Earth & Solar System

We had a great time at the British Planetary Science Conference, last week! Thank you to the wonderful hosts, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of St Andrews
🌕 Six members of our group gave talks on all things lunar and meteoritical
☄️ Two of our newest PhD students presented posters
🥇 Dr Thomas Barrett won the UK Planetary Forum early career award and presented a keynote talk
🥇 Flo Wilkinson won a prize for best student poster
https://earthandsolarsystem.wordpress.com/2026/06/16/british-planetary-science-conference-2026/

Jodie is one of the new PhD students who joined our group at the start of this academic year. Most of us consider Manchester to be north, but Jodie previously studied at the University of St Andrews, so has moved a long way south! Her PhD focuses on trying to understand how meteorites are altered by heat and water.

We had a great time at the Science and Industry Museum on Tuesday! Huge congratulations to Khattab, Jacob & Mum, Heaton Family, Meteorite Masters and Jonesies who found all 12 of the meteorites in our Meteorite Hunt 🥇 And thanks to everyone who stopped to chat and have a go 🌝