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Early registration deadline is 12 June
Thank you to all who submitted an abstract! Goldschmidt2018 promises to be another successful conference and we recommend you take advantage of the early rates by registering before 12 June.
EAG members benefit from the member rates. Join/renew or find your membership number in Member login.
12 June is also the deadline to register for one of the amazing field trips.
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Goldschmidt2018 is Family Friendly!
Boston is a beautiful city full of historical and cultural attractions. If your family is accompanying you to Goldschmidt2018, the conference warmly welcomes them. New this year, child care is available for the children of delegates (reservations required to guarantee space).
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Institutions in Eastern Europe: call for invitation of the 2018 Distinguished Lecturer is open
Dr. Jim McQuaid (University of Leeds) has been selected as the EAG 2018 Distinguished Lecturer. His research focuses on observations of the composition of both gas phase and aerosol species in the atmosphere, and as part of this year's lecture program, several lectures on these themes have been proposed.
If your institution is based in Central or Eastern Europe and you wish to invite Dr. McQuaid to present one or two lectures, please contact us.
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Student grants available for Uranium-Biogeo
EAG is proudly co-sponsoring Uranium-Biogeo, a conference on Uranium Biogeochemistry on 21-26 October in Monte Verita Ascona, Switzerland, by providing student grants of CHF100. To apply, submit a CV with a one-page letter of interest along with your abstract by 1 June.
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Join or renew your EAG membership
Amongst the many benefits, EAG members receive Geochemical Perspectives and Elements magazine, as well as reduced registration rates for Goldschmidt conferences and numerous other events. Early career scientists also enjoy special benefits.
Check all our benefits and rates.
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Student Sponsorship Program: next deadline is 1 May
The EAG Student Sponsorship Program sponsors 12 students each year, up to 500 Euros per student, to attend geochemistry-related short courses, summer schools, workshops or conferences located in Europe (except for the Goldschmidt conference). The next application deadline is 1 May.
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Important Dates and Deadlines
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New in Geochemical Perspectives Letters
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Colloidal origin of microbands in banded iron formations
Precambrian banded iron formations record the composition of Earth’s atmosphere and hydrosphere during the global rise of oxygen. It has been suggested that the banded texture of these rocks points to fluctuations in ocean chemistry although this remains a subject of debate. Here we show, by petrographic...
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Silicon and oxygen isotopes unravel quartz formation processes in the Icelandic crust
Quartz formation processes in the Icelandic crust were assessed using coupled δ18O and δ30Si systematics of silica deposits formed over a wide temperature range (<150 to >550 °C).
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Lives of the Great Geochemists: Fritz Houtermans
[By Mário Gonçalves, EAG Communications Committee] The EAG Houtermans Award for young scientists is named after him, but how many of us geochemists really know who Friedrich Georg Houtermans was and how adventurous his life was? Houtermans undertook a PhD in nuclear physics in Göttingen with James Franck in 1927, but only in 1952, when he arrived in Bern to become Full Professor, did he make his outstanding contributions to geochronology.
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Geochemistry Making the News
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Once we can capture CO2 emissions, here's what we could do with it
[Science Daily] The thousands of metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted from power plants each year doesn't have to go into the atmosphere. Researchers are...
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Primeval salt shakes up ideas on how the atmosphere got its oxygen
[Scientific American] Ancient sea salt drilled from a geologic basin in Russia is providing dramatic new clues as to how Earth’s early atmosphere...
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Great Pacific Garbage Patch growing rapidly, study shows
[Science Daily] 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic weighing 80,000 metric tons are currently afloat in an area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- and it is rapidly getting...
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Isolated lakes found beneath Canadian ice sheet
[BBC] Researchers have found lakes that may shed new light on icy worlds in our Solar System. High in the Canadian Arctic, two subglacial bodies of water...
