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Abstract submission and registration open
Abstract submission for the 2020 Goldschmidt Conference in Honolulu is now open. Learn how to prepare and submit your abstract here; the deadline is 14 February 2020. The full list of sessions to which you may submit an abstract is here.
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2020 Council election results
We are very pleased to announce that we had another excellent participation at the latest council elections with 37 % of EAG members voting. Heather Buss, Nadia Malaspina and Jill Sutton have been elected to join the EAG Council from 2020. We are immensely grateful to all our excellent candidates for standing.
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Introducing the new EAG website!
The brand new, mobile-friendly EAG website has now been launched!
Find everything you need on the homepage at eag.eu.com, including all the latest society news, the most recent job postings, dates of future Goldschmidt conferences, upcoming deadlines and the latest articles in EAG publications.
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Time to renew your EAG membership
Join the EAG or renew your membership before 6 January to make sure you receive all issues of Elements and Geochemical Perspectives in 2020! Your EAG membership also provides you with discounted registration for Goldschmidt2020 and much more.
2020 Membership rates
Students: 1 year - 15€ / 3 years - 35€
Professionals: 1 year - 30€ / 5 years - 120€ / 10 years - 240€
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Sponsored sessions at EGU 2020
The EAG is proud to be sponsoring 15 sessions spanning geochemistry, mineralogy, petrology, volcanology, biogeosciences, geodynamics and outreach at the EGU General Assembly 2020 next May in Vienna, Austria.
Abstract submission deadline: 15 January 2020.
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Important Dates and Deadlines
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Impressions from the 1st International EMPA Workshop, Athens
[By Alexandra Stavropoulou] The 1st International Workshop on Electron Probe Microanalysis (EPMA) took place in Athens on the 3rd and 4th October 2019, hosted by the Agricultural University of Athens (AUA). I had no prior exposure to EPMA instruments which are hard to find in Ireland. Therefore, I felt this was a chance I should not miss. Especially when...
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New in Geochemical Perspectives Letters
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Experimental clues for detecting biosignatures on Mars
Forthcoming exploration of Mars aims at identifying fossil biosignatures within ancient clay-rich formations. The subsurface of Mars has mostly acted as a giant freezer for the last 4 Gyr, thereby preserving potential remains of martian...
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Formation of Archean continental crust constrained by boron isotopes
The continental crust grew and matured compositionally during the Palaeo- to Neoarchean through the addition of juvenile tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite (TTG) crust. This change has been linked to the...
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The effect of core segregation on the Cu and Zn isotope composition of the silicate Moon
Compared to elements of similar volatility, such as Rb, Ga and K, the bulk silicate Moon (BSM) exhibits significant enrichment in the heavy isotopes of Zn and Cu. However, both elements display a greater affinity for...
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Mobility of chromium in high temperature crustal and upper mantle fluids
Chromium is mobile in ultramafic magmas but its mobility in high temperature fluids has long been unclear. Studies of some chromium-rich ophiolites have suggested chromium mobility in upper mantle fluids. However....
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Geochemistry Making the News
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Terrawatch: how Earth's conveyor belt hides rare metals
[The Guardian] Rare metals such as neodymium, niobium and dysprosium are essential in many modern technologies including wind turbines, electric cars and mobile phones. But finding deposits of these metals is tricky. Now ancient volcanoes are providing geologists with clues...
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Why deadly New Zealand volcano eruption was hard to predict
[Nature] Geologists monitoring New Zealand’s White Island volcano had seen an increase in volcanic activity in the months preceding its massive eruption on 9 December, but nothing that could have immediately predicted the eruption that killed at least 6 people and injured some 30 more...
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Waters Off California Acidifying Faster Than Rest of Oceans, Study Shows
[New York Times] California’s coastal waters are acidifying twice as fast as the rest of the oceans, a study published Monday shows. And some of California’s most important seafood — including the spiny lobster, the market squid and the Dungeness crab — are becoming increasingly...
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A Microorganism With a Taste for Meteorites Could Help us Understand the Formation of Life on Earth
[Universe Today] From the study of meteorite fragments that have fallen to Earth, scientists have confirmed that bacteria can not only survive the harsh conditions of space but can transport biological material between planets. Because of how common meteorite impacts were when...
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How ancient microbes created massive ore deposits, set stage for early life
[Science Daily] New research in Science Advances is uncovering the vital role that Precambrian-eon microbes may have played in two of the early Earth's biggest mysteries. University of British Columbia (UBC) researchers, and collaborators from the universities of Alberta, Tübingen, Autònoma...
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We Know We’re Made of Stardust. But Did it Come From Red Giants?
[Universe Today] We’ve all heard this one: when you drink a glass of water, that water has already been through a bunch of other people’s digestive tracts. Maybe Attila the Hun’s or Vlad the Impaler’s; maybe even a Tyrannosaurus Rex’s. Well, the same thing is true of stars and...
