2 per speaker, just to avoid cross-scheduling problems). So you can invite whomever you want, and maybe give them a bit more time on the schedule if you choose, but there's no other advantage except prestige (and no $ involved). Fifth: For those of you organizing the sessions honoring colleagues for their career contributions (theme sessions # 1, 2, 3, and 26) -- there will be a banquet for all honorees on Thursday evening (May 16) at the headquarters hotel. Organizers and people contributing to those sessions are invited to attend. It will be a ticketed event, so not free, except presumably to the honorees (and probably their special guests). This was a popular event at Flagstaff last year; we encourage conveners of those sessions to spread the word among your contributors, and sign on when registration opens. There's probably something we're forgetting -- feel free to keep in touch -- Matt, Erick, Anita -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Peacock (University of Leeds) * Atomically-Resolved Transformation Pathways of Ferrihydrite to Goethite, Kevin Rosso (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA) Scope: Fe and Mn are common redox-active elemental components of layered minerals (e.g., Fe-rich clays, vernadite, foug?rite), that provide the structure with a redox potential. Surface induced electron transfer reactions may strongly affect the nature of the retention interactions (e.g., sorption) between mineral surfaces and redox-sensitive metals, metalloids, actinides and organics (e.g., natural organic matter, organic pollutants). A sound description of these redox interactions is a prerequisite to our capacity to describe the fate of redox-sensitive elements and organics in environments ranging from the critical zone to deep underground storage sites. This session welcomes contributions aiming at improving our understanding of these interactions, from the molecular to the macroscopic scales. Yours sincerely, Sylvain Grangeon (BRGM, France), Francis Claret (BRGM, France) & Maria do Sameiro Marques Fernandes (Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland) Francis CLARET Publication list Head of storage and deep geological and settings unit Water Environnement and Ecotechnologies division 3 av. Claude-Guillemin - BP 36009 45060 Orl?ans Cedex 2 - France Tel.: +33 (0)2 38 64 36 50/ +33 (0)6 12 87 72 81 f.claret at brgm.fr BRGM - THE FRENCH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY www.brgm.eu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Granada Spain) ==================================================================== 04p: Theoretical and Analytical Approaches in the Study of Mineral-Fluid Interfaces Conveners: Encarnaci?n Ruiz-Agudo, Xiandong Liu, Sandy Taylor Keynote: Jean-Francois Boily (Umea University) Reactions occurring at the mineral-fluid interface are central to all (bio)geochemical as well as many industrial processes. They affect a wide range of important Earth processes, including mineral dissolution and growth, minor element incorporation and partitioning during mineral growth, weathering and soil formation, acid mine drainage, the fate of contaminants, nuclear waste disposal, nutrient availability, biomineralization, and scale formation. The new challenge for our scientific community is to reliably predict the kinetics and mechanisms of such processes, ultimately controlled by reactions occurring at mineral surfaces. While recent developments of analytical methods, that allow direct observations of interfacial reactions, contribute to identifying and quantifying interactions between mineral surfaces and multicomponent aqueous solutions, modern computational techniques provide important insights into the atomic-level processes governing such interactions. Thus, only by combining analytical and computational techniques within adequate theoretical models can we improve our knowledge of the fundamental role mineral surfaces play in the interchange of chemical components within global (bio)geochemical cycles. The aim of this session is to bring together recent advances within the field of interfacial (bio)geochemistry conducted using both classical and advanced experimental techniques (e.g., TEM, SEM, AFM, APT, spectroscopic and diffraction surface techniques) and computational modeling methods (e.g., ab initio, MC, MD, mesoscale, continuum and multiscale simulations). 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So I'm asking out there to the broader community if you have recommendations before I put in the purchase order for more materials. We already have plenty of slides - both frosted and unfrosted. We just need new epoxy/resin to get the billets to stick to them. We'd prefer one that doesn't require intense heating, as prior students got their slides stuck to a hot plate. Many thanks. Dr. Stephen Crabtree Assoc. Prof. of Geology University of Minnesota, Morris crabt012 at morris.umn.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pl at pelcon.dk Tue Feb 5 11:14:17 2019 From: pl at pelcon.dk (Peter Laugesen) Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2019 16:14:17 +0000 Subject: [MSA-talk] Seeking recommendations for thin section epoxy, for student research projects In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Stephen, You don?t need epoxy but rather UV-curing glue. We use it for preparing thousands of TS every year, and it is also applied for other scores of thousands of TS prepared every year using our procedures & equipment at various universities and private laboratories. Feel free to contact me for instructions, photo documentation etc. Best regards / Med venlig hilsen Peter Laugesen PELCON Pelcon Materials & Testing ApS Industriparken 22B DK-2750 Ballerup Denmark tlf.: +45 39 56 50 00 www.pelcon.dk EU's databeskyttelsesforordning(GDPR) tr?der i kraft 25/5 2018. Vi har opdateret vores politik om databehandling. Du beh?ver ikke at foretage dig noget ? det er business as usual - men du er velkommen til at se vores politik om databehandling her EU?s new General Data Protection Regulation will come into force by May 25th 2018. In this regard we have updated our privacy policy. You don?t need to do anything ? it is business as usual ? but you are welcome to have a look at our Policy on Data Protection here Fra: msa-talk-bounces at minlists.org [mailto:msa-talk-bounces at minlists.org] P? vegne af Stephen Crabtree Sendt: 5. februar 2019 16:15 Til: msa-talk at minlists.org Emne: [MSA-talk] Seeking recommendations for thin section epoxy, for student research projects Good morning, For the past several years, I've been having students in my Petrology class make thin sections as part of their final term project. It seems now the the epoxy/resin that we've been using has at last outlived its shelf life - last year's students struggled to get it to cure and adhere sufficiently even after a week's time. Since I expect to also have two students helping to make teaching-collection thin sections in-house this summer, that sort of wait-time just isn't reasonable. So I'm asking out there to the broader community if you have recommendations before I put in the purchase order for more materials. We already have plenty of slides - both frosted and unfrosted. We just need new epoxy/resin to get the billets to stick to them. We'd prefer one that doesn't require intense heating, as prior students got their slides stuck to a hot plate. Many thanks. Dr. Stephen Crabtree Assoc. Prof. of Geology University of Minnesota, Morris crabt012 at morris.umn.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From haird at csuchico.edu Tue Feb 5 12:20:37 2019 From: haird at csuchico.edu (Hannah M Aird) Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2019 17:20:37 +0000 Subject: [MSA-talk] Seeking recommendations for thin section epoxy, for student research projects In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello Stephen, We use ?Petropoxy 154? from burnham petrographics. You can find it here: https://www.burnhampetrographics.com/petropoxy/ppp.php Our department tech finds it is easier to use and cures better than UV-glue. Our undergraduates also make their own thin sections in my petrology class, and within our department we make thin sections for research and class purposes. Hannah Hannah M. Aird, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Geological and Environmental Sciences California State University, Chico Chico CA 95929-0205 Office: (530) 898-6369 Email: haird at csuchico.edu From: msa-talk-bounces at minlists.org [mailto:msa-talk-bounces at minlists.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Crabtree Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2019 7:15 AM To: msa-talk at minlists.org Subject: [MSA-talk] Seeking recommendations for thin section epoxy, for student research projects Good morning, For the past several years, I've been having students in my Petrology class make thin sections as part of their final term project. It seems now the the epoxy/resin that we've been using has at last outlived its shelf life - last year's students struggled to get it to cure and adhere sufficiently even after a week's time. Since I expect to also have two students helping to make teaching-collection thin sections in-house this summer, that sort of wait-time just isn't reasonable. So I'm asking out there to the broader community if you have recommendations before I put in the purchase order for more materials. We already have plenty of slides - both frosted and unfrosted. We just need new epoxy/resin to get the billets to stick to them. We'd prefer one that doesn't require intense heating, as prior students got their slides stuck to a hot plate. Many thanks. Dr. Stephen Crabtree Assoc. Prof. of Geology University of Minnesota, Morris crabt012 at morris.umn.