The next RED School will be March 15-21, 2026
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RED 26
Here’s the team of teachers in charge of this year’s courses, with whom you’ll have the opportunity to interact
Early Earth, Hadean, Magma Ocean
Hanika Rizo earned her PhD at the Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans of the Université Blaise Pascal (France) in 2012, working on the differentiation of the early silicate Earth. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Carnegie Institution for Science, she moved to Canada, where she is now an associate professor at Carleton University in Ottawa. There she leads an active research group, runs the Isotope Geochemistry and Geochronology Research Centre and directs the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre. Her research aims to reconstruct how the Earth evolved geochemically during its first few hundred million years, from the segregation of metal from silicate to form the core, to the crystallisation of the magma ocean, to the imprint of giant impacts on the mantle. To reach that far back, she studies short-lived radiogenic isotope systems such as 182Hf-182W and 146Sm-142Nd in mantle-derived rocks: tools that record only the earliest chapter of Earth’s history. Because such rocks older than 3.6 Ga are rare, her team’s latest work has focused on the Hadean Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt and the Eoarchean Saglek-Hebron complex, both found in Canada.