Excursion: National Centre for Isotope Geochemistry at Science Centre East, UCD

The visit will be led by Prof. Frank McDermott, who was appointed to the full-time lecturing staff in the UCD Dept. of Geology in 1999. He is currently Professor of Geochemistry at UCD and has been Director of the National Centre for Isotope Geochemistry since 2021. His research spans aqueous and low-temperature geochemistry, mineral weathering, isotope geology and U-series dating methods, palaeoclimatology and related atmospheric processes. He served as a Member of the Editorial Board for the international geochemistry journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta from 2014-2023.  He was elected as a Member of the Royal Irish Academy (MRIA) May 2020.