Rate My Professor Michael Palin

Palin's research specializes in hydrothermal, igneous, and metamorphic geochemistry, encompassing geochronology, rock and mineral analysis, geologic carbon sequestration, planetary geology, and the geology of New Zealand and the United States. He has authored or co-authored numerous influential publications in leading journals. Key works include 'Relative oxidation states of magmas inferred from Ce(IV)/Ce(III) in zircon: application to porphyry copper deposits of northern Chile' (Ballard, Palin, and Campbell, 2002, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology), 'Two-sided accretion and polyphase metamorphism in the Haast Schist belt, New Zealand: Constraints from detrital zircon geochronology' (Cooper and Palin, 2018, Geological Society of America Bulletin), 'Ancient melt depletion overprinted by young carbonatitic metasomatism in the New Zealand lithospheric mantle' (Scott et al., 2014, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology), 'Gilt by Association? Origins of Pyritic Gold Ores in the Victory Mesothermal Gold Deposit, Western Australia' (Palin and Xu, 2000, Economic Geology), and 'Oxygen isotope partitioning between rhyolitic glass/melt and CO2: An experimental study at 550-950°C and 1 bar' (Palin, Epstein, and Stolper, 1996, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta). These contributions have impacted understanding of magmatic oxidation states, mantle processes, mineralization, and metamorphic evolution. Palin has actively contributed to the University of Otago's geochemistry research group and supervised theses on topics such as lithic distributions, provenance, and carbonate alteration.