Ben Buse

Or is it to aid sale of tescan SEMs in Japan?

I see @shimadzuuk.bsky.social have taken over tescan, will this lead to increased marketing and potentially sales of Shimadzu EPMA in Europe and UK? I don't think there is currently any.
www.shimadzu.com/sites/shimad...

How Heat Pumps & Geo-exchange will help Princeton University decarbonize YouTube video by Office of Sustainability at Princeton University

Universities provide an interesting testbed for adopting innovative technologies. Here is Princeton using what appears to be a very large ground source heat pump with 2,000 (!) boreholes.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjdS...

American Mineralogist:
Kimberlite emplacement conditions through experimentally produced reaction rims on ilmenite macrocrysts

Lydia Fairhurst, Yana Fedortchouk, Michael Powell

doi.org/10.2138/am-2...

Lithospheric mantle cooling recorded by zoned diamonds: forward modelling the nitrogen aggregation thermometer Continental growth, buoyancy and stability are key processes in the evolution of the Earth and are governed by temperature. To constrain the thermal h…

Great to hear Matt Wincott talking about his paper and thesis work, looking at calculating with models temperatures and cooling rates from zoned diamonds, which is pretty cool, and involved some nice CL images from SEM and some EPMA
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X2600083X

Statement from RMetS on removal of funding for the FAAM aircraft by NERC, urging continued dialogue between funders, government and the scientific community to reassess the long-term implications of this decision. (1/4)

www.rmets.org/news/stateme...

BBC Radio 4 - Lent Talks, Power and Support A series of personal reflections on power.

Radio Appearance 🎙️

Yesterday, Dr Miro Griffiths appeared on BBC Radio Four Lent Talks, delivering a thoughtful essay exploring power and support.

Curious to hear Miro's insights? Listen here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002s2zj

Here’s the EMAS conference colume published end of January. Includes paper by Ery Hughes on EPMA of glass and a couple of papers looking at reflection zone plate spectromter alternative to JEOL SXES
www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epj...

I’m so touched to be recognised by the @bristoluni.bsky.social with their 2026 Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award.

The picture of me as an undergraduate in the early 1980s presents a vivid reminder of just how long I’ve been involved with this work!

www.bristol.ac.uk/alumni/alumn...

A free, open-source method for automated mapping of quantitative mineralogy from energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy scans of rock thin sections Abstract. Quantitative mapping of minerals in rock thin sections delivers data on mineral abundance, size, and spatial arrangement that are useful for many geoscience and engineering disciplines. Alth...

This looks interesting always nice to use free open source programs where possible and rapid elemental mapping of thin sections is now possible
gi.copernicus.org/articles/14/...

Microanalysis Technician:South Kensington

For people looking for an x-ray microanalysis job
jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Japanese electronics! A new electron microprobe will let us study the chemistry of minerals in micron scale detail.

QGIS and Microanalysis: Combining Multiple Software Packages to Provide a Spatial Record Abstract. QGIS is a well-established free open-source geographical information system that provides the ability to combine microscopic and analytical infor

Here’s an article I wrote hoping to open up discussion and bring it to attention, whilst there are more experienced people doing this.
Unfortunately seems to have lost supplementary data hoping it will be rectified
academic.oup.com/mt/article-a...

With accompanying documentation
hezel2000.github.io/mag4/micropr...

This looks at interesting paper
dx.doi.org/10.2138/am-2...