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Post-Goldschmidt2018
Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2018 Goldschmidt Conference! More than 3,000 scientists from around the world came together to share their science during an incredible week in Boston. View the photos and videos from the conference (plenary lectures and pop-up talks).
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Goldschmidt2019: Call for sessions and workshops now open
Barcelona is the next destination of the Goldschmidt Conference and we warmly invite you to come and actively participate in the conference, starting with building a high quality science program.
Call for Sessions: 14 broad themes have been identified by the Goldschmidt2019 scientific committee and theme leaders. Review the submission instructions now and be sure to submit your proposal by 1 November 2018.
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Call for Workshops: Goldschmidt2019 will continue its tradition of running high quality workshops and seminars on the weekend before the conference. If you would like to organise a workshop or town hall meeting, submit your proposal by 1 November 2018.
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2019 Awards: Nominations now open
Recognition of scientific excellence at all stages of one's career is crucial. Should you know of any deserving colleagues, nominate them for an EAG Award, the Geochemistry Fellowship or the R. Berner Lecture. Information and instructions on how to submit a nomination are available here.
Deadline for GS/EAG Fellows nominations: 31 October
Deadline for EAG Award nominations: 15 November.
Urey Award: recognises scientific excellence over a career.
Science Innovation Award (named after Samuel Epstein for his work in isotope geochemistry): recognises scientists within 30 years of the start of their PhD.
Houtermans Award: recognises scientists within 12 years of the start of their PhD.
Geochemistry Fellowship: recognises scientists who have made major contributions to the field of geochemistry.
R. Berner Lecture: recognises mid-career scientists. The lecture will be presented at the Goldschmidt2019 conference.
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Editorial board changes at Geochemical Perspectives
The Geochemical Perspectives editorial board is delighted to welcome two new prestigious scientists, Mihály Pósfai (Environmental Mineralogy; University of Pannonia, Hungary) and Sarah Gleeson (Inorganic and Isotope Geochemistry; German Research Center for Geosciences GFZ, Germany).
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Early Career Science Ambassador Program: next deadline 1 October
The Early Career Science Ambassador Program is aimed at Early Career Scientists based in Europe who wish to attend conferences held outside Europe (except for the Goldschmidt conference). The program supports up to 6 scientists per year and supported scientists will have 50% of their expenses covered by EAG (up to 1500 euros). The next application deadline is 1 October.
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Important Dates and Deadlines
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New in Geochemical Perspectives Letters
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Influence of metasomatism on vanadium-based redox proxies for mantle peridotite
The multi-valence nature of vanadium means that its geochemical behaviour will be ƒO2-dependent, so that its concentration or V/Sc (or V/Ga), can serve as proxies for oxidation state in mantle peridotites. Compared to Fe3+/Fe2+-based equilibria, such trace elements...
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Apollo 15 green glass He-Ne-Ar signatures – In search for indigenous lunar noble gases
Identifying indigenous lunar noble gases in samples returned by the Apollo and Luna missions is highly challenging because contributions from the solar wind (SW) and/or cosmogenic nuclides have modified the noble gas signature of the regolith and rocks exposed to space at the lunar surface…
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Hadean geodynamics inferred from time-varying 142Nd/144Nd in the early Earth rock record
Tracking the secular evolution of 142Nd/144Nd anomalies is important towards understanding the crust-mantle dynamics in the early Earth. Excessive scatter in the published data, however precludes identifying the fine structure of 142Nd/144Nd evolution...
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Redox state of the convective mantle from CO2-trace element systematics of oceanic basalts
The redox state of mantle lithologies, based on xenoliths from continental lithospheric mantle, has been shown to decrease with depth and reach oxygen fugacities (fO2) at which graphite/diamond will be the stable form of carbon at pressures...
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Comment 2 & Reply 2 on “Ultra-high pressure and ultra-reduced minerals in ophiolites may form by lightning strikes”
Comment 2 by Yang et al., 2018
Reply 2 by Ballhaus et al., 2018
Original article by Ballhaus et al., 2017
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Chemical nature of the 3.4 Ga Strelley Pool microfossils
The biogenicity of putative traces of life found in early-Archean rocks is strongly debated. To date, only equivocal lines of evidence have been reported, which has prevented a full consensus from emerging. Here we report elemental and molecular data from individual organic microfossils preserved within the 3.4 billion-year-old cherts of the Strelley Pool Formation, Western Australia…
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Geochemistry Making the News
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Ammonia, a poorly understood smog ingredient, could be key to limiting deadly pollution
[Sciencemag] SALT LAKE CITY—Winters can be toxic here. For days or even weeks, a thick haze settles over this city of skiers and hikers, as polluted air ...
