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New in Geochemical Perspectives
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'CO2: Earth’s Climate Driver' by Wally Broecker
In this new Geochemical Perspectives, Wally recounts the evolution of climate over Earth’s history in six brief episodes, from the early Earth and conditions on our planet under the faint young sun, through the current global warming challenge stemming from the burning of fossil fuels. Along the way Wally reviews some of the major evidence and enigmas of the geologic record and how these have revealed not only the climate of the past, but which processes were critical for this evolution. Through it all, Wally is careful to point out what we feel we now know, as well as research directions that might be most fruitful in the future. Written in a concise and easy to follow text, this should be an enlightening read for experts and novices alike.
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Geochemical Perspectives is an open access community journal published by the European Association of Geochemistry. Current EAG members will soon receive their print copy. Please go to the member login to make sure your postal address is up to date.
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Council election results
We are pleased to announce that we had another excellent turn out for the recent council elections (36%) and we wish to thank EAG members for participating. We are especially grateful to all of the candidates who agreed to stand for elections.
Kate Kiseeva (University College Cork, Ireland) and Alberto Vitale Brovarone (University of Torino, Italy / CNRS, France) were elected by EAG members and will officially join the EAG Council from January 2019. The EAG Council have also elected Maud Boyet (Université Clermont-Auvergne, France) and Dan Frost (University of Bayreuth, Germany) in connection with the organisation of Goldschmidt2021. We wish a warm welcome to all our newly elected councillors.
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GPL now indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals
We are pleased to announce that Geochemical Perspectives Letters has been accepted into the Directory of Open Access Journals, an independent and community-curated online directory that has become the reference for open access publications. This demonstrates our continued commitment to upholding standards of best practice in open access publishing.
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2018 Distinguished Lecturer Jim McQuaid on tour
Jim McQuaid (University of Leeds, UK) has just started his 2018 Distinguished Lecture tour of Central and Eastern Europe. Jim will be giving a fascinating series of lectures on atmospheric sciences and aerosols to students and researchers at five universities in Krakow, Budapest, Veszprém, Bucharest and Zagreb.
The lectures are open to all so if you are based in one of the visited universities, please do attend.
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Student Sponsorship Program: next deadline is 1 December
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 December.
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Important Dates and Deadlines
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New in Geochemical Perspectives Letters
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Decoupling of dissolved and bedrock neodymium isotopes during sedimentary cycling
The radiogenic neodymium isotope ratio 143Nd/144Nd (expressed as εNd) has been applied to examine seawater elemental budgets, sedimentary provenance, oceanic water mass source and circulation, large scale geochemical cycling, and continental crust growth rates. These applications are underpinned by the assumption...
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Isotopic variation in Semail Ophiolite lower crust reveals crustal-level melt aggregation
The scale and magnitude of compositional heterogeneity in the mantle has important implications for the understanding of the evolution of Earth. Heterogeneity of the upper mantle is often evaluated based on mid-ocean ridge basalt compositions, despite their homogenisation prior to eruption. In this study we present Nd and Sr…
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EAG sponsored students at POLAR2018: Where the Poles come together
[By Shabnam Choudhary and Neelu Singh] POLAR2018, a joint event from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) and the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), is a major event on the Polar Science calendar. In June this year, the event was attended by two EAG sponsored students, Shabnam Choudhary and Neelu Singh, who traveled all the way from India to Davos in Switzerland to present their research...
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EAG supports junior scientists around the world
[By EAG] Making up over a third of our member base, students, as well as postdocs and other recent graduates, form an integral and very active part of the European Association of Geochemistry. Furthering opportunities and career prospects for early career scientists remains one of our core activities and several dedicated initiatives and resource banks have been developed over the years. The PhD and...
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Geochemistry Making the News
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Are Liquid Crystals Responsible for the Origins of Life on Earth?
[Discover] There are a number of theories about how life began on Earth, but one new study published October 3 in the journal ACS Nano suggests that the...
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Naturally occurring ‘batteries’ fueled organic carbon synthesis on Mars
[Astrobiology Magazine]Mars’ organic carbon may have originated from a series of electrochemical reactions between briny liquids and volcanic minerals...
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Scientists theorize new origin story for Earth's water
[Science Daily] Earth's water may have originated from both asteroidal material and gas left over from the formation of the Sun, according to new...
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How Nitrogen Contributes to Permafrost Carbon Dynamics
[EOS] The Arctic is warming 2–3 times faster than the global average. The rapid increase of near-surface air temperatures at high latitudes is driving a...
