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As Editor-in-Chief of Minerals, I am pleased to announce the winners of the 2017 Minerals Travel Awards:
Travel Awards were granted to Dr. Ayla Pamukçu, who is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, USA, and Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Science, Brown University, USA; and to Ms. Jessica Hamilton, Ph.D. student at the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University, Australia.
Dr. Ayla Pamukçu’s research revolves around understanding the longevity of small and giant rhyolite magma bodies erupted from the same vent using crystal size distributions, melt inclusion faceting, and diffusion chronometry, with a focus on supereruptions—rare but enormous volcanic eruptions, the likes of which have never been witnessed. She is planning to present her work on evaluating the mush + multiple magma body model for the Lake City caldera, CO, USA, at the IAVCEI 2017 Scientific Assembly in Portland, OR, USA.
Ms. Jessica Hamilton’s research focus is developing low-cost treatments for trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) in mineral wastes generated by mining, and investigating the potential for recovery of valuable trace metals (i.e., Ni, Cr, Co) from leachates and precipitates generated by the process. She is planning to present her work on optimising geochemical treatments to accelerate in situ CO2 sequestration in ultramafic mine tailings at the Goldschmidt 2017 conference in Paris, France.
The awards consist of 800 Swiss Francs each to attend any academic conference during 2017.
Prof. Dr. Paul Sylvester Editor-in-Chief
Minerals 2017 Travel Award
Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Elisa Laita
University of Jaén (Spain)
Chongchong Qi
University of Western Australia
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Leonid Dubrovinsky
Chairman
BGI, Bayreuth University
Prof. Hyunjung Kim
Hanyang University
Dr. Alexandra Guedes
University of Porto
Dr. Jianxi Zhu
Dr. Alexander R Cruden
Dr. Paul Alexandre
Brandon University
Winner
Behzad Vaziri Hassas
Columbia University
Galina Kiriukhina
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Award Committee
Prof. Paul Sylvester
Chairman
Texas Tech University
Prof. Bojan A. Marinković
Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
Prof. Dr. Alberto Perez-Huerta
Prof. Dr. Federica Zaccarini
Faculty of Science, Physical and Geological Sciences, Universiti Brunei Darussalam
Dr. Jaroslav Dostal
Winner
Gloria Belén Ramírez-Rodríguez
University of Granada
Francesco Izzo
DiSTAR, University of Naples Federico II
Ahmad Hassanzadeh
n/a
Award Committee
Prof. Paul Sylvester
Chairman
Texas Tech University
Prof. Saeed Chehreh Chelgani
Lulea university of technology
Dr. Anita Parbhakar-Fox
Prof. Mostafa Fayek
University of Manitoba
Winner
Timothy Gregory
School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol
Nicola Campomenosi
Department of Earth Science, Environment & Life, University of Genova, Corso Europa 26, 16132 Genova, Italy
Juliane Weber
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Award Committee
Prof. Paul Sylvester
Chairman
Texas Tech University
Prof. Mku Ityokumbul
Pennsylvania State University
Prof. Dr. Maria Boni
Prof. Dr. Alberto Perez-Huerta
Winner
Elizaveta Kovaleva
Department of Geology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
Winner
Ayla Pamukçu
a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, USA, and Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Science, Brown University, USA
Jessica Hamilton
Ph.D. student at the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University, Australia
Winner
Mattia L. Mazzucchelli
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia, Italy
Anita Parbhakar-Fox
Transforming the Mining Value Chain (TMVC) ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub, University of Tasmania
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