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mitch at niftyegg.com Tue Feb 5 12:51:13 2019 From: mitch at niftyegg.com (Tom Mitchell) Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2019 09:51:13 -0800 Subject: [MSA-talk] Seeking recommendations for thin section epoxy, for student research projects In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: As others have said UV curing cyanoacrylate, common superglue or classic 910. Glue on the hot plate should never be a problem with a double layer of aluminum foil or something else to protect the hot plate and work surfaces no mater what the adhesive is... Small aluminum or stainless or tinned steel kitchen pans (not teflon unless below 400F) like eighth Size, 9 1/2" x 6 1/2" Bun Pan / Sheet Pan handy for organizing, drying and warming. UV curing implies training for UV safety today. Dentists commonly use a UV curing adhesive in cyanoacrylate family that today has a rather long service life. All adhesives have issues and that should be discussed as the adhesive is part of the visual light path impacting relief and perhaps color, storage and shelf life. There is also science and methods in the choice of labels used and records kept. Personal, departmental, organizational standard practices... On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 8:08 AM Stephen Crabtree wrote: > Good morning, > > For the past several years, I've been having students in my Petrology > class make thin sections as part of their final term project. It seems now > the the epoxy/resin that we've been using has at last outlived its shelf > life - last year's students struggled to get it to cure and adhere > sufficiently even after a week's time. Since I expect to also have two > students helping to make teaching-collection thin sections in-house this > summer, that sort of wait-time just isn't reasonable. > > So I'm asking out there to the broader community if you have > recommendations before I put in the purchase order for more materials. We > already have plenty of slides - both frosted and unfrosted. We just need > new epoxy/resin to get the billets to stick to them. We'd prefer one that > doesn't require intense heating, as prior students got their slides stuck > to a hot plate. > > Many thanks. > > Dr. Stephen Crabtree > Assoc. Prof. of Geology > University of Minnesota, Morris > crabt012 at morris.umn.edu > _______________________________________________ > MSA-talk mailing list > MSA-talk at minlists.org > http://lists.minlists.org/mailman/listinfo/msa-talk > -- T o m M i t c h e l l -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From escribne at eoas.ubc.ca Tue Feb 5 15:04:21 2019 From: escribne at eoas.ubc.ca (Scribner, Emily) Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2019 20:04:21 +0000 Subject: [MSA-talk] Reminder: Invitation to complete survey on mineralogy topics Message-ID: <5dc39caabf2c461487e81d304d4248c3@eoas.ubc.ca> Dear mineralogy colleagues, This is a reminder about the survey that is currently available about key topics in introductory mineralogy courses. It will remain open until Friday, February 22nd. The original email follows. ---------- We are a graduate student and a professor in the department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of British Columbia working on a study about the teaching and learning of mineralogy at the undergraduate level. This work is part of Emily Scribner's PhD dissertation research. For this study, we are seeking instructors of introductory mineralogy courses to complete a survey about key topics in mineralogy courses. This survey is part of a larger study, the purpose of which is to develop and validate an assessment that examines students' understanding of introductory mineralogy topics. Your participation would involve filling out a survey about key topics you teach in your introductory mineralogy course. It should take 10-15 minutes to complete. Your responses to the survey will help us better understand if the topics included on the assessment are taught in a variety of introductory mineralogy courses. By completing the survey, we assume that you consent to participate in this study. The survey will remain open until Friday, February 22nd. To access the survey, please follow this link: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cHhv0RMJfbj4xud Your individual information will be held in strict confidence. The only people permitted to see your individual record with any identifiers will be you and the two researchers who are conducting this study. Conclusions of this study and the final assessment may be published in some form and/or presented publicly, but without any information that could be used to identify any participants. Thank you for your consideration and participation. If you have any questions or concerns about this survey, or are interested in learning about our findings, please do not hesitate to contact us. If you have any concerns or complaints about your rights as a research participant and/or your experiences while participating in this study, contact the Research Participant Complaint Line in the UBC Office of Research Ethics at 604-822-8598 or if long distance e-mail RSIL at ors.ubc.ca or call toll free 1-877-822-8598. Sincerely, Emily Scribner (escribne at eoas.ubc.ca) and Sara Harris (sharris at eoas.ubc.ca) Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From john.shervais at usu.edu Tue Feb 5 15:16:32 2019 From: john.shervais at usu.edu (John Shervais) Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2019 20:16:32 +0000 Subject: [MSA-talk] Seeking recommendations for thin section epoxy, for student research projects In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I have been using UV-optical adhesive for over 25 years. NO MIXING, lasts well beyond ?use by? date. RI =1.56 Norland Optical Adhesive 61 ? military spec grade adhesive, cures in UV-A (?) - the safe UV. Very easy to build UV light box. From website: Norland Optical Adhesive 61 ("NOA 61") is a clear, colorless, liquid photopolymer that will cure when exposed to ultraviolet light. Since it is a one part system and 100% solids, it offers many advantages in bonding where the adhesive can be exposed to UV light. The use of NOA 61 eliminates premixing, drying or heat curing operations common to other adhesive systems. Curing time is remarkably fast, and is dependent upon the thickness applied and the amount of ultraviolet light energy available. NOA 61 meets Federal Specification MIL-A-3920 for optical adhesives and is approved for use on all government contracts specifying such adhesives. The adhesive is designed to give the best possible optical bond to glass surfaces, metals, fiberglass and glass filled plastics. NOA61 is recommended for bonding lenses, prisms and mirrors for military, aerospace and commercial optics as well as for terminating and splicing optical fibers. NOA 61 also has excellent clarity, low shrinkage and as light flexibility that make it superior to other materials for optical bonding. These characteristics are important in order for the user to produce high quality optics and achieve long term performance under changing environments. NOA 61 is cured by ultraviolet light with maximum absorption within the range of 320-380 nanometers with peak sensitivity around 365nm. The recommended energy required for full cure is 3 Joules/sq. cm in these wavelengths. The cure is not inhibited by oxygen, hence any areas in contact with air will cure to a non-tacky state when exposed to ultraviolet light. ***************************************************************** John W. Shervais Professor of Geology Department of Geology Office Phone: (435) 797-1274 Utah State University Main Office: (435) 797-1273 4505 Old Main Hill FAX: (435) 797-1588 Logan, Utah 84322-4505 email: john.shervais at usu.edu website: http://www.usu.edu/geo/shervais/Shervais-USU-Geology/Petrology.html ***************************************************************** On Feb 5, 2019, at 08:14, Stephen Crabtree > wrote: Good morning, For the past several years, I've been having students in my Petrology class make thin sections as part of their final term project. It seems now the the epoxy/resin that we've been using has at last outlived its shelf life - last year's students struggled to get it to cure and adhere sufficiently even after a week's time. Since I expect to also have two students helping to make teaching-collection thin sections in-house this summer, that sort of wait-time just isn't reasonable. So I'm asking out there to the broader community if you have recommendations before I put in the purchase order for more materials. We already have plenty of slides - both frosted and unfrosted. We just need new epoxy/resin to get the billets to stick to them. We'd prefer one that doesn't require intense heating, as prior students got their slides stuck to a hot plate. Many thanks. Dr. Stephen Crabtree Assoc. 