Associate Professor of Petrology at Trinity College Dublin | Love #MantleRocks and all things #Tephra | Tea drinker and trail runner. Mostly tired.https://bsky.app/profile/magmashrew.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/magmashrew.bsky.social/post/3lbhsj63if22iLovely cumulate textured Mare basalt collected during the Apollo 12 mission to the Moon for #ThinSectionThursday - one of several being studied by an undergraduate dissertation student at TCD 🚀 🌕 🪨21 Nov 2024 15:42 +0000at://did:plc:ljsvgf5366man43eiyzvtxwr/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbhsj63if22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/magmashrew.bsky.social/post/3ladsj2xkux2hVisiting @cat17.bsky.social at Bayerisches Geoinstitut where she is doing high pressure mantle - melt reaction experiments. This one is running today 🤞🤞07 Nov 2024 08:06 +0000at://did:plc:ljsvgf5366man43eiyzvtxwr/app.bsky.feed.post/3ladsj2xkux2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/magmashrew.bsky.social/post/3l5ygfbfyjy2rEscaped Dublin for fieldwork - Dani and Jack sampling Carboniferous volcanics on the Beara peninsula for Dani's PhD project.08 Oct 2024 08:40 +0000at://did:plc:ljsvgf5366man43eiyzvtxwr/app.bsky.feed.post/3l5ygfbfyjy2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/magmashrew.bsky.social/post/3kx4knlc7qo2xWe're in Yellowknife (Northwest Territories, Canada) for the kimberlite conference. They like their geology here.12 Jul 2024 22:10 +0000at://did:plc:ljsvgf5366man43eiyzvtxwr/app.bsky.feed.post/3kx4knlc7qo2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/magmashrew.bsky.social/post/3kvymdncw2a2vIts been a while since we last analysed tephra in the TCD laser ablation lab - look at these lovelies from an IODP core off Nova Scotia. The vesicles show as dips in counts in the raw data as we ablate through.28 Jun 2024 15:05 +0000at://did:plc:ljsvgf5366man43eiyzvtxwr/app.bsky.feed.post/3kvymdncw2a2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/magmashrew.bsky.social/post/3ks7ctx7cjj2oView from Dublin, the firefox wandered south tonight11 May 2024 09:23 +0000at://did:plc:ljsvgf5366man43eiyzvtxwr/app.bsky.feed.post/3ks7ctx7cjj2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/magmashrew.bsky.social/post/3kpucr64wei2rExcellent response to the call for abstracts to mantle sessions at EMC2024 in Dublin - 30 talks - Its not too late to join us, the early bird registration and abstract submission deadlines have been extended to 19th April. Go to www.emc-2024.org to see sessions and keynotes.11 Apr 2024 13:32 +0000at://did:plc:ljsvgf5366man43eiyzvtxwr/app.bsky.feed.post/3kpucr64wei2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/magmashrew.bsky.social/post/3kmuxcwyhsx2mThinking of attending EMC 2024 in Dublin? Consider submitting an abstract to our session on “Reactions in the upper mantle” or indeed any of the other sessions. Abstracts submission (deadline 22 March) & registration (early deadline 3 March) here: emc-2024.org/registration/04 Mar 2024 15:24 +0000at://did:plc:ljsvgf5366man43eiyzvtxwr/app.bsky.feed.post/3kmuxcwyhsx2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/magmashrew.bsky.social/post/3kmmtti6ipa2dIts snowing! and I am a gleeful child for it. The TCD campus looks beautiful. To my PhD students - take the day off and enjoy while it lasts.01 Mar 2024 10:00 +0000at://did:plc:ljsvgf5366man43eiyzvtxwr/app.bsky.feed.post/3kmmtti6ipa2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/magmashrew.bsky.social/post/3klwmyip7ik2jCat Melai (cat17.bsky.social) and I are happy to announce our session "All change: subsolidus, melting, volatile and redox reactions in the upper mantle" at the 2024 European Mineralogical Conference, Dublin (18-23 August). Keynote speaker Sonja Aulbach. Abstract deadline 22nd March: emc-2024.org21 Feb 2024 13:59 +0000at://did:plc:ljsvgf5366man43eiyzvtxwr/app.bsky.feed.post/3klwmyip7ik2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/magmashrew.bsky.social/post/3kfako3pubi2vThanks to @gernon.bsky.social for joining TCD Geology and the Irish Mantle Group for his talk on “Rift induced disruption of cratonic keels drives kimberlite volcanism”. Very interested in the drivers for, and magnitude of, evolution in the thickness and lateral extent of the cratonic lithosphere.28 Nov 2023 10:48 +0000at://did:plc:ljsvgf5366man43eiyzvtxwr/app.bsky.feed.post/3kfako3pubi2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/magmashrew.bsky.social/post/3ken2mho6mx2gCongratulations to Dr Lucy Blennerhassett who passed her PhD viva today at TCD, it has been a pleasure working with you. Thanks also to examiners Gill Plunkett and Robbie Goodhue.20 Nov 2023 16:40 +0000at://did:plc:ljsvgf5366man43eiyzvtxwr/app.bsky.feed.post/3ken2mho6mx2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/magmashrew.bsky.social/post/3kd7fkmjk4j2ySome garnet peridotite appreciation for #ThinSectionThursday [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Nov 2023 12:53 +0000at://did:plc:ljsvgf5366man43eiyzvtxwr/app.bsky.feed.post/3kd7fkmjk4j2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/magmashrew.bsky.social/post/3kd22ktqqno2lWe are trying to build a mantle research group in Ireland, many thanks to Nicolas Celli and Emma Chambers at DIAS for hosting our third meeting, on seismic tomography and state of the lithosphere. Next event - seminar by @gernon.bsky.social at TCD on 24th November31 Oct 2023 09:53 +0000at://did:plc:ljsvgf5366man43eiyzvtxwr/app.bsky.feed.post/3kd22ktqqno2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/magmashrew.bsky.social/post/3kahmp2tdit2ofirst post (is that what we call them?) on this platform to congratulate Lucy Blennerhassett on submitting her PhD thesis 'Advances in the detection of particulate matter and aerosols in peat: Exploring Icelandic volcanic activity and multi-source deposition in Ireland' - super proud of you28 Sep 2023 15:07 +0000at://did:plc:ljsvgf5366man43eiyzvtxwr/app.bsky.feed.post/3kahmp2tdit2o