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Fawn Holland

@fawnholland.bsky.social
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Geologist 🪨 | Geochemist 🔬 | Petrologist (igneous & meta)🌋 PhD student at St Andrews, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | IAPETUS2 NERC DTP

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Fawn Holland @fawnholland.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
We were so happy to work a ceilidh into the @iapetusdtp.bsky.social conference this year! It was great to see so many people getting involved, especially as for many, this was their first-ever ceilidh! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤️
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Fawn Holland @fawnholland.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Over the last year, I've helped organise the IAPETUS DTP 2026 conference alongside Frederik Märker, Manel Ait-El-Hadj, Ophelia Fritsch, and Emma Cameron. Proud of how smoothly it ran last week, after months of planning. Great talks, posters, and a ceilidh - thanks to everyone who took part! ...
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St Andrews Earth & Environmental Sciences @earthscista.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Congratulations to Sami Mikhail and Eva Stüeken on being awarded a £911k NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant entitled “NITRO-MET: Reactive Nitrogen Supply Driven by Orogenic Metamorphism" as co-Investigators with colleagues from Oxford Earth Sciences. 🌍👏 [4/8]
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Fawn Holland @fawnholland.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
My first first-author paper is out! 🎉 Read about what nitrogen in a (special) granite can tell us about biomass burial and oxygen production billions of years ago! (EPSL - open access) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Fawn Holland @fawnholland.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
📣 Early bird registration for this geochemistry conference (15 Feb)! If you’re an ECR in geochem, I genuinely recommend it - super supportive group. Bonus: there’s a free pre-conference Mass Spec workshop 👀 Questions? Ask me (PhD rep) or any committee member: geochemistry.group/the-committee/
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The Committee
PositionNameInstitutionChairDr Paul SavageUniversity of St AndrewsSecretaryDr Marie-Laure BagardCambridge UniversityTreasurerDr Jane BarlingUniversity of OxfordCommunications OfficerDr George Coope…
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The Geochemistry Group @geochemgroup.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Our list of Geochemistry related PhD projects is live! Please share with prospective PhD students!
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Geochemistry PhDs 2025/2026 (Responses)
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Fawn Holland @fawnholland.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Looking for a PhD in Geoscience? 🏔️ 🪨 🌊 🚀 🛰️ 🧪 🔬 🌋 🎓 Check out the positions at the University of St Andrews: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/earth-scienc... And all the geochemistry positions that @geochemgroup.bsky.social was able to compile: geochemistry.group/phd-opportun...
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PhD opportunities
Each year we compile a list of PhD projects available in the UK and internationally (where UK applicants can apply). These fall under the broad field of geochemistry. In addition, please contact us…
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Fawn Holland @fawnholland.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Igneous rocks… as a source of bioavailable nitrogen? 👀 First co-author paper is out! Give it a look: www.geochemicalperspectivesletters.org/article2517/
Abstract Figure: A schematic showing the planetary-scale mechanisms behind converting atmospheric N2 to bioavailable forms of nitrogen in the prebiotic world. Flux values in mol yr-1.
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