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Goldschmidt2018

Perspectives Letters

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September 2017

Goldschmidt2017

Thank you for attending Goldschmidt2017

Thank you for attending Goldschmidt2017

The European Association of Geochemistry and the Geochemical Society wish to thank the 4630 attendees of the 27th Goldschmidt Conference in Paris last month, and are particularly grateful to all involved with the organisation of the conference.

A conference report, photos and videos of the plenary lectures are now available.

Our bloggers widely covered the event and we invite you to read about their experience of the conference. Interviews of Bernard Marty (EAG President), Eiji Ohtani (EAG Urey Award), Julie Prytulak (EAG Houtermans Award), Francis McCubbin (GS Clarke Award), Shuhei Ono (EAG-GS Paul Gast Lecturer) and Li Zhang (Shen-su Award) can also be found on the EAG Blog.

We are particularly happy that two initiatives introduced this year around science communication, the Pop-up Talks and Goldschmidt Wild Orbit Cinema were successful. More can be found in the conference report, including a short movie.

Goldschmidt2017 received excellent press coverage around the world. Some highlights include BBC News - Radioactive 'pooh sticks' trace carbon's ocean journey and The Washington Post - The first animals evolved during the absolute worst time on Earth.

In order to keep improving the conference year after year, we strongly encourage you to share your feedback through the post-conference survey.

We look forward to welcoming you to a fantastic 28th V.M. Goldschmidt Conference in Boston, 12–17 August 2018.

Society News

Contribute to EAG and help us do more

Contribute to EAG and help us do more

The European Association of Geochemistry firmly believes in the global availability of science. To this end, we have developed several initiatives ranging from open access community publications, support to early career scientists, or outreach programs. We've identified three particular initiatives where your contribution would allow us to do more:

bulletHelp early career scientists attend the Goldschmidt Conference

bulletSupport short courses in geochemistry

bulletSupport Geochemical Perspectives Letters, an open access, no page charges, EAG publication

EAG Early Career Ambassador Program: next deadline is 1 October

EAG Early Career Ambassador Program: next deadline is 1 October

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Through the Early Career Science Ambassador Program, early career scientists based in Europe who wish to attend conferences outside Europe (except Goldschmidt) can apply to receive EAG support and have 50% of their expenses covered, up to €2000. They will be viewed as EAG Ambassadors while attending the event. The next deadline to apply is 1 October.

2017 Distinguished Lecture Tour all set

2017 Distinguished Lecture Tour all set

In line with fulfilling the aim of making science available to all, each year, the EAG Distinguished Lecture Program funds an eminent geochemist to give lectures in several institutions in Eastern Europe. This year's lecturer, Lenny Winkel (ETH Zürich) will be visiting institutions in Hungary, Romania and Czech Republic, from 20 to 26 October. Lectures are open to all. See tour information.

Nominations for the 2018 Awards are now open for submission

Nominations for the 2018 Awards are now open for submission

Recognition of scientific excellence at all stages of one's career is crucial. Should you know of deserving colleagues, nominate them for an EAG Award or GS/EAG Fellowship. Deadline for GS/EAG Fellowship nominations is 31 October. Deadline for EAG Awards is 15 November. We also provide guidance on how to write a nomination and support letter.

bulletUrey Award: recognizes scientific excellence over a career

bulletScience Innovation Award (named after Nicholas Shackleton for his work in climatology): recognizes scientists within 30 years from the start of PhD

bulletHoutermans Award: recognizes scientists within 12 years from the start of PhD

bulletGS-EAG Geochemical Fellowship: recognizes scientists who have made major contributions to the field of geochemistry

EAG Publications

Geochemical Perspectives Letters is moving to online format only

Geochemical Perspectives Letters is moving to online format only

As announced in the preface of our last published issue of Geochemical Perspectives Letters (GPL), we will now move to an electronic format only. This move was planned at the inception of the journal and allows us to readily expand the number of manuscripts published and the speed at which we can publish without incurring additional fees. We hope this will make GPL a yet more attractive place for our community to share its latest research so please submit your next high impact manuscript to GPL.

GPL is a community journal published by the European Association of Geochemistry. It is fully society owned, open-access and carries no page charges.

Recently published in Geochemical Perspectives Letters

Recently published in Geochemical Perspectives Letters

Primary spinel + chlorite inclusions in mantle garnet formed at ultrahigh-pressure
M. Campione, S. Tumiati, N. Malaspina

Multiphase inclusions represent microenvironments where the interaction between fluid and host mineral is preserved during the rock geological path. Under its peculiar chemical-physical constraints, the entrapped solute-rich fluid might follow a crystallisation mechanism which is not predictable through simple equilibrium arguments. [...]

A secular increase in continental crust nitrogen during the Precambrian
B.W. Johnson, C. Goldblatt

Recent work indicates the presence of substantial geologic nitrogen reservoirs in the mantle and continental crust. Importantly, this geologic nitrogen has exchanged between the atmosphere and the solid Earth over time. Changes in atmospheric nitrogen (i.e. atmospheric mass) have direct effects on climate and biological productivity. [...]

