Biography
Dr Emma Tomlinson is Associate Professor of igneous petrology at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Her research spans a broad range of fields and timescales from understanding the origin and evolution of the Archaean lithosphere and to unravelling the frequency-composition evolution of Quaternary magmatic systems through tephrochronology and magmatic evolution. Her research is focused on the geochemistry of minerals and glasses, with a focus on the application of laser ablation inductively coupled mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) and energy dispersive spectrometry (EDS) to challenging elements and sample matrices. This includes developing methods for the analysis of small sample areas (tephra, microlite-rich glass, exsolved phases), fully quantitative element mapping and determining concentrations of novel element groups (e.g. energy critical elements, halogens) and low abundance elements (REE in olivine).
Role
- Funded Investigator
Institution
- TCD
Research Area
- Earth System Change, Platform Technologies
Expertise
- Geochemistry, Climate and Environment, Environmental Geoscience