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URL: From george at elsi.jp Tue Feb 5 23:15:45 2019 From: george at elsi.jp (George Helffrich) Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2019 13:15:45 +0900 Subject: [MSA-talk] IUGG General Assembly (8-18 July 2019) symposium JA01 announcement Message-ID: <5E8DD3D3-D055-4EBE-9311-974111A9664E@elsi.jp> Dear Colleagues - With all the usual apologies for spam, please consider contributing a presentation to the Montreal IUGG Inter-Association Symposium titled, JA01 - GEOPHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS ON THE EARTH'S CORE AND ITS RELATION TO THE MANTLE The general website is http://iugg2019montreal.com The abstract deadline is February 18l Follow this link to register and submit one: http://iugg2019montreal.com/abstract-submission.html Description: This symposium seeks contributions covering from core to mantle, including observations, material properties, structure and dynamics. In the mantle, composition, rheology, density, electric and magnetic properties are required to define the dynamical evolutionary path through space-time. The recent satellite missions GRACE, GOCE and SWARM, and novel teleseismic methods give new insights into deep Earth physical properties and state. Models of mantle convection and the interaction with lithospheric plates and subducted relics use these data as input to define the models in greater detail. Geodetic and seismic data provide inputs necessary for constraining possible stable layers in the outer core, with high resolution models of the geomagnetic field required to make further progress in our understanding of core dynamics and dynamo generation. Seismology and mineral physics continue to work in tandem to further our understanding of inner core structure and dynamics. We also welcome studies concerning global-scale coupling, including the dynamical interaction between the inner, outer core, the mantle and earth rotation. J. Aurnou (USA, IAG) M. Bergman (USA, IAG) C. Braitenberg (Italy, IAG) C. Thomas (Germany, IASPEI) G. Helffrich (Japan, IASPEI) George Helffrich george at elsi.jp -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mhayashi at aoni.waseda.jp Wed Feb 6 00:11:10 2019 From: mhayashi at aoni.waseda.jp (HAYASHI Masahiko) Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2019 05:11:10 +0000 Subject: [MSA-talk] Seeking recommendations for thin section epoxy, for student research projects In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Resin is changed by rocks or minerals. Commonly we use ?Petropoxy 154?. This resin is glued by heat (~130? and several minutes). However fragile or brittle rocks(minerals), when avoiding heating, we use UV curing epoxy resin ?3121D? from ThreeBond Fine Chemical Co.,Ltd. The refractive index of 3121D is 1.52 and is lower than usual resin (~1.54). Sincerely, Masahiko HAYASHI Thin section technical staff, Waseda University. 1-6-1 Nishiwaseda, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8050, Japan. Tel: +81-3-3208-8473-(Ex.3860) E-mail: mhayashi at aoni.waseda.jp ________________________________ ???: msa-talk-bounces at minlists.org ? Stephen Crabtree ?????? ????: 2019?2?6? 0:14 ??: msa-talk at minlists.org ??: [MSA-talk] Seeking recommendations for thin section epoxy, for student research projects Good morning, For the past several years, I've been having students in my Petrology class make thin sections as part of their final term project. It seems now the the epoxy/resin that we've been using has at last outlived its shelf life - last year's students struggled to get it to cure and adhere sufficiently even after a week's time. Since I expect to also have two students helping to make teaching-collection thin sections in-house this summer, that sort of wait-time just isn't reasonable. So I'm asking out there to the broader community if you have recommendations before I put in the purchase order for more materials. We already have plenty of slides - both frosted and unfrosted. We just need new epoxy/resin to get the billets to stick to them. We'd prefer one that doesn't require intense heating, as prior students got their slides stuck to a hot plate. Many thanks. Dr. Stephen Crabtree Assoc. Prof. of Geology University of Minnesota, Morris crabt012 at morris.umn.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From melanie.forien at uit.no Wed Feb 6 07:30:28 2019 From: melanie.forien at uit.no (Melanie Forien) Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2019 12:30:28 +0000 Subject: [MSA-talk] Postdoc position on Mineral chemistry of hydrothermal sulfides at UiT, Norway Message-ID: Dear all, A postdoc position on mineral chemistry of hydrothermal sulfides is now open at the geosciences department of University of Troms?, Norway. All information here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/164341/postdoctoral-fellow-in-mineral-chemistry-of-hydrothermal-sulfides Deadline: Friday, March 1, 2019 Cheers, Melanie ----- Melanie Forien Department of Geosciences Dramsveien 201 9037 Troms? Norway Email: melanie.forien at uit.no -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jonathan.price at msutexas.edu Wed Feb 6 08:58:40 2019 From: jonathan.price at msutexas.edu (Price, Jonathan) Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2019 13:58:40 +0000 Subject: [MSA-talk] Seeking recommendations for thin section epoxy, for student research projects In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <279308E43FE1174CA93074E8DFD1DC753FC4F596@EXMB2.admin.msu> Hi Stephen, Like Hannah and Masahiko, my students have used Petropoxy 154 with considerable success. We cure within a lab oven, placing the slides on an household aluminum baking pan lined with copier paper. We have also cured using copier paper on a hot plate. The paper does not adhere to the glass and readily absorbs excess epoxy. Occasionally, epoxied paper will adhere to the aluminum pan or ceramic hot plate, but is easily removed with a razor blade. Jonathan Jonathan D. Price, Ph.D. Chair & Prothro Distinguished Associate Professor of Geological Science The Kimbell School of Geosciences MIDWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY Wichita Falls, Texas 76308-2099 Office 940.397.4288 Fax 940.397.4893 msutexas.edu From: msa-talk-bounces at minlists.org [mailto:msa-talk-bounces at minlists.org] On Behalf Of Hannah M Aird Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2019 11:21 AM To: Stephen Crabtree ; msa-talk at minlists.org Cc: Sean M Nies Subject: Re: [MSA-talk] Seeking recommendations for thin section epoxy, for student research projects Hello Stephen, We use ?Petropoxy 154? from burnham petrographics. You can find it here: https://www.burnhampetrographics.com/petropoxy/ppp.php Our department tech finds it is easier to use and cures better than UV-glue. Our undergraduates also make their own thin sections in my petrology class, and within our department we make thin sections for research and class purposes. Hannah Hannah M. Aird, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Geological and Environmental Sciences California State University, Chico Chico CA 95929-0205 Office: (530) 898-6369 Email: haird at csuchico.edu From: msa-talk-bounces at minlists.org [mailto:msa-talk-bounces at minlists.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Crabtree Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2019 7:15 AM To: msa-talk at minlists.org Subject: [MSA-talk] Seeking recommendations for thin section epoxy, for student research projects Good morning, For the past several years, I've been having students in my Petrology class make thin sections as part of their final term project. It seems now the the epoxy/resin that we've been using has at last outlived its shelf life - last year's students struggled to get it to cure and adhere sufficiently even after a week's time. Since I expect to also have two students helping to make teaching-collection thin sections in-house this summer, that sort of wait-time just isn't reasonable. So I'm asking out there to the broader community if you have recommendations before I put in the purchase order for more materials. We already have plenty of slides - both frosted and unfrosted. We just need new epoxy/resin to get the billets to stick to them. We'd prefer one that doesn't require intense heating, as prior students got their slides stuck to a hot plate. Many thanks. Dr. Stephen Crabtree Assoc. Prof. of Geology University of Minnesota, Morris crabt012 at morris.umn.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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To assist those affected by the recent U.S. Government shutdown, organizers from the Geological Association of Canada (GAC?), Mineralogical Association of Canada (MAC) and Canadian National Chapter of the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH-CNC) will grant an additional extension to U.S. federal geoscientists. The GAC-MAC-IAH/CNC organizers will make every effort to include their contributions. If you have questions, please contact the Meeting organisers at gacagm at mun.ca For full details, check our flyer, or visit our website Qu?bec 2019: Where geosciences converge! Join us! The organizing committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Our field camp operates out of the "Lost River Field Station" (LRFS), which is located in the Big Lost River Valley in a region with scenic, steep, and rugged mountains. The field station sits near the base of Borah Peak, the highest mountain peak in Idaho, and the nearby region presents a tremendous diversity of geology: folded and faulted sedimentary rocks, ductilely deformed Archean and Proterozoic metamorphic and igneous rocks, fossiliferous sedimentary rocks, active faults, young volcanic rocks, and Quaternary geology. We maintain a traditional approach that strongly emphasizes field mapping and rock descriptions, and we integrate GPS and GIS techniques into relevant exercises. In addition to our outstanding field station, our camp is unique in that over six different field-oriented faculty in ISU?s Department of Geosciences participate as instructors. This broad faculty participation, in addition to the geologic diversity nearby our field station in central Idaho, allows our students to become confident, broadly-trained field geologists prepared to pursue future careers in the Earth Sciences or dive into research projects in graduate school. Our ?basecamp? approach, which includes a full-time cook, reduces the need to drive long distances to our field sites, and ensures that we maximize our time honing skills in field geology. Our camp also provides amenities such as bathrooms with showers, laundry facilities, and computers with wireless internet. Our field camp features a low student/faculty ratio with high standards. The cost is approximately $5800, which covers tuition, lodging, meals, and travel to and from Pocatello, Idaho to LRFS. Our 2019 field camp will run from May 27th to July 1st. The early application deadline is February 19th and we will accept applications until full. For more information, please visit our website here , or contact us via email or phone. We look forward to hearing from you! Sincerely, Lori Tapanila Dave Pearson Field Camp Associate Director Field Camp Director tapalori at isu.edu peardavi at isu.edu (208) 282-5024 (208) 282-3486 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From