EAG Blogosphere

Special Goldschmidt2017 Coverage

Special Goldschmidt2017 Coverage

In 17 blog posts, Deirdre Clark, Martin Mangler, Sami Mikhail, Claire Cousins, Clare Stead, Tadhg Dornan and Foteini Drakou covered various aspects of the Goldschmidt2017 conference and conducted several interviews. Below are a few stories but you can find them all on the EAG Blog Goldschmidt2017 section.

bulletFishing for Hg and harvesting Pb – Consequences of human activity

bulletProf Bernard Marty (President, EAG) – all well-known researchers were early-career scientists at some stage!

bulletThe science behind the science

bulletDr Francis McCubbin (2017 FW Clarke Award) – ECR consistently being overlooked, under-appreciated, and, frankly, taken advantage of

bullet The Curie Legacy

bulletHow the Roman Empire can be linked to geochemistry

bullet“That is wild! Nature made proteins that are ultra acidic” – How Corals Make Rocks

bulletGoldschmidt Wild Orbit Cinema

bulletLove Triangles and Spies – Geochemistry in 3 minutes

Geochemistry making the news

What changes when you warm the Antarctic Ocean just 1 degree?

What changes when you warm the Antarctic Ocean just 1 degree?

[Science Daily] "I was quite surprised," says Gail Ashton of the British Antarctic Survey and Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. "I wasn't expecting a significant observable difference in communities warmed by just 1°C in the Antarctic. Read more

Two new ways to turn ‘garbage’ carbon dioxide into fuel

Two new ways to turn ‘garbage’ carbon dioxide into fuel

[ScienceMag] Carbon dioxide (CO2) is society’s ultimate waste product, with billions of tons of the stuff injected into the air every year. But recycling it into valuable fuels and chemicals has always required too much energy to make financial sense. Now, researchers have found two efficient ways... Read more

New hope for reef fish living in a high CO<sub>2</sub> world

New hope for reef fish living in a high CO2 world

[Science Daily] Chemical changes in the ocean, as a result of climate change, are leading to a more acidic environment, referred to as 'ocean acidification' (OA). In a laboratory setting, these changes have been shown to lead to a range of risky behaviours... Read more

Cassini mission ends after 20 years in space, 13 around Saturn

Cassini mission ends after 20 years in space, 13 around Saturn

[The Conversation] The Cassini space probe not only visited Saturn as part of its mission, it also revealed many of the planet’s moons in stunning detail and showed them to be interesting and unique worlds. The 20-year mission is coming to an end later this month... Read more

Job opportunities

Current job opportunities

Current job opportunities

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Receive job ads as they are posted: like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter (@EAG_). To post a position on the EAG job page (free of charge): click here.

PhD & MSc positions:

bulletDo Minerals Promote the Preservation of Organic Carbon in Marine Sediments? - University of Leeds

bulletMultiple PhD positions: Archean geology, sedimentary provenance, petrochronology and wildfire related geochemical differentiation (more) - Queensland University of Technology

bulletGraduate studies in experimental planetary science - University of Tennessee Knoxville

PostDoctoral and Fellowship positions:

bulletPostdoctoral position in computational seismology Institute of Earth Sciences - University of Iceland

bulletSix postdoc positions in Origins of Life research associated to the new Dutch Origins Center - Several Dutch Universities

bulletResearch Associate: PDRA 1 - DETECT - Risk of CO2 leaking along fractures - Heriot-Watt University

bulletResearch Associate: PDRA 2 - DETECT - Determining risk of CO2 along leakage - Heriot-Watt University

bulletTwo Postdoctoral positions in Biogeochemical and Ecosystem Modeling - Global Water Futures Program, Ecohydrology Research Group, University of Waterloo

bulletPostdoctoral Research Positions – Behaviour and transformation of chromium species during metallurgical processing of chromite ores - Natural Resources Canada, CanmetMINING

bulletPost-doctoral position in Antarctic dust Geochemistry (3 years) - Laboratoire G-Time, ULB

Faculty, Technical and other positions:

bullet6 tenure-track (full-time) positions - Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción

bulletPosition in Solid Earth Petrology/Geochemistry - University of Florida

bulletAssociate Research Scientist - The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University

Conferences and short courses

Upcoming deadlines for geochemistry related events

Upcoming deadlines for geochemistry related events

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bullet2018 EON-ELSI Winter School: Earth-Life Science: application deadline 15 Sept

bulletGSA 2017: early registration deadline 18 Sept

bullet12th Annual Short Course “Fluids in the Earth”: application deadline 30 Sept

bulletEuropean Association of Organic Geochemists Travel Scholarship: application deadline 30 Sept

bullet1st International Congress on Earth Sciences in SE Asia: abstract deadline 16 Oct

bulletELSI 6th International symposium / Building Bridges from Earth to Life: abstract deadline 5 Oct (poster: students requesting travel support) 20 Oct (poster w/o travel support)

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