Edinburgh Ion Micro-Probe Facility

The next Ion Micro-Probe Facility meeting will be on Tuesday, 26th November 2024, so applications must have been received by 5pm on Friday, 1st November 2024. Please, contact the facility before submitting your application.

Cees-Jan de Hoog and Cristina Talavera are giving a seminar about ion microprobe on the 6th December 2024 as part of the seminars of the Mineralogical Society of UK and Ireland. If you want to attend, please go to their website and register: minersoc.org/skills-and-tra…

Cees-Jan and Amdemichael analysing volatiles on the 7f-Geo. We are glad to have our users back! 🙂

Today is the last day to submit your application for the next Steering Committee meeting 🙂

Gearing up for the lab reopening. This week it is the 7f-Geo turn to be switched back on 🙂Soon we will be welcoming our users again

The submission deadline of applications for the next Steering Committee meeting is this Friday, 1st November, at 5 pm. Please, contact us before submitting your applications.

@JDarlingGeo We are grateful for all the support we got from the UK scientific community

@IonProbe Excellent news! Well done to all involved in making the case 👍

We are thrilled to announce that the IMF has received a NERC capital investment of £7m to purchase a 1300HR!!! Exciting times 🙂 ed.ac.uk/geosciences/ne…

Exciting job opportunity at the School of Geosciences - Thin Section Small Research Facility Manager. Come and work with us 🙂 jobs.ac.uk/job/DHG596/thi…

@BobGooday Thank you for letting us know :)

Dear users, the next Steering Committee meeting will be on the 14th May 2024. The submission deadline is the 19th April at 5 pm. Please, contact the facility before preparing your application as one of our ion probes has limited access

Pleased to share our new paper using apatite inclusions in zircon to probe the volatile record of magmas sourcing the Quellaveco porphyry Cu deposit in Peru. We suggest that magmas sourcing porphyry deposits are fluid-saturated and crystal-rich. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

📢 We are hiring a 3yr Research Fellow in petrology & isotope geochemistry to study granite-hosted critical (Sn-Li) metal deposits in southern Africa - with myself at @EarthSciStA & @richardmpalin - for more info tinyurl.com/ywh598hu

Today is the last day to apply for this position and work with us 🙂 jobs.ac.uk/job/DAT530/res…

One week left to apply for this position in our lab... jobs.ac.uk/job/DAT530/res…

Come to work with us 😀 Researcher in the application of Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS) to the Earth and Environmental Sciences at The University of Edinburgh (jobs.ac.uk)

American Mineralogist: Measuring H2O concentrations in olivine by secondary ionization mass spectrometry: Challenges and paths forward doi.org/10.2138/am-202… Towbin et al. resolved the differences between two previous calibrations.