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Next deadline is 12 July
Goldschmidt2018 is just around the corner and 12 July is the deadline to register at the standard rate (after this date, onsite fees will apply).
EAG members benefit from the member rates. Join/renew or find your membership number in Member login.
12 July is also the deadline to register for one of the 20 exciting workshops and book for one of the many social events.
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Elements June issue: Terroir: Science Related to Grape and Wine Quality
The French have a word for all aspects of the wine environment: terroir. Terroir is the integration of all individual factors that contribute to wine quality. This issue explores the physical environment that shapes the character and quality of wine, ranging from geology and soils to viticulture and climate. It also discusses some of the technological advances such as drones, remote sensing, and precision agriculture that are revolutionizing the production of fine wine...
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Current EAG members will soon receive their print copies of Elements Magazine. Members also 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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Important Dates and Deadlines
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New in Geochemical Perspectives Letters
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Mass-dependent triple oxygen isotope variations in terrestrial materials
High precision triple oxygen isotope analyses of terrestrial materials show distinct fields and trends in Δ'17O - δ'18O space that can be explained by well understood fractionation processes. The Δ'17O - δ'18O field for meteoric waters has almost no overlap with that of rocks. Globally, meteoric water defines a λ value of ~0.528, although...
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Toxic anthropogenic pollutants reach the deepest ocean on Earth
Persistent organic pollutants (PCBs and PBDEs) were analysed in sediment core samples (0-2 cm) from the southern Mariana Trench at water depths of 7000-11000 m. ∑PCBs concentrations ranged from 931 to 4195 pg/g, far higher than those recorded before in marine sediments from shallower depths. Toxic Equivalence (TEQ)...
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Axel Hofmann's 2017 EAG-GS Outreach Progam to Africa tour
[By Axel Hofmann] As part of the 2017 EAG-GS Outreach Program to Africa I travelled to Earth Science departments in Ghana, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Nigeria to give a 3-day short course on Early Earth Life and Mineral Systems. The course explored the relationship between surface processes, evolution of life and the formation of mineral deposits on the early Earth.
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An EAG ambassador aims for the bullseye at the 49th LPSC
[By Mark Fox-Powell] Attending my very first Lunar and Planetary Science Conference was an exciting prospect. As a planetary scientist whose background is in biology, it feels like a long and winding road that led me there. From the beginning of my PhD in astrobiology, I have felt drawn towards the exploration side of planetary science, and since then, especially during my current postdoc, I have been developing that interest consciously; pushing my work in the direction of mission-informing science.
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EGU2018: This is where all the science happens!
[By Stacy Phillips] The prospect of attending a large international conference during your PhD can be really daunting, especially if you’re only in your second year and in the early stages of data collection. That’s why I hadn’t planned on going to one until my 3rd year. But thanks to EAG Student Sponsorship I was able to attend the EGU General Assembly 2018 in Vienna. A scary but exciting opportunity that I am so glad I took.
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A new cartoon from the ‘Black & White?’ series, by our resident cartoonists R & B, is out now! This comic was also published in Elements June 2018 issue. Check out the full series here.
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Geochemistry Making the News
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NASA rover hits organic pay dirt on Mars
[Science] In its quest to find molecules that could point to life on Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover has struck a gusher. Since Curiosity landed in 2012, it has sifted samples...
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Curiosity rover sees seasonal Mars methane swing
[BBC] It may only be a very small part of Mars' atmosphere but methane waxes and wanes with the seasons, scientists say. The discovery made by the Curiosity rover...
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Sucking carbon dioxide from air is cheaper than scientists thought
[Nature] Siphoning carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere could be more than an expensive last-ditch strategy for averting climate catastrophe. A detailed economic...
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Land rising above the sea 2.4 billion years ago changed planet Earth
[ScienceDaily] Chemical signatures in shale, the Earth's most common sedimentary rock, point to a rapid rise of land above the ocean 2.4 billion years ago...
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Why Earth’s Cracked Crust May Be Essential for Life
[Quantamagazine] From a distance, it’s not obvious that Earth is full of life. You have to get pretty close to see the biggest forests, and closer still to see the work of humans...
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Ancient Earth froze over in a geologic instant
[ScienceMag] Earth’s ice is melting at a rapid clip today. But some scientists think that during several ancient episodes, the planet plunged into a deep...
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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
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 | Type: PhD Position
4 PhD positions in Environmental Geochemistry | Soil Chemistry Group, Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
| 31 Jul or until position is filled | Type: PhD Position
Geochemical evolution of the Nyiragongo volcano, DR Congo: A natural and experimental study | KU Leuven - Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences - Division of Geology, Belgium
| 15 Jun | Type: PhD Position
Metal recovery and CO2 sequestration with steel production waste materials. | Geochemistry and Interdisciplinary Centre for Environmental Microbiology, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences,
Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom
| 01 Jul | Type: PhD Position
Geochemical tracers of oxygen in the modern and ancient oceans | School of Environment and Science, Griffith University, Australia
| 29 Jun | Type: PhD Position
PhD position in aquatic biogeochemistry | Environmental Biogeochemistry and Ecotoxicology/ Department F. A. Forel for environmental and aquatic sciences/University of Geneva, Switzerland
| 15 Jul 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 Isotope Geochemistry | Isotope Geochemistry, University of Tuebingen, Germany
| until the 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 | Type: Research Associate
2 Postdoc positions in Environmental Geochemistry | Soil Chemistry Group, Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
| 31 Jul or until position is filled | Type: Research Associate
Microbial and plant secreted metal chelating metabolites in the environment | NC State University (Raleigh, North Carolina), United States
| until the position is filled | Type: Research Associate
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Geochemistry for (experimental) study of alteration/weathering on Mars and other small planetary bodies | Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics
The Earth and Beyond Team: Comparative Planetology, Institute for Geosciences, University of Oslo , Norway
| 15 Jun | Type: Research Associate
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Cosmochemistry | Carnegie Institution for Science, DTM, United States
| 15 Jul or until position is filled | Type: Research Associate
Environmental Mineralogy/Geochemistry -
Behaviour and transformation of chromium species during metallurgical processing of chromite ores
| NRCan, CanmetMINING, Canada
| until the position is filled | Type: Research Associate
Postdoc position in Archaean geology at the University of Copenhagen | Geochemical, Mineralogical and Petrological Earth Science Research Group, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
| 30 Jun |
Faculty, Technical and other positions
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