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Mélanie Barboni honoured by the 2017 Paul Niggli Medal
Swiss Journal of Geosciences ( IF 3.1 ) Pub Date : 2019-01-04 , DOI: 10.1007/s00015-018-0334-3


The Paul Niggli Medal is Switzerland’s most prestigious award for young earth scientist who made outstanding contributions in the research fields of mineralogy, geochemistry, petrology, resource geology or solid-earth geophysics. The Paul Niggli Medal honours and supports young ambassadors of Swiss geoscience, who are either Swiss citizens or have obtained at least two of their academic degrees in the Swiss university system (BSc or MSc and usually their PhD).

The Council of the Paul Niggli Foundation has decided in their session of 2. June 2017 to award the Paul Niggli Medal to Mélanie Barboni, presently at University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). The 2017 medal is awarded to Mélanie Barboni in recognition of her outstanding research achievements in magmatic petrology, notably the innovative combination of geology, geochemistry and the geochronology of physical time scales of pluton emplacement and crystallisation. Christoph Heinrich handed over the award to Mélanie’s parents, Chantal and Mario Barboni at the 15th Swiss Geoscience Meeting in Davos on 17. November 2017, followed by the recipient transmitting her acknowledgements via internet on-screen.

Mélanie Barboni studied geology at the University of Lausanne and did her master thesis in petrology and geochemistry, specifically on the construction and evolution of upper-crustal magmatic intrusions. Her master thesis was awarded the Augustin Lombard price of excellence from the Ecole Lémanique des Sciences de la Terre (ELSTE). Her results opened new perspecives for research that led her to stay in Lausanne for a 4 years PhD, funded by the SNSF under the supervision of François Bussy. Her PhD focused on coupling thermal and magma-flow modeling with high-precision geochronology to constrain the growth and evolution of magmatic reservoirs. She brilliantly re-interpreted the evolution of a classical layered intrusion in Brittany through detailed fieldwork coupled to precise age dating. She was awarded the Prix de la Faculté des Géosciences et de l’Environnement of the University of Lausanne.

This is when Mélanie really took off. She then obtained an SNF postdoctoral fellowship to go to Princeton University in New Jersey, USA. There she contributed to set up their new world-class high-precision geochronology facility. She extended her studies to the connection between magma chambers with volcanic eruptions. She focused on the youngest granitic pluton in Europe, the Monte Capanne granite on the island of Elba in Italy. Taking advantage of very small absolute errors on U–Pb zircon dating in such young rocks, she documented for the very first time the growth rate of feldspar megacrysts using zircon inclusions in these megacrysts. Her results put strong constraints on upper crustal magma residence times, as well as on the timing of related volcanic eruption and hazard assessment.

Mélanie obtained an advanced mobility post-doctoral fellowship from SNF in 2014 to go to the University of California at Los Angeles. There she added ion probe work to her analytical expertise, studying U-series dating of an active magmatic system. While at UCLA she applied for a competitive NASA-Emerging World grant—and obtained it! Her proposal was one of 15 projects selected out of 130 submissions. Last January, she created a buzz establishing for the first time the precise age of the Moon (4.51 billion years). She obtained three job offers for tenure-track positions in the USA, from which she chose Arizona State University, where Mélanie has started in April.

Quoting from a few comments obtained for the Niggli Medal nomination: Kevin McKeegen, from UCLA states: “In my opinion, Mélanie Barboni is not only an excellent analytical geochemist, well-versed in several state-of-the-art techniques, but even more significantly she applies her impressive field and laboratory skills to take zircon geochronology to another scientific level, using it to make fundamental contributions to large-scale problems in igneous petrology. Her work on constraining crystallization rates in magma chambers is unprecedented in its precision, elegance, and importance”.

Or to quote Mark Harrison, from UCLA as well: “Mélanie’s career has been characterized by a continuous supply of good ideas and superb research prosecution, the results of which are communicated in splendid fashion. I see her as a role model for young people—a critical, independent thinker with boundless enthusiasm for her science—and thus an ideal candidate for the Niggli Medal.”

François Bussy and Lukas Baumgartner

(University of Lausanne)

I am deeply honored to be awarded the 2017 Paul Niggli Medal. I would like to express my gratitude to the board of the Niggli Foundation and the people that nominated and supported me for this award. This medal means a lot to me. Beyond the obvious pride and pleasure to receive a prestigious price, it also shows that people in my home country have been following my path from afar. Having lived abroad for so long, and being occasionally homesick, it really means a lot to me to be remembered in my “Homeland”.