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The rocky road to biomolecules
[Nature] Robert Frost’s poem Fire and Ice ponders which of these two will eventually cause life on Earth to cease. Conversely, scientists have long been...
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ESA's gravity mapper reveals relics of ancient continents under Antarctic ice
[ESA] It was five years ago this month that ESA’s GOCE gravity-mapping satellite finally gave way to gravity, but its results are still yielding...
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Internships, MSc and PhD positions
| Position | Employer | Application deadline |
Type: PhD Position
MSc opportunity: Oxygen Monitoring in Soil and Sediment | Ecohydrology Research Group,
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo, Canada
| until the position is filled | Type: PhD Position
Elucidating natural nanoparticle driven processes in different geochemical environments | Department of Environmental Geosciences, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy, University of Vienna, Austria
| until the position is filled | Type: PhD Position
PhD position in Environmental Chemistry | Inorganic Environmental Geochemistry Group /
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
| until the position is filled | Type: PhD Position
PhD in biogeochemical ocean modelling | University of Southern Denmark and University of Copenhagen, Denmark
| 31 Oct or until position is filled | Type: PhD Position
The Organic/Inorganic Interface in Biominerals | Synchrotron SOLEIL_ANATOMIX beamline, L'Orme des Merisiers, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
| until the position is filled | Type: PhD Position
Uptake, accumulation, and metabolic fate of thioarsenates in rice | Environmental Geochemistry, Bayreuth University, Germany
| until the position is filled | Type: PhD Position
PhD Fellowships in geochemistry/petrology
| Guanghzou Institute of Geochemistry (GIG), part of the Chinese Academy of Science, China
| 01 Nov or until position is filled | Type: PhD Position
PhD position in Experimental Geochemistry/Thermodynamics at ETH Zurich | Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
| until the position is filled | Type: PhD Position
Doctoral student in Paleohydrology- / Earth-Surface-Process Feedbacks | GFZ-Potsdam and Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany
| 15 Nov | Type: PhD Position
PhD-Student Position in Sedimentary Systems | Freie Universitat Berlin and GFZ-Potsdam, Germany
| 15 Nov | Type: PhD Position
PhD Fellowships in geochemistry/petrology of mantle plumes
| Guanghzou Institute of Geochemistry, China
| 01 Dec or until position is filled | Type: PhD Position
Investigation of the Redox Evolution of the Neoarchean-Paleoproterozoic Atmosphere and Oceans with Novel Transition Metal Isotope Tracers | Isotope Geochemistry Group, Department of Geosciences, University of Tuebingen, Germany
| 15 Nov or until position is filled | Type: PhD Position
Nitrogen as a building block of life in subsurface serpentinizing systems and early life on Earth | National Oceanography Centre Southampton, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
| 19 Jan | Type: PhD Position
Ironing out the carbon cycle: Carbon burial associated with iron oxides in Arctic shelf sediments | School of Earth & Environment, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
| 07 Jan |
PostDoctoral positions and Fellowships
| Position | Employer | Application deadline |
Type: Research Associate
Post-Doctoral Position - Biogechemical Modelling: Linking national-scale efforts to understand the role of sediment processes in controlling water quality in eutrophic lakes | Aquatic Geochemistry Group, Department of Chemistry, Laval University, Canada
| until the position is filled | Type: Research Associate
Postdoctoral position in stable isotope geochemistry | The Wollongong Isotope Geochronology Laboratory (WIGL), Australia
| until the position is filled | Type: Research Associate
Postdoctoral Researcher in Geochemistry/Petrology
| Guanghzou Institute of Geochemistry (GIG), part of the Chinese Academy of Science, China
| 01 Nov or until position is filled | Type: Research Associate
Postdoctoral Fellow Position in: Modeling of the winter soil biogeochemical processes | University of Waterloo, Canada
| until the position is filled | Type: Research Associate
2019 Exploration Fellowship in Earth and Space Science | School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, United States
| 01 Dec or until position is filled | Type: Research Associate
2019 Killam Postdoctoral Program | Department of Earth Sciences at Dalhousie University, Canada
| 17 Dec | Type: Research Associate
Associate Research Scientist | Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, United States
| until the position is filled |
Faculty, Technical and other positions
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81st EAGE Annual Conference and Exhibition: Call for Abstracts
The 81st EAGE Annual Conference and Exhibition (London, UK; 3-6 June 2019), is the world's most significant multi-disciplinary geoscience and engineering event, gathering geoscientists and engineers from across the field for the most comprehensive technical programme of its kind. Submit your extended abstracts now! The Call for Abstracts closes 15 January 2019.
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