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UK-IODP @ukiodp.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

In our July Newsletter we hear from the #Exp395 Science Party (@mcnamadd.bsky.social, Sevi Modestou, Tom Dunkley Jones, Nicky White and Paul Pearson) about their post-cruise research on the Reykjanes Ridge, Iceland plume and paleoclimate of the North Atlantic. issuu.com/uk-iodp/docs...

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Dr David McNamara @mcnamadd.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

PhD Project Alert 🚨! Elisabetta Mariani and I are advertising a new PhD project with the TARGET Centre of Doctoral Training - Powering the Green Transition: Structural Clues to UK and Ireland Molybdenum Resources. Links below: target.le.ac.uk/wp-content/u... target.le.ac.uk/how-to-apply/

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Dr David McNamara @mcnamadd.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Everywhere you look in Troodos - celadonite, a common ocean crust alteration mineral. Such an amazing trip to see the Troodos Ophiolite in Cyprus.

Someone pointing to celadonite mineralisation between pillow lavas

Matching my t-shirt to the green mineral celadonite

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Dr David McNamara @mcnamadd.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Super proud of all my second years on their mapping training field trip! They all worked really hard and I think they learned a lot and hopefully enjoyed the trip! @liverpooluni.bsky.social

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Dr David McNamara @mcnamadd.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Team UK on IODP Expedition 395! Good times. 😍

UK researchers on the Joides Resolution.

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Dr David McNamara @mcnamadd.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Hi folks - anyone got any good sources or know where we could source or buy samples of zeolites for experimental fluid rock tests?

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Dr David McNamara @mcnamadd.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Cataloging samples of oceanic crust from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge we drilled a couple years ago. Plenty of exciting data coming out soon - just gotta keep up the writing! 😅😓

Sample of basalt breccia from the Mid Atlantic Ridge.

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Dr David McNamara @mcnamadd.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Looking at Iceland’s geologically shaped surface from the air is amazing. 😍

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Dr David McNamara @mcnamadd.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

Feeling spoiled this holiday to have hotels with stunning views of Vesuvius and of Etna!

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Dr David McNamara @mcnamadd.bsky.social · 13/08/2024

Found some amazing gold structures in the Silurian metasediments while on a trip back home to County Down. These are at Kearney shore on the Ards Peninsula.

Shore photo looking at folded layers of metaseds

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Dr David McNamara @mcnamadd.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

Columnar jointing with multiple orientations in lava flows in the Nevados de Chilean area of Chile! 🤩

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Dr David McNamara @mcnamadd.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

Hiking, geothermal, and beautiful surface alteration minerals at Nevados De Chilean - amazing field trip with our Chilean hosts and experts Profs Gloria Arancibia and Diego Morata. 😍

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Dr David McNamara @mcnamadd.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

Just staring longingly at the mineral samples on display at the NY Museum of Natural History - this pink stunner is elbaite tourmaline.

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Dr David McNamara @mcnamadd.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

It’s finally out and published - John Wheeler, Mark Pearce, Dave Prior and I publish some of my old PhD work showing evidence for diffusion creep in omphacite from Italian eclogites . 🥳 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

One of my paper figures showing omphacite grains with chemical zoning supporting diffusion creep processes operating during deformation of these rocks

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Dr David McNamara @mcnamadd.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Did the last AGU poster yesterday - was an exciting one as I was presenting some work from my PhD (about 14 years ago) that we unearthed and decided to polish up! Looking at diffusion creep in eclogite formation! Thanks again to all who stopped by for chats! Poster is online for AGU!

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Dr David McNamara @mcnamadd.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

Great time presenting Katharina’s work on wireline in the Bjorn Drift sediments yesterday - fun project to work on!

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Dr David McNamara @mcnamadd.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

Ok - I’m here and ready to start doing AGU 2023 😅 First up today a poster from team alteration from IODP EXP395 showing off some of our ship board data from core logging across the mid Atlantic Ridge. Shout out to Gabriel Pasquet for leading this poster! 💪🏻 Come say hi!

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Dr David McNamara @mcnamadd.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

Wonderful to be at the 10th UK Geothermal Symposium at the Geological Society in London this week. Great first day yesterday and still two jam packed days to go - it’s our biggest conference yet for geothermal in the UK - hopefully a sign of growth for the industry here!

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Dr David McNamara @mcnamadd.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

Had such a great time in Philadelphia visiting Temple University and talking about geomechanics and geothermal. Thank you for hosting me and thanks Philadelphia for the wonderful stay! 🤩

Me with the Temple University mascot the owl.

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Please read and consider signing this open letter to UKRI regarding their initial and future responses to Michelle Donelan: docs.google.com/document/d/e...

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UKRI open letter (public)

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Dr David McNamara @mcnamadd.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

As a geologist I immediately beelined to this painting ‘The Eruption of Vesuvius’ by Pierre-Jacques Volaire at the Art Institute of Chicago. I kept thinking the silhouetted people were early volcanologists. 😝

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Dr David McNamara @mcnamadd.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

A great week spent with Justin Dodd at NIU working on hydrothermal alteration! 🤩 That and some light horse riding, pumpkins, and fall foliage! 😅 I’m doing sabbatical right, yeah?

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Dr David McNamara @mcnamadd.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Congrats to Dr Effat Behboudi on publishing her latest PhD paper on the stress magnitude determination of the #Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand. A challenging piece of science with a satisfying result! 👏 #Geology #EarthScience #OA agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Stress magnitude graphs - a part of one of the paper figures.

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James Lea @jamesmlea.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

Want to know why Pride Matters for doing better polar research? Take a look at this short(ish!) piece I've written for the All Party Parliamentary Group for Polar Regions. www.polarregions.co.uk/post/why-pri...

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Why Pride matters for doing better polar research

With the APPG for Polar Regions hosting an event in Parliament this November to highlight Polar Pride, Dr James Lea, Reader in Glaciology and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of Liverpool,...

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Dr David McNamara @mcnamadd.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

Had a great time looking at some greisen outcrop down in Cornwall last week! Stunning banding effects created by mineral alteration in this granite.

Close up picture of the alternating alteration bands in the granite outcrop.

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Prof Ben Britton @bmatb.expmicromech.com · 06/10/2023

The Conservative party in the UK are raking up muck to hide the dire state of things that their governance has caused & putting vulnerable people and individuals from current, historically & persistently marginalized groups in the way of a true critique of their underinvestment and poor management.

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

✉️ Some science 🧪 buddies and I have written an open letter to the UK government, strongly opposing their “kicking woke ideology out of science” sentiments, which stand to damage the UK’s scientific standing and ability to deliver for public good. Please read and consider signing ✍🏻 t.co/H7rNzb0wGh

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Letter to Secretary of State re EDI in science

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Dr David McNamara @mcnamadd.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

A lovely week of serpentinites and granites down in Cornwall with a handful of our geothermal researchers as part of our Royal Society exchange with Profs Gloria Arancibia and Diego Morata from Chile! Wonderful geothermal chats! 🌋😍

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Dr David McNamara @mcnamadd.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

Some visuals to start life off here at Bluesky. Hello little volcanic crater - quick pic of some of the volcanic scenery we were treated to driving north from Reykjavik last week. 😍

Landscape image of a volcanic crater in the foreground and mountains in the background.

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Dr David McNamara @mcnamadd.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

So this is where all the awesome people are - better late than never I suppose! 🤩 Thanks @vickyveritas.bsky.social for inviting me in! 😆

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