UMaine Geologist, Grad Student Present at U.K. Earth Sciences Symposium
UMaine Department of Earth Sciences research professor Ed Grew presented a talk at the International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences in Edinburgh, U.K. today. The symposium is part of a campaign to promote and raise awareness of polar research, according to the British Antarctic Survey, one of the world’s leading environmental research centers. Grew, who has participated in nine Antarctic expeditions and is credited with discovering six new minerals there, will speak on “Boron- and phosphate-rich rocks in the Larsemann Hills, Prydz Bay, East Antarctica: Evidence for early Neoproterozoic rifting in an active continental arc?” Grew Peak in the Mount Murphy Massif in Marie Byrd Land is named for him. In addition, on July 12 UMaine graduate student JohnRyan MacGregor, who is doing a master’s thesis under Grew, will present a poster on his thesis research titled “Microstructural analysis of the borosilicates grandidierite, prismatine and tourmaline in the granulite-facies paragneisses from the Larsemann Hills, Prydz Bay, East Antarctica.”
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