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Welcome to Richard Boyle

Richard is joining us at SEES on a six month postdoctoral contract, and comes to us most recently from a postdoc with Don Canfield in Denmark. Throughout his career he has worked on a variety of modelling studies,…

Pale Orange Dot

Carl Sagan was an inspiration to so many of us. As a modern-day scientist and educator, I am amazed at both the strength of his research career coupled with his gift for communication, which he so selfless shared with…

Atacama salts detected from orbit

I have a long-standing interest in salts in the Atacama Desert, and some day promise to unleash a flurry of publications onto the world on such awesome topics as quantitative rainfall paleoproxies, geochemical and…

The Picarro has arrived!

No sooner did I return from Norway with exiting new Paleoproterozoic samples, did the first piece of major equipment from the ERC grant arrive – a brand new Picarro L-2140i water isotope analyser This awesome piece of…

Welcome to Bethan Gregory

While the ERC grant started formally this July, so far it’s been just me toiling along with papers, conferences, and logistics. But tomorrow, things will start happening for real, as Bethan arrives to start her PhD…

Calling all postdocs

I’m looking to hire a postdoc to help develop new methodology for oxygen isotope measurements, and do a bunch of cool field work to help constrain the evolution of atmospheric oxygen. More information is on the…

Congratulations to Lucy McKay!

Lucy entered her MGeol Dissertation “The Presence and Distribution of Salts as a Palaeoprecipitation Proxy in Atacama Soils” to an international competition. It was ranked in the top 10% of all submissions to the Earth…