… brought to you by Earth System Science (ESS) and Cambridge Climate, Life and Earth (C-CLEAR) DTP students. This is a series of blogs written by PhD students involved in the NERC Doctoral Training Partnerships at Cambridge. They have a diverse range of expertise and research areas, with students from the British Antarctic Survey and the University of Cambridge in the following departments: Archaeology, Chemistry, DAMTP, Earth Sciences, Genetics, Geography, Plant Sciences and Zoology.
By Lois Salem, 3rd year PhD
I look at the chemistry of crystals and their melt inclusions to understand how the mantle melts, how different processes affect the melt such as crystallisation, exsolution, diffusion and mixing, and model their chemical signature to inform our understanding of how and why volcanoes erupt. In particular my PhD focusses on basaltic volcanoes with Oceanic Island Basalt chemical signatures … Continue reading
By Lois Salem, 3rd year PhD
One of the most striking aspects of doing research in Earth Sciences is the creativity of methods used to discover things about the Earth. How do we learn about something that happened millions, or billions of years ago, or a process happening on a timescale of millions of years, or the building materials of the Earth hundreds of kilometres … Continue reading
By Lois Salem, 3rd year PhD
One of the most striking aspects of doing research in Earth Sciences is the creativity of methods used to discover things about the Earth. How do we learn about something that happened millions, or billions of years ago, or a process happening on a timescale of millions of years, or the building materials of the Earth hundreds of kilometres … Continue reading