Following the council elections which took place last month, we are excited to announce a record turn out of 39% and would like to thank EAG members for their participation. We are particularly grateful to all the candidates who agreed to stand for elections.
Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Carsten Münker and Emily Pope were elected and will officially join the EAG Council from January 2017.
EAG is delighted to report signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits (SGA). SGA members now enjoy the same terms and conditions for registering at European Goldschmidt conferences as EAG members. EAG members in turn can register at member rates when attending the 14th Biennial SGA Meeting (20-23 August 2017, Québec City, Canada). Note abstract submission deadline is 28 February.
It is now time to send nominations for the Science Innovation Award named after Heinz Lowenstam (for his work in biogeochemistry) as exceptionally, the deadline is 15 December. Note that nominees should be within 30 years from the start of PhD.
As a new year is just around the corner, it is a good time to join the European Association of Geochemistry or renew your membership. Membership is calendar year, so to make sure you receive all 2017 print publications, join/renew before end of 2016.
EAG members: if your membership expires end of this year, you should have received an email earlier this week. Access the member login to renew, update your details, view invoices etc.
2017 membership fees are unchanged: 25 Euros for professionals or 100 Euros for 5 years | 15 Euros for students or 35 Euros for 3 years, and as EAG develops new initiatives and partnerships with other societies, the list of membership benefits expands and now includes:
reduced registration rates at Goldschmidt conferences
print copies of Geochemical Perspectives, Geochemical Perspectives Letters, Elements
reduced personal subscription rates to Chemical Geology and Geofluids
student sponsorship program and ambassador program supporting early career scientists
sponsorship of member led workshops and conferences in Europe
member rates for print publications of the Mineralogical Society as well as member rates to publish open access articles in Mineralogical Magazine and Clay Minerals
member rates for print publications of Italian Geological Society, the Italian Society of Mineralogy and Petrology, and the French Quaternary Association
member rates to attend events organised by the Mineralogical Society, the International Association of GeoChemistry, the International Society for Environmental Biogeochemistry and the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits
Find out more or join/renew. In our recent blog post, Why become an EAG member?, we also collected testimonials from 12 of our recent and long-standing members.
With the goal of promoting geochemistry, EAG proudly co-organises several geochemistry related sessions presented at the EGU General Assembly 2017 (Vienna, 23-28 April). Please consider submitting an abstract (deadline: 11 January).
Geochemical and geochronological records of petrogenesis and deformation
Magma ascent, degassing and eruptive dynamics: linking experiments, models and observations
Application of stable isotopes in Biogeosciences
Promoting and supporting equality of opportunities in geosciences
EAG also co-sponsors the pre-EGU short course Petrochronology: Methods and applications (22-23 April, Vienna) and provides support for 10 students. This two-day short course will involve a series of lectures and practicals from leaders in the scientific fields of magmatic and metamorphic petrology and geochronology. Apply for support by 3 February.
The EAG Student Sponsorship Program sponsors 12 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.
Pressure-induced ion pairing in MgSO4 solutions: Implications for the oceans of icy worlds
C. Schmidt, C.E. Manning
At ambient temperature, liquid water transforms from a low-density to a high-density dynamic structure at ~0.2 GPa. The transition persists in electrolyte solutions; however, its effects on solute properties are unknown. [...]
Stable vanadium isotopes as a redox proxy in magmatic systems?
J. Prytulak, P.A. Sossi, A.N. Halliday, T. Plank, P.S. Savage, J.D. Woodhead
Recycling pathways of multivalent elements, that impact our understanding of diverse geological processes from ore formation to the rise of atmospheric oxygen, depend critically on the spatial and temporal variation of oxygen fugacity (fO2) in the Earth’s interior. [...]
Direct sensing of total alkalinity profile in a stratified lake
M. Ghahraman Afshar, M. Tercier-Waeber, B. Wehrli, E. Bakker
We demonstrate the direct detection of a total alkalinity depth profile through the use of an integrated thin layer electrochemical modulation instrument which acts as an alkalinity sensor. The technique uses a chemically selective proton pump that alters the concentration of hydrogen ions [...]
Late accretion history of the terrestrial planets inferred from platinum stable isotopes
J.B. Creech, J.A. Baker, M.R. Handler, J.-P. Lorand, M. Storey, A.N. Wainwright, A. Luguet, F. Moynier, M. Bizzarro
Late accretion of chondritic material to differentiated planetary bodies is thought to have been common in the early solar system. However, the timing and scale of admixing this material to terrestrial planets are poorly constrained. Using platinum (Pt) stable isotope data in a range of solar system bodies [...]
