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Contributions to Discipline
Sep 2014: Invited Session Convenor at "Cities on Volcanoes", Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Aug 2013: Invited Session Convenor at the Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference in Florence, Italy.
Feb 2013: Co-Organisation of MeMoVolc Workshop "Mechanics of magma emplacement and volcanotectonics", Oslo, Norway.
Workshop Booklet [PDF]
Sep 2012: Invited Session Convenor at 1st European Mineralogical Conference (Emc2) in Frankfurt, Germany. Session 2A: "Magmatic crystals as recorder of pre- and syn-eruptive processes: analysis, modelling and quantification".
2012 - ongoing: International Correspondent for Geology Today, which is published on behalf of the Geologists' Associations and The Geological Society of London.
2011 - ongoing: Steering Committee member for ESF network MeMoVolc.
2010 - ongoing: Elected co-chair for working group No.6 (WG6 - Analytical and Experimental Laboratories) of the European Plate Observing System (EPOS).
2005 – ongoing: Reviewer for >30 scientific papers and for research proposals from NERC, DFG and NSF.
2012: Invited Session Convenor at the Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference in Montreal, Canada.
2011: Invited Session Convenor at the Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference in Prague, Czech Republik.
2010: Invited Session Convenor at the VMSG meeting in Glasgow, UK.
2009: Invited Session Convenor at the Janet Watson meeting in London, UK.
2008: Invited Session Convenor IGC Meeting in Oslo, Norway in "Magma chambers & eruptions, linking petrology and geophysics".
2008: As part of my duties as a Committee member of the Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group (VMSG) I hosted the VMSG Conference at Trinity College Dublin. Over 150 international researchers attended.
Society News 4/08 [PDF]
2007 - 2012: Invited Session Convenor at annual European Geoscience Union (EGU) meeting in Vienna, Austria. Session GMPV 1: "Magmatic differentiation: theory, experiments and examples".
2007: Session Convenor at the Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference in Cologne, Germany.
2007: Co-organiser "Golden Rum" Workshop together with K. Goodenough (BGS, Edinburgh) and D. Jerram (Durham University).
The VMSG and Geological Society sponsored the workshop to celebrate 50 years of Rum as a Nature Reserve (30 selected attendees).
Geoscientist 3/08: Feature "Golden Rum"
2006: Session Convenor at European Geoscience Union (EGU) meeting in Vienna, Austria.
2005 - 2007: Commission from the Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) to design their official fieldguide and leaflets/handouts and display boards for their Interpretive Centre on the Isle of Rum, which is the largest nature reserve in the British Isles.
2005: ‘Neutral Observer’ for major EC funded project "ERUPT" coordinated by Prof. J. Davidson, Durham, UK.
2005: Co-leader of fieldtrip (with H. Emeleus, University of Durham) to the classic geological locations on the Isle of Rum, Scotland as part of the American Geophysical Union Chapman Conference on “mantle plumes” in Fort William, Scotland, UK.
2004 - 2005: Consulting contract with The GlaxoSmithKline Group.
My research group provided information material on basic volcanology and famous volcanic eruptions for website for soft drink "Lucozade", promotion campaign "The energy within".
2001 - 2008: Advised over forty 3rd and 4th year research projects in Dublin. This led to more than 50 conference contributions where undergraduate students were first or contributing authors.
2001 - 2007: Series of book reviews for "Spektrum der Wissenschaft“, German Branch of "Scientific American".
Nov 2000: I set up and supervised the Structural Volcano Laboratory at GEOMAR together with T.R. Walter (until summer 2002).
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