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Hottest of 'ultra-hot' planets is so hot its air contains vaporised metal
[The Guardian] New observations of the hottest known planet have revealed temperatures similar to those typically seen at the surface of...
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Ice found on moon surface, raising prospect of lunar colony
[The Guardian] Astronomers have found patches of frost scattered around the moon’s north and south poles which could one day provide...
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Iron-silica particles unlock part of the mystery of Earth's oxygenation
[ScienceDaily] The oxygenation of Earth's atmosphere was thanks, in part, to iron and silica particles in ancient seawater, according to...
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The Earth Invented Nuclear Reactors Before We Did
[Science Friday] Long before humans enriched uranium to create nuclear fission, the Earth was doing it on its own. Two billion years ago, some natural...
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'Cloud computing' takes on new meaning for scientists
[ScienceDaily] Clouds may be wispy puffs of water vapor drifting through the sky, but they're heavy lifting computationally for scientists wanting to...
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Internships, MSc and PhD positions
| Position | Employer | Application deadline |
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
Two PhD positions with the
Sentinel North Research Chair in Aquatic Geochemistry
| Aquatic Geochemistry Group, Department of Chemistry, Laval University, Canada
| until the position is filled | 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
Isotopic fractionations during volatile loss from planets and asteroids | Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
| 31 Jul or until 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
Refining geochemical tracers of oxygen in the modern and ancient oceans | Environmental Chemistry Research Lab, Griffith University, Australia
| 31 Aug or until 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
Elucidating Eoarchean geodynamic processes by multiple sulfur isotopes | Institute of Geological Sciences,
Geochemistry, Free University Berlin, Germany
| 01 Oct or until position is filled | Type: PhD Position
The influence of sulfur on arsenic mobility in rice paddies | Environmental Geochemistry, Bayreuth University, Germany
| 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 |
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
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
Environmental Biogeochemistry position at the Environmental Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) | ORNL Earth Sciences Group (Primary Research Program website: https://www.esd.ornl.gov/programs/rsfa/), United States
| 26 Oct | Type: Research Associate
Postdoctoral position in stable isotope geochemistry | The Wollongong Isotope Geochronology Laboratory (WIGL), Australia
| until the position is filled | Type: Research Associate
Research Associate in Isotope Geochemistry & Carbon Storage | University of Iceland and Durham University, United Kingdom
| 15 Sep or until 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
Lyell Research Fellow (tenure track) in Applied Geoscience | The Lyell Centre - Heriot Watt University, United Kingdom
| 17 Oct |
Faculty, Technical and other positions
| Position | Employer | Application deadline |
Type: Other
Faculty position in the Institute of Environmental Engineering (IIE), either at the tenure track level (Assistant Professor) or the tenured level (Associate or Full Professor) | EPFL, Switzerland
| 01 Sep or until position is filled | Type: Other
Assistant or Associate Professor position in Geochemistry | Laurentian University - Harquail School of Earth Sciences, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
| until the position is filled | Type: Other
Staff Associate - Geochemistry | The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, United States
| until the position is filled | Type: Other
Assistant/Associate Professor position in Geomicrobiology | Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo, Canada
| 01 Oct | Type: Other
Assistant/Associate Professor in Geochemistry of Near Surface Environments | University of Minnesota, Department of Earth Sciences, United States
| until the position is filled | Type: Other
Permanent position at CENIEH: Uranium Series Researcher to work on the U-Series research line and to develop new techniques and dating methods which enhance the analytical capacity in the field of geochronology. | Uranium Series Laboratory at Centro Nacional de Investigacion sobre la Evolucion Humana, Spain
| 15 Oct | Type: Other
Permanent position - Maitre de Conference (Research/Curation) at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris (France) - Geobiology of the Precambrian: mineralogy, petrology and traces of life (starting Sept. 2019) | Department of Mineralogie, Physique des Materiaux et Cosmochimie (IMPMC) at the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
| 24 Oct | Type: Other
Assistant Professor of Geochemistry - Earth/Planetary Processes | Brown University, United States
| 01 Nov or until position is filled |
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EAGE is committed to supporting members by providing a platform for industry and academia to meet and share insights and knowledge that link across multiple geoscientific disciplines. In November EAGE will offer together with IGA, and DGMK, a joint Workshop on Deep Geothermal Energy. On 8-9 November 2018 you can join this interesting workshop in Strasbourg, France! Save the date and stay tuned for updates here.
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