July 2016

Thank you for attending Goldschmidt2016!

The Goldschmidt2016 conference, which welcomed 3740 delegates, was a great success and the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry would like to thank all involved in the preparation of the event as well as all attendees.

If you haven't done so yet, please share your feedback about what went well and what can be improved through the delegate survey.

You can now view the photos of the conference as well as the videos of the plenary lectures by Satoshi Utsunomiya, Terry Plank, Liane G. Benning and Shogo Tachibana.

Goldschmidt2017 Call for sessions and workshops open

Goldschmidt2017 will be held in the beautiful city of Paris, 13-18 August, and we certainly hope to see many of you there!

The theme leaders have now identified 23 themes and the whole geochemistry community is invited to submit suggestions for sessions before 1 November. Please note that any suggested sessions must be broad enough to attract at least 25 abstract submissions.

If you are interested in organising a pre-conference workshop or Town Hall meeting, you are also invited to submit a proposal before 1 November. Find out more.

New Geochemical Perspectives issue now available

We are very excited to announce the publication of the latest Geochemical Perspectives, 'Siderophile Elements in Tracing Planetary Formation and Evolution' by Richard J. Walker (University of Maryland). In this issue, he examines and provides his own perspective of the history of the application and current state of our understanding of siderophile elements in cosmochemistry and high temperature geochemistry.

The issue is currently in print and be mailed to all EAG members. To check or update your postal address, please login to your member area.

Goldschmidt 2016 Yokohama: the conference (part I)

[By Michael Anenburg] Goldschmidt is the largest annual geochemistry conference, held this year in Yokohama, Japan. I am not a newcomer to Goldschmidt. I attended Goldschmidt in Montreal, Canada back in 2012. That was when I was a first year M.Sc. student, presenting something I did as a side project during my final year of undergraduate studies...Read more

Goldschmidt 2016 Yokohama: the field trips (part II)

[By Michael Anenburg] I was fortunate to attend two field trips during my visit to Japan, both before and after the conference itself. We left Yokohama to the village of Oshino, northeast of Mt Fuji, the location of Oshino Hakkai: the eight springs. This area used to be a lake, lava flows from Mt Fuji covered the lake completely and it dried up. However, groundwater coming from Mt Fuji are still feeding some ponds and springs in the village. Read more

Ocean circulation implicated in past abrupt climate changes

[Science Daily] There was a period during the last ice age when temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere went on a rollercoaster ride, plummeting and then rising again every 1,500 years or so. Those abrupt climate changes wreaked havoc on ecosystems, but their cause has been something of a mystery. Read more

A giant impact: Solving the mystery of how Mars' moons formed

[Phys.org] Where did the two natural satellites of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, come from? For a long time, their shape suggested that they were asteroids captured by Mars. However, the shape and course of their orbits contradict this hypothesis. Two independent and complementary studies provide an answer to this question. Read more

Why a half-degree temperature rise is a big deal

[Nasa] The Paris Agreement, which delegates from 196 countries hammered out in December 2015, calls for holding the ongoing rise in global average temperature to “well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels,” while “pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C.” How much difference could that half-degree of wiggle room possibly make in the real world? Read more

Recent hydrothermal activity may explain Ceres' brightest area

[Nasa] The brightest area on Ceres, located in the mysterious Occator Crater, has the highest concentration of carbonate minerals ever seen outside Earth, according to a new study from scientists on NASA's Dawn mission. The study, published online in the journal Nature, is one of two new papers about the makeup of Ceres. Read more

Humans are not the only ones who produce halogenated organic...

[Sience Daily] Humans are not the only ones who produce halogenated organic pollutants. Organohalogens like perchloroethene and trichloroethene are prominent groundwater pollutants due to their industrial use as dry cleaning and degreasing agents and their widespread release into the environment. Volatile organohalogens like chloromethane strongly influence atmospheric chemistry...Read more

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PhD & MSc positions:

PhD position: Role of pentavalent uranium in U(VI) reduction by microorganisms and by minerals - EPFL

PhD position: Spatial and temporal variability of weathering rates and water flows in an elementary watershed (Strengbach Catchment- France) (more) - University of Strasbourg

Doctoral Position in Isotope Geochemistry of Planetary Processes - Freie Universität Berlin

PhD position in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry - Okayama University

PhD position in Environmental Biogeochemistry to study the biomethylation and biovolatilisation of antimony in soils - University of Bern

PhD position in Environmental Biogeochemistry to study the biomethylation of mercury in agricultural soils - University of Bern

PhD position: Organic geochemistry of soils over concealed mineralization: Linking source to sink to strategy - University of British Columbia

PostDoctoral and Fellowship positions:

Postdoctoral position on biogeochemical modeling of deep-sea sponges (3 years) - University of Utrecht

Postdoctoral fellow in Earth and Planetary Materials Sciences - Okayama University

Postdoctoral position in Liquid cell transmission electron microscopy - University of Wyoming

Postdoctoral position 'Electroactivity in a deep crater lake: microbial and mineralogical contributions' - IMPMC

Faculty, Technical and other positions:

Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences - Washington University

50% Research Assistant/Technician in Chemistry with a Focus on Environmental Biogeochemistry - University of Bern

Laboratory Manager/Researcher: Scanning Electron Imaging and Analyses - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences Potsdam

Tenured professor or tenure-track associate or assistant Professor in astrobiology and organic geochemistry/cosmochemistry - Okayama University

Associate Research Scientist - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Tenure Track Low Temperature Geochemist - Zhejiang University

Upcoming deadlines for geochemistry related events

79th Annual Meeting of The Meteoritical Society: Late Registration deadline 31 July

AGU Fall Meeting 2016: Abstract deadline 3 August

Cities on Volcanoes 9: Abstract deadline 15 August

GSA 2016: Early Registration deadline 22 August

Workshop: Technology-critical elements Natural Cycles, Anthropogenic Sources and Environmental Impacts: Abstract deadline 1 Sept

Short course: Advanced course on analytical chemistry of Technology-critical elements: Application deadline 15 Sept

See all upcoming conferences and workshops.

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