Curriculum Vitae: GRT Jenkin (Isotope geochemist)

ACADEMIC

Ph.D. (1988) Geochemistry (Department of Geology, University of Glasgow *) "Stable isotope studies in the Caledonides of S.W. Connemara, Ireland".

Post Doctoral Research Assistant (1988-1994) Isotope Geosciences Unit, Scottish Universities Research and Reactor Centre (SURRC) *, Glasgow. With Dr A.E. Fallick, studied stable isotopes in high temperature geological processes and isotope exchange in water-rock interaction.

Post Doctoral Research Fellow (1994-1997) Department of Geology & Geophysics, University of Edinburgh *. Funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh/Scottish Office Education Department *. The project: "Ages and temperatures in rocks: A multi-isotope approach to resetting" was to develop a novel programme of research into the resetting of ages and temperatures in rocks, with the aims of

• understanding more fully the processes that control resetting in different environments
• extracting useful information from reset data, such as the rates, mechanisms and scales of geochemical transport and timescales over which resetting processes operate.

Lecturer in Applied Geology (1997-present) Department of Geology, University of Leicester. Research fields:

• Rifting, fluid flow and the generation of ore deposits.
• Isotope re-equilibration mechanisms in cooling rocks.

ANALYTICAL

• Over 11 years experience of oxygen, hydrogen and carbon stable isotope analysis
• Currently developing a low-blank method for Rb-Sr isotopic determinations (~50 pg Sr)
• Laser-probe Ar-Ar analysis
• Operation of Cameca ims4f ion microprobe for spatially resolved Rb and Sr analysis
• Chemical and isotopic analysis of fluid inclusions
• Operation of electron microprobe, XRD, mineral separation

COMPUTING

• Have written three large modelling programs in FORTRAN-77, two involving a numerically intensive finite difference algorithm
• Over 12 years UNIX experience, on a variety of platforms (VAX 11/750, SUN, Silicon Graphics, IBM RS6000, Meiko Computing Surface, Maspar MP-1)
• Have experimented with parallel optimisation of modelling code
• Programming experience in S, awk, UNIX and BASIC
• Extensive experience of Apple Macintosh for word processing, graphic design and database manipulation
• Was in charge of the computing facilities for the Isotope Geology Unit
• Listowner of geo-metamorphism discussion group *

TEACHING

• At SURRC gave lectures and practicals on stable isotopes as tracers of fluids to undergraduates in the geology departments of the Scottish Universities
• In 1993 taught a major part of the "Fluids in the Earth" course to final year students in Glasgow University
• Since 1997 have lectured and been module co-ordinator for courses in Ore Mineralogy, Mineral Deposit Geology and Ore Genesis for 2nd year Applied Geology undergraduates and Mineral Exploration MSc Students.

PUBLICATIONS

ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS

PERSONAL DETAILS

DATE OF BIRTH: NA     NATIONALITY: British

Department of Geology,
The University of Leicester,
University Road,
Leicester,
LE1 7RH.

TEL: (+44) 0116 252 3934
FAX: (+44) 0116 252 3918
E-MAIL: grtj1@le.ac.uk

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