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Dr Stephanie Flude
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Earth-scientist, energy transition expertise. Postdoc. Freelancer. Artist. Part deaf. Views my own. she / her Currently working on renewable energy storage as heat in abandoned mine shafts, breccias, uncertainty in geological interpretation, & geo-H2.
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Today we say goodbye to one of the great minds of our times. Grenville Turner invented 40Ar/39Ar dating in the 1960s and used it to date the moon. I'm honoured to have used his original mass spectrometer (MS1) during my PhD, dating Icelandic Volcanoes. Goodbye Grenville 😥. Photo from 2005.

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Grenville didn't stop at Ar/Ar dating. He's been integral in developing all sorts of cool techniques where you indirectly measure small isotope concentrations by converting them to noble gases in a nuclear reactor.

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Dr Stephanie Flude
@thenoblegasbag.bsky.social
Earth-scientist, energy transition expertise. Postdoc. Freelancer. Artist. Part deaf. Views my own. she / her Currently working on renewable energy storage as heat in abandoned mine shafts, breccias, uncertainty in geological interpretation, & geo-H2.
347 followers222 following172 posts