New Ph.D. student Ben Brugman enters the mineral kitchen in January 2016!
Happy New Year’s Eve from Taipei!
Today Dr. Dorfman is at the Academia Sinica in Taipei presenting a seminar on spin transitions in Fe-bearing mantle bridgmanite!
AGU 2015
Dr. Dorfman presented a poster titled “Iron-carbonate interaction at Earth’s core-mantle boundary” at the 2015 American Geophysical Union Meeting in San Francisco!
Wayne State University seminar
Dr. Dorfman presented physical properties of iron-bearing silicates in the Earth and Environmental Science Seminar Series at Wayne State University!
Goldschmidt 2015
Dr. Dorfman presented a poster titled, “Electronic properties of iron in silicate glasses in the lower mantle” and chaired a session titled “Modeling the Mineralogy of the Deep Earth” at the 2015 Goldschmidt conference in Prague.
Call me Professor!
Breaking news: Dr. Dorfman has accepted a position starting Fall 2015 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at Michigan State University!
Microscopy: I found love
In love with a new image from yesterday’s work on the focused ion beam/scanning electron microscope! The sample center looks somewhat like a morel mushroom, with blobs of silicate in a network of iron-rich melt. A particularly cheerful blob can be found in the upper right corner of the region of interest.
Composition map by energy-dispersive X-ray analysis in scanning electron microscopy (colors tweaked).
Scanning electron photomicrograph of region of silicate heart (the new header).
Synchrotron run: APS 13-ID-D, October 2014
Back at GSECARS! Diffracting and laser heating to a new personal record, 6000 K at 1 Mbar!
Experimental Mineralogy @ MSU 