Party in Prague - Goldschmidt 2025

The INHERIT team, along with 15+ colleagues from the University of Padova, attended the 2025-Goldschmidt Conference in Prague from July 7th-11th. The INHERIT team helped in hosting a session completely dedicated to diamond research: Diamond: Chronicles of the Mantle.

In this session, Inherit PI - Martha Pamato gave the EMU Research Excellence Medal Lecture about imperfections in mantle minerals and volatiles in the deep Earth. Her talk was entitled; "Imperfections in mantle minerals and the fate of volatiles in the deep Earth" and the abstract is accessible here.

Inherit PI - Martha Pamato talking about mantle minerals and volatiles in the deep Earth in recognition of receiving the 2025 EMU research excellence medal.

INHERIT post-doc Maxwell C. Day gave an invited talk about hydrogen and nitrogen defects in diamond entitled; "A small atom with big implications: formation, evolution and preservation of hydrogen defects in natural diamond, the abstract is accessible here.

The title slide and results from Max's talk about the first-formed H defects in diamond.

Many other INHERIT team members and friends gave talks and posters for the diamond session including;

Francesca Innocenzi - Poster: Tracking sub-continental mantle evolution using unconventional stable isotopes: a case study of the Kaapvaal craton. See abstract here

Mattia La Fortezza - Poster: Diffusion of helium in diamond at mantle conditions: new insights from molecular dynamics simulations. See abstract here

Fabrizio Nestola - Poster: Corundum inclusions in diamonds: a new tool for diamond geobarometry. See abstract here

Davide Novella - Talk: Iron isotope systematics of the lithospheric mantle investigated by a magnesiochromite inclusion in diamond. See abstract here

Andrea Curtolo - Talk: Hydrogen content of mineral inclusions in diamonds and the composition of diamond-forming media. See abstract here

Eduardo Novais Rodrigues - Talk: Insights from Super-Deep Diamonds: Evidence of Ca-Rich Environments in the Lower Mantle. See abstract here

Francesca Innocenzi at her Goldschmidt poster explaining mantle metasomatism beneath the Kaapvaal craton.

Mattia La Fortezza at his Goldschmidt poster about the diffusion of helium in diamond.