A brisk morning stroll!

Bye bye Galway. It was lovely.

Dear UK Doctoral Training Partnerships…. Please stop this proliferation of different forms for student references. It adds massively to our workload reformatting reference letters over and over again. All the information can be contained in a standard reference letter.

After dodging it for the last 4 years……

Dendritic ice crystals on a frosty morning… crystallography in action….

Low tide.

Many congratulations to my colleague ⁦David Pyle⁩ on the award of this year’s Murchison Medal of the Geological Society for a significant contribution to Hard-Rock geology. A well deserved recognition of David’s many achievements and collegiality! geolsoc.org.uk/About/awards-g…

Many congratulations to ⁦Trond Torsvik⁩ ⁦PHAB Univ. of Oslo⁩ on the award of the ⁦The Geological Society⁩ Wollaston medal for 2024! Well-deserved recognition for his many contributions to paleogeography and geodynamics! geolsoc.org.uk/About/awards-g…

Saying hello to some old friends!

Decisions, decisions……

Peak Oxford…. Crowds gathering for May morning.

Getting ready….

Sunny Saturday! (at last)!

Many congratulations to my wonderful Oxford Earth Sciences colleague Tamsin Mather on becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) The Royal Society. Well-deserved recognition for her many achievements - 🌋

Delighted for my ⁦Oxford Earth Sciences⁩ colleague David Pyle on his award of the ⁦The Geological Society⁩ Murchison medal this afternoon.

Congratulations to PHAB Univ. of Oslo Trond Torsvik on his The Geological Society Wollaston medal. A well deserved recognition of his many contributions to plate reconstructions and geodynamics!

Heading west!