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Internships, MSc and PhD positions
| Position | Employer | Application deadline |
Type: PhD Position
PhD position in eco-hydrology (Hydrological constraints on Rare Earth Elements dynamics
in the regolith-plant continuum) | LIST, Luxembourg
| 17 Nov or until position is filled | Type: PhD Position
Two PhD Positions at the University of Waterloo: Winter Soil Processes in Transition - A research project to advance the process-based understanding of the function of soil biogeochemical processes in cold region | University of Waterloo, Canada
| 31 Mar or until position is filled | Type: PhD Position
PhD Positions in Microbial Ecology and Sediment Biogeochemistry of Freshwater Systems | University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
| 18 Apr | Type: PhD Position
PhD Project in Geomicrobiology & Biogeochemistry - Arsenic removal by drinking water filters in Hanoi, Vietnam | Geomicrobiology Group, University of Tuebingen, Germany
| 30 Apr | Type: PhD Position
Understanding the fate of P under oxygen-depleted conditions in past and present oceans | Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
| 20 Apr | Type: PhD Position
Diffusion and adsorption of nutrients in clayey matrices | Institut of Chemistry of Media and Materials of Poitiers (IC2MP) - a multidisciplinary research institute in Chemistry and Geosciences of surface, France
| 26 Apr | Type: PhD Position
Dating iron duricrusts in central Amazonia, Brazil: relation with paleoclimate change | GEOPS (University Paris Sud) and Institut de Mineralogie, de Physique des Materiaux et de Cosmochimie (UMR CNRS 7590, Sorbonne University, Paris), France
| 01 Oct or until position is filled |
PostDoctoral positions and Fellowships
| Position | Employer | Application deadline |
Type: Research Associate
Two Postdoctoral positions in Biogeochemical and Ecosystem Modeling | Global Water Futures Program,
Ecohydrology Research Group,
University of Waterloo, Canada
| until the position is filled | Type: Research Associate
Research Assistant in Applied Geochemistry (Low-Temperature Fluid / Mineral-Interaction) | Applied Geochemistry Group,
Institute of Applied Geosciences,
Technische University Berlin, Germany
| until the position is filled | Type: Research Associate
If you are interested in studying how mineral phases nucleate and grow using in situ and time resolved scattering / diffraction / spectroscopy or imaging techniques then we want you in our team. | Interface Geochemistry Section, German Research Centre for Geosciences Potsdam, Germany
| 15 Apr or until position is filled | Type: Research Associate
Research Fellow in Geomicrobiology and Biogeochemistry | University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, United Kingdom
| 30 Apr | Type: Research Associate
Research Fellow in Biogeochemical Modelling | University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, United Kingdom
| 30 Apr | Type: Research Associate
Postdoctoral position in Isotope Biogeochemistry / Environmental Science | Czech Geological Survey, Prague, Czech Republic
| until the position is filled | Type: Research Associate
Research Assistant in Isotope Geochemistry | Isotope Geochemistry, University of Tuebingen, Germany
| until the position is filled | Type: Research Associate
Research Associate (PostDoc) (m/f) in Geo-Bio-Interfaces | Interface Geochemistry Section,
German Research Centre for Geosciences,
Potsdam, Germany
| 20 Apr or until position is filled | Type: Research Associate
Research Associate (PostDoc) in Cryo-Microbiology (m/f) | Interface Geochemistry Section,
German Research Centre for Geosciences,
Potsdam, Germany
| 20 Apr or until position is filled | Type: Research Associate
Assists research scientists and other research associates in the organizing, and conducting of advanced testing of gem materials. Interprets gemological and spectroscopic analysis results, and contributes to research projects, by performing the following duties. | Gemological Institute of America (protects the public trust in gems and jewelry by providing the education, research, and standards), United States
| 15 Jun or until position is filled |
Faculty, Technical and other positions
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Video contest ON THE ROCKS!
The Italian Geological Society has organised “ON THE ROCKS” the first geological video contest for everybody. Participate with a creative, informal video, where you explain your research, passions or new ideas regarding the Earth, in only 180 seconds. Challenge yourself by entering ON THE ROCKS! Submission deadline is 20 May.
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