I am deeply grateful to Switzerland, for multiple reasons. First for the outstanding formation as a geologist and researcher that I received at the University of Lausanne. Swiss Universities offer a premium education open to all, and I feel very lucky to have done my college and PhD years in Switzerland. I would like to thank here the people that helped me becoming the researcher I am today. First of course, Prof. François Bussy, my PhD advisor, for raising a baby scientist during four years until she could fly by herself across the Atlantic with enough knowledge to start her research career smoothly. Prof. Lukas Baumgartner in Lausanne for encouraging and giving me the confidence to start a career in the US. And Profs. Urs Schaltegger in Geneva and Othmar Müntener in Lausanne for numerous advices and support during my PhD years.

I am also deeply grateful for the amazing support that was given to me by the Swiss National Science Foundation. It was thanks to a SNF Early Postdoc Mobility Fellowship that I had the opportunity to conduct research at Princeton University. The level of support Switzerland offers to its young scientists through these SNF fellowships is in my knowledge unique to our country. I actually beneficiate from a second SNF fellowship, Advanced Mobility this time, to move from Princeton to UCLA. Thanks to my time there, I was able to connect with people in the department, broaden my scientific horizons by starting working on the Moon and obtain NASA support for my research. Not mentioning getting a faculty position at Arizona State University, an amazing place to conduct research in Earth and Space Sciences. I would never have been able to reach any of those goals—including that special feeling of holding a Moon rock in my hand that was collected by the Apollo astronauts—without the support of the Swiss National Foundation, and I am deeply thankful.

Finally, I would like to thank three amazing mentors I had the chance to meet here in the United States. Prof. Blair Schoene at Princeton University and Professors Mark Harrison and Kevin McKeegan at UCLA. They took a researcher in her teenage years and helped her mature into a scientist that is—hopefully—ready to be a successful faculty and mentor. I am extremely lucky to be working with them, and knowing that I will always have their friendship and support through my career as a professor means the world to me. It is a very long and hard way to become a successful researcher, and without the support of Switzerland, the SNF and all my mentors mentioned above, I would not be where I am today. Thank you so much!

Mélanie Barboni

(Arizona State University)

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梅兰妮·巴波尼(MélanieBarboni)荣获2017年保罗·尼格里(Paul Niggli)奖章

保罗·尼格里(Paul Niggli)奖章是瑞士最负盛名的青年地球科学家奖,他在矿物学,地球化学,岩石学,资源地质学或固体地球物理学方面做出了杰出贡献。保罗·尼格里(Paul Niggli)勋章旨在表彰和支持年轻的瑞士地球科学大使,这些大使要么是瑞士公民,要么在瑞士大学系统中至少获得了两个学位(BSc或MSc,通常是博士学位)。

保罗·尼格里基金会理事会在其2月2日的会议上决定,将保罗·尼格里奖章授予目前在加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校(UCLA)的梅拉妮·巴博尼(MélanieBarboni)。梅兰妮·巴尔博尼(MélanieBarboni)获颁2017年奖章,以表彰她在岩浆岩石学方面的杰出研究成就,特别是地质学,地球化学以及岩体安置和结晶的物理时间尺度的地质年代学的创新结合。克里斯托弗·海因里希(Christoph Heinrich)在2017年11月17日在达沃斯举行的第15届瑞士地球科学会议上,将奖项授予梅拉妮的父母,尚塔尔(Cantal)和马里奥·巴博尼(Mario Barboni),随后,获奖者通过屏幕上的互联网发送了她的感谢信。

梅拉妮·巴波尼(MélanieBarboni)在洛桑大学(University of Lausanne)学习了地质学,并获得了岩石学和地球化学硕士学位,特别是关于上地壳岩浆侵入体的构造和演化。她的硕士论文获得了法国拉玛尔生态学院(ELSTE)颁发的Augustin Lombard卓越奖。她的研究结果为研究开辟了新的视角,使她在SNSF的FrançoisBussy的监督下在洛桑停留了4年的博士学位。她的博士学位专注于将热流和岩浆流模型与高精度地质年代学结合起来,以限制岩浆储层的生长和演化。她通过详细的田野调查和精确的年龄约会,重新诠释了布列塔尼经典分层入侵的演变。

这是Mélanie真正起飞的时候。然后,她获得了SNF的博士后奖学金,前往美国新泽西州的普林斯顿大学。她在那里建立了他们新的世界一流的高精度地球年代学设施。她将研究扩展到岩浆室与火山喷发之间的联系。她专注于欧洲最年轻的花岗岩岩体,意大利厄尔巴岛上的Monte Capanne花岗岩。她利用这种年轻岩石中U-Pb锆石测年的极小的绝对误差,首次记录了在这些巨型晶体中使用锆石包裹体的长石巨型晶体的生长速率。她的研究结果对上地壳岩浆的停留时间以及相关火山喷发和危害评估的时间设置了强烈的约束。