teozincone at gmail.com Thu Feb 7 09:35:58 2019 From: teozincone at gmail.com (Teo Zincone) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 12:35:58 -0200 Subject: [MSA-talk] PhD position on Early Earth Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Please forward this job advertisement to suitable candidates in your group. The growing AIR-Group at the University of Ouro Preto, Brazil, is seeking applications for high motivate graduate students to conduct interdisciplinary research on the ?Evolution of Archaean Terranes of the S?o Francisco Craton, Brazil: global environmental and geodynamic implications?. Interested candidates should contact Dr. Stefano Zincone ( teozincone at gmail.com) with a current CV and information on research experience and interests. The dead line is February 22th. Best regards, Stefano *Phd Project 1:* The research project will aim to understand the Paleoarchean evolution of an unusually well-preserved 3.30 Ga volcanic-exhalative system and associated clastic sediments. The project involved fieldwork and geological mapping, mineral chemistry and non-conventional stable isotope investigation. A paleontological approach to chert levels looking for the occurrence of typical Archean fossils will be applied using the Raman spectrometry and X-ray fluorescence light in the Synchrotron Light Laboratory. *PhD project 2:* Paleoarchean basins developed over stable continents are rare in the geological record. The project intends to revisite the gold-bearing Jacobina Basin and to test the recent proposal that basin development was related to a 3.3 Ga intracontinental rift. In this context, the aim is to refine the dating of detrital mineral in all the units, including rutile, xenotime, monazite, titanite and apatite. Also, we intend to investigate the contact between the basin and your basement and revaluate the Mn-bearing deposit. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Samson, eds.), Geological Association of Canada Short Course Notes, 17, 127-158. The data set is available in XLS format at this URL: http://mineralogicalassociation.ca/index.php?p=568 Note that the sample locations in Column B of the XLS sheet are in reference to internal zones of the pegmatite as outlined in ?ern? (2005). David London School of Geology & Geophysics, University of Oklahoma 100 East Boyd Street, Room 710 Sarkeys Energy Center Norman, Oklahoma 73019 (405) 325 3253 (o), (405) 325 3140 (f) Electron Microprobe Laboratory: ou.edu/empl Pegmatite Interest Group: www.minsocam.org/msa/Special/Pig/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The full description is found below. The deadline to submit your abstract is March 29th. Abstract submission instructions can be found at https://goldschmidt.info/2019/abstracts/instructions We look forward to your submissions and hearing about your latest research. Best Regards from Session Co-Conveners, Daniel Gregory and Melissa Anderson Session Description: Several valuable commodities are concentrated at or near the seafloor with different deposits forming and being preserved under different seawater redox conditions. The types of deposits contain several different commodities, including Cu/Pb/Zn deposits from VMS or SEDEX style deposits, Mn rich nodules and REE enriched marine phosphate deposits but all depend upon in some way upon the local conditions of the ocean from which they form. Because of the ability to obtain detailed data from several aspects of the locations where these deposits are forming much information can be gained about ancient deposits from understanding analogues forming on the seafloor today. Similarly, because ancient deposits that are being mined allow for much easier collection of a wide range of samples much can be learned from deposits currently forming on the seafloor by looking at ancient analogues. To that end in this session we aim attract abstracts from researchers investigating strong metal enrichments forming at or near the modern seafloor as well researchers studying ancient ore deposits that formed at or near the seafloor. We hope this will spark discussion within the oral and poster sessions pertaining to techniques used in each of these fields and how investigation of ancient and modern deposits can complement one another. 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Applications with a detailed CV, a statement of research interests and the contact information of two references should be sent directly to Dr. Geeth Manthilake ( [ mailto:geeth.manthilake at uca.fr | geeth.manthilake at uca.fr ] ). Review of applications will start immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Best Regards, Geeth Manthilake Geeth Manthilake. PhD [ http://www.uca.fr/ | ] L aboratoire Magmas et Volcans Universit? Clermont Auvergne 6 Avenue Blaise PASCAL, TSA 60026 - CS 60026, 63178 AUBIERE, FRANCE [ http://www.uca.fr/ | www.uca.fr ] [ https://www.facebook.com/universite.clermont.auvergne ] [ https://twitter.com/UCAuvergne ] [ https://www.instagram.com/UniversiteClermontAuvergne ] geeth.manthilake at uca.fr +33 (0)4 73 34 67 34 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Francesco Vetere, Pier Paolo Giacomoni, Matt Pankhurst, Tom Shea, Megan Newcombe and John Maclennan *06j session description:* Experimental petrology provides the rulebook for a view of magmatic processes that is predicated upon equilibrium. Thermodynamic equilibrium allows compositional variations of erupted products to be tied to intensive parameters in the sub-volcanic system, forming the link between petrological and geophysical interrogation of volcanic systems. It is becoming clear, however, that nature does not necessarily play by these rules. Instead, it is the driving forces toward equilibrium that underpin volcanic phenomena, and partly establish the textural, petrological, and geochemical record we rely on to reconstruct subsurface magmatic histories. Dynamics and kinetics in magmatic processes leave their imprint in the form of disequilibrium textures and chemical zonation in minerals and glass in volcanic rocks. 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Symposium details: This symposium will discuss applications and advances in low-energy X-ray spectroscopy utilizing techniques such as soft x-ray emission spectroscopy (SXES), cathodoluminescence (CL), electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), synchrotron-based analyses (including both absorption and emission spectroscopy), and the software designed to simulate, fit and model electron and X-ray interactions. Applications to be discussed include but are not limited to geological and extraterrestrial materials, semiconductors, biological materials, ceramics, and metals. 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Remote measurements, real-time data from permanent stations, the use of drones, and high-frequency isotopic measurements are but a few of the recent developments in the field. Key science drivers are deciphering the processes that trigger volcanic eruptions, being able to forecast the size and duration of impending eruptions, understanding the relative roles of hydrothermal systems and magmatic processes at reactivating volcanoes, the factors leading to failed eruptions, understanding complex volcanic plumbing systems, and constraining fluid sources and timescales of fluid migration. This session aims to integrate state-of the-art, multi-disciplinary observations that help detect the subtlest signals of unrest. We invite discussion on how we move from observations on active volcanoes to improved understanding of the volcanic processes leading to unrest, eruptions and hazards. The keynote speaker for the session will be Emma Liu (University of Cambridge). 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Because of their high valences, REE and HFSE are not readily incorporated into the structures of common rock-forming silicate minerals. Rather, they generally occur as accessory phases (such as monazite) or are concentrated into magmatic fluids during hydrothermal processes. Hence, studying the geochemical behavior and mineralogical characteristics of REE/HFSE at hydrothermal conditions is important. This session will be devoted to experimental and computational studies of REE/HFSE species and phases at relevant temperature, pressure, and/or aqueous conditions using a variety of techniques such as synchrotron X-ray scattering, Raman spectroscopy, solubility measurements, calorimetry, and molecular dynamics simulation. Areas of interest include but not limited to thermodynamic measurements and structural characterization of aqueous species, nanoparticles and mineral phases, theoretical calculations of their local structures, physicochemical properties and phase relations, and quantitative modeling of the behavior of REE/HFSE during ore deposit formation or in a geological repository for nuclear waste disposal. Submissions on new developments in experimental techniques and computational methods are also welcome. Best wishes, Hongwu Xu & Artaches Migdisov Los Alamos National Laboratory Earth and Environmental Sciences Division EES-14, MS-J966 Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The exchange in greenhouse gases between the surface of the Earth and the deep interior regulate climate and sustain Earth?s habitability. The release of slab fluids during prograde metamorphic reactions thus plays a key role in recycling and exchanging elements between the Earth?s surface and its deeper interior. However, we still poorly understand the timing of these geochemical exchanges and associated fluxes in and out of the deep Earth, as well as the nature and the fingerprint of the slab-derived fluids, and the role of speciation in element transfer. This session seeks to integrate interdisciplinary studies to better comprehend the processes associated with subduction zones, such as their inception and evolution, melt and fluid pathways, mantle flows, volatile cycling, non-traditional stable isotopes, volcanism, formation of continental arcs, as well as the impact of subduction zones on Earth?s habitability and climate. We also seek to integrate petrological, structural and geochemical studies of exhumed high- and ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks, as well as HP experiments, to better comprehend the sources and compositions of the slab fluids and their pathways at subduction zones, and their role in deformation and mass transfer. Conveners: Julia Ribeiro, Catherine Chauvel, Carlos Garrido, Sarah Penniston-Dorland, Tim Elliott, Ananya Mallik, Ethan Baxter, Samuel Angiboust Keynote speaker: Jackie Dixon Invited speaker: Alberto Vitale-Brovarone Abstract submissions are open and will close on March 29: https://goldschmidt.info/2019/abstracts We look forward to seeing you in Barcelona! From fraukje.brouwer at vu.nl Thu Feb 14 10:17:53 2019 From: fraukje.brouwer at vu.nl (Brouwer, F.M.) