December 2012

Join the EAG or renew your membership

As the end of the year is approaching, think about renewing your EAG membership or joining the EAG.

Why join? Our society has developed a comprehensive membership benefits package providing geochemists with:

• discount registration to Goldschmidt conferences
• print and online subscriptions to Geochemical Perspectives
• print and online subscriptions to Elements
• reduced subscription rates to Chemical Geology and Geofluids
• sponsorship of short courses
• access to networking especially through the EAG Blog, information about jobs, conferences and other activities of interests to geochemists.

Membership fees for 2013 are unchanged and we invite you to take advantage of the multi-year membership to save time and money:

EAG newsletter now open to advertisers

From January 2013, our monthly EAG newsletter will come in a newly designed format which accommodates advertisement. We invite those of you working in commercial or in non-profit organizations to review the information available on advertising in the EAG newsletter and contact our office for any enquiries (office@eag.eu.com).

Amazon, Climate Change and Geochemistry

The Amazon Basin with its 7.6 Mio km² is almost the size of Europe, and its biggest river, the Rio Amazon, supplies more than 15% of the total freshwater input to the world’s oceans. Deforestation, agriculture, mining and urbanization have put the region under considerable anthropogenic stress, affecting, amongst others, regional climate, CO2 balance… Read more

Goldschmidt 2013: latest news

• The list of sessions for Goldschmidt2013 has now been finalised.
• 14 workshops have been scheduled before or after Goldschmidt2013.
• The form for registering interest for field trips will stay open until the end of December.
• A list of tours of Florence and Tuscany’s famous culture and heritage is now available.

Goldschmidt abstracts now available, searchable and citable

All the abstracts from past Goldschmidt conferences from 2000 to 2012 are now available, searchable and citable at the new Goldschmidt Abstracts archive website. Abstracts from all future Goldschmidt conferences will also be available there. Abstracts from Goldschmidt 2012 are also available there and have been published as Mineralogical Magazine Volume 76(6).

Follow the adventures of a research team in Antarctica

One of our EAG Councillors, Vinciane Debaille (University of Brussels) is currently in Antarctica, south of the Princess Elisabeth Station, on a mission to collect meteorites. The team of 5 Belgian and 3 Japanese scientists will also be looking for micrometeorites (smaller than 2mm), which form the largest fraction of the 104 tons of extraterrestrial material falling on Earth every year. You can follow their adventures at The Planet Topers in Antarctica.

“To the limits…” continues

“To the limits…” presents a humorous look at the current world of science from a geochemist point of view. It is published in Elements since April 2012 and you can see all the strips here.

Check the latest job postings

Several new positions were recently added to our job page. To receive updates on our job page, like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. To post a position on the EAG job page (free of charge), please email the details to office@eag.eu.com.

• MSc and PhD opportunities with the Multidisciplinary Applied Geochemistry Network (MAGNET) in analytical, environmental and exploration geochemistry
• PhD project: Controls on the concentration of sulphate in complex natural carbonates
• MetTrans Marie Curie Experienced Researcher (Post-Doctoral Researcher) position “Quantifying metal stable isotope fractionation by inorganic and microbial processes”
• Post-doctoral fellowship in environmental chemistry and biogeochemistry