Geochemistry Group

Research in Progress Meeting University of St Andrews

27-28th March 2018

Delegate Information Pack

Dear Delegate,

Thank you for registering for the 2018 Geochemistry Group Research in Progress Meeting (GGRiP), which will be held in the Gateway Building at the University of St Andrews on 27-28th March.

To help you prepare for the meeting, we have put together this delegate information pack that provides information about the conference venue, transport, accommodation options and nearby bars and restaurants. The preliminary meeting program is also attached.

We would also like to acknowledge our industrial partners: QMX, Savillex, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Nu Instruments/CAMECA Acutance Scientific, Metrohm, and Agilent Technologies for their generous support of this meeting.

We look forward to welcoming you to St Andrews soon!

Andrea Burke

Local organiser, on behalf of the GG committee

Conference and Registration

The conference will be held in the Gateway Building at the University of St Andrews (‘G’ on map below). Talks and posters will be in Lecture Room 3/4, which you will find down the stairs on the left as you enter via the main door. Wheelchair access is available.

Registration will be outside Lecture Room 3/4, and will available from 8:30 AM to 9:20 AM, and you will be able to put up your posters at this time. All posters will remain up for the duration of the meeting. Posters should be no larger than A0 and in the portrait orientation. A preliminary schedule is at the end of this information pack.

Gateway Building (School of Management)

University of St Andrews, North Haugh St, St Andrews, KY16 9RJ

Icebreaker and Outreach Event There will be a free public lecture at the Byre Theatre (#24 on Map below) on Monday March 26 at 6 PM. The lecture “CO2 and Climate Change: Past, Present, and Future” will be given by Dr James Rae from the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of St Andrews. From 4:30 PM, we will be at the Byre Theatre bar for an informal icebreaker. If you’d like to see the public lecture we ask that you pre-book tickets (FREE) for planning purposes on the Byre theatre website: https://byretheatre.com/events/co2-and-climate-change-past-present-and-future/

HISTORY ATTRACTIONS ACTIVITIES GOLF OTHER INFORMATIONLEARNINGLEARNINGLEARNING HISTORYHISTORY ATTRACTIONSATTRACTIONS ACTIVITIESACTIVITIES GOLFGOLF OTHER INFORMATIONOTHER INFORMATION

Byre theatre: Ice breaker/Public Lecture

Bus Station Free Parking

Gateway conference venue

Getting to St Andrews By air

Edinburgh airport is the closest major airport serving St Andrews. From there, there are a number of ways to reach St Andrews.

Take the tram or Airlink bus into the city of Edinburgh (Waverly Train station) and catch the X59 from Edinburgh bus station to St Andrews bus station (location 41 on map above).

Alternatively, catch a train from Edinburgh Waverley or Edinburgh Haymarket to Leuchars (frequency roughly every hour). Take the 99 bus (99, 99A, 99B, 99C or 99D) to St Andrews bus station (frequency every 10 - 30 minutes).

Alternatively, take the 747 bus from the airport to Inverkeithing rail station and the train and bus as above; or take the 747 to either Halbeath or Inverkeithing P&R and an onwards bus to St Andrews.

To plan your journey from the airport, the following website may be useful: https://www.travelinescotland.com

By rail

The nearest railway station to St Andrews is Leuchars, situated around six miles from the town. The station facilities include 24-hour parking, a waiting room and taxi rank. Those travelling to St Andrews by train should take the Edinburgh to Dundee or Edinburgh to Aberdeen line to Leuchars. From Leuchars, St Andrews is easily reached by bus (either Stagecoach 99, 99A, 99B, 99C, 99D or Moffat & Williamson 92). St Andrews Bus Station is at location 41 on map above. A Stagecoach return ticket between Leuchars and St Andrews is £5.40 and valid for 21 days. A single is £3. A taxi will cost £10-15. By bus

There are a number of bus services that serve St Andrews (location 41 on map above) and the local area. Stagecoach in Fife and Moffat & Williamson offer routes around the town, as well as routes that go through nearby towns and villages. Stagecoach also offer services to/from Glasgow and Edinburgh. For further information see: https://www.stagecoachbus.com/ or http://www.moffat-williamson.co.uk/index.php.

By car

St Andrews is signposted from Edinburgh and within Fife. Driving from Edinburgh takes approximately 1 hour and 20 minutes, driving from Glasgow takes around 1 hour and 45 minutes. It takes around half an hour to drive from Dundee.

