Mineralogical Society Distinguished Lecture at NUI Galway
Wednesday, 21 November 2007 'Minerals, metals, molecules and
microbes' The Mineralogical Society Distinguished Lecturers
programme comes to the Environmental Change Institute, NUI
Galway, on Thursday 29 November, with a lecture by Professor
David Vaughan of the University of Manchester. Professor Vaughan
will deliver a lecture on "Minerals, metals, molecules and
microbes: environmental mineralogy and sustainability", at 8pm,
with refreshments from 7.30pm, in the Orbsen Building Seminar
Room. Environmental mineralogy is the study of minerals with the
purpose of understanding and assessing their influence in the
movement and fixing of organic and inorganic contaminants at and
near the earth's surface. According to Professor David Vaughan,
of the University of Manchester, "Metals are critically
important both as resources and potential pollutants.
Understanding how they can be concentrated or dispersed at the
Earth's surface depends on new knowledge, at t