Dr David McNamara
@mcnamadd.bsky.social
Geologist fascinated by crustal fluid flow, energy & earthquakes. Love geothermal 🌋, views my own. #lgbtstem 🇮🇪🏳️🌈🇬🇧🇪🇺🇳🇿 (he/him)
PhD Project Alert 🚨! Elisabetta Mariani and I are advertising a new PhD project with the TARGET Centre of Doctoral Training - Powering the Green Transition: Structural Clues to UK and Ireland Molybdenum Resources. Links below:
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July 2, 2025 at 9:28 PM
PhD Project Alert 🚨! Elisabetta Mariani and I are advertising a new PhD project with the TARGET Centre of Doctoral Training - Powering the Green Transition: Structural Clues to UK and Ireland Molybdenum Resources. Links below:
target.le.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
target.le.ac.uk/how-to-apply/
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target.le.ac.uk/how-to-apply/
Everywhere you look in Troodos - celadonite, a common ocean crust alteration mineral. Such an amazing trip to see the Troodos Ophiolite in Cyprus.
May 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Everywhere you look in Troodos - celadonite, a common ocean crust alteration mineral. Such an amazing trip to see the Troodos Ophiolite in Cyprus.
Super proud of all my second years on their mapping training field trip! They all worked really hard and I think they learned a lot and hopefully enjoyed the trip! @liverpooluni.bsky.social
April 4, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Super proud of all my second years on their mapping training field trip! They all worked really hard and I think they learned a lot and hopefully enjoyed the trip! @liverpooluni.bsky.social
Team UK on IODP Expedition 395! Good times. 😍
March 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Team UK on IODP Expedition 395! Good times. 😍
Cataloging samples of oceanic crust from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge we drilled a couple years ago. Plenty of exciting data coming out soon - just gotta keep up the writing! 😅😓
March 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Cataloging samples of oceanic crust from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge we drilled a couple years ago. Plenty of exciting data coming out soon - just gotta keep up the writing! 😅😓
Looking at Iceland’s geologically shaped surface from the air is amazing. 😍
November 16, 2024 at 3:41 PM
Looking at Iceland’s geologically shaped surface from the air is amazing. 😍
Feeling spoiled this holiday to have hotels with stunning views of Vesuvius and of Etna!
September 14, 2024 at 7:56 AM
Feeling spoiled this holiday to have hotels with stunning views of Vesuvius and of Etna!
Found some amazing gold structures in the Silurian metasediments while on a trip back home to County Down. These are at Kearney shore on the Ards Peninsula.
August 13, 2024 at 8:53 AM
Found some amazing gold structures in the Silurian metasediments while on a trip back home to County Down. These are at Kearney shore on the Ards Peninsula.
Columnar jointing with multiple orientations in lava flows in the Nevados de Chilean area of Chile! 🤩
February 21, 2024 at 12:35 PM
Columnar jointing with multiple orientations in lava flows in the Nevados de Chilean area of Chile! 🤩
Hiking, geothermal, and beautiful surface alteration minerals at Nevados De Chilean - amazing field trip with our Chilean hosts and experts Profs Gloria Arancibia and Diego Morata. 😍
February 1, 2024 at 11:31 AM
Hiking, geothermal, and beautiful surface alteration minerals at Nevados De Chilean - amazing field trip with our Chilean hosts and experts Profs Gloria Arancibia and Diego Morata. 😍
Just staring longingly at the mineral samples on display at the NY Museum of Natural History - this pink stunner is elbaite tourmaline.
December 28, 2023 at 3:20 PM
Just staring longingly at the mineral samples on display at the NY Museum of Natural History - this pink stunner is elbaite tourmaline.
It’s finally out and published - John Wheeler, Mark Pearce, Dave Prior and I publish some of my old PhD work showing evidence for diffusion creep in omphacite from Italian eclogites . 🥳
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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December 19, 2023 at 12:42 PM
It’s finally out and published - John Wheeler, Mark Pearce, Dave Prior and I publish some of my old PhD work showing evidence for diffusion creep in omphacite from Italian eclogites . 🥳
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Did the last AGU poster yesterday - was an exciting one as I was presenting some work from my PhD (about 14 years ago) that we unearthed and decided to polish up! Looking at diffusion creep in eclogite formation! Thanks again to all who stopped by for chats!
Poster is online for AGU!
Poster is online for AGU!
December 15, 2023 at 12:01 AM
Did the last AGU poster yesterday - was an exciting one as I was presenting some work from my PhD (about 14 years ago) that we unearthed and decided to polish up! Looking at diffusion creep in eclogite formation! Thanks again to all who stopped by for chats!
