IsoTropics Geochemistry Lab

Amplifying science in the geochemistry facilities @JCU — Out in the cosmos, on the planet(s), under the sea, in the lab and elsewhere.

[AlexMW 🇳🇿🌏 @DrMcTest]

Way back at the start of 24, the A-team (Alison, @A_N_Wainwright, @ProfAndyTomkins) published an awesome new method paper 🧪🔩🪛🧪. For Simplifying silver isotope analysis of metallic samples (i.e gold or silver nuggets) @GeoChemTropics @MonashEAE https://t.co/m5JU6Bzna8

[IsoTropics Geochemistry Lab @GeoChemTropics]

⁦⁦⁦@jcu and⁩ ⁦@JCUGeoscience⁩ faculty Drs ⁦@melaniefinch_⁩ and Brandon Mahan out in the community with ⁦@Power100TSV⁩ to talk geoscience with Year 4s and gain their invaluable insight on how to make TSV’s beloved 🏰 Hill into an [artificial] 🏔️

[IsoTropics Geochemistry Lab @GeoChemTropics]

Another #ScienceWeek highlight—⁦⁦@jcu⁩ and ⁦@JCUGeoscience⁩ <Earth and Environmental Geochemistry> People’s Choice and Judges’ Choice awards for Best Poster from our student mini-conference 👏🔬🧪🎉 (this time with 🍫!)

[IsoTropics Geochemistry Lab @GeoChemTropics]

⁦⁦A hand-drawn, fictitious habitable exoplanet “Vortex-96” (left) and real exoplanet Gliese 667Cc (right). ⁦@jcu⁩ EA2404 student groups create liveable planets based on their understanding of climate components and heat transfer. ⁦@JCUGeoscience⁩. #ScienceWeek

[IsoTropics Geochemistry Lab @GeoChemTropics]

⁦@jcu⁩ EA3800 Geochemistry students touring the wonderful world of ICP-MS with Drs Brandon Mahan and the amazing Huiqing “Jeffrey” Huang in our Advanced Analytical Centre. Complete with a live demonstration of metals in students’ 💦 and in vinyl vs nitrile 🧤.

[IsoTropics Geochemistry Lab @GeoChemTropics]

So awesome to see one of our @JCUGeoscience colleagues receive this much-deserved award and recognition of achievement!🤙🎉💐🌷@jcu @melaniefinch_

[Women in Earth & Environmental Science Australasia @WOMEESA]

We are thrilled to hear that our President @melaniefinch_ was awarded an @aipolsci Queensland Young Tall Poppy Science award 🤩

#YTPawards #TallPoppy #scienceawards @JCUGeoscience @jcu

[IsoTropics Geochemistry Lab @GeoChemTropics]

📸Finally working through some photo stock after busy times for all leading up to Goldschmidt 2023 🎊🔬. Here, an amazing visit to Thermo Fisher (Bremen) to check out collision/reaction cell MC-ICP-MS and tomorrow’s isotope dark horse (??), Orbitrap MS/MS 🧪👀🤙

[Women in Earth & Environmental Science Australasia @WOMEESA]

Our #Townsville meet-up is tomorrow morning ☕

Join like-minded #WOMEESA members for a coffee, and don't forget to tag us in any photos! 📸

#WomeninSTEM #genderequity #womeninearthscience

[IsoTropics Geochemistry Lab @GeoChemTropics]

Check out Elora’s awesome project comparing effects of groundwater sampling techniques on analytical results. Thank you @TNQDroughtHub for supporting Elora’s work in @JCUGeoscience at @jcu 🤙🏝💦🧪

[TNQ Drought Hub @TNQDroughtHub]

The TNQ Hub is pleased to announce the names and provide the research abstracts of four James Cook University students that are being awarded scholarship funding to support their drought resilience research during 2023. https://t.co/AQRYb1DFSG

[IsoTropics Geochemistry Lab @GeoChemTropics]

Check out the amazing work being done by @Thesaltygeochem getting out there in the world! We're studying shark life history with lasers 🔦 and X-rays 🩻 on 🦈 vertebrae. Thank you @saveourseas and @Ffisheries_lab for awesomeness and support! Follow the link below to read more.

[Save Our Seas @saveourseas]

Researcher @Thesaltygeochem & supervisor Dr Brandon Mahan aim to better understand the life history of the Speartooth Shark, a rare river shark that occupies the Adelaide River.
@jcu
https://t.co/VwNxe0j5uj

[IsoTropics Geochemistry Lab @GeoChemTropics]

@DrMcTest @marmite_usf @JCUGeoscience Ha indeed! PFA cleaning for this project alone has led to the dreaded #beakerblister from all the capping/uncapping whilst 🧼

[IsoTropics Geochemistry Lab @GeoChemTropics]

@DrMcTest @HelenWCam @CELTIC_lab Those atomic nitrile gloves though!!! 🤣

[IsoTropics Geochemistry Lab @GeoChemTropics]

😏😅 And when you tell said lab members to forget you saw them and to act “natural”…

[IsoTropics Geochemistry Lab @GeoChemTropics]

🤔🧐🤨When you turn a corner and by serendipity see many of the lab’s members hard at work polishing their ⁦@goldschmidt2023⁩ abstracts together. #teamwork_dreamwork ⁦@dafne_sk⁩ ⁦@nof_manestar⁩ and others!

[IsoTropics Geochemistry Lab @GeoChemTropics]

Love METAL ISOTOPES⚛️??? Love applied MEDICAL RESEARCH⚕️??? ⏰ ONE WEEK LEFT to submit an abstract to the ISOTOPE METALLOMICS session at GOLDSCHMIDT 2023 (with @Dr_IsoTony and IsoTropics' Dr Brandon Mahan). Please RT. https://t.co/B18GFiyBn5

[IsoTropics Geochemistry Lab @GeoChemTropics]

@RyanIckert Nice! Do you know the brand/cat# for the PFA coating?

[IsoTropics Geochemistry Lab @GeoChemTropics]

@RyanIckert Thanks for posting this! Wondering who manufactured these if not analab?

[IsoTropics Geochemistry Lab @GeoChemTropics]

@JCUGeoscience @jcu @CSTFA_JCU @enviro_sci @JCUConnect

[IsoTropics Geochemistry Lab @GeoChemTropics]

🌴🍽 2022 TEAM DINNER CLOSE-OUT 🍽🌴 So wonderful to have such a talented and vibrant group! Looking forward to more awesomeness in 2023 🤙🧪🌅

[IsoTropics Geochemistry Lab @GeoChemTropics]

ONE STEP CLOSER🧐🧪🧠: In a new Metallomics article, IsoTropics' Dr Brandon Mahan hypothesizes that a non-invasive early diagnostic for Alzheimer's may be designed from tracking metal isotopes (like potassium) in the bloodstream. @JCUGeoscience @jcu @JCUConnect

[James Cook Uni @jcu]

New research from a JCU-led study has proposed a hypothesis that higher levels of certain potassium isotopes (atoms) in a person’s bloodstream could be a way of detecting Alzheimer’s Disease much sooner than current methods allow.
Full story 👉 https://t.co/aEiOuxe16Y