Matthew Hardman, PhD. | DERTS Associates

Matthew has defined a new, robust graphical classification scheme for low-Cr crustal and mantle garnet. The classification is based on a compilation of published data and new analyses of samples that were provided by industry and academia. Matthew has immersed himself in geo-statistics and mentors all the DERTS students on the use and application of statistics with their datasets.

Matthew successfully defended his Ph.D. in March 2020.

Matthew is currently a Postdoctoral research fellow at the Gemmological Institute of America in Carlsbad.

Publications

Hardman, M.F. (2020) Improving the iuse of eclogitic garnet as a diamond indicator mneral and constraining the origin of eclogites in the subcontinental lithospheric mantle. PhD. Thesis University of Alberta, https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-h68a-py97

Hardman, M.F., Pearson, D.G., Stachel, T., Sweeney, R.J. (2018) Statistical approaches to the discrimination of crust- and mantle-derived low-Cr garnet - Major-element-based methods and their application in diamond exploration, Journal of Geochemical Exploration 186, p. 24-35 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gexplo.2017.11.012

Bussweiler, Y., Brey, G.P., Pearson, D.G., Stachel, T., Stern, R.A., Hardman, M.F., Kjarsgaard, B.A., Jackson, S.E. (2017)The aluminum-in-olivine thermometer for mantle peridotites - Experimental versus empirical calibration and potential applications, Lithos 272-273,p. 301-314. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2016.12.015