Poster is online for AGU!
Poster is online for AGU!
Great time presenting Katharina’s work on wireline in the Bjorn Drift sediments yesterday - fun project to work on!
December 13, 2023 at 6:00 PM
Great time presenting Katharina’s work on wireline in the Bjorn Drift sediments yesterday - fun project to work on!
Alteration poster here!
December 13, 2023 at 5:59 PM
Alteration poster here!
Ok - I’m here and ready to start doing AGU 2023 😅
First up today a poster from team alteration from IODP EXP395 showing off some of our ship board data from core logging across the mid Atlantic Ridge. Shout out to Gabriel Pasquet for leading this poster! 💪🏻
Come say hi!
First up today a poster from team alteration from IODP EXP395 showing off some of our ship board data from core logging across the mid Atlantic Ridge. Shout out to Gabriel Pasquet for leading this poster! 💪🏻
Come say hi!
December 11, 2023 at 5:57 PM
Ok - I’m here and ready to start doing AGU 2023 😅
First up today a poster from team alteration from IODP EXP395 showing off some of our ship board data from core logging across the mid Atlantic Ridge. Shout out to Gabriel Pasquet for leading this poster! 💪🏻
Come say hi!
First up today a poster from team alteration from IODP EXP395 showing off some of our ship board data from core logging across the mid Atlantic Ridge. Shout out to Gabriel Pasquet for leading this poster! 💪🏻
Come say hi!
Had such a great time in Philadelphia visiting Temple University and talking about geomechanics and geothermal. Thank you for hosting me and thanks Philadelphia for the wonderful stay! 🤩
November 8, 2023 at 10:51 AM
Had such a great time in Philadelphia visiting Temple University and talking about geomechanics and geothermal. Thank you for hosting me and thanks Philadelphia for the wonderful stay! 🤩
As a geologist I immediately beelined to this painting ‘The Eruption of Vesuvius’ by Pierre-Jacques Volaire at the Art Institute of Chicago. I kept thinking the silhouetted people were early volcanologists. 😝
October 29, 2023 at 1:26 AM
As a geologist I immediately beelined to this painting ‘The Eruption of Vesuvius’ by Pierre-Jacques Volaire at the Art Institute of Chicago. I kept thinking the silhouetted people were early volcanologists. 😝
A great week spent with Justin Dodd at NIU working on hydrothermal alteration! 🤩 That and some light horse riding, pumpkins, and fall foliage! 😅 I’m doing sabbatical right, yeah?
October 28, 2023 at 12:41 AM
A great week spent with Justin Dodd at NIU working on hydrothermal alteration! 🤩 That and some light horse riding, pumpkins, and fall foliage! 😅 I’m doing sabbatical right, yeah?
Congrats to Dr Effat Behboudi on publishing her latest PhD paper on the stress magnitude determination of the #Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand. A challenging piece of science with a satisfying result! 👏
#Geology #EarthScience #OA
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#Geology #EarthScience #OA
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October 20, 2023 at 2:40 PM
Congrats to Dr Effat Behboudi on publishing her latest PhD paper on the stress magnitude determination of the #Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand. A challenging piece of science with a satisfying result! 👏
#Geology #EarthScience #OA
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
#Geology #EarthScience #OA
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Had a great time looking at some greisen outcrop down in Cornwall last week! Stunning banding effects created by mineral alteration in this granite.
October 8, 2023 at 1:30 PM
Had a great time looking at some greisen outcrop down in Cornwall last week! Stunning banding effects created by mineral alteration in this granite.
A lovely week of serpentinites and granites down in Cornwall with a handful of our geothermal researchers as part of our Royal Society exchange with Profs Gloria Arancibia and Diego Morata from Chile! Wonderful geothermal chats! 🌋😍
October 6, 2023 at 9:10 AM
A lovely week of serpentinites and granites down in Cornwall with a handful of our geothermal researchers as part of our Royal Society exchange with Profs Gloria Arancibia and Diego Morata from Chile! Wonderful geothermal chats! 🌋😍
Some visuals to start life off here at Bluesky.
Hello little volcanic crater - quick pic of some of the volcanic scenery we were treated to driving north from Reykjavik last week. 😍
Hello little volcanic crater - quick pic of some of the volcanic scenery we were treated to driving north from Reykjavik last week. 😍
September 27, 2023 at 8:32 PM
Some visuals to start life off here at Bluesky.
Hello little volcanic crater - quick pic of some of the volcanic scenery we were treated to driving north from Reykjavik last week. 😍
Hello little volcanic crater - quick pic of some of the volcanic scenery we were treated to driving north from Reykjavik last week. 😍