Megan Athey

mathey@ualberta.ca


2024 MGeol Earth Sciences, University of St Andrews, Scotland. Dissertation title: Igneous Rocks of Loch Doon Pluton, Supervisor: Dr Sami Mikhai

For my PhD I will be investigating isotopes within diamonds, focusing on hydrogen. Despite being known to be present, based on FTIR spikes, little is understood about this common impurity. An aim of my project will to be develop a method to estimate hydrogen contents within diamonds using SIMS. It also hopes to better our understand of its relation within the diamond and what it can tell us about its origin in the mantle.