Dan Smith in the Solomon Islands

Lecturer in Applied and Environmental Geology

Crustal Processes Group

Direct contact:

Tel: 0116 252 5355

Email: djs40@le.ac.uk

Research interests:

My primary interests are in the development of magmatic-hydrothermal systems, including the genesis of magmas in island arc settings; the release of volatiles from the crystallising magmas; the evolution of fluids in hydrothermal systems by mineral precipitation and water-rock interaction; and the products of magmatic-hydrothermal systems including economic mineralisation.

More recently I have been working with the BRitish Geological Survey on Carbon Capture and Storage, and I have specific interest in the fluid-rock reactions involved in saline aquifer sequestration.

My PhD was a study of the magmatic and hydrothermal systems of Savo, Solomon Islands. This project was sponsored by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the British Geological Survey, with additional funding from the Society of Economic Geologists. I was supervised by Gawen Jenkin, Andy Saunders and Mike Petterson (Leicester);  and Jon Naden (BGS); and Adrian Boyce (Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre). More details on this project can be found here. 

Recent publications 

• Smith, D.J., Jenkin, G.R.T., Naden, J., Boyce, A.J., Petterson, M.G., Toba, T., Darling, W.G., Taylor, H. and Millar, I.L., 2010. Anomalous alkaline sulphate fluids produced in a magmatic hydrothermal system - Savo, Solomon Islands. Chemical Geology, 275(1-2): 35-49.
• Smith, D.J., Petterson, M.G., Saunders, A.D., Millar, I.L., Jenkin, G.R.T., Toba, T., Naden, J. and Cook, J.M., 2009b. The petrogenesis of sodic island arc magmas at Savo volcano, Solomon Islands. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 158(6): 785-801.
• Smith, D.J., Noy, D.J., Holloway, S. and Chadwick, R.A., 2010. The impact of boundary conditions on CO₂ storage capacity estimation in aquifers. Energy Procedia, In press.

Further details of presentations, prizes, grants and participation in short courses can be found here.