Exciting News from the West!

Article Alert 🚨 Check out Isra Ezad's new publication on fluorine and barium partitioning and source of lamproites. High pressure experiments and imaging done here at Macquarie University 🗜📷🔬

Our very own Olivier Alard (olivier Alard) and Alanur Halimulati (Alanur) featured in a Nature Geoscience Correspondence out today. 😎🤩 Giving some insight on volatile elements storage in the Earth mantle 🌏🪨🔬💦💨 Macquarie University Science and Engineering @ MQU AuScope @AuscopeGeochem

More excellent Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences and MQ GeoAnalytical science being shared, with Phd student Molly Quinn presenting her clumped isotope study of cave breccia at the 22nd congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association #paleoclimate #hominins 👩🏼‍🔬

2 busy weeks at Macquarie University Installation of our new Teledyne CETAC Iridia laser system (which has been postponed for 10 months due to the Ukraine war) + upgrade/service of our 3 existing lasers. Staff olivier Alard, Yoann Gréau & Yi-Jen Lai looking forward an exciting 2023

🚨AGN Webinar Wednesday 1 Feb!🚨 To find out more about the collaboration between Museums Victoria & AusGeochem Data Platform tune in to our next webinar, where Oskar Lindenmayer will tell us about preserving State Geoscience Collections for Modern Research Register 👉eventbrite.com.au/e/519463016867

Well these guys are faster at sharing my work than me! 😅New preprint on carbonate melts, lots of careful nano-scale measurements on HP exps implications for the mobilisation of precious and critical metals MQ GeoAnalytical Work in collab with @CET_UWA. @M_W_Forster Lauren Gorojovsky

Exciting work in the lab - Yoann Gréau, Norikatsu Akizawa (Uni. Tokyo), olivier Alard studying rare Petit-Spot mantle xenoliths using unique split-stream for simultaneous in situ Re-Os and trace elements in sulfides. Redefining the 1 stone 2 birds idiom ;) Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences AuScope

Submitting a paper with that sweet, sweet geochem data (to @GCA_Journal for instance!), mint an International Generic Sample Number ID Digital Object Identifier (IGSN ID DOI) in 3 easy steps to your data before submission! DataCite (inactive Mar 2025) IGSN @AuscopeGeochem lithodat AuScope

We got together PhD students and ECRs from 3 uni’s across Aus, for 4 awesome days of science in Forster NSW last week. Amazing representation of geosciences in Australia, 14 different nationalities and a 49% to 51% female to male ratio! We also celebrated a few birthdays 🥳

That was an awesome retreat with excellent science presented by our junior colleagues at Macquarie University, UWA Earth Sciences and ANU Earth Sciences 🌏. Thank you Isra Ezad for organizing this and for inviting me. I hope this will see a repeat next year!

Last week, I had the great privilege to showcase the many potentials of the AusGeochem Data Platform data platform to very enthusiastic students & academics from Macquarie, ANU & UWA. Data interaction is the platform's keystone. Generating QR codes for archiving samples is 1 of many examples

How to tell conference season is upon us in the experimental lab… 😅 Yes, our piston cylinders are Disney princesses 👸 Moana and Ariel! See you all at AESC 2023 and @goldschmidt2023 ! Steve Foley will be presenting these experiments at EMPG2023! MQ GeoAnalytical

Dr Steve Barnes, CSIRO and @AuscopeGeochem, empowered by #NCRIS, have successfully preserved geochemical data from over 5,700 samples of ultramafic rocks and associated nickel mineralisation from WA: AusGeochem Data Platform ➡️ Read the full story: bit.ly/3WzlkOM #NCRISimpact

The world need geoscientists more, now than ever, yet universities across Aotearoa and in Australia, wield the axe 🪓 We (geoscientists) need to get the message out to community and schools regarding the value of geoscience degrees (and the value of geoscience to our future) 🌏

Had a great time at the GESSS NSW conference at USyd! Heard lots of exciting earth sci research across NSW and ACT with old and new peers. Presented my ongoing work on the subduction journey of serpentinites, and even took home a lil lovely belemnite prize 🦑✨ #GESSSNSW2023 🌏

Are volcanoes responsible for our longest ice age? #AuScopeEnabledPaper explores duration of Sturtian “Snowball Earth” glaciation. The New York Times: bit.ly/3uEQQ4s Published in Geology: bit.ly/3I9a7xS

Off to 10 days at sea to sample petit-spot volcanoes at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Very privileged to have been invited by our Japanese colleagues from University of Tokyo and JAMSTEC. Nori Akizawa Lab (Hiroshima Uni) AuScope

Finally home after an incredible/privileged expedition on the RV Yokosuka and the DSV しんかい6500. Most incredible experience + successful sampling 🌋 #peridotitexenoliths from the oceanic lithosphere 有り難う御座います Nori Akizawa Lab (Hiroshima Uni) 「しんかい6500」JAMSTEC JAMSTEC 海洋研究開発機構 ＼海と地球の研究所／ #YK24_10S #6442m AuScope