The deadline for abstract submission at Goldschmidt2016 is coming up and you can find details about how to prepare and submit your abstract at goldschmidt.info/2016/abstracts. Also see the full list of sessions you may submit to.
If you are a student at the time of the Goldschmidt2016 conference or are working in a low economy country or would otherwise have difficulty funding your attendance at the conference, you may apply for a grant before 26 February to support your fees and travel.
If your spoken English is excellent, you can apply for 4-6 days as Student Helper, assisting on registration, in science sessions and all around the conference. Student Helpers receive waived registration and an honorarium. Find out more or apply before 26 February.
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appearing in our newsletter to highlight news of special interest to those at the start of their career. On the EAG website, you can also find a dedicated section to early career scientists at www.eag.eu.com/early-career.
The latest issue of Elements celebrates the diverse contributions that the Earth sciences have made to characterizing, interpreting, conserving, and valorizing cultural heritage.
EAG members will receive their print copy shortly and have online access to all back issues of Elements (user id = email address, password = EAG membership number). To verify your postal address or your membership number, login to your member area.
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 (except Goldschmidt), by covering 50% of their expenses, up to 2000 Euros. The next application deadline is 1 March.
EAG is a proud co-sponsor of the 4th International Highly Siderophile Element Geochemistry Workshop taking place at the University of Durham, UK, on 11-15 July 2016, and we'd like to remind students that travel bursaries are available. Abstract and registration deadline is 4 March.
The Environmental Mineralogy Group of the Mineralogical Society launches a £500 bursary for Early Career researchers in the disciplines of environmental, applied, and bio mineralogy to facilitate ‘seed corn’ research, develop ‘pump priming’ ideas, support career development, and commercialisation of research into industry. Read more
Geochemical Perspectives Letters is an EAG journal, publishing peer-reviewed high quality articles spanning geochemical sciences, fully open access, carrying NO author charges. Find out more.
Al Hofmann is Emeritus Director of the Geochemistry Division of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz (Germany), the 2015 Urey Award Medallist and a former president of EAG. The EAG Communications Committee recently interviewed him. Read more
[By Miryam Bar-Matthews, EAG 2015 Distinguished Lecturer] It was a great honor and challenge to be asked to present the 2015 EAG Distinguished Lecture Tour in four institutes in Ukraine, Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia. My lectures included 1) Speleothems as paleoclimate indicators; 2) Novel techniques in speleothems research for paleohydrological studies... Read more
[By Martin Mangler] From the 5th-9th of January 2016, the annual meeting of the Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group (VMSG) took place at Trinity College in Dublin. This year, the regular three-day program of talks, poster sessions and discussions was bracketed by a one-day workshop on Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry... Read more
[Science Alert] Rare earth elements (REEs) are essential for the production of many modern gadgets and machines, from smartphones and solar panels, to computer chips, medical imaging, and jet engines. Despite their name, they're not particularly rare - but they are difficult to extract in large amounts... Read more
[The New York Times] As the East Coast braces for the first ferocious snowstorm of the season, we wanted to revisit a frosty adage: Is it true that no two snowflakes are the same? Never, ever ever? Not quite... Read more
[Science] The solar system appears to have a new ninth planet. This week, two scientists announced evidence that a body nearly the size of Neptune—but as yet unseen—orbits the sun every 15,000 years. Read more
[Science Daily] The consolidation of the ancient supercontinent Pangea 300 million years ago played a key role in the formation of the coal that powered the Industrial Revolution and that is still burned for energy in many parts of the world today, Stanford scientists say. Read more
[Soil Science] On January 20, 2016 Udo Schwertmann passed away in Freising, Germany. He is remembered as an eminence in iron oxide biogeochemistry. The mineral schwertmannite was named in his honour. Read more
Check our latest cartoon, created by geochemists for geochemists in need of comic relief... You will also find this cartoon in the Elements February 2016 issue.
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