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Following his mandate as Vice-President, Bernard Marty now starts as EAG President for 2017-2018. Bernard is Professor of geochemistry at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie, Université de Lorraine, and researcher at the Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques), Nancy, France. Bernard has been involved with EAG for over 8 years and was Chair of the Goldschmidt Conference in 2011.
The EAG also welcomes Sigurður Gíslason as Vice-President, Helen Williams as Goldschmidt Officer, as well as Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Klaus Mezger, Carsten Münker and Emily Pope as Councillors.
The EAG also wishes to thank outgoing councillor Ruben Kretzschmar, as well as outgoing former Presidents Chris Ballentine and Eric Oelkers for their exceptional dedication as well as their lasting and substantive contributions.
We are proud to announce the 2017 EAG Medallists; they will be presented at the Goldschmidt2017 conference in Paris.
Eiji Ohtani (Tohoku University) receives the Urey Award, recognizing outstanding contributions advancing geochemistry over a career.
Bo Thamdrup (University of Southern Denmark) receives the Heinz Lowenstam Science Innovation Award recognizing mid-career scientists for important and innovative breakthrough in geochemistry.
Julie Prytulak (Imperial College London) receives the Houtermans Award recognizing exceptional contributions to geochemistry by scientists within 12 years from the start of PhD.
Shuhei Ono (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) receives the GS/EAG Paul Gast Lectureship.
If you are passionate about geochemistry and have taken photos that capture the ‘Wonders of Geochemistry’, enter our photo contest! Everyone is allowed to participate and you can submit up to 3 photos.
Authors of the top 3 winning photos will receive a complimentary 5-year EAG membership (worth €100), publication of their photos on the EAG website, newsletter banners and in Elements EAG pages. The photos will also be printed as post cards and available for distribution at Goldschmidt2017.
Students and friends of the late Robert Berner have worked to establish an annual lecture at the Goldschmidt Conference to commemorate his intellectual legacy in geochemistry. The 'Berner' committee is now proud to announce the first recipient of the Robert Berner Lecture: Joshua West from University of Southern California. Read more
In addition to co-organising several sessions at EGU General Assembly 2017 (Vienna, 23-28 April), EAG co-sponsors the pre-EGU short course Petrochronology: Methods and applications (22-23 April, Vienna) and provides support for 10 students, by reducing registration fees to 25 Euros. Apply for support by 3 February.
EAG Blogosphere
[By Bernard Marty] It is an honour, and a great pleasure, to become president of the European Association of Geochemistry. My first task is to thank Liane Benning for the fantastic job she has been doing over the last two years. Under her leadership, EAG has flourished as never before. Read more
[By Martin Mangler] In May 2008, Chaitén volcano in Chilean Patagonia erupted and provided the world with spectacular footage of the first rhyolitic eruption ever to be observed in modern times. But the 2008-2009 Chaitén eruption is not only remarkable from a geological point of view, but also in regards of its short- and medium-term crisis management... Read more
Geochemistry making the news
[BBC News] Temperature data for 2016 shows it is likely to have edged ahead of 2015 as the world's warmest year.
Data from Nasa and the UK Met Office shows temperatures were about 0.07 degrees Celsius above the 2015 mark. Read more
[Science Daily] Ocean Acidification: High-tech mooring will measure beneath Antarctic ice. Earth's oceans have soaked up about a third of the carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere by humans through use of fossil fuels and other activities. That's good news for... Read more
[Science Daily] For the development of animals, nothing -- with the exception of DNA -- may be more important than oxygen in the atmosphere. Oxygen enables the chemical reactions that animals use to get energy from stored carbohydrates -- from food. Read more
[Science Daily] When the Arctic coast retreats, life in the shallow water areas drastically changes. The thawing and erosion of Arctic permafrost coasts has dramatically increased in the past years and the sea is now consuming more than 20 metres of land per year at some locations. Read more
Job opportunities
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PhD & MSc positions:
PhD fellow in the Greenland Perspective initiative - University of Copenhagen
ENIGMA Innovative Training Network: 15 PhD positions available in Geophysics, Hydrology, Hydrogeology, Hydrogeophysics, Biogeochemistry and Microbiology - ENIGMA network
Stability of arsenic host minerals across redox transition zones in sediments of Red River Delta, Vietnam - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Geomicrobiological processes in arsenic mobilization in Hanoi, Vietnam - University of Tuebingen
Reconstructing the evolving compositions of fluids in the >3Ga Tartoq Greenstone Belt, SW Greenland, from seawater-basalt interaction to metamorphism to gold deposition. - McGill University
7 PhD Studentships - International Research Training Group “Deep Earth Volatile Cycles” - University of Bayreuth
Contaminant removal through the controlled electrochemical dissolution of iron (0) - University of Lausanne
Graduate, fellowship, and postdoc positions available - Louisiana State University
Two PhD Positions in Hydrogeology and Hydrogeochemistry - University of Waterloo and Qatar University
PostDoctoral and Fellowship positions:
Postdoctoral Researcher in Isotope Cosmochemistry and Computational Planet Formation - ETH Zurich/University of Zurich
Postdoctoral fellow in Earth and Planetary Materials Sciences - Okayama University
2 postdoctoral positions in Experimental Mineralogy/Petrology/Geochemistry - GET Toulouse
Faculty, Technical and other positions:
Tenure-track associate or assistant professor in Organic Chemistry/Geochemistry/Cosmochemistry - Okayama University
Conferences and short courses
