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Welcome to Goldschmidt2018!
The Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry are delighted to welcome you to the 28th Goldschmidt Conference in Boston! Goldschmidt has once again got a packed program in store for you, with a staggering number of oral and poster presentations in sessions covering 15 themes, as well as numerous workshops, field trips, and early career events.
Registration opens at 15:00 on Sunday 12 August. To plan your personal program, keep up to date with each day's events and stay connected with other delegates, sign in to My Goldschmidt, or download the Conference App from the Google Play store or Apple store.
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Not to miss at Goldschmidt2018!
Top talks: From 11:45 to 12:45 each day, head to Ballroom AB to listen one of the exciting talks from this year's plenary speakers. Goldschmidt is also the moment where we honour the outstanding achievements and advances made by geochemists from around the world. Be sure to add the fascinating award talks given by this year's medallists to your personal program.
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Pop-up talks: For more inspiring talks but in quite a different style, pop along to Ballroom AB on Wednesday at 13:00 for an hour of creative and entertaining 5-minute Pop-up presentations by some of Goldschmidt2018's most passionate student delegates.
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Fun with friends: With the many social events on offer, there will be plenty of opportunities to mix and mingle with new and old faces alike. After some networking at Sunday evening's ice-breaker, why not check out the fun and games in the bar at Monday's Game On: Fenway Park mixer, or maybe enjoy some fine-dining with friends at Thursday's Conference Banquet?
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Editorial board changes at Geochemical Perspectives Letters
The Geochemical Perspectives Letters editorial board are very grateful and excited to welcome two new prestigious scientists to the team: Ambre Luguet (University of Bonn) and Sophie Opfergelt (Université catholique de Louvain). The board would also like to take this opportunity to thank departing editor, Graham Pearson, for his immense efforts, dedication and commitment since the founding of the journal three years ago.
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Elements August issue: Central Andes: Mountains, Magmas, and Minerals
The Central Andes in South America preserve the complicated interplay between tectonics, magmatism, and climate at an active continental margin. This “field-based” issue explores the development of the Andean Cordillera topography and provides insights into magma generation, volcanism, and ignimbrite “flare-ups”. Also explored in this issue are the origins and sources of the spectacular salt deposits in the Atacama Desert and the world’s largest porphyry copper deposits.
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Current EAG members will soon receive their print copies of Elements. Members also have online access to all back issues (user id = email address, password = EAG membership number). To find your membership number, login to your member area.
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Keep us up to date!
If you have recently moved institution, graduated, or have changed any of your other details, don't forget to update your contact information in your member area. Current members: be sure to check that your postal address is correct so that your copies of Geochemical Perspectives and Elements are sent to the right place.
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Student sponsorship program: next deadline 1 September
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 September.
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Important Dates and Deadlines
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New in Geochemical Perspectives Letters
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Nitrogen isotope signatures of microfossils suggest aerobic metabolism 3.0 Gyr ago
There is compelling evidence for early oxygenation of mid-Archean oceans. However, the biological use of molecular oxygen is still not ascertained. Here we report the nitrogen isotope composition measured in isolated microfossils (δ15Nµm)...
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Mass-dependent triple oxygen isotope variations in terrestrial materials
High precision triple oxygen isotope analyses of terrestrial materials show distinct fields and trends in Δ'17O - δ'18O space that can be explained by well understood fractionation processes. The Δ'17O - δ'18O field for meteoric waters has almost no overlap with that of rocks. Globally, meteoric...
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Unravelling past and future of lakes at the IPA-IAL joint meeting
[By Caroline Mather] Thank you to EAG for providing sponsorship to help me attend the IPA-IAL (International Paleolimnology Association and International Association of Limnogeology) Joint Meeting: “Unravelling the Past and Future of Lakes”. This was a wonderful opportunity for me to attend and present at the IPA-IAL joint meeting during the final stage of my PhD. My research on...
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A summer camp for scientists!
[By Rebecca James] Recently, I was given the opportunity to attend the 2018 Gordon Ocean Global Change Biology conference (held in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire) as an EAG ambassador. Gordon conferences are considered ‘Summer Camps for Scientists”, and I couldn’t think of a better description! As I am nearing the end of my PhD, I was eager to attend this conference to meet...
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Geochemistry Making the News
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New light shed on the people who built Stonehenge
[ScienceDaily] Despite over a century of intense study, we still know very little about the people buried at Stonehenge or how they came to be there...
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Blue Diamonds Are Proof the Earth Recycles
[Observer] Blue diamonds are a geologist’s best friend. At least according to a new study published today in the journal Nature. Diamonds—one of the....
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Discovered: a huge liquid water lake beneath the southern pole of Mars
[The Conversation] We now know that there is permanent liquid water on Mars, according to a paper published today in the journal Science. This new...
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Heatwave and climate change having negative impact on our soil say experts
[ScienceDaily] The recent heatwave and drought could be having a deeper, more negative effect on soil than we first realised say scientists. This could...
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Old mining techniques make a new way to recycle lithium batteries
[ScienceDaily] Lei Pan's team of chemical engineering students had worked long and hard on their research project, and they were happy just to...
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Atmospheric carbon last year reached levels not seen in 800,000 years
[Science] The concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in Earth’s atmosphere reached 405 parts per million (ppm) last year, a level not seen in...
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Internships, MSc and PhD positions
| Position | Employer | Application deadline |
Type: PhD Position
PhD position in eco-hydrology (Hydrological constraints on Rare Earth Elements dynamics
in the regolith-plant continuum) | LIST, Luxembourg
| 17 Nov or until position is filled | Type: PhD Position
Dating iron duricrusts in central Amazonia, Brazil: relation with paleoclimate change | GEOPS (University Paris Sud) and Institut de Mineralogie, de Physique des Materiaux et de Cosmochimie (UMR CNRS 7590, Sorbonne University, Paris), France
| 01 Oct or until position is filled | Type: PhD Position
4 PhD positions in Environmental Geochemistry | Soil Chemistry Group, Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
| 31 Jul or until position is filled | Type: PhD Position
PhD position in aquatic biogeochemistry | Environmental Biogeochemistry and Ecotoxicology, Department F. A. Forel for environmental and aquatic sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland
| 15 Jul or until position is filled | Type: PhD Position
Two PhD positions with the