Tremoloid is shaped by working geologists, mineralogists, and field researchers who carry their own hammers. Meet the editorial board, contributing scientists, and field correspondents behind every essay, field note, and peer-reviewed feature on the site.
Our editorial board reviews every submission for geological accuracy, field credibility, and clarity. They are active researchers who keep one foot on the outcrop and one foot in the literature.
Editor-in-Chief
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Tromsø
Structural geologist with twenty years of fieldwork across the Caledonides and the Andes. Elena founded Tremoloid in 2021 to give working field scientists a slower, more rigorous home for essays and reports. Her own research focuses on shear-zone mineralogy and tremolite-grade metamorphism in metabasalt sequences.
Senior Editor, Mineralogy
School of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University
Marcus writes the long-form mineralogy features. He has described three new amphibole supergroup species and curates a private reference collection of more than 4,200 tremolite-actinolite specimens. On Tremoloid, he reviews every piece that touches crystal chemistry, nomenclature, or X-ray diffraction interpretation.
Field Notes Editor
Department of Geology, University of Cape Town
Adaeze edits the Field Notes column — short, ground-truthed dispatches from working geologists. Her doctoral work on the Pan-African orogen shapes her eye for pieces that earn their claims. She is the first to flag a synthetic-looking outcrop photo and the last to leave the trailer at base camp.
Technical Reviewer
Geological Survey of Japan, Tsukuba
Ryōhei is our line-by-line reviewer for thermodynamic modeling, pseudosection work, and any piece that quotes a phase diagram. He spent a decade mapping the Sanbagawa belt and still keeps a hand lens in his jacket pocket at all times. His editorial notes are famous for being both gentle and devastating.
Contributing Editor, Andes
Independent · Based in Bogotá
Sofia covers Andean tectonics, supergene alteration, and the practical realities of fieldwork at altitude. A former mine geologist, she writes the kind of essays that tell you exactly what was in the assistant's backpack on day six. She maintains our Spanish-language correspondents network and reviews translated features.
Contributing Editor, Fennoscandia
Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU), Uppsala
Jonas covers Fennoscandian shield geology, glacial dispersal trains, and the slow craft of mapping Precambrian basement. He files monthly Field Notes from the survey's northern district and edits the Tremolite 101 series — patient, well-illustrated explainers for early-career geologists encountering amphibole assemblages for the first time.
Tremoloid is a slow publication by design. The board holds itself — and every author — to a small set of standards that we believe the discipline deserves.
If you name a rock, show the outcrop. If you cite a P–T estimate, show the pseudosection. Tremoloid is read by working geologists, and the writing has to be checkable end to end.
Every contributing author has logged years on real outcrops. We do not publish speculative pieces detached from the rock, and our reviewers will close a manuscript that crosses that line.
Specimens, samples, and localities are cited with proper catalogue numbers and the people who collected them. We do not anonymize the field, and we do not erase the people who did the work.
We commission Field Notes, mineralogy explainers, and long-form essays from working geologists. Pitches are read personally by the editor-in-chief, and first-time contributors are welcome if the rock is real and the writing is honest.