{"id":20801,"date":"2020-03-05T13:24:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T13:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/people\/roberts-nicholas\/"},"modified":"2020-03-13T10:59:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T10:59:51","slug":"roberts-nicholas","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/people\/roberts-nicholas\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Nick Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t<section class=\"content-section\" id=\"tabs\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sea-background-f\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"content-menu\"><li class=\"active\"><h5><a href=\"#tabs-1\">Biography<\/a><\/h5><\/li><li ><h5><a href=\"#tabs-2\">Research<\/a><\/h5><\/li><li ><h5><a href=\"#tabs-3\">Publications<\/a><\/h5><\/li><li ><h5><a href=\"#tabs-4\">Awards &amp; associations<\/a><\/h5><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container tabs-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-1\"><div class=\"col-12\"><p><strong>Nicholas Roberts&#8217;s Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>2012 &#8211; present: NIGL-BGS ICP-MS Laboratory Manager<\/li>\n<li>2010 &#8211; 2012: NIGL Research Scientist<\/li>\n<li>2006 &#8211; 2010: PhD University of Leicester<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-2\"><div class=\"col-12\"><p><strong>Research interests<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>Analytical developments in LA-ICP-MS<\/li>\n<li>Igneous and metamorphic petrology<\/li>\n<li>Geochronology of fractures and fluid flow<\/li>\n<li>Precambrian geology and supercontinent history<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-3\"><div class=\"col-12\"><div id=\"centeringBox\" align=\"center\">\n<div id=\"widthBox\">\n<div id=\"midCol\">\n<div class=\"sectionBox\">\n<div class=\"sectionBody\">\n<p class=\"clearLeft\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Key papers<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Drake, H, Heim, C, Roberts, N M, Zack, T, Tillberg, M, Broman, C, Ivarsson, M, Whitehouse, M J, and \u00c5str\u00f6m, M E. 2017. Isotopic evidence for microbial production and consumption of methane in the upper continental crust throughout the Phanerozoic eon. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 470, pp.108-118.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Spencer, C J, Roberts, N M W, and Santosh, M. 2017. Growth, destruction, and preservation of Earth&#8217;s continental crust. Earth-Science Reviews, 172, pp.87-106.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Roberts, N M, Yang, Q Y, and Santosh, M. 2018. Rapid oxygen diffusion during high temperature alteration of zircon. Scientific reports, 8(1), p.3661.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Drake, H, Mathurin, F A, Zack, T, Scha\u0308fer, T, Roberts, N M, Whitehouse, M, Karlsson, A, Broman, C, and \u00c5stro\u0308m, M E. 2018. Incorporation of metals into calcite in a deep anoxic granite aquifer. Environmental science &amp; technology, 52(2), pp.493-502.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Slagstad, T, Roberts, N M, Coint, N, H\u00f8y, I, Sauer, S, Kirkland, C L, Marker, M, R\u00f8hr, T S, Henderson, I H, Stormoen, M A, and Sk\u00e5r, \u00d8. 2018. Magma-driven, high-grade metamorphism in the Sveconorwegian Province, southwest Norway, during the terminal stages of Fennoscandian Shield evolution. Geosphere, 14(2), pp.861-882.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Roberts, N M, and Santosh, M. 2018. Capturing the Mesoarchean Emergence of Continental Crust in the Coorg Block, Southern India. Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029\/2018GL078114<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Roberts, N M, Rasbury, E T, Parrish, R R, Smith, C J, Horstwood, M S, and Condon, D J. 2017. A calcite reference material for LA\u2010ICP\u2010MS U\u2010Pb geochronology. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 18(7), pp.2807-2814.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Published outputs<\/strong><br \/>\n<a class=\"bodyLink\" href=\"http:\/\/nora.nerc.ac.uk\/view\/author\/5548.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NERC Open Research Archive \u2014 Nick Roberts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-4\"><div class=\"col-12\"><p><strong>Boards and committees<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>2017 &#8211; 2019 : Editorial Board for Geology<\/li>\n<li>2016 &#8211; ongoing : Secretary, International Association of Gondwana Research<\/li>\n<li>2013 &#8211; 2017 : Committee member, Metamorphic Studies Group<\/li>\n<li>2013 : Associate Editor for Geoscience Frontiers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"tags":[],"bgs_role":[627],"level":[],"location":[154],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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