Parking is limited in St Andrews and in the centre of town most parking is pay-as-you-go during business hours. However, there are a number of options for free parking in St Andrews, including the two car parks close to the Gateway building (see map – this is your best option). Some streets in the centre of St Andrews can also have free spaces such as The Scores, and the east end of North Street, and there is free parking out of the centre of town.

More information available at: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/visiting/travel/

Food Lunches will be provided as part of your registration fee. There will also be two coffee breaks each day of the conference. Hopefully you will have provided us with dietary requirements upon registration, but if you have any queries please email ggrip2018@gmail.com.

There will also be a wine reception with nibbles on Tuesday evening. Although dinner will not be provided, there are plenty of options in St Andrews:

There are two fantastic local Fish and Chip shops – Tail End and Cromar’s. Both have sit in and take-away options, and more than just fish and chips!

A number of pubs in St Andrews serve food, including The Central and the St Andrews Brewing Company and Innis and Gunn Beer Kitchen. The Criterion pub serves pies. There are two good burger places in town: Blackhorn and Burger, both with vegetarian options.

If you’re looking for a sit down meal there are many good options available:

Scottish/British: Forgan’s (£10-£20 for one course, booking recommended), Mitchell’s (£10-£20 for one course, more casual version of Forgan’s and owned by same people), The Doll’s House (£10-£20 for one course), The Vine Leaf (2 or 3 courses required (£28 - £32), booking recommended), and The Adamson (£10-£30 for one course, booking recommended). The Adamson also has a very good cocktail bar attached with a creative cocktail menu.

Italian: Little Italy (£10-£20 for one course) and The Seafood Ristorante (£20-£40 for one course). Booking is recommended for these two restaurants. Mozza is a Glaswegian-based pizza chain that is cheap and cheerful and has good pizza, and has two floors so a good option for large groups.

Indian: Jahangir, Tulsi, and Maisha. They’re all good and similarly priced (£10-£20 for main). Jahangir has very good sag paneer.

Chinese: The Dining Room (£10-£20 for main)

Thai: Tanon (£10-£20 for main)

Japanese/Sushi: Kazoku (£10-£20 for main)

There are also several UK chain restaurants such as Prezzo, Zizzi’s, Pizza Express, and Nandos which could be good for larger groups.

Accommodation A variety of accommodation options in St Andrews can be found here: http://www.visitstandrews.com/stay/ In addition, there is a Premier Inn 20-30 minutes walk from the conference centre (https://www.premierinn.com/gb/en/home.html) and a hostel which is 10 minutes walk (http://www.hostelsstandrews.com). Accommodation is also available in towns such as Cupar, Leuchars, as well as nearby Dundee which is easily accessible from St Andrews via the 99 bus links.

Program Details

The conference will take place in Lecture Room 3/4 in the Gateway Building, and will start at 9:20 AM on March 27th with registration and coffee available from 8.30 AM outside the lecture room.

The meeting is scheduled to end by 5:00 PM on March 28th. It is expected that the delegates will attend both days of the meeting, so please let us know on the email address above if you can only attend one of the days as this will help with catering arrangements.

The preliminary meeting schedule is below (note that running times and presentation order may change slightly). All oral presentations will be in the Gateway Lecture Theatre 3/4, which you will find down the stairs from the main door. Posters, coffees, lunches and the reception will be in the same location. Posters can be displayed on the morning of March 27th and left up for the whole conference; posters not collected by 5pm on March 28th will be discarded. Please use A0 size for posters, and please use portrait orientation.

Tuesday March 27, 2018

Arrival and Registration 08:30Welcome and Intro 09:20 Andrea Burke, committee member of Geochemistry Group and local organiser

Session 1 09:30 Julie Prytulak Imperial/Durham University KEYNOTE: Calling all isotope systems: how does subduction initiate?Subduction, Magma, 10:00 Elliot Carter University of Manchester Interrogating deep subduction vs. shallow return of volatiles through the noble gas and halogen systematics of ophiolites

and the Mantle 10:15 Simon Matthews University of Cambridge Constraining mantle carbon using basalts: the effects of magma mixing and degassing10:30 Kate Gallagher Durham University/University of Iceland The timing and mechanisms of S release during historical flood lava eruptions, Iceland.

