Workshop: LA-ICPMS Fundamentals, Instrumentations, and Applications
Programme
Monday 4th March 2019
Geography Seminar Room A (GGSR-A), Museum Building, Trinity College Dublin
- 9:30-10:00
- Introduction of LA-ICPMS
- Dr. David Chew, TCD
- 10:00-11:00
- Sample preparation and experiment design
- Dr. Gary O’Sullivan, Cora Mckenna, TCD
- 11:00-11:20
- Coffee break
Walk to CMA laser lab and TTEC laser lab (30 minutes)
- 11:50-13:30
- Instrument demo
- Dr. Kerstin Drost, Dr. Gary O’Sullivan, Cora Mckenna, TCD
- 13:30-14:30
- Lunch
Application talks
- 14:30-14:45
- Using LA-ICPMS of cold-water corals and salmon scales to explore geochemical proxies for environmental processes
- Dr. Quentin Crowley, TCD
- 14:45-15:00
- U-Pb and elemental abundance analysis by LA-ICPMS in provenance studies
- Dr. Chris Mark, UCD, and Dr. Claire Ansberque, TCD
- 15:00-15:15
- LA-ICPMS U-Pb dating of carbonates using an image mapping approach
- Dr. Kerstin Drost, TCD
- 15:15-15:30
- The trace element inventory of orthopyroxene - a record of magmatic processes parental to the UG2 Unit, Bushveld Complex
- Maurice Brodbeck, TCD
- 15:30-15:45
- Coffee break
- 15:45-16:00
- Working with pyrite, Ireland's least favourite mineral
- Tadhg Dornan, TCD
- 16:00-16:15
- LA-ICPMS elemental mapping: Revealing the critical world
- Dr. Lingli Zhou, TCD
- 16:15-16:30
- The magmatic-hydrothermal transition in rare-element pegmatites: Evidence from trace-element zoning in muscovite and columbite-tantalite
- David Kaeter, UCD
- 16:30-16:45
- Hydrothermal history and geometallurgical insights of sulphide deposits
- Foteini Drakou, TCD
- 16:45-17:30
- Discussion: Potentials and Challenges
- Chair: Dr. Sean Johnson, UCD, and Dr. Sean McClenaghan, TCD