Tag Archives: geochemistry

Extracting a single element from a rock

mpollock May 20, 2017 12:23 pm

Chapel Hill, NC – As you know, Ben Kumpf (’18) and I are working in the Isotope Geochemistry lab at UNC Chapel Hill. We are measuring isotopes of strontium (Sr), lead (Pb) and neodymium (Nd) in basaltic pillow lavas from northern … Continue reading →

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How we measure the chemical composition of Earth materials

mpollock May 25, 2016 12:24 pm

San Diego, CA – If you’ve been following our adventures, you know that we’ve started a project on Black Mountain with our collaborators at the University of San Diego. We’ve dedicated a significant portion of our time in California to … Continue reading →

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Team Yorkshire gets all geochemical

Mark Wilson September 20, 2015 6:00 pm

BRYN MAWR, PENNSYLVANIA–When we last saw Mae Kemsley (’16) and Meredith Mann (’16) in this blog, they were celebrating the end of their Senior Independent Study summer fieldwork on the coast of North Yorkshire, England. This weekend the three of … Continue reading →

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ICP-MS OSU Adventure

mpollock September 14, 2015 8:47 pm

[Guest bloggers: Mary Reinthal and Chloe Wallace] In five days, three Wooster geologists prepped and analyzed over 50 samples, ate tons of food, and learned a lot of science. Okay, maybe not tons of food, but we did eat a … Continue reading →

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The power of hand-held x-ray fluorescence analysis comes to Wooster

Mark Wilson August 13, 2014 6:41 pm

WOOSTER, OHIO–Dr. Meagen Pollock, our mineralogist-petrologist and instrument scientist extraordinaire, should be writing this post, but she was off campus during this event. It is left to the paleontologist, of all people, to file this report. Despite my technological naïveté … Continue reading →

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Theory to Practice: An Early GSA Abstract

mpollock May 11, 2012 10:15 am

This semester, I’ve had the pleasure of teaching a special topics lab course in geochemistry. Given our new lab facilities, I decided to approach the class as an analytical geochemistry course. We explored sampling strategies, data quality, and the theory … Continue reading →

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Teaching Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry

mpollock August 10, 2011 5:35 pm

MINNEAPOLIS, MN – If you haven’t been following my twitter feed (http://twitter.com/meagenpollock), you may not know that I’ve been at the 2011 Cutting Edge Workshop on Teaching Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry (twitter hashtag #sercMPG). Expert educators have gathered to discuss … Continue reading →

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Planning for a Day in the Field

mpollock May 19, 2010 12:14 am

I officially started my summer field work today! Unfortunately, here in West Chester, PA, it rained all day. That didn’t keep us from being productive, though. Lee Ann and Tim (from West Chester University) and Loretta (from Lock Haven University) … Continue reading →

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