GMPV
Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology

Mike Jollands

Mike Jollands is an experimental petrologist at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, New York, USA. He studies the diffusion and substitution mechanisms of trace elements, making use of high temperature and pressure equipment to simulate volcanic and mantle conditions. www.mikejollands.com

#MINERALMONDAY: Zdenĕkite, way too pretty to mine

#MINERALMONDAY: Zdenĕkite, way too pretty to mine

One of the saddest things for mineralogists is to see beautiful minerals crushed to extract their valuable contents, but often, without mining, we don’t get to see these minerals in the first place. Mineral hunters often scrounge around in the big piles of waste rock from mines, because the machines used for smashing up rock do a much better job of exposing minerals than a geological hammer ...[Read More]

#MINERALMONDAY – we’re back with baksanite!

#MINERALMONDAY – we’re back with baksanite!

#MINERALMONDAY: your weekly dose of minerals every* Monday (* excluding the last few months of Mondays…). A lot of bad things have happened since the start of the year, but perhaps the least important of these is the complete lack of minerals every Monday. Don’t worry, we are back, and what better way to start than with baksanite, Bi6Te2S3. Why baksanite? Well, for the sake of sounding ...[Read More]

The inaugural GMPV webinar: 29th June

The inaugural GMPV webinar: 29th June

The EGU’s GMPV Early Career Scientist committee is delighted to invite you to our first ever webinar, with contributions spanning the whole range of topics encompassed by the GMPV section. The webinar will be hosted on zoom (apologies if you already have zoom fatigue…) at 16:00 Central European Summer Time, on Monday 29th June. There will be four presentations, each around 10 minutes l ...[Read More]

Call for presentations: Early Career Scientist Webinar series

Call for presentations: Early Career Scientist Webinar series

The EGU GMPV ECS** committee are pleased to invite you to contribute to a new series of webinars, highlighting new research by early career scientists. These webinars will be one hour long, made up of four talks (8-10 minutes each) from across the breadth of GMPV, with time for discussions. Whilst the exact timings are TBD, they will be run during the day in the European time zones, probably alter ...[Read More]