Recent Alum, Dr. Jeff Marsh Discovered New Mineral

Posted November 16, 2010

Ph.D. in Earth Sciences Alum, Dr. Jeffrey Marsh along with Dr. Ed Grew with the Department of Earth Sciences and other researchers have been included in the October issue of the Canadian Mineralogist for Marsh's discovery of a new mineral, a species of garnet named “menzerite-(Y)” in honor of the German crystallographer Georg Menzer (1897-1989), in 2009.

Marsh, now a faculty fellow at Colby College, is the first student in UMaine history to discover a new mineral species that is new to science.  His research was funded by the National Science Foundation and the University of Maine Doctoral Research Fellowship.  For more information, please click here.