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| Personal Information | ||
| Name | Goodhue, Robbie | |
| Main Department | Geology | |
| College Title | Senior Experimental Officer | |
| goodhuer@tcd.ie | ||
| College Tel | +353 1 896 1419 | |
| Web | http://people.tcd.ie/goodhuer | |
| Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies |
| Details | Date From | Date To |
| Management Committee Member of the European Science Foundation funded Committee of Senior Officials for Scientific and Technical Research (COST), Action D42: Chemical Interactions between Cultural Artefacts and Indoor Environment (EnviArt). | 2007 |
| Description of Research Interests |
| My main research focuses on the behaviour of organic matter and clay minerals in sedimentary rocks during thermal maturation. I use transmitted and reflectance microscopy, x-ray diffraction and isotope ratio mass spectrometry to assess changes in colour, vitrinite reflectance, crystallinity and ä15N and ä13C of rocks heated through burial, through igneous intrusion and through lab-based heating experiments. I am particularly interested in the instrumental analysis of ä15N from Palaeozoic rocks and its uses in chemostratigraphy and determination of trophic structures of extinct fossil communities. Since 2005 I have been involved in a research project which looks at the environment in the Old Library Building, Trinity College. I am working on the accumulation rate, distribution, type and size of dust in addition to gaseous compounds (VOC's, NO2, SO2) and their impact on the collection. I am involved in research for the construction industry into failure of building materials (aggregate, concrete, slates) and in aspects of building conservation and repair, including efflorescence in brick, and identification of mortar types from conservation projects. I am involved in a project with the pharmaceutical industry which investigates by PXRD quantification of polymorphs of the active component in a drug once it is mixed with excipients and tableted. |
| Research Interests | |||
| Ecology, Ecosystems | Field mapping | Geochemistry | Mineralogy and crystallography |
| Organic chemistry | Paleontology, Paleoecology |
| Publications |
| Peer Reviewed |
| DONOGHUE, E., TROLL, V.R., SCHWARZKOPF, L.M., CLAYTON, G. and GOODHUE, R., Organic block coatings in block-and-ash flow deposits at Merapi Volcano, central Java, Geological Magazine., 146, (1), 2009, p113 - 120 | |
| HERNANDEZ, Y., NICOLOSI, V., LOTYA, M., BLIGHE, F.M., SUN, Z., DE, S., McGOVERN, I.T., HOLLAND, B., BYRNE, M., GUN’KO, Y.K., BOLAND, J.J., NIRAJ, P., DUESBERG, G., KRISHNAMURTHY, S., GOODHUE, R., HUTCHINSON, J., SCARDACI, V., FERRARI, A.C. and COLEMAN, J.N., High-yield production of graphene by liquid-phase exfoliation of graphite, Nature Nanotechnology., 3, 2008, p563 - 568 | |
| TAYLOR, D., LANE, P.J., MUIRURI, V., RUTTLEDGE, A., GAJ MCKEEVER, R., NOLAN, T., KENNY, P. and GOODHUE, R., Mid- to late-Holocene vegetation dynamics on the Laikipia Plateau, Kenya., The Holocene, 15, (6), 2005, p837 - 846 | |
| GOODHUE, R, and CLAYTON, G., Organic maturation level, thermal history and hydrocarbon source rock potential of the Namurian rocks of the Clare Basin, Ireland, Marine and Petroleum Geology , 16, 1999, p675 - 677 | |
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