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Internships, MSc and PhD positions
| Position | Employer | Application deadline |
Type: PhD Position
Microbial life and activity on glaciers and in Arctic soils | Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
| until the position is filled | Type: PhD Position
Microbial survival in the energy-limited deep biosphere. | Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
| until the position is filled | Type: PhD Position
Origin of the Marion Rise and the evolution of the mantle in the SW Indian ocean | Geological Sciences / Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany
| until the position is filled | Type: PhD Position
PhD position in lake greenhouse gases in Australia | Southern Cross University, Australia
| 08 Nov or until position is filled | Type: PhD Position
Where did all the sulphur go? Understanding reactions of sulphur with iron and organic matter in anoxic oceans | University of Leeds, United Kingdom
| 06 Jan | Type: PhD Position
PhD position in Nanogeosciences | Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Netherlands
| 30 Nov or until position is filled | Type: PhD Position
PhD position in Experimental Fluid-rock Interaction | Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Netherlands
| 30 Nov or until position is filled | Type: PhD Position
PhD Position in Evaporites Stable Isotope Geochemistry | The Isotope Geochemistry Group
Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology,
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
| until the position is filled | Type: PhD Position
Impacts of weathering, redox cycling and microbial activity on the formation of kaolinite (china clay) | University of Exeter, United Kingdom
| 06 Jan | Type: PhD Position
Two PhD positions in Hydrothermal Geochemistry and Experimental Mineralogy at New Mexico Tech | New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Tech, United States
| 15 Jan or until position is filled | Type: PhD Position
Ph.D. position in Hydrothermal Organic Geochemistry | Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, Norway
| 31 Dec | Type: PhD Position
PhD position in Precambrian Geochemistry at the University of Cape Town | University of Cape Town, South Africa
| 03 Jan or until position is filled | Type: PhD Position
PhD position in sediment and isotope geochemistry | Department of Sediment- and Isotope Geology, Faculty for Geosciences at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
| 15 Jan | Type: PhD Position
The Roles of Lipids in Coral Biomineralisation and the Effects of Future Climate Change | University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom
| 16 Jan | Type: PhD Position
Coral osteoporosis: how does seawater phosphate affect the calcification of tropical marine corals? | University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom
| 10 Jan | Type: PhD Position
How do biomolecules affect calcium carbonate diagenesis and palaeoproxy relationships? | University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom
| 10 Jan | Type: BSc/MSc
MSc positions in Mineral Resources | University of St Andrews, United Kingdom
| 01 Jul | Type: PhD Position
PhD positions in Applied Mineral Sciences | University of St Andrews, United Kingdom
| 10 Jan | Type: BSc/MSc
Geochemistry (MSc) | University of St Andrews, United Kingdom
| 01 Jul | Type: PhD Position
PhD opportunity at between Materials and Earth sciences in the CDT for Advanced Characterization of Materials (ACM): "Ceramic property variation as a function of water corrosion at interfaces" | Imperial College London, United Kingdom
| 05 Jan or until position is filled |
PostDoctoral positions and Fellowships
| Position | Employer | Application deadline |
Type: Research Associate
High pressure and high temperature experimental investigation of the deep Earth’s cycling of heavy halogen elements | IMPMC, Sorbonne University, Campus Jussieu, PARIS, France
| 30 Nov or until position is filled | Type: Research Associate
Impact of environmental conditions on the 3-hydroxy fatty acid
profile of soil bacteria | Biogeochemistry department, UMR METIS, Sorbonne University, Paris, France
| 15 Dec or until position is filled | Type: Research Associate
Postdoc in Cosmochemistry / High-temperature Geochemistry | Geological Sciences / Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany
| until the position is filled | Type: Research Associate
3-year postdoctoral position in Isotope Geochemistry | Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France
| 30 Nov or until position is filled | Type: Fellowship
Reginald A. Daly Postdoctoral Research Fellowship | Harvard University Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, United States
| 01 Jan or until position is filled | Type: Research Associate
Postdoctoral Researcher in Highly Siderophile Element Geochemistry: PGE and Os isotope composition of komatiites from the Singhbhum craton (eastern India) | Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques (CRPG), CNRS - Université de Lorraine, France
| 31 Dec or until position is filled | Type: Research Associate
Research Fellow in Atmospheric Particulate Science | University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, United Kingdom
| 01 Jan | Type: Research Associate
Single grain isotopic constraints on oceanic crust accretion | CRPG (Centre de Recherches Petrographiques et Geochimiques) CNRS - Universite de Lorraine, France
| until the position is filled | Type: Postdoctoral Position
Kinetics of processes in terrestrial & extra-terrestrial igneous rocks | CRPG (Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques); CNRS - Université de Lorraine , France
| until the position is filled | Type: Research Associate
Wares Postdoctoral Fellowships program | Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University, Canada
| 15 Jan | Type: Research Associate
Experimental Geochemist | GNS Science, New Zealand
| 05 Jan or until position is filled | Type: Research Associate
Research Associate (PostDoc) on Mineral Formation and Electron Microscopy (m/f/x) | Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ, Germany
| 17 Jan or until position is filled |
Faculty, Technical and other positions
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