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Submit your abstract by 14 February
Abstract submission for the 2020 Goldschmidt Conference in Honolulu is open until 14 February 2020. Learn how to prepare and submit your abstract here. The science program, with details of all the sessions you can submit to, is available here.
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Goldschmidt Grants Program: apply by 31 January
The Goldschmidt Grant Program aims to make the conference as accessible as possible by providing waived registration fees and travel support for early career delegates whose institution is located in a country designated by the World Bank as “low-income” or “lower-middle-income” economy. Additionally, grants for US-based students and postdocs are available through support from US funding agencies.
Visit the Grants page to check eligibility and for more information on the different programs. Application deadline: 31 January.
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GS and EAG announce 2020 Gast Lecturer
Jochen Brocks of the Research School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University will present the 2020 Paul W. Gast Lecture at the Goldschmidt Conference in Honolulu.
Prof. Brocks calls his field of research ‘Paleobiogeochemistry' as he is fascinated by biological processes in deep time from the origin of life to mysterious ecosystems in Earth's earliest oceans, and events that may have spawned the evolution of complex multicellular life. The Gast Lecture, presented jointly by the two societies, is awarded to a mid-career scientist for outstanding contributions to geochemistry.
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Rich Pancost joins the Geochemical Perspectives editorial board
The Geochemical Perspectives editorial board is delighted to welcome a new editor to the team. Rich Pancost is an organic geochemist and palaeoclimatologist and Head of the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol; he is the former Director of the Cabot Institute for the Environment.
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Support the community as an EAG member
As well as the many individual benefits of being an EAG member, such as reduced registration at several conferences and subscription to publications, your EAG membership also supports the geochemistry community by contributing to the resources that are needed to make possible EAG's various initiatives like the production of two open access journals with NO page charges, the support of early career scientists or the dissemination of geochemistry knowledge in under-represented regions.
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 – abstract deadline 15 January
Abstract submission for the EGU General Assembly 2020 closes on 15 January at 13:00 CET. If you are planning to submit, do consider one of the 15 EAG co-sponsored sessions. covering diverse topics in geochemistry, mineralogy, petrology, volcanology, biogeosciences, geodynamics, soil sciences and education and outreach.
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EAG supports Early Career Scientists at ContaSed2020 – check upcoming deadlines
2nd International Conference on Contaminated Sediments
14-18 June 2020, Bern, Switzerland
Sediments are sources and sinks of contaminants, and play an important role in mediating pollutants across compartments of ecosystems. ContaSed2020 will focus on organic and inorganic sediment contaminant classes including microplastics, emerging contaminants, heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants. Abstract submission deadline: 26 January.
Thanks to support from the EAG through the 2020 Short Course and Conference Sponsorship Program, financial support is available for Masters and PhD students attending the conference. See information on how to apply. Application deadline: 15 February.
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Elements December 2019 issue: Kimberlites
Kimberlites are the most deeply derived of all volcanic rocks and are the host rock for most of the world’s diamond mines. Kimberlites provide unique snap-shots of magma genesis and mantle evolution in the deep Earth (>150 km and, potentially, >700 km). This issue summarizes current knowledge and controversies on kimberlite formation, shows how kimberlites can be successfully dated, and explores the links between the temporal and spatial distribution of kimberlites and known geological events. Diamond exploration and resource evaluation methods are also reviewed.
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2019 EAG members will soon receive their print copies of December's Elements. Current members have online access to all back issues (user id = email address, password = EAG membership number). To find your membership number, login to your member area.
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Student Sponsorship Program: next deadline is 1 February
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 February 2020.
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Important Dates and Deadlines
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Open access and geochemistry, what’s the rule?
[By Olivier Pourret] A long time ago in a galaxy, far, far away, when I was an undergraduate student (I guess it must have been around 2002), I first met the principles of Open Access (OA). A few years later (in 2006 or 2007), I deposited my PhD manuscript in the French repository HAL (a name chosen in memory of Stanley Kubrick’s film “2001: A Space Odyssey”!?) and...
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Outreach in Africa: Prof. Hasnaa Chennaoui Aoudjehane visits Mauritania and Egypt
[By Hasnaa Chennaoui Aoudjehane] It was a great pleasure for me to be offered the opportunity to participate in the prestigious Outreach program of the European Association of Geochemistry (EAG) and the Geochemical Society (GS) in 2019. I selected institutions to visit based on the EAG and GS’s wish to select countries mostly located in north Africa as well as...
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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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New form of uranium found that could affect nuclear waste disposal plans
[The Guardian] A new form of uranium has been discovered which is likely to have implications for current nuclear waste disposal plans, say scientists. Many governments are planning to dispose of radioactive waste by burying it deep underground. However, new research has found that in such...
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How life on our planet made it through Snowball Earth
[New York Times] Today, the world is warming. But from about 720 to 635 million years ago, temperatures swerved the other way as the planet became encased in ice during the two ice ages known as Snowball Earth. It happened fast, and within just a few thousand years or so, ice stretched...
