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Location
The Departmentis situated in the Irvine Building, North Street, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9AL. It is a division of the School of Geography and Geosciences, at the University of St Andrews.

History
The Department of Earth Sciences at the University of St Andrews was established in 2010 coinciding with the appointment of Professor Peter Cawood, formerly of the University of Western Australia and winner of the Mawson Medal, awarded by the Australian Academy of Science, of 2008. Geology has been taught at St Andrews since 1903, but its connections with the earliest beginnings of the subject go back to the 17th and 18th centuries with John Playfair (graduate of St Andrews and Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh) and Matthew Forster Heddle (Chair in Chemistry and one of the founders of the Mineralogical Society).

Degree Programme
Between 2009 and 2011 the Department's Geology (formerly Geosciences) programme ranked first in the UK for graduate prospects and within the top 3 of the overall league tables in both the Independent Complete University Guide and The Times Good University Guide. The programme is endorsed by The Geological Society.

Facilities
The Department maintains five research laboratories which run: inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, X-ray fluorescence, X-ray diffraction, isotope ratio mass spectrometry, electron microprobe, scanning electron microscope, luminescence spectroscopy and dating, and numerous sub- and near-surface geophysics equipment for land and marine use. The Department also has access to the research vessel Envoy.

Expertise
Expertise includes igneous petrology, metamorphic and sedimentary geology, mineralogy, geochronology, basin analysis isotope geochemistry, geomagnetism, marine surveying and geophysics. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise submission, 60% of the science was recognised as "world-leading" or "internationally excellent".

Notable Alumni

 * Maureen Muggeridge (graduated 1972). Ms Muggeridge discovered one of the largest diamond deposits in the world, at Smoke Creek in Australia.
 * Professor Neil Alford. Prof Alford is Head of Department of Materials and Deputy Principal(Res)for Engineering at Imperial College, London.
 * Emeritus Professor Fergus Gibb (graduated 1963, PhD 1966). Prof Gibb is Professor of Petrology & Geochemistry, and a Member of the Immobilisation Science Laboratory, at Sheffield University.
 * Assistant Professor Gordon Osinski (graduated 1999). Prof Osinski is Deputy Director of the Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration at the University of Western Ontario.

Current Staff

 * Dr Nicky Allison
 * Mr Stuart Allison
 * Dr Richard Bates
 * Mr Angus Calder
 * Professor Peter Cawood
 * Dr Jen Chambers
 * Dr Bruno Dhuime
 * Dr Colin Donaldson
 * Dr Adrian Finch
 * Deputy Principal Professor Chris Hawkesworth
 * Mr Donald Herd
 * Mr Andy Mackie
 * Dr Tony Prave
 * Dr Tim Raub
 * Dr Ruth Robinson
 * Mr Ross Somerville
 * Dr Ed Stephens
 * Dr Ed Tipper
 * Dr Nick Tosca

Honorary Staff

 * Mr Richard Batchelor. Batchelor is Chair of GeoHeritage Fife, an organisation whichs help to preserve Fife's geological and geomorphological sites.
 * Professor Samuel Bowring. Bowring is a member of the Radiogenic Isotope Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
 * Professor Bruce Chappell. Chappell is Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Wollongong in Australia.
 * Professor Anthony Fallick. Fallick is Professor of Isotope Geosciences at the University of Glasgow in Scotland.
 * Dr Henrik Friis. Friis is Managing Director of HF Minerals Research and Consultancy in Aberdeen, Scotland.
 * Professor John McManus. McManus is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society for his distinguished contribution to the work of the Society or to the advancement of Geography in Scotland.
 * Dr Grahame Oliver. Oliver is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Singapore.