An outstanding science program spanning 25 science themes and containing 171 specific sessions has been put together for the 25th Goldschmidt Conference. We invite you to submit an abstract before 2 April.
Grants for delegates from low GDP countries and students are available. Applications should be submitted before 2 April and can take the form of waived registration to the conference.
To give you a taste of the Goldschmidt2015 conference and the beautiful city of Prague, please see our own Goldschmidt2015 welcome video.
We are pleased to announce the Goldschmidt2015 Plenaries. Our guest speakers include Peter Sale (University of Windsor, CA), Janne Blichert-Toft (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, FR), Barbara Sherwood Lollar (University of Toronto, CA), Andrew Revkin (Pace University, USA) and Gast Lecturer Ann Pearson (Harvard University, USA).
We are excited to announce that the online submission and tracking tool for Geochemical Perspectives Letters is now live. Our first two articles have now been published and several more are coming soon. Subscribe to e-Alerts here.
The Student Sponsorship Program now provides up to 500 Euros to students attending geochemistry workshops, summer schools or conferences in Europe (not including Goldschmidt).
The Early Career Science Ambassador Program supports scientists based in Europe, in the final stages of their PhD or within 6 years post PhD, to attend conferences outside Europe, by covering 50% of their expenses, up to 2000 Euros. The next application deadline is 1 June.
EAG will happily welcome you at its booth (no. 54, Entrance Hall) during the EGU General Assembly 2015, 12-17 April in Vienna. In addition, EAG co-sponsors 2 sessions related to geochemistry:
We are honoured to present the EAG Eminent Speakers Award to Prof. Wouter Peters, University of Groningen, Netherlands. Wouter's scientific interest is in deriving greenhouse gas budgets from observations of CO2 and its isotopes, by combining physical and biogeochemical models with measurements in advanced data assimilation techniques. Wouter will present two talks at the upcoming EGU General Assembly 2015.
EAG is delighted to report signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the International Society for Environmental Biogeochemistry (ISEB). ISEB members now enjoy the same terms and conditions for organizing society events and registering at European Goldschmidt conferences as EAG members. EAG members in turn now receive member registration rates when attending any ISEB organized events, including the 22nd biennial International ISEB Symposium (28 Sept – 2 Oct 2015).
The EAG is excited to announce the selection of Prof. Miryam Bar-Matthews, Geological Survey of Israel, as EAG Distinguished Lecturer 2015. Miryam’s main field of research is the reconstruction of terrestrial palaeoclimate during the last 500,000 years using high resolution cave Speleothem records.
As in previous lecture tours, institutions in Central and Eastern Europe interested in Miryam’s research can invite her to present one or two lectures. More details at www.eag.eu.com/education/dlp/2015.
[By Beatriz Vallina] One of the first things I did when I started my job in the CO2-react network was to make crystallisation experiments in order to synthesize rare-earth (REE) bearing carbonates. I focused on hydroxylbastnasite (REECO3OH), a mineral of the bastnasite group (REE(CO3)(OH,F)) that is very common in carbonatite deposits and is an important source of light rare-earth elements (La, Ce or Nd). Read more
[ideas.ted.com] Johan Rockström says humanity has already raced past four of the nine boundaries keeping our planet hospitable to modern life. Writer John Carey digs into the “planetary boundary” theory... Read more
[Science] Every so often, the fossil record shows, ecological disasters wipe large numbers of species off the face of Earth. These mass extinctions occur roughly every 26 million to 30 million years—about the same interval at which our solar system passes through the plane of the Milky Way. Read more
[NewScientist] Fallout from the world's worst nuclear accident just won't go away. Radioactive clouds may once again spread over Europe, as rising fires release radiation locked up in the upper layers of soil in the dense forests near Chernobyl in Ukraine and Belarus. Read more
[Science Daily] Bacteria that live on iron were found for the first time at three well-known vent sites along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. These bacteria likely play an important role in deep-ocean iron cycling, and are dominant members of communities near and adjacent to sulfur-rich hydrothermal vents prevalent along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Read more
[esa] The lander finally came to rest on 12 November 2014 in a rather shaded location on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and it needs to receive sufficient energy before it can wake up and begin communicating. [...] It will probably still be too cold for the lander to wake up, but it is worth trying. Read more
[Science Daily] lmost four years after the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, farmland remains contaminated with higher-than-natural levels of radiocesium in some regions of Japan, with cesium-134 and cesium-137 being the most troublesome because of the slow rate at which they decay. Read more
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