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 15:17:53 +0000 Subject: [MSA-talk] PhD in zircon petrology Message-ID: Dear all, We are advertising a four-year fully-funded PhD position in Zircon Petrology at VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The student will use a combination of experimental and metamorphic petrology to improve constraints on the use of zircon crystals as thermobarometers in metamorphic and magmatic processes. You will develop a zircon trace element thermobarometer and validate it using UHP metamorphic rocks. The project will be carried out under supervision of Dr. Fraukje Brouwer (Metamorphic Petrology) and Prof. Wim van Westrenen (Experimental Petrology) with an extensive international team of collaborators. More information on the job and the application procedure may be found at https://workingat.vu.nl/ad/zircon-phd/xepnl0 Please feel free to contact me for more information. The deadline for applications is 3 March, 2019 and the position is available from then. I would appreciate it if this announcement could be passed on to potential applicants. Best wishes, Fraukje --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Fraukje M. Brouwer Associate Professor of Metamorphic Petrology | Director BSc Earth Sciences Geology & Geochemistry cluster | Department of Earth Sciences | Faculty of Science | VU Amsterdam De Boelelaan 1085 | 1081 HV Amsterdam | The Netherlands Phone +31-20-598 7335 | Fax +31-20-646 2457 https://science.vu.nl/en/research/earth-sciences/research/cluster-geology-and-geochemistry https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/fm-brouwer --------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From camacris at iupui.edu Thu Feb 14 12:12:15 2019 From: camacris at iupui.edu (Macris, Catherine) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 17:12:15 +0000 Subject: [MSA-talk] Instrumentation Specialist position - Indianapolis Message-ID: Hi Folks, We are currently searching for an Instrumentation Specialist at IUPUI. Please share the following advertisement with friends and colleagues. thanks, Cam The Department of Earth Sciences at IUPUI is hiring a full-time Instrumentation Specialist to manage research instrumentation, provide departmental laboratory safety compliance, and support teaching. The primary responsibilities will include user training and scheduling, as well as maintenance and repair of the instruments in cooperation with the principal investigators of the relevant labs (https://earthsciences.iupui.edu/department-earth-sciences/research/centersfacilitiesequipment). This position will also provide teaching support, including maintaining teaching collections and equipment for course instruction as well as helping students to coordinate laboratory and field activities. Additional responsibilities include coordinating maintenance of the department field vehicle, inventorying equipment and property, and serving as laboratory safety coordinator. Instrumentation use and troubleshooting experience is required. Electrical and mechanical expertise is desirable. This is a permanent full-time position. Applicants must have at least a Masters degree in science or engineering. Please apply for the job here: https://iujobs.peopleadmin.com/postings/71612. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Catherine Macris Assistant Professor IUPUI Earth Sciences 723 W. Michigan St. SL118 Indianapolis, IN 46220 camacris at iupui.edu https://camlab.earthsciences.iupui.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From joanna.nicolopoulos at imerys.com Thu Feb 14 13:23:23 2019 From: joanna.nicolopoulos at imerys.com (Joanna Nicolopoulos) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 13:23:23 -0500 Subject: [MSA-talk] Mineral-Characterization-Scientist, Analytical-Chemist Openings Message-ID: Good Afternoon, Imerys has current openings for a Mineral-Characterization-Scientist, as well as an Analytical-Chemist. 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We seek candidates from any field or discipline with demonstrated leadership and recognized scholarship on the environment. We are particularly interested in candidates with experience connecting campus diversity and sustainability initiatives, community-engaged scholarship and teaching, and research related to environmental science, climate change, sustainability, and/or environmental justice. The director will lead a strong, committed professional staff and must have demonstrated managerial, organizational, and interpersonal skills to inspire a team and collaborate across a diverse range of faculty, administrators, staff, students, alumnae and donors. The directorship is a tenurable position and the successful candidate will go through the College?s tenure process at the time of appointment. The director will be appointed to an initial five-year term with the possibility of a one-time reappointment. The director will teach one course per year in their home department for the duration of the directorship and become a full-time member of the department thereafter. Candidates should have the academic credentials that would qualify them for a tenured appointment in one of the academic departments at the College. The complete position ad can be found at: https://jobs.mtholyoke.edu/index.cgi?&JA_m=JASDET&JA_s=781 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cottrelle at si.edu Thu Feb 14 17:41:49 2019 From: cottrelle at si.edu (Cottrell, Elizabeth) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 22:41:49 +0000 Subject: [MSA-talk] =?utf-8?b?MjAxOSBTb2NpZXR5IEhvbm9ycyDigJMgTGV04oCZcyBi?= =?utf-8?q?roaden_our_recognition?= Message-ID: <92A84107-DBCA-455A-8065-E022C8583961@si.edu> Colleagues, As part of a grass-roots effort, we have recently compiled a list of honors spanning career stage and encompassing many professional societies. 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Best regards Roger Hamberg Skickat fr?n min Huawei Mobile From kogure at eps.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp Fri Feb 15 23:48:12 2019 From: kogure at eps.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Toshihiro Kogure) Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 13:48:12 +0900 Subject: [MSA-talk] The University of Tokyo Faculty Position in Material Science in the Geobiosphere Message-ID: <000901d4c5b2$d4119680$7c34c380$@eps.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> The University of Tokyo Faculty Position in Material Science in the Geobiosphere The Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo invites applications for a position at the level of Associate Professor in the field of Material Science in the Geobiosphere. The University of Tokyo is committed to gender equality in hiring. More details of the Department are available on the website http://www.eps.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/. Please visit the following site for the detail of the position. http://www.eps.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/recruit/geosphere_eg_20190201.pdf Toshihiro Kogure Professor Department of Earth and Planetary Science Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo 7-3-1 Hongo Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan TEL: +81-3-5841-4546 FAX: +81-3-5841-4555 E-mail: kogure"@"eps.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Linda.Davis at vesuvius.com Mon Feb 18 08:48:11 2019 From: Linda.Davis at vesuvius.com (Linda Davis) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 13:48:11 +0000 Subject: [MSA-talk] U-Th standard for XRF without customs troubles Message-ID: Hello All, Would anyone have experience getting a U-Th primary standard for XRF in China or into China without a long wait in Customs? I would be very grateful for advice or suggestions. 