EAG membership benefits are varied therefore everyone has different reasons for joining our society and/or supporting its initiatives. We asked 12 of our new and long-time members why they decided to become EAG members. Read more
[Science Daily] Contrary to current geochemical models, the carbon dissolved in water-rich fluid at the bottom of the Earth's upper mantle is not in the form of carbon dioxide but rather in carbonate and bicarbonate ions. That is the conclusion of scientists at UChicago's Institute for Molecular Engineering... Read more
[Science Mag] Imagine spending your whole life seeing the world in black and white, and then seeing a vase of roses in full color for the first time. That’s kind of what it was like for the scientists who have taken the first multicolor images of cells using an electron microscope. Read more
[Science Daily] Increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations cause an imbalance in Earth's heat budget: more heat is retained than expelled, which in turn generates global surface warming. Climate sensitivity is a term used to describe... Read more
[Science Daily] It takes incredible heat and pressure to form a diamond. And when these diamonds were formed, microscopic minerals were trapped inside. The chemistry of these minerals, or inclusions, provides a rare look at the processes that led to the formation of Earth's crust. Read more
[Science News] Venus is already known to host a hellish landscape with stifling temperature and suffocating pressure — and, a new study now hints, possibly rivers of lava oozing out of a volcano. Read more
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PhD & MSc positions:
PhD Position: Analysis and Modelling of planetary atmospheres - University of Manchester
PhD Position: Understanding the Solar System through the Xenon Isotopic Record - University of Manchester
PhD Position: Ice-regolith interactions on planetary bodies - University of Manchester
PhD Position: High-temperature events in the protoplanetary disk: Formation conditions of chondrules and refractory inclusions - University of Manchester
Four PhD and one Postdoctoral Fellow Positions at University of Waterloo on Reactive Interfaces in Agroecosystems - University of Waterloo
PhD Position: Alumnium uptake in calcium silciate hydrates - Empa
PhD student position in Isotope Cosmochemistry - University of Western
2 PhD Positions in Hydrogeology and Hydrogeochemistry - University of Waterloo and Qatar University
PhD position: Role of pentavalent uranium in U(VI) reduction by microorganisms and by minerals - EPFL
PostDoctoral and Fellowship positions:
Postdoctoral fellow in Earth and Planetary Materials Sciences - Okayama University
Research Associate in Weathering or Metal Stable Isotope Geochemistry - GFZ Potsdam
2 Postdoctoral positions in soil chemistry/environmental (bio)geochemistry - ETH Zurich
2 postoctoral positions in Experimental Mineralogy/Petrology/Geochemistry - GET Toulouse
Postdoctoral Position in space science - Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale Paris-Sud University
2017 Exploration Postdoctoral Fellowship in Earth and Space Science - Arizona State University
Faculty, Technical and other positions:
Associate Professor or Professorship of Geophysics - University of Oxford
Associate Professorship or Professorship of Solid Earth Geoscience - University of Oxford
Tenure-track associate or assistant professor in Organic Chemistry/Geochemistry/Cosmochemistry - Okayama University
Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Organic Geochemistry - University of Oklahoma
Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Senior Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor in Geochemistry and Economic Geology - Universiti Brunei Darussalam
Professor in Earth Sciences - University of St Andrews
Lecturer in Earth Sciences - University of St Andrews
Open Rank Faculty Position in Stable Isotope (Bio)geochemistry or Ecology - University of California Merced
Director of CEREGE - CEREGE
Nature Geoscience Editor (in solid Earth geochemistry or marine chemistry, based in Shanghai) - Springer Nature
11th International Kimberlite Conference: (short) abstracts deadline 3 Jan
48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference: abstracts deadline 10 Jan
EGU General Assembly 2017: abstracts deadline 11 Jan
International Winter School: Melting and fluid/melt-rock reactions in the mantle: registration deadline 15 Jan
2017 International Congress on Chemical, Biological and Environmental Sciences (ICCBES 2017): abstracts deadline 20 Jan
14th International Symposium on Estuarine Biogeochemistry: abstracts deadline 31 Jan
11th International Symposium on Geochemistry of the Earth’s Surface: abstracts deadline 31 Jan
Conference: Magmatism of the Earth and related strategic metal deposits: abstracts deadline 31 Jan
Short course: Petrochronology: Methods and applications (pre-EGU17): support application deadline 3 Feb - early registration deadline 17 Feb
EAG provides support for 10 students
14th SGA Biennial Meeting “Mineral Resources to Discover”: abstracts deadline 28 Feb
EAG members can register at member rate
See all upcoming conferences and workshops.
See programs, short courses and bursaries in geochemistry.
To add events to these webpages, please email the details to office@eag.eu.com.