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Lethal algae blooms – an ecosystem out of balance
[The Guardian] On 3 August 2014, residents of Toledo, Ohio, woke to the news that overnight their water supply had become toxic. They were advised not only to avoid drinking the water, but also touching it – no showers, no baths, not even hand-washing. Boiling the water would only increase...
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Taking a cue from plants, new chemical approach converts carbon dioxide to valuable fuel
[Science Magazine] Researchers have long sought to imitate photosynthesis, harnessing the energy of the Sun to generate chemical fuels. Now, a team has come closer to this goal than ever before. The researchers developed a new copper- and iron-based catalyst that...
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Watch a NASA spacecraft probe the mysteries of the martian atmosphere
[Science Magazine] Big things have small beginnings. The latest findings of NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft have clued researchers in to the nature of Mars’s upper atmosphere, a lesser-known area in the mystery of the Red Planet. Thanks to this new...
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Earth was stressed before dinosaur extinction
[Geology Page] New evidence gleaned from Antarctic seashells confirms that Earth was already unstable before the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. The study, led by researchers at Northwestern University, is the first to measure the calcium isotope composition of fossilized clam...
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Internships, MSc and PhD positions
| Position | Employer | Application deadline |
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
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
Extended to: 15 Jan | 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: BSc/MSc
MSc positions in Mineral Resources | University of St Andrews, United Kingdom
| 01 Jul | 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 | Type: PhD Position
PhD position on food webs in aquatic systems | Surface Waters-Research and Management/Eawag, Switzerland
| 31 Jan | Type: PhD Position
Testing compositional-frequency-climate linkages across the caldera cycle: a case study from Campi Flegrei | Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
| until the position is filled | Type: PhD Position
16 PhD positions within the collaborative research center "Late accretion onto terrestrial planets" | University of Münster,
Freie Universität Berlin,
Technische Universität Berlin,
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin,
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Berlin, Germany
| 15 Jan or until position is filled | Type: PhD Position
Simultaneous minimization of arsenic mobilization and N2O emissions in rice paddy soils
| Geomicrobiology, University of Tübingen, Germany
| 15 Jan
Extended to: 29 Jan | Type: PhD Position
PhD in Trace Metal Dynamics | University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
| 31 Jan |
PostDoctoral positions and Fellowships
| Position | Employer | Application deadline |
Type: Research Associate
Postdoc in Cosmochemistry / High-temperature Geochemistry | Geological Sciences / Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany
| until the 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
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 | Type: Research Associate
Transformation of nanomaterials in the environment – Quantifying the dissolution behaviour of nanomaterials | University of Vienna, Department of Environmental Geosciences, Austria
| 21 Jan | Type: Research Associate
Paleoclimate, clumped isotopes and cyclostratigraphy | Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
| 31 Jan or until position is filled | Type: Postdoctoral Position
Postdoctoral fellow in Geology | Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, Faculty of Science at University of Copenhagen, Denmark
| 01 Feb | Type: Postdoctoral Position
3 Postdoc positions within the research collaborative research center "Late accretion onto terrestrial planets" | University of Münster,
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Germany
| 15 Jan or until position is filled | Type: Research Associate
Postdoctoral Fellow Position in Earth & Planetary Materials Science | Institute for Planetary Materials, Okayama University, Misasa, Japan
| 31 Jan | Type: Research Associate
Postdoc position in metamorphic and fluid isotope geochemistry | IPGP - Université de Paris, France
| 27 Mar | Type: Research Associate
Post Doctoral Fellowship, Isotope Biogeochemistry | Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France
| 15 Mar or until position is filled | Type: Fellowship
10 year Research Fellow Position in Modeling of the Land-Ocean Continuum of
the North Sea | Université libre de Bruxelles (50%) and Royal Belgian Institute Natural Sciences (50%), Belgium
| 31 Jan |
Faculty, Technical and other positions
| Position | Employer | Application deadline |
Type: Other
Assistant Professor in Earth Surface Processes | University of California, Merced, United States
| 30 Jun | Type: Other
Assistant Professor, Earth Materials
School of the Environment, Washington State University
| Earth Science Program, School of the Environment, Washington State University, United States
| 02 Dec or until position is filled | Type: Other
Tenure-Track Position at the rank of Assistant Professor | Grenfell Campus (Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador), Canada
| 17 Jan | Type: Other
Faculty Position at Yachay Tech University, Ecuador: Physical Volcanology | Yachay Tech, Ecuador
| 15 Feb or until position is filled | Type: Other
Faculty Position at Yachay Tech University, Ecuador: Dean of the School of Earth Sciences, Energy and Environment | Yachay Tech, Ecuador
| 15 Feb or until position is filled | Type: Other
Faculty Position at Yachay Tech University, Ecuador: Remote sensing / Geodesy / Environmental Studies | Yachay Tech, Ecuador
| 15 Feb or until position is filled |
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