梅兰妮(Mélanie)于2014年获得SNF的高级流动性博士后奖学金,前往加州大学洛杉矶分校。在那里,她将离子探针工作添加到她的分析专业知识中,研究了主动岩浆系统的U系列测年。在UCLA期间,她申请了具有竞争力的NASA-Emerging World资助-并获得了资助!她的建议是从130份提交材料中选择的15个项目之一。去年一月,她发出了嗡嗡声,首次确定了月球的精确年龄(45.1亿年)。她在美国获得了三份终身任职职位,并从中选择了亚利桑那州立大学,梅兰妮于四月开始在亚利桑那州立大学任职。

引用有关获得Niggli奖提名的一些评论:加州大学洛杉矶分校的Kevin McKeegen指出:“我认为,MélanieBarboni不仅是一位出色的分析地球化学家,还精通多种最新技术,甚至更重要的是,她运用自己令人印象深刻的领域和实验室技能,将锆石年代学推向了另一个科学水平,并利用它为火成岩岩石学的大规模问题做出了重要贡献。她关于限制岩浆室内结晶速度的工作在其精度,优雅和重要性方面是空前的。”

或引用加州大学洛杉矶分校(UCLA)的马克·哈里森(Mark Harrison)的话:“梅兰妮(Mélanie)的职业一直以不断提供好主意和精湛的研究起诉为特征,其结果以出色的方式传达。我认为她是年轻人的榜样-批判性,独立的思想家,对科学领域有着无限的热情,因此是Niggli奖章的理想人选。”

弗朗索瓦·布西(FrançoisBussy)和卢卡斯(Lukas Baumgartner)

(洛桑大学)

我很荣幸能获得2017年的Paul Niggli勋章。我要感谢Niggli基金会的董事会以及提名和支持我获得此奖项的人们。这枚勋章对我来说意义重大。除了以享有盛名的价格获得明显的自豪感和愉悦感之外,这还表明,我的祖国的人们一直在远离我的道路。在国外生活了这么长时间,并且偶尔会想家,对我来说,在自己的“家园”中记忆犹新确实意义重大。

我出于多种原因对瑞士深表感谢。首先是我在洛桑大学获得的地质学家和研究员的杰出成就。瑞士大学向所有人开放高级教育,我很幸运在瑞士读完大学和博士学位。我要在这里感谢帮助我成为今天的研究员的人们。当然,首先,我的博士生导师弗朗索瓦·布西(FrançoisBussy)教授在四年内培养了一名婴儿科学家,直到她能够以足够的知识独自飞越大西洋,顺利开始她的研究事业。洛桑的卢卡斯·鲍姆加特纳(Lukas Baumgartner)教授鼓励并给予我在美国职业生涯的信心。和教授。在读博士期间,日内瓦的Urs Schaltegger和洛桑的OthmarMüntener提供了许多建议和支持。

我也非常感谢瑞士国家科学基金会给予我的惊人支持。多亏了SNF早期博士后流动研究金,我才有机会在普林斯顿大学进行研究。据我所知,瑞士通过这些SNF奖学金为其年轻科学家提供的支持水平是我国所独有的。这次,我实际上受益于SNF的第二个奖学金,即Advanced Mobility,从普林斯顿转到UCLA。多亏了我在那里的时间,我得以与该部门的人员建立联系,通过开始在月球上的工作来拓宽了我的科学视野,并获得了NASA的研究支持。更不用说在亚利桑那州立大学(Arizona State University)担任教职,这是进行地球与空间科学研究的绝佳去处。

最后,我要感谢我有幸在美国在这里见面的三位出色的导师。普林斯顿大学的Blair Schoene教授和加州大学洛杉矶分校的Mark Harrison教授和Kevin McKeegan教授。他们在她十几岁的时候就聘用了一名研究人员,并帮助她成长为一名科学家,希望该科学家已成为一名成功的教师和导师。与他们一起工作让我感到非常幸运,并且知道在我担任教授的整个职业生涯中,我将永远拥有他们的友谊和支持。要成为一名成功的研究人员,这是一个漫长而艰难的方式,如果没有瑞士,SNF和我上面提到的所有导师的支持,我将不会是今天的样子。太感谢了!

梅兰妮·巴波尼(MélanieBarboni)

(亚利桑那州立大学)

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