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Emily Baker

Miss Emily Baker

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Teams and roles for Emily Baker

Overview

I am a PhD researcher funded by George Cooper's Royal Society University Research Fellowship. I am going to be working on plutonic xenoliths from subduction zones, looking at stable isotopes (Fe, Cu, Zn, Ti, etc.) on the crystal scale to investigate the magmtic plumbing system. I will learn to do clean lab column chemistry and to operate the mass spectrometer to analyse these isotopes. SEM elemental mapping will be utilised to find target crystals to do isotope work on. Specific areas of interest include St. Eustatius (Statia), Lesser Antilles and the Southern Volcanic Zone in Chile. Supervisors: George Cooper and Marc-Alban Millet. 

Research

Research Interests:

  • Subduction zone processes
  • Magmatic processes
  • Crustal recycling
  • Isotope geochemistry
  • Petrology

Teaching

Graduate Demonstrator for the following modules:

  • Earth Science Fieldwork (Caerphilly Mountain Orienteering and Rudry Mountain Mapping) - 1st Year
  • Dynamic Environments (specifically volcanic island evolution) - 1st Year
  • Exploring Planet Earth - 1st Year
  • Petrology & Volcanology (specifically metamorphic petrology) - 2nd Year
  • Advanced Petrology & Geochemistry - 3rd Year

Biography

2024 - present: PhD in Volcanology and Geochemistry, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Cardiff University, UK.

2020 - 2024: MGeol and BSc (hons) in Geology (International), School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, UK. Included a 1 year exchange (2022-2023) to the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Canada.

Professional memberships

Mineralogical Society (MinSoc)

  • Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group (VMSG) - MinSoc special interest group
  • Geochemistry Group - MinSoc special interest group

Contact Details

Email BakerEG@cardiff.ac.uk

Campuses Main Building, Room 1.59, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT

Research themes

Specialisms

  • Igneous and metamorphic petrology
  • Volcanology
  • Geochemistry

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