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Dr Samantha Hammond

Project Officer (Environment, Earth & Ecosystems)

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sam.hammond@open.ac.uk

Biography

Professional biography

I am a project officer in the Geochemistry Group at the Open University.  I run the triple quadrupole ICP-MS instrument, as well as the clean laboratory facilities.  In the group, we analyse a variety of geological and environmental samples to determine both major and trace element compositions

We welcome any enquiries relating to commercial analyses or academic collaborations.  Please get in touch by email for further information.

Publications

Journal Article

Silicon isotopes reveal the impact of fjordic processes on the transport of reactive silicon from glaciers to coastal regions (2024)

Vanadium isotope fractionation during plutonic differentiation and implications for the isotopic composition of the upper continental crust (2024)

A mineralogical and isotopic study of the historic monomict eucrite Padvarninkai (2024)

Chalcophile element degassing at an active continental arc volcano (2024)

Geological insights from the newly discovered granite of Sif Island between Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers (2024)

Trace Element Emissions Vary With Lava Flow Age and Thermal Evolution During the Fagradalsfjall 2021–2023 Eruptions, Iceland (2024)

Focused Mid‐Crustal Magma Intrusion During Continental Break‐Up in Ethiopia (2023)

The Magmatic Evolution and the Regional Context of the 1835 AD Osorno Volcano Products (41°06’S, Southern Chile) (2022)

Tracing Volatiles, Halogens, and Chalcophile Metals During Melt Evolution at the Tolbachik Monogenetic Field, Kamchatka (2022)

Lithium isotope behaviour during basalt weathering experiments amended with organic acids (2022)

Quaternary collision-zone magmatism of the Greater Caucasus (2022)

The cadmium and zinc isotope compositions of the silicate Earth – implications for terrestrial volatile accretion (2022)

Constraints on the petrologic history of gabbroic shergottite Northwest Africa 6963 from pyroxene zoning profiles and electron backscattered diffraction (2021)

Cavezzo—The double face of a meteorite: Mineralogy, petrography, and geochemistry of a very unusual chondrite (2021)

Mush remobilisation and mafic recharge: A study of the crystal cargo of the 2013–17 eruption at Volcán de Colima, Mexico (2021)

Thallium elemental and isotopic systematics in ocean island lavas (2021)

Cadmium isotope fractionation reveals genetic variation in Cd uptake and translocation by Theobroma cacao and role of natural resistance-associated macrophage protein 5 and heavy metal ATPase-family transporters (2020)

Evolution of the melt source during protracted crustal anatexis: An example from the Bhutan Himalaya (2020)

Cu and Zn isotope fractionation during extreme chemical weathering (2019)

Chalcophile element processing beneath a continental arc stratovolcano (2019)

Experimental determination of Li isotope behaviour during basalt weathering (2019)

Localised heating and intensive magmatic conditions prior to the 22–23 April 2015 Calbuco volcano eruption (Southern Chile) (2019)

Role of Asian summer monsoon subsystems in the inter-hemispheric progression of deglaciation (2019)

Thallium concentration and thallium isotope composition of lateritic terrains (2018)

Thallium Mass Fraction and Stable Isotope Ratios of Sixteen Geological Reference Materials (2018)

Geochemical fingerprints of glacially eroded bedrock from West Antarctica: Detrital thermochronology, radiogenic isotope systematics and trace element geochemistry in Late Holocene glacial-marine sediments (2018)

Antarctic climate, Southern Ocean circulation patterns, and deep water formation during the Eocene (2017)

The mineralogy, petrology, and composition of anomalous eucrite Emmaville (2017)

A geochemical study of the winonaites: Evidence for limited partial melting and constraints on the precursor composition (2017)

Robustness of fossil fish teeth for seawater neodymium isotope reconstructions under variable redox conditions in an ancient shallow marine setting (2016)

Quantifying noble gas contamination during terrestrial alteration in Martian meteorites from Antarctica (2013)

Fully protected glycosylated zinc (II) phthalocyanine shows high uptake and photodynamic cytotoxicity in MCF-7 cancer cells (2013)

Tectonic implications of garnet-bearing mantle xenoliths exhumed by Quaternary magmatism in the Hangay dome, central Mongolia (2010)

High-temperature lithium isotope fractionation: Insights from lithium isotope diffusion in magmatic systems (2007)

Presentation / Conference

Chemical fractionation in terrestrial geysers: implications for cryovolcanic plumes at ocean worlds (2024)

Insights into the origins and composition of cryovolcanic plume particles from natural and experimental analogues (2023)

Geochemistry and microbiology of geothermal aerosols in Iceland: implications for biosignatures in the plumes of Enceladus (2023)

Crystallization history of gabbroic shergottite NWA 6963 as revealed by pyroxene zoning (2017)

Chemical evolution of Himalayan leucogranites based on an O, U-Pb and Hf study of zircon (2015)

Cold desert alteration of Martian meteorites: mixed news from noble gases, trace elements and oxygen isotopes (2012)

Mineralogical and geochemical investigations of mare basalts from the Appollo Collection (2008)

Thesis

Lithium and Li isotopes as tracers of subduction zone processes (2006)