Ed Grew Birthday Edition of Mineralogical Magazine

U Maine graduate (PhD 2020) is a Guest Editor of special issue of the in honor of the 80th birthday of Research Professor Edward Grew.

Research Professor Edward Grew has been honored with publication of a special issue of the prestigious journal Mineralogical Magazine in celebration of his 80th birthday in 2024. Cambridge University Press publishes the journal on behalf of the Mineralogical Society of the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Jesse Walters (U Maine PhD 2020) served as one of the Guest Editors for the issue, and also was one of the co-conveners of the special session in Grew’s honor at the 4th European Mineralogical Conference held August 19-23, 2024 at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland: “The Testimony of the Minerals: A Celebration of Edward S. Grew at 80.”   The special issue includes 17 papers based on the presentations by international scientists at the Dublin meeting.

Walters received his PhD from the U Maine School of Earth and Climate Sciences in 2020 when he was honored as the Edith M. Patch Outstanding Ph.D. Student in the U Maine College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture.  Grew was a member of the faculty committee for Walters’ doctoral thesis chaired by Prof. Alicia Cruz Uribe . Walters received a Fulbright Fellowship and a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Goethe Universität in Germany. He is now Assistant Professor at the Universität Graz in Austria.
Grew has participated in the discovery and confirmation of 31 new minerals approved by the Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) of the International Mineralogical Association.  Walters helped to recruit speakers for the meeting program.  Here is the solicitation for manuscripts in the special birthday collection:
“Throughout his remarkable career, Ed Grew has deciphered and shared the deep-time stories locked in rocks and minerals. In works of meticulous scholarship and deep insight, Ed has revealed the rich context and varied processes of mineral formation in Precambrian complexes in Greenland, the Aldan shield, southern India and Antarctica, as well as younger metamorphic suites in Tajikistan and western Europe. He is the world’s authority on the minerals of lithium, beryllium, and boron, including pioneering studies on their mineral  evolution and ecology. His work on the classification of minerals in the garnet and sapphirine supergroups are classic contributions. In short, Ed Grew’s influence on the mineralogical community has been lasting and profound. This special issue in Mineralogical Magazine is in honour of Ed Grew’s long and distinguished career and welcomes a wide range of contributions that touch on the varied aspects of his research, including (but not limited to) complex pegmatites, the geology and mineralogy of Antarctica, metamorphic minerals, the minerals of rare elements, mineral evolution, and varied aspects of petrologic mineralogy.
Guest Editors: Gerhard Franz, Robert Martin, Jesse Walters, Barb Dutrow”
The cover photograph on the special issue shows Ed at his camp in January 1978 at “Dallwitz Nunatak” in East Antarctica while he was on the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition. In 1968, W. B. Dallwitz discovered this first locality in the world for the ultra-high-temperature mineral assemblage sapphirine plus quartz.