We are happy to report a participation rate of 37% at the recent council elections, an excellent indicator of the vitality of the geochemical community. We thank EAG members for participating at these elections and are particularly grateful to all the candidates who agreed to stand.
Donald E. Canfield, Kirsten Küsel and Helen Williams have been elected and will join the EAG Council from January 2016. We wish all our newly elected councillors a warm welcome.
With the goal of promoting geochemistry, EAG proudly co-organises several geochemistry related sessions presented at the EGU General Assembly 2016 (Vienna, 17-22 April). Please consider submitting an abstract (deadline: 13 January).
We thank all who participated in the EAG Photo Contest. The jury has now selected the best 5 photos in each theme and we now invite you to vote for your favourite photos. The winner of each theme will receive a 5-year EAG membership and will see their photo on the banner of this newsletter and on the EAG website.
EAG is delighted to report signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the International Association of GeoChemistry (IAGC). IAGC members now enjoy the same terms and conditions for registering at European Goldschmidt conferences as EAG members. EAG members in turn now receive member registration rates when attending any IAGC organised events, including Water Rock Interaction 15 (Évora, Portugal; 16-21 October 2016).
The EAG Student Sponsorship Program sponsors 10 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. Find out more.
EAG endeavours to offer a comprehensive set of membership benefits, including reduced rates at Goldschmidt conferences, print and online issues of Elements, Geochemical Perspectives, Geochemical Perspectives Letters, student sponsorship and much more. Rates are unchanged for 2016: 25 Euros for professionals or 100 Euros for 5 years | 15 Euros for students or 35 Euros for 3 years. Find out more or join.
To find out the status of your membership, renew or update your details, you can access your member area. If your EAG membership expires end of 2015, you will receive a notification within a few days.
[By Maria Isabel Varas-Reus, Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra] Attending to the Congreso Geólogico de Chile is always a great experience, not only because I’m Chilean and I live far from my country (currently I’m living in Spain) but because this conference is held every three years in Chile and brings together geoscientists from all over the world... Read more
[By Joshua Blacker, University of Leeds] From the 18-20th of August I attended a geochemical modelling workshop that was ran before the 25th annual Goldschmidt conference in Prague. The purpose of the two-day-long course was to learn and advance our knowledge in the use and application of the geochemical modelling computer program PHREEQC. Using such a program enables different geochemical reaction scenarios to be modelled. Read more
[By Wladimir Neumann, German Aerospace Center] “Aloha!”, that’s the first thing people say to you on Hawai’i, and that’s what you answer them. While doing that, fear not about being a guest on these islands. All people are minorities here and there are only a few thousand native speakers of the Hawai’ian language. Located right atop of a geological hotspot... Read more
[By Jorge Yanez, University of Tübingen] I just say thanks to the EAG Early Career Science Ambassador program for giving me the opportunity to attend the ACS (American Chemical Society) Boston for the 250th ACS National Meeting & Exposition (16-20 August 2015). I had the pleasure and honor to present an oral work in a special symposium about Emerging Electrochemical Water Remediation Technologies. Read more
[ScienceMag] Earth may have kept its own water rather than getting it from asteroids. Carl Sagan famously dubbed Earth the “pale blue dot” for our planet’s abundant water. But where this water came from—and when it arrived—has been a longstanding debate. Many scientists argue that Earth formed as a dry planet, and gained its water millions of years later through the impact of water-bearing asteroids or comets. Read more
[Science Daily] "Diamond formation in the deep Earth, the very deep Earth, may be a more common process than we thought," said Johns Hopkins geochemist Dimitri A. Sverjensky, whose article co-written with doctoral student Fang Huang appears today in the online journal Nature Communications. Read more
[ScienceMag] Rapid melting of Greenland glacier could raise sea levels for decades. Beneath the calm, white surface of Greenland, rivers of ice are flowing into the ocean—and some are moving very fast indeed. The speedy glaciers on the island’s warmer west coast, shedding kilometers of ice into the sea each year as warm ocean waters under-mine them, have raised the most alarm about potential sea level rise. But a much bigger glacier is now on the move... Read more
[Science Daily] The fiery world before dinosaurs: New research reveals fires were more common 300 million years ago than today. The study which was published in the journal Frontiers in Plant Science, found that peats that were to become coal contained high levels of charcoal that could only be explained by the high levels of fire activity. The team used the data from charcoal in coal to propose that the development of fire systems... Read more
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