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We would like to invite you to consider submitting an abstract to a session focused on the economics of ore deposits at the 15th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits (SGA 2019 ), which will be held at the University of Glasgow from 27?30 August 2019: *Economics of ore deposits* *Keynote*: John Thompson *Convenors*: *Simon Jowitt, Gavin Mudd, Nedal Nassar* The mining industry faces a number of critical challenges both now and in the future beyond those typically considered by geologists. In particular, this session will explore some of these challenges and focuses on the economics of ore deposits, including what makes a mineral deposit economic beyond grade and tonnage, the social and environmental challenges faced by future brownfield and greenfield mining, long term trends in resource use, production, and future trends in demands for metals and minerals, and estimates of global metal resources and the controls on the conversion of resources to reserves to production. We also invite submissions on research into what makes world-class deposits truly world class (i.e., not just size alone), the potential challenges of increasing by-product recovery from existing and future mineral resources, including opportunities for generating wealth from e.g. mine waste (especially tailings), as well as the human resources required by the minerals industry to meet these current and future challenges. Abstract submission is currently open on the SGA 2019 website and the abstract deadline is 11th March 2019. Hope to see you in August; if you have any questions please contact me and I'll do my best to answer any queries for you. Cheers Simon (on behalf of Gavin Mudd and Nedal Nassar) -- Dr. Simon Jowitt Assistant Professor - Economic Geology Department of Geoscience University of Nevada, Las Vegas 4505 Maryland Parkway Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-4010 simon.jowitt at unlv.edu Office: +1-702-895-2447 --------------------------------------- geoscience.unlv.edu/people/department-faculty/simon-jowitt/ Twitter: twitter.com/The_Jow Editor, Applied Earth Science Associate Editor, Economic Geology Editorial Board Member, Resources Editorial Board Member, SN Applied Sciences Vice-President, IAVCEI Large Igneous Provinces Commission -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Many thanks for your help, Boriana Mihailova -- -------------- Prof. Dr. Boriana Mihailova University of Hamburg Department of Earth Sciences Grindelallee 48 D-20146 Hamburg Fax: +49 (0)40 42838-2422 Phone: +49 (0)40 42838-2052 Raman lab: +49 (0)40 42838-6644 IR lab: +49 (0)40 42838-6645 e-mail: boriana.mihailova at uni-hamburg.de -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 105 - GW_28.3UWA_Mihailova.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 159475 bytes Desc: not available URL: From hxu at lanl.gov Wed Feb 20 11:01:57 2019 From: hxu at lanl.gov (Xu, Hongwu) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 16:01:57 +0000 Subject: [MSA-talk] February 2019 American Mineralogist - Editors' Summary of Papers Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Below is the Editors' summary for this month?s issue of the American Mineralogist: Journal of Earth and Planetary Materials. You can click on the page numbers below to access individual papers or click Table of Contents for the whole issue. If you are not already logged into GeoScience World, then from the American Mineralogist menu on http://www.minsocam.org/, go to "Online Access" - look for and select the "American Mineralogist" link. Once at the portal page, enter your user name (e-mail address) and your password (membership number). Best wishes, Hongwu Xu Don Baker Ian Swainson American Mineralogist February 2019 (vol. 104, no. 2) This issue of American Mineralogist starts with an extensive review by Luguet and Pearson (pages 165-189) on Re-Os isotopic dating of mantle peridotites using the main Re-Os host minerals?base metal sulfides (BMS) and platinum group minerals (PGM)?versus whole-rock peridotites. Comparison of the results obtained at the two scales indicates that (1) BMS may provide a record of much older partial melting event, pushing back in time the age of the lithospheric mantle stabilization (BMS?PGM are considered as the mantle equivalents of crustal zircons), (2) if only whole-rock peridotite Re-Os analyses are possible, the best targets for constraining the timing of lithospheric stabilization are BMS-free/poor ultra-refractory spinel-bearing peridotites with very minimal metasomatic overprint, (3) while lherzolites are ?fertile? in terms of their geochemical composition, they do not have a ?primitive,? unmodified composition, and (4) the combined Re-Os isotopic investigations of BMS and whole-rock in BMS-rich mantle peridotites would provide a complementary view on the timing and nature of the petrological events responsible for the chemical and isotopic evolution and destruction of the lithospheric mantle. In addition, the 187Os/188Os composition of the BMS?PGM within any single peridotite may define several age clusters?in contrast to the single whole-rock value?and thus provide more accurate information on the formation and evolution of the lithospheric mantle. D?Errico et al. (pages 190-206) conducted in situ measurements of Pb and other trace elements in 150 abyssal peridotite sulfide grains (predominantly pentlandite) from the Gakkel and Southwest Indian ridges using the Sensitive High-Resolution Ion Microprobe with Reverse Geometry (SHRIMP-RG). The goal was to provide constraints on the storage of Pb and associated elements in the mantle. The authors developed a model for sulfide petrogenesis to explore the implication of assuming that all mantle Pb is hosted in mantle sulfides prior to melting. The results indicate that the measured average Pb concentration of 4 ppm (varying from 0.1 to 36 ppm) can be reproduced by >90% fractional crystallization from a sulfide melt. The remaining sulfide melt, which is modeled to contain 800 ppm Pb, will dissolve into silicate melt, as it rises through the mantle due to the increasing solubility of sulfur in silicate melt as pressure decreases. However, the amount of sulfide melt that remains after fractional crystallization is too low to contribute a significant amount of Pb to mid-ocean ridge basalts. Therefore, sulfides are not the main host for mantle Pb, even prior to the onset of any melting, and that the majority of mantle Pb is stored in silicate phases. Griffin et al. (pages 207-219) reported a unique occurrence of magmatic hibonite-grossite-spinel assemblages, crystallized from highly reduced Ca-Al-rich silicate melts trapped within aggregates of hopper/skeletal corundum, found as ejecta from Cretaceous pyroclastic deposits on Mt Carmel, N. Israel. The crystallization conditions were comparable to those of their meteoritic counterparts. Coarse-grained aggregates of hibonite + grossite + spinel +fluorite ? krotite ? perovskite ? Ca4Al6O12F2 represent a further evolution of the silicate melts. Native vanadium occurs as rounded inclusions in the hibonite, grossite, and spinel of the coarse aggregates. The presence of V0 requires fO2 ? ?IW-9, suggesting a decline in fO2 by ~3 log units during the crystallization of this assemblage. The late crystallization of Ca4Al6O12F2 together with fluorite in the hibonite-grossite-spinel aggregates suggests that crystallization of the aggregates began at T >1400 ?C, cooled to the pseudo-eutectic grossite + fluorite + Ca4Al6O12F2 + liquid at ca. 1375 ?C, and remained at T >1150 ?C until crystallization was terminated by the volcanic eruption. This study reported the first terrestrial example of the crystallization of hibonite and grossite from high-T silicate melts, the first terrestrial occurrence of krotite, and the first occurrence of native vanadium melts. Bollinger et al. (pages 220-231) performed deformation experiments of polycrystalline forsterite at pressures of 3.5?5.0 GPa, temperatures of 1000?1200 ?C, and a strain rate of ?2 ? 10?5s?1 at various applied strains in a 6-axis Mavo press to determine the contribution of individual mechanism (dislocation creep, diffusion creep, grain boundary sliding) to olivine deformation. They developed a methodology that allows the usage of the split-cylinder technique to extract information of the deformation mechanisms from an internal surface (with engraved strain markers) in the sample before and after the deformation experiments. The results suggest the dominance of intragranular deformation, in agreement with the fact that the samples have been deformed in the dislocation creep regime. Moreover, from strain markers and out-of-plane displacements of grains, the authors obtained the first microstructural evidence for a contribution of grain boundary sliding to plastic deformation at upper mantle pressure. Electron backscatter diffraction data indicate that grain boundary processes become increasingly relevant at temperatures above 1100 ?C and ensure homogenous plastic strain distribution in the aggregate. Since olivine is the major component of the upper mantle, this study sheds important light on the plasticity and rheological behavior of the mantle. Aja (pages 232-243) reported the thermodynamic properties of two natural chlorites?a magnesian chamosite and a ferroan clinochlore )?derived from calorimetric and low-temperature hydrothermal measurements. Moreover, the author developed a molecular modeling approach to calculate the excess thermodynamic properties of chlorite solid solutions. The obtained excess entropy of mixing in the ternary Al-rich and Si-rich system exhibits a curvilinear dependence on composition, and at 25 ?C, the excess Gibbs energy of mixing varies from about ?72 to 413 kJ/mol, implying a significant deviation from ideality. The molecular solid solution model further reveals significant deficiencies in the available database of standard state thermodynamic properties of chlorites. Application of the results to examine the neoformation of authigenic iron chlorites in green rusts suggests that green rusts will readily transform to berthierine and Fe-chlorites except under oxidizing conditions atypical of aquatic environments and ferrugineous sediments. Gao et al. (pages 244-261) investigated the pyroxene lamellar exsolutions and associated Fe?Ti oxides and spinels in clinopyroxne of an olivine gabbro sample from the Panzhihua intrusion, Southwest China, using high-angle annular dark-field scanning transmission electron microscopy, electron diffraction, and energy dispersive spectroscopy. The results indicate a sequence of nanoscale processes: from higher-T (~1030?1100 ?C): (1) (clino)enstatite exsolutions in low-Ca diopside, followed by (2) slightly Ca-richer diopside overgrowths and high-T titanomagnetite exsolution in diopside; to lower-T (<450 ?C) (3) titanomagnetite exsolutions into ulv?spinel + magnetite; followed by (4) sub-solidus re-equilibration in clinopyroxenes and among Fe?Ti oxides + hercynite. Using the exact phase boundary theory, the authors estimated the pressures of lamellar exsolution within the host diopside to be ~2 GPa. This study demonstrates that a nanoscale approach can help constrain the petrogenetic evolution during formation of layered intrusions. Fan et al. (pages 262-275) measured the acoustic wave velocities and density of a periclase single-crystal by Brillouin