Mark Boyd

PhD student @ESEImperial & @Grantham_IC with @SSCP_DTP
Research interests: planetary science // cosmic dust // palaeoclimate // meteoritics

[Mark Boyd @mr_boydy]

Check out our latest episode! And my poor pun efforts...

👀 Link in bio

[coepod @thecoepod]

New episode being released tomorrow on all platforms!!

33. Human Evolution 🦍🧍‍♂️🧍‍♀️

Just one of many hilarious but educational clips

#geology #podcast #evolution #humans

Thanks to @ESEImperial and @LamontEarth

[MetSoc2024 @MetSoc2024]

📸 #MetSoc2024 group photo ❤️

A big thank you to all participants, presenters, organizers, volunteers, sponsors, external providers, and conference hosts! 🙏👍

#Brussels #Belgium #WonderfulWeek

[Mark Boyd @mr_boydy]

Congratulations to #micrometeorite group colleague Isabelle Mattia for her talk at #metsoc2024

Exciting work on #helium isotopes and fossil micrometeorites!

[MetSoc2024 @MetSoc2024]

Oral sessions continue this afternoon at the Academy Palace #Brussels for #MetSoc2024 with in the Throne Room micrometeorite and cosmic dust followed at 3:15 pm by Disk Evolution, Chronology and Isotopes Anomalies

#micrometeorites #solarsystem #isotopes #cosmicdust

[Mark Boyd @mr_boydy]

Hugely grateful to attend this summer school on #exoplanets and geoastronomy - thank you to the organisers, lecturers, speakers and new colleagues!

Thoroughly enjoyed the cross-disciplinary atmosphere, bringing #geology & #astronomy together in our search for new worlds. 🪐🔭🌋

[Exoplanets Conference Series @ExoConf]

Exoplanets by the Lake II: Geoastronomy (21-26 July 2024)

[Mark Boyd @mr_boydy]

@_JordanStone_ @ExRdFestival @ESEImperial The mini Millennium Falcon completes it 😉

[Mark Boyd @mr_boydy]

Wait a second, I know that guy...

Looking forward to returning to @ExRdFestival 🎉 @ESEImperial planetary scientists will be there talking all things space - come say hi 👋🚀

#ExRdFest #space

[Science Museum @sciencemuseum]

📣 There's just one week to go until @ExRoadFestival! #ExRdFest📣

On 15-16 June, we're bringing together the arts and sciences in one weekend celebration with our South Kensington neighbours.

Join us for a free, jam-packed weekend full of fun activities: https://t.co/35dNUkLLqF

[coepod @thecoepod]

🚨 New episode: D U N E S

- Can sand speak to us?
- Does Timothée Chalamet know his rocks?
- "What in the world?" presents: Geomusic

All this and more 👇
https://t.co/A3QhH5WWDm

[Imperial Earth Science & Engineering @ESEImperial]

⛰️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Last week, our second-year Geology students returned from a field trip in Kinlochleven and the Glencoe Caldera, where they spent most of their time recording complex multiphase deformations.

[Mark Boyd @mr_boydy]

Congrats to @ESEImperial UGs for their hard work on the #Scotland #Highlands fieldtrip 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (and thanks for having me!)

Finished by visiting the famous Glencoe caldera (collapsed volcano) 🌋

Close to Hagrid's Hut (📽️location), magmas contain chunks of older, darker rocks🧙‍♂️

[Mark Boyd @mr_boydy]

Days 8-10 #Scotland

The stunning scenery of the #Highlands reveals the power of water, where glaciers and rivers have carved out the mountains and valleys over the last million years.

#fieldwork #geology

[Mark Boyd @mr_boydy]

Days 5-7 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #Scotland #Highlands

Enjoying some stunning scenery as @ESEImperial UGs fill in their maps.

#geology 🚨
"Cross-beds" are the dark squiggly lines above Colin, formed as grains roll down the side of a dune, and can tell us if the rocks are upside-down 🔃🪨

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Days 3 & 4 #Scotland #Highlands 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@ESEImperial students have been looking at quartzite and schist - baked and compressed rocks made of sand and mud.

While the students took to the slopes to find some rocks, Colin hitched a ride in the backpack.

#fieldwork #geology

[Mark Boyd @mr_boydy]

Great to be back in #Scotland #Highlands with @ESEImperial UGs.

Days 1 & 2

We've been exploring multiple phases of deformation - what happens when you fold a fold? 🤔

Colin the dinosaur enjoyed sitting on a big blob of ancient magma, called an "intrusion".

#geology #fieldwork

[Imperial Earth Science & Engineering @ESEImperial]

🔬🌌This #SpaceDay, learn how PhD student Mark Boyd (@mr_boydy) is studying planetary evolution by examining micro-sized dust grains found in space and on Earth...
https://t.co/pU82cKnUQi

[Imperial Earth Science & Engineering @ESEImperial]

🚨New @thecoepod episode🚨

🎙️💎Tune in to learn about diamonds: from their link to volcanoes to raining diamonds on Neptune & Uranus...
https://t.co/fQpOGaUmKs

[Mark Boyd @mr_boydy]

Colin the dino enjoyed getting back out in the field, complete with his brand new bobble hat.

Here, he's sitting on a #rock made of tiny organisms that settled at the bottom of the sea floor and were compressed together to form...chalk!

#fieldwork #geology #STEM

[coepod @thecoepod]

➡️Space odyssey to a metallic asteroid 🚀
➡️Earth's cosmic rain 🌧️
➡️An emperor's geological defeat ⚔️

We're joined by @rockbloke to talk all this and more! 👂👇

https://t.co/lDzxqOS7ta

[Mark Boyd @mr_boydy]

Excited to be joining #MarsDay24 again this year, lifting off 5th March 🚀

I'll be chatting all things "Maths in Space" @ 14:20 - come join, and check out the day's schedule. Registration still open 👇

@ESERO_UK @STEMLearningUK @spacegovuk @esa

[UK Space Agency @spacegovuk]

We're counting down to #MarsDay24! 🚀 🔴

Join us for this out-of-this-world event packed with live link-ups, activities, talks and Q&As with guest speakers from the UK Space Agency, @ESA and @NASA. ☄️

Check out this year's programme and register 👉 https://t.co/8huDPqMSB9

[coepod @thecoepod]

Want the full story on the #Iceland #eruption?

Tune in to our latest episode - we're joined by Dr Volcano @dougalearth, to talk fire, ice and much more! 🔥🧊

https://t.co/1hTP4Dn4cz

#volcano #geology #podcast

[ARCHIVED NASA Exoplanets @NASAExoplanets]

We've confirmed 5,569 planets beyond our solar system so far. Some may have jewels blowing in their winds, others could have glass. We've detected burning clouds of black atmosphere and clouds made of quartz. Each is a marvel. https://t.co/UbAUiqDqtW