Dr G R T Jenkin

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• December 2010. NERC Isotope Geoscience Facilities Steering Committee. Geochronological underpinning of the crustal, mineralisation and geotectonic evolution of the Solomon Islands arc, SW Pacific. With M.G. Petterson, D.J. Smith, A.D Saunders, J. Naden (BGS), D. Mark (SUERC) & S. Noble (NIGL).  Co-I. £45000.
  
• June 2010. NERC Isotope Geoscience Facilities Steering Committee. Active and ancient geothermal systems in Tethyan ophiolites as examples of novel solutions for natural CO₂ sequestration. With M. Leng (NIGL), A.J. Boyce (SUERC), J. Naden and M. Styles (BGS). PI. £41,290.
• June 2010. NERC Open CASE studentship. Development of a genetic model for targeting gold mineralisation in the Scottish Dalradian. With D.A. Holwell (University of Leicester), A.J. Boyce and D. Mark (SUERC), C. Rice (University of Aberdeen), and J. Naden and A.G. Gunn (BGS). PI. £71,797 (NERC), £4500 (Scotgold).
• May 2010.  AMIRA via L'institute De Recherche Pour Le Developpement, Toulouse together with Ghana Education Trus fund and the College of Science and Engineering, University of Leicester. Use of regolith geochemistry to delineate potential gold targets in savanna regions of Ghana. PI. £69666 (IRD and GET), £15000 (CoS&E).
• March 2008. British Geological Survey. Host rock composition, pH buffering and chalcophile element mobility in magmatic-hydrothermal systems. PI. £33,500. Supplement £3200.
  
• June 2007. NERC Isotope Geoscience Facilities Steering Committee. Understanding metallogenesis and hydrothermal fluid biogeochemistry in emergent volcanoes—the example of the Milos natural palaeogeothermal laboratory. Co-I. £33,000.
  
• November 2006. NERC Isotope Geoscience Facilities Steering Committee. Constraining the Bitter Springs Stage Anomaly in Ethiopia. With M. Leng and D. Condon (NIGL), and M. Alene (University of Addis Ababa). PI. £29,000.
• November 2006. NERC Scientific Services Ion Microprobe facility. Quantifying the release of base metals into hydrothermal ore forming systems. PI. £10,000.
• November 2005. NERC Isotope Geoscience Facilities Steering Committee. Understanding magmatic-hydrothermal systems of an emergent volcano – Savo, Solomon Islands. With A.D. Saunders (Leicester), J. Naden (BGS), M. Petterson (BGS), A.J. Boyce and P. Alexandre (SUERC) and I. Millar (NIGL). PI. £39,000.
• October 2005. American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund. Global ocean oxygenation through geological time from selenium isotopes. PI. £43,000.
• January 2005. Science Faculty. Fee waiver for PhD Student Simon Jowitt. PI. £6,000.
• October 2004. British Geological Survey. The geometry and evolution of paleo-fluid-flow and the formation of volcanic-hosted massive sulphide (VHMS) deposits – the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus. Co-funding of PhD project for Simon Jowitt. PI. £24,000.
• November 2003. NERC Isotope Geoscience Facilities Steering Committee. The Inter-relationship of Sedimentation, Diagenesis, Volcanism and Mineralization at Parys Mountain, Anglesey. PI. £19,400.
• July 2003. The Royal Society. Unravelling depositional isotope signatures from Neoproterozoic Ethiopian carbonates. Developing World Study Visit. PI. £4,000.
• March 2002. The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851. Selenium isotope measurements of black shales. PI. £2,000.
• April 2001. The Royal Society. Mineralising fluids from basins? PI. £9,000.
• September 1999. NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory Steering Committee. The mineralogical and hydrothermal evolution of Chaucha porphyry Cu-Mo deposit, Ecuador: Why do most prospective porphyry systems fail to attain economic grade? PI. £10,500.
• June 1999. NERC Scientific Services Ion Microprobe facility. The effect of chemical exchange on closure temperature in isotopic systems. PI. £6,000.

Indicators of Esteem

• Keynote talk. Unravelling pristine isotope signals from Neoproterozoic carbonates. ISOPAL-2 workshop at the British Geological Survey, Keyworth, 23 November 2004.
• Invited talk. Geospeedometry using O and Sr isotopes. International Mineralogical Association, 1-6 September 2002, Edinburgh. Programme with abstracts, p.229.
• Invited talk. Sr-isotope diffusion profiles from Alpine marbles: what do they mean? Goldschmidt International Geochemistry Conference, 18-23 August 2002, Davos, Switzerland. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 66, A365.
• Keynote talk. Computer modelling of oxygen isotope distributions in metamorphic rocks. Metamorphic Studies Group/International Geological Correlation Programme meeting on stable isotopes as tracers of metamorphic processes, Edinburgh, April 1992.
• Lead Convenor - Geological Society Fermor Flagship meeting "Ore Deposits in an Evolving Earth", Burlington House, London, 7-9th September, 2011.
  
• Convenor -  Session on new advances in mineral deposit geology, at the Mineralogical Society Annual Meeting “Micro-Analysis, Processes, Time”, Edinburgh, 30 Aug - 2 Sept 2009.
  
• Convenor – Session on Mineral Deposits: Ancient systems, modern analogues, at the Geological Society of London Bicentennial Conference, 10-12 September 2007.
• Chair Mineral Deposits Studies Group of the Geological Society, 2010-present.
• Secretary/Treasurer Mineral Deposits Studies Group of the Geological Society, 2007-2010.
• Committee Member Mineral Deposits Studies Group of the Geological Society, 2004-2007.
• Organised the Mineral Deposits Studies Group AGM held at the University of Leicester (January 5-8, 2003).
• Member of the Society of Economic Geologists (2003); Fellow (2007).
• Since February 1998 list owner of geo-metamorphism (geo-metamorphism@jiscmail.ac.uk) – e-mail discussion list for over 600 academics worldwide.