light scattering combined with in situ synchrotron X?ray diffraction up to ~30 GPa and 900 K in an externally heated diamond-anvil cell. Based on a comparison of the obtained elastic moduli of periclase with those of ferropericlase reported in the literature, the authors developed a comprehensive thermoelastic model for ferropericlase with up to ?20 mol% FeO to evaluate the effect of Fe-Mg substitution on the elasticity and seismic parameters of ferropericlase at the lower mantle P-T conditions. The modeling results indicate that both the increase of the Fe content in ferropericlase and the increasing depth could change the compres?sional wave anisotropy and shear wave splitting anisotropy of ferropericlase in the upper parts of the lower mantle. Furthermore, the authors conclude that Fe-induced lateral heterogeneities can significantly contribute to the observed seismic lateral heterogeneities in the lower mantle. Burnley and Kaboli (pages 276-281) conducted a suite of low strain deformation experiments on polycrystalline San Carlos olivine using a deformation DIA apparatus combined with in situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction at temperatures of 440?1106 ?C and pressures of 3.8?4.6 GPa. The obtained data were fitted using elastic plastic self-consistent (EPSC) models, which incorporate an isotropic deformation mechanism that permits a small amount of non-elastic defor?mation during the initial elastic portion of the experiment. This deformation mechanism mimics the observed reduction in the elastic modulus as a function of temperature and allows for better modeling of the remainder of the stress-strain curve. The critical resolved shear stresses (CRSS) for slip obtained from these models are in good agreement with those measured in single-crystal deformation experiments. Hence, polycrystalline deformation experiments analyzed with an EPSC model may be a viable approach to measure CRSS under conditions where single-crystal deformation experiments are more challenging. Liu et al. (pages 282-290) studied the dehydration kinetics of antigorite by thermogravimetric analysis using different heating rates of 10, 15, 20, and 25 K/min at temperatures up to 1260 K. The data were best fitted with the double-Gaussian distribution activation energy model (2-DAEM), in which a compensation effect exists between the pre-exponential factor and the average activation energy. The determined activation energy of the first step of antigorite dehydration stretches over a wide interval, whereas the second step has a significantly higher activation energy, distributed over a narrower interval. The release rate of water is 8.0?10?5 and 2.1?10?3 m3fluidm3rocks?1 at 893 and 973 K, respectively, which are near the onset temperature for the isothermal dehydration reaction. The results indicate that antigorite dehydration is fast enough to induce mechanical instabilities that may trigger seismicity in the lower plane of the double seismic zone. Deng et al. (pages 291-299) measured the sound wave velocities and density (?) of the Fe5Si (9 wt% Si) alloy that possesses a body-centered cubic (bcc) structure using ultrasonic technique and synchrotron X?ray radiography combined with a Paris-Edinburgh press at pressures of 2.6?7.5 GPa and temperatures of 300?1173 K. The results show that at room temperature, the addition of Si to bcc-Fe increases the compressional wave velocity (vP) but decreases the shear wave velocity (vS). At high temperatures, a pronounced effect of pressure on the vS-T relations is observed. In the studied P-T range, the vP-? relationship follows the Birch?s law, whereas the vS-? relation exhibits complex behavior. Combined with planetary/spacecraft observations, these results have important implications in constraining the compositions of the lunar and Mercurian cores. Merkulova et al. (pages 300-306) reported the first observation of the incorporation of As3+ in goldfieldite [Cu12(As,Sb,Bi)2Te2S13] and As5+ in colusite [Cu26V2(As,Sb)4Sn2S32] inclusions in pyrite (which contains up to 50 ppm As1-) from high-sulfidation deposits in Peru, using electron probe microanalysis, synchrotron X-ray fluorescence and absorption spectroscopy. The two Cu sulfide inclusions range from several to one hundred micrometers in size, and the As3+/As5+ concentration varies from a few ppm to 17.33 wt%. The results indicate that oxidizing hydrothermal conditions prevailed during the late stage of the mineralization process in the ore deposits, and provide new insights into the substitutional mechanisms of As3+ and As5+ in copper sulfosalts. From an environmental perspective, high concentrations of potentially toxic As contained in pyrite may pose a heretofore unrecognized threat to ecosystems in acid mine drainage settings. Brounce et al. (pages 307-312) performed measurements of the oxidation state of S in lunar apatites and associated mesostasis glass using synchrotron X?ray absorption near edge structure spectroscopy. The results show that lunar apatites and glass contain dominantly S2?, whereas Earth apatites are only known to contain S6+. It is likely that many terrestrial and martian igneous rocks contain apatites with mixed sulfur oxidation states. The S6+/S2? ratios of such apatites could be used to quantify the fO2 values at which they crystallized, given information on the portioning of S6+ and S2? between apatite and melt and on the S6+/S2? ratios of melts as functions of fO2 and melt composition. Such a S-in-apatite oxybarometer could be developed and applied to igneous rocks from various planetary bodies in our solar system. The issue ends with a list of the 2018 reviewers for American Mineralogist, who are thanked for their invaluable services to the journal. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sarahpd at umd.edu Wed Feb 20 11:57:08 2019 From: sarahpd at umd.edu (Sarah C Penniston-Dorland) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 11:57:08 -0500 Subject: [MSA-talk] Future Directions of Metamorphic Petrology survey Message-ID: <01162184-D18B-4BD0-8C4E-CB521FA57A9D@umd.edu> Dear Colleagues, This coming summer MSA is holding a Centennial Symposium in DC to celebrate 100 years of MSA. MSA has acted as a de facto home for metamorphic petrologists, and this symposium provides an opportunity for the MSA metamorphic petrology community to engage in discussion about the future of our field. We are convening a symposium session titled: "A Second Golden Age for Metamorphic Petrology." In preparation for the symposium, we are polling the petrology/mineralogy community to find out the community's perspective on the future direction of metamorphic petrology and to determine ways that we can gather as a community to move these directions forward. This poll should not take more than a 5-10 minutes to fill out. https://sarahpd.survey.fm/msa-centennial-metamorphic-petrology-future-directions Thanks in advance for participating! Best wishes, Sarah Penniston-Dorland (Maryland) and Lucie Tajcmanova (Heidelberg) **************************************** Sarah Penniston-Dorland Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies Department of Geology University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 (301) 405-6239 sarahpd at umd.edu sarahpd23 at gmail.com http://www.geol.umd.edu/~sarahpd/ *************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jaspeer at minsocam.org Wed Feb 20 12:57:35 2019 From: jaspeer at minsocam.org (Alex Speer) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 17:57:35 +0000 Subject: [MSA-talk] MSA-Talk "excessive bounces" Message-ID: <03AC4970-7305-4558-B76B-8EC7C31BA84F@minsocam.org> Many of you received a message about your membership in the mailing list MSA-talk being disabled due to excessive bounces. The problem is not on your end, nor with the number of messages we send out. 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Alex Speer Executive Director, Mineralogical Society of America 3635 Concorde Pkwy Ste 500, Chantilly VA 20151-1110 USA United States of America Tel: +1 (703) 652-9950 Fax: +1 (703) 652-9951 E-mail: jaspeer at minsocam.org website: www.minsocam.org [signature_269400281] ================ end of message ================= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 6100 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: From farthing at geneseo.edu Fri Feb 22 13:09:45 2019 From: farthing at geneseo.edu (farthing) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 13:09:45 -0500 Subject: [MSA-talk] Looking for bulbs for old Leitz SM scopes Message-ID: Dear All, We still maintain and use some lovely old Leitz SM petrographic microscopes. We have recently had 3 of their bulbs go out and we don?t have any replacement bulbs in our department anymore. Do any of you have them around gathering dust or has anyone found a favorite replacement. Some oven light bulbs look promising, but before we try them out, I wanted to check with you all to see if you have advice or ones you aren?t using. I know some folks have done retrofits for these sub stage light sources, but at $100+ each, that is too pricey for our budget, so I would rather stick to the incandescent replacements if we can find them. Looking forward to hearing your advice and insights, Sincerely, -Dori ?????????? Dr. Dori Farthing Chair-Dept. of Geological Sciences SUNY Geneseo Geneseo, NY 14454 From orders at petrography.com Fri Feb 22 13:28:31 2019 From: orders at petrography.com (Orders Petrography) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 10:28:31 -0800 Subject: [MSA-talk] Looking for bulbs for old Leitz SM scopes In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Retrodiode LLC has done excellent work for us on a variety of old microscopes. http://www.retrodiode.com/ Spectrum Petrographics Inc. 3315 NE 112th Ave #B82 Vancouver, WA 98682-8733 www.petrography.com On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 10:19 AM farthing wrote: > Dear All, > > We still maintain and use some lovely old Leitz SM petrographic > microscopes. We have recently had 3 of their bulbs go out and we don?t > have any replacement bulbs in our department anymore. 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Fellows will conduct research under direction of FSU faculty on projects described below and develop classroom teaching skills. Fellows will teach one semester each year, first assisting FSU faculty and, in the second year fellows will act as instructors of record for the same undergraduate course, with continued faculty mentorship. Research programs and instructional mentors seeking fellows include the following research areas: a. Insight into the volatile budget in the Solid Earth by examining minerals and melts at high pressures and temperature. Expertise in high pressure experiments and/or numerical simulations will be advantageous (Dr. Mainak Mookherjee: mmookherjee at fsu.edu). b. Examining feedbacks between the carbon cycle, rivers, and sea-level-rise (Dr. Robert Spencer: rgspencer at fsu.edu). c. Atmospheric chemistry-climate interactions involving sea ice decline or atmospheric oxidants (Dr. Christopher Holmes: cdholmes at fsu.edu). Further information can be found at: (https://www.eoas.fsu.edu/2019/02/20/e-department-of-earth-ocean-atmospheric-science-invites-applications-for-the-deans-teaching-postdoctoral-fellowship/) Applicants should send a CV, a statement of interest that addresses both research and teaching goals, and the names and contact information for three professional references using FSU?s electronic submission system at http://jobs.fsu.edu. Review of applications will begin March 18, 2019. Florida State University is an Equal Opportunity/Access/Affirmative Action/Pro Disabled & Veteran Employer. FSU?s Equal Opportunity Statement can be viewed at: http://www.hr.fsu.edu/PDF/Publications/diversity/EEO_Statement.pdf ================ end of message ================= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Cheers Emilie, Tanya, Catherine, Cristiano, David, Thomas and Valerie 03j: Beyond Zircon: Novel Recorders of Timescales and Processes of Lithosphere Evolution Conveners: [ https://goldschmidt.info/2019/userView?userId=6759 | Emilie Bruand ] , [ https://goldschmidt.info/2019/userView?userId=30500 | Tanya Ewing ] , [ https://goldschmidt.info/2019/userView?userId=3909 | Catherine Mottram ] , [ https://goldschmidt.info/2019/userView?userId=4902 | Cristiano Lana ] , [ https://goldschmidt.info/2019/userView?userId=4252 | David Chew ] , [ https://goldschmidt.info/2019/userView?userId=26351 | Thomas Zack ] , Valerie Bosse Geochemical and geochronological information obtained from single minerals is key to unravelling the tectonothermal evolution during crustal processes and the history of deformation and sedimentation. Development of in-situ techniques (EPMA, LA-(MC)-ICPMS, ion probe, atom probe) over the last decade now permits in-situ analysis of subdomains of minerals, and has facilitated the development of novel geochemical and geochronological tools based on an ever-increasing number of minerals. Recent development of geochemical and geochronological tools has focussed on underexplored minerals (e.g. monazite, rutile, calcite, apatite, titanite, allanite, baddeleyite). This has provided exciting advances and new timing constraints from a variety of previously ?undatable? materials, including in-situ Rb-Sr dating of micas and U-Pb geochronology of garnet and calcite. Expanding analytical capabilities have also lead to the recognition of the importance of integrating geochronology with petrogenetic information derived from trace element and isotopic analyses as well as textural setting. 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Liz elizabeth.b.rampe at nasa.gov -------------------------------------- 2/20/2019 Postdoctoral Researcher (Mars Sedimentology, Mineralogy and Geochemistry) Tracking Code 867-1500 Job Description The Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI), part of the Universities Space Research Association, invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship in the area of Mars mineralogy and geochemistry. The successful candidate will work as part of a team of planetary scientists at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, on a project funded by NASA to investigate sediment transport and aqueous alteration of martian sediments. The work will primarily involve Mars analog field work in glacial outwash plains in Iceland and analyzing samples collected from Iceland in the laboratory. The successful candidate would be responsible for organizing two field campaigns to Iceland, collecting samples and making geochemical measurements at field sites in Iceland, preparing samples for analytical measurements in the laboratory, and measuring the collected samples using techniques available in laboratories at the Johnson Space Center. Candidates with a strong background in mineralogy, geochemistry, sedimentology, and Mars analog field work and preferably experience with X-ray diffraction, transmission and scanning electron microscopy, and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry are encouraged to apply. Completion of the PhD by the beginning of the appointment is required. The position would initially be for one year, with a possible extension to a second year. The candidate must be able to pass a detailed government background investigation. And due to security issues, citizens of U.S. State Department Designated Countries (see link under "ECP Notices" athttp://oiir.hq.nasa.gov/nasaecp/) are not eligible. Technical questions should be addressed to Dr. Elizabeth Rampe (elizabeth.b.rampe at nasa.gov) before March 15th, 2019. Interested applicants should apply to the posting at https://usracareers.silkroad.com/ and must submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae with list of publications, a two- to three-page statement of research interests and plans, and a list of at least three professional references. For general information about LPI please go to https://www.lpi.usra.edu/. USRA is an independent, nonprofit research corporation where the combined efforts of in-house talent and university-based expertise merge to advance space science and technology. USRA works across disciplines including biomedicine, planetary science, astrophysics, and engineering and integrates those competencies into applications ranging from fundamental research to facility management and operations. USRA is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Minorities / Females / Protected Veterans / Disabled / Sexual Orientation / Gender Identity. Job Location Houston, Texas, United States Position Type Full-Time/Regular -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From marianbuzon at gmail.com Wed Feb 27 11:17:03 2019 From: marianbuzon at gmail.com (Marian Buzon) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 11:17:03 -0500 Subject: [MSA-talk] UWG Assistant Professor of Igneous/Metamorphic Petrology Message-ID: Colleagues, The Department of Geosciences at the University of West Georgia is seeking applicants for a full-time tenure track faculty position in Igneous and/or Metamorphic Petrology at the level of Assistant Professor beginning August 2019. We invite candidates in all fields of igneous and/or metamorphic petrology with a strong commitment to field-based undergraduate education. A Ph.D. is required at time of employment. The successful applicant will be expected to teach introductory courses in physical and/or historical geology, igneous and metamorphic petrology, and additional undergraduate courses within their specialty. The applicant will also be expected to develop a vigorous research program that directly involves undergraduate students. The applicant should have experience and/or interest working with/teaching a diverse group of students. The University of West Georgia (UWG) is a comprehensive regional public university located in Carrollton, Georgia, an hour west of the diverse and vibrant Atlanta metropolis. Part of the University System of Georgia, UWG has a total enrollment of approximately 13,000 students, with 36% African American and 49% first generation college students. The Department of Geosciences consists of thirteen faculty and manages facilities including GIS teaching labs, the Center for Water Resources, the West Georgia Microscopy Center, and the Georgia Geological Society. The department also houses research equipment including mineral/rock preparation equipment, petrographic microscopes, XRD, ICP-OES, and variable-pressure SEM-EDS instrumentation. Applications will be reviewed beginning *March 20, 2019 *and will continue until the position is filled. Applicants should submit a single PDF that includes a cover letter, curriculum vitae, separate statements of teaching and research interests, unofficial transcripts, and contact information for a minimum of three references to *Dr. Karen Tefend,* Search Committee Chair *(igmetpet at westga.edu )*. Department of Geosciences, University of West Georgia 1601 Maple Street, Carrollton, GA 30118. 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In order to apply for the fellowship, you must: 1) have already registered for the symposium; and 2) fill out a brief application form. You can do both at the following web site: http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/Centennial/MSA_Centennial_Symposium.html The deadline for these applications is April 12, 2019, and completed forms should be submitted to Dr. Joanne Stubbs (stubbs at cars.uchicago.edu). Geochemical Society Fellows will be listed in the program. The deadline for the discounted early bird registration is March 31, 2019. It is coming sooner than you think, so register now! Best wishes, Peter We thank our sponsors: Diamond ($20,000+): Gemological Institute of America Emerald ($7,000-$11,999): C2/m Mineralogy and Rob Lavinsky of The Arkenstone Silver and Gold ($2,000): University of Idaho Gold ($1,000-$2,999): Geochemical Society Silver ($500-$999): CrystalMaker Dr. Peter J. 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