Coffee Break 10:45Session 2 11:15 Sian Henley University of Edinburgh KEYNOTE: Benthic-pelagic coupling in high-productivity polar seas

Low T Geochemistry 11:45 Lucie Cassarino University of Bristol Silicon isotopes of marine pore water: tracking the destiny of marine biogenic opal along the WAPin Modern Settings 12:00 Kirsty Crocket Scottish Association for Marine Science IronBREW:TheroleofDOCinIronBeyondRiverEtiveWater

12:15 Nick Hayes University of Bristol Evaluating Controls on the Chemical Weathering ThermostatPoster introductions 12:30Lunch and posters 12:45

Session 3 14:00 Alex McCoy-West Durham University AWARD:The neodymium stable isotope composition of the silicate Earth and chondritesPlanetary Geochemistry 14:30 Naomi Saunders University of Oxford Stable Nickel Isotope Fractionation in Planetary Materials

14:45 Nicci Potts The University of Edinburgh Unravelling the chlorine isotope signature of the Moon.15:00 Sean Hopkins University of Oxford Vanadium Isotope Ratios in Lunar Basalts

Coffee Break 15:15Session 4 15:45 David Wilson Imperial College London AWARD: Lead isotopes tracing Quaternary climate processes

Paleoceanography & 16:15 Matt Dumont University of Edinburgh Silicon cycling in Southern Ocean across the last deglaciationPaleoclimate 16:30 Jess Crumpton-BanksUniversity of St Andrews A record of trace elements and boron isotopes in Southern Ocean foraminifera over the last glacial cycle

16:45 Rachel Bertram Imperial College London A Transantarctic view of the Plio-Plestocene East Antarctic Ice Sheet from Geochemistry17:00 Tali Babila University of Southampton Capturing the global signature of surface ocean acidification during the PETM

Posters and Wine Reception ends 19:30

Wednesday March 28, 2018

Session 5 09:15 Aubrey Zerkle University of St Andrews KEYNOTE: State of the Haze: Causes and consequences of a hydrocarbon-rich Late Archean atmosphereDeep Time 09:45 Fred Bowyer University of Edinburgh Local marine redox variability accompanied the Ediacaran emergence of animals

10:00 Simon Poulton University of Leeds KEYNOTE: The exciting ‘boring billion’: Oxygenation of the Mesoproterozoic ocean and the evolution of large complex eukaryotesCoffee Break 10:30

Session 6 11:00 Denny Tarnovska Imperial College London & CEH Stable isotope tracing of silver nanoparticles in plantsBiogeochemistry 11:15 Mike Rogerson University of Hull Organic acid influence on non-skeletal carbonate production and trace-element geochemistryand Biominerals 11:30 William Gray University of St Andrews Effects of temperature, salinity, and the carbonate system on Mg/Ca in planktonic foraminifera: A global sediment trap calibration

11:45 Michael Nairn Cardiff University Optimising LA-ICP-MS Analytical Parameters for elemental depth profiling of Mn-rich foraminiferaAnnual General Meeting 12:00 Jason Harvey, Chair of the Geochemistry Group

Lunch and posters 12:30Session 7 13:30 Frances Jenner Open University KEYNOTE: Behaviour of economically important elements in economically unimportant parts of the crust

The Geological Society's 14:00 Nicky Horsburgh University of St Andrews Luminescence spectra of REE minerals"Year of Resources" 14:15 Ines Pereira University of Portsmouth Good as gold: detrital rutile records multiple phases of gold mineralisation

14:30 Eimear Deady University of Exeter/BGS Unraveling the Hemerdon tungsten-tin depositCoffee Break 14:45

Session 8 15:15 Kathi Schweitzer Durham University Hf-Nd isotope signatures of carbonatites trying to find a carbonatite sourceGeochemical Fingerprints 15:30 Sophie Page Imperial College London Vanadium stable isotope fractionation and oxygen fugacity in mantle minerals from the Slave craton

on Crustal and Mantle 15:45 Leanne Staddon University of Bristol Crustal evolution in the Narryer Terrane: detrital chromite from Jack HillsProcesses 16:00 Hugo Moreira University of Portsmouth Continental crust evolution and growth: clues from the Mineiro Belt, BrazilSession 9 16:15 Darren Mark SUERC KEYNOTE: It’s about time: is geochronology more than geochronometry?

GeochronologyAwards 16:45 Jason Harvey, Chair of the Geochemistry Group

Meeting concludes 17:00