Metamorphic Studies Group

📣 The #Goldschmidt2025 conference program is now available! The schedule of sessions is now online. To plan your week, browse the program by theme: buff.ly/1zvFrpU or per day: buff.ly/8RQwc8M Remember the presenter & early registration deadline is 21 May.

Thanks to all the MSG 2025 attendees, and especially to the organisers (John Wheeler and helpers) and the MSG committee! Big thanks to the invited speakers, Dr Eleanor Green and Dr Nick Roberts, and the Barrow Award winner, Prof. James Connolly. See you all next year!

The MSG 2025 field trip in Anglesey, Wales, is underway and the sun is shining 🌞 Below, @owenmweller is inspecting an iconic outcrop in Wales: the spectacular ~570 Ma Anglesey blueschists, comprised of partially subducted and exhumed ocean floor material!

On Day 2 of MSG 2025 we had the pleasure of awarding Prof James Connolly (Perple_X developer, ETH Zurich) the Barrow Award and hearing him speak about a novel inversion-based thermobarometry method that he and his colleagues are working on!

Day 2 of MSG 2025 has kicked off! Yesterday afternoon we switched gears and had some excellent talks on regional and Archean studies, plus an invited talk by Eleanor Green on advances in thermobarometry 🌡️

Day 1 of MSG 2025 is off to a great start! This morning we’re learning about the key role of fluids in metamorphic processes 💧

✅ Day 0 of MSG 2025 was a great success! Huge thanks to Nico Riel (University of Mainz) for an engaging and instructive workshop on using MAGEMin, and how it can applied to solve complex problems in thermodynamic modelling of igneous and metamorphic systems.

Note the following openings with Dr Brendan Dyck at the Unversity of British Columbia, filled on a rolling basis: PhD - Nanoscale structure and properties of mineral grain boundaries MSc - Analytical geochemistry and crustal evolution More info here: brendandyck.com/student-opport…

📢 The deadline for the 2025 MSG Research in Progress meeting has been *extended* to Monday March 3rd at 23:59 GMT! ✈️ Information on travel and accommodation is now available on the site, so check that out.

🚨The deadline for the 2025 MSG Research in Progress meeting (Feb 20th) is fast approaching! Head to the website linked here to register 👇 metamorphicstudiesgroup.wordpress.com/msg-rip-2024/

Registration for the 2025 MSG Research in Progress (RiP) meeting (April 9-10th in Liverpool, UK) is open! Registration deadline is February 20th, 2025. metamorphicstudiesgroup.wordpress.com/msg-rip-2024/

Congratulations to Prof. Jamie Connolly (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich) for being the recipient of the 2025 Barrow Award! 🎉The award citation can be read here: metamorphicstudiesgroup.wordpress.com/barrow-award/w…

Posting at St Andrews: Post-doctoral Fellow in igneous and metamorphic petrology. This lab- and field-based study of migmatites aims to quantify how changes in biomass burial and plate tectonics have shaped Earth's present environmental conditions. Link below 👇

📢Jobs alert: - PhD in Petrology at Uni Halle-Wittenberg; - Multiple Postdocs at NASA; - EPMA Asst/Assc Prof at Utrecht Uni; - Critical minerals Asst/Assc Prof at Washington State Uni Closing dates are in February or March. Check out our website for posting details!

@MinSoc_UK is hosting their 2nd Skills and Training session on 6th December, 2-3 pm. Cees-Jan do Hoog and Cristina Talavera Rodriguez (@EdinburghUni) will talk about instrumental basics of ion microprobe analysis. Free registration: zoom.us/meeting/regist…

*Geology PhD alert!* I'm looking for a curious, enthusiastic student to work on critical metals in remobilized sulphides, at the University of British Columbia - Okanagan campus in Canada. Please apply by 1 Dec. More info here: tk.cawood.za.net/prospective-st…

🔍Looking for a professorship or postdoc? Check out some of the listed job advertisements on our website. Two have upcoming deadlines! #job" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">metamorphicstudiesgroup.wordpress.com/phdpostdoc-pos…

The spookiest post this Halloween: there are as many univariant reactions in this P-T grid (8 components, 85 phases) as there are stars in the Milky Way: 100 billion

🚨Don't forget to submit your nominations for the 2025 Barrow Award by end of day today! Link to the form is below 👇