James Richard Darling Portrait

Professor James Darling

Associate Head (Research and Innovation)

James.Darling@port.ac.uk

PhD Supervisor

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Faculty of Science and Health School of the Environment and Life Sciences Environmental Geography and Geosciences Sustainability and the environment Centre for Applied Geosciences

Biography

I am a geologist who specialises in the application of geochemical and microstructural techniques to Earth and planetary science. My research group aims to understand the origin and evolution of planetary crusts, and how they have been shaped by meteorite impacts through time. Recently, this has involved studying meteorite impact structures, some of Earth’s oldest rocks and meteorites from the Moon, Mars and the asteroid belt. We also apply the analytical tools developed for this research into the study of processes that lead to major ore deposits, particularly of metals that are required for the transition to low-carbon economies.

Research interests

  • Dating solar system processes via combined imaging, EBSD and U-Th-Pb isotope analysis of achondritic meteorites
  • Shock metamorphism and its effects on key chemical records of planetary evolution, especially the isotopic systematics of volatile and moderately volatile elements
  • The formation and differentiation of meteorite impact melt sheets
  • Origin and evolution of Earth's early crust, through study of sites such as the >3.8 billion year old Nuvvuagittuq greenstone belt, Superior Province, Canada
  • Development of novel techniques for in-situ geochemical and isotopic measurements by atom probe tomography, SIMS in-situ ID-TIMS and Laser Ablation ICP-MS
  • Application of novel isotopic and structural tools to the dating and tracing of ore-formation

Research outputs

2024

Birosca, S., Dandekar, T. R., Darling, J., Dunlop, J., Knox-Johnston, R., Shishavan, B. H.

28 Aug 2024, In: International Journal of Cast Metals Research, 6p.

Benedix, G. K., Darling, J. R., Hamilton, J. S., Herd, C. D. K., Johnson, B. C., Lagain, A., Melosh, H. J., Sharp, T. G., Sheen, A. I., Tornabene, L. L., Walton, E. L., Wiggins, S. E.

16 Aug 2024, In: Science Advances. 10, 33, 9p., eadn2378

Anand, M., Chamberlain, K., Darling, J., Dunlop, J., Hyde, B. C., Moser, D., Rider-Stokes, B. G., Schmitt, A., Tait, K., White, L.

15 Jun 2024, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 636, 11p., 118694

Darling, J., Evan, O., Gross, J., Howarth, G., Johnsen, R., Lapen, T., McQuaig, D., Ostwald, A., Righter, M., Udry, A.

15 May 2024, In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 373

Chapman, G., Darling, J. R., Dunlop, J., Fowler, M., Metcalfe, J. H., Strachan, R. A.

6 May 2024, In: Journal of the Geological Society. 181, 20p., jgs2023-139

Alesbrook, L. s., Almeida, N. v., Anderson, I., Bagot, P. a. j., Bates, H., Behnsen, J., Black, K., Bland, P. a., Bridges, J., Burchell, M. j., Daly, L., Darling, J., Einsle, J. f., Floyd, C. j., Forman, L. v., Franchi, I., Genge, M. j., Griffin, S., Hallatt, D., Hallis, L. j., Hicks, L., Johnson, D., Jones, R., King, A. j., Lee, M. r., Macente, A., Mansour, H., Martin, P. m. c., Mitchell, J. t., Montgomery, M., O'brien, A., Parsons, M., Piazolo, S., Rollinson, G., Russell, S. s., Salge, T., Schofield, P. f., Smith, C., Spathis, V., Stephen, N. r., Suttle, M. D., Taylor, R., Trimby, P. w., Van ginneken, M., Vasseur, J., Wadsworth, F. b., Westmoreland, D., Willcocks, F. m., Worden, R., Wozniakiewicz, P. j.

15 Apr 2024, In: Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Darling, J. R., Herd, C. D. K., Schwarz, W. H., Sheen, A. I., Staddon, L. G., Tait, K. T.

1 Feb 2024, In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

2023

Anand, M., Darling, J. R., Degli-Alessandrini, G., Franchi, I., Greenwood, R. C., Rider-Stokes, B. G., Tartèse, R., White, L. F., Whitehouse, M. J.

27 Nov 2023, In: Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 17p.

Anand, M., Baziotis, I., Darling, J., Ferrière, L., Hu, S., Jeon, H., Kuppili, V. S., Rae, A. S., Shorttle, O., Tang, F., Walton, C. R., Whitehouse, M. J., Černok, A.

15 Oct 2023, In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 359

Bruand, E., Cotte, M., Darling, J., Dhuime, B., Fowler, M., Moreira, H., Parat, F., Philippot, P., Seixas, L., Storey, C., Villalobos-Portillo, E.

1 Oct 2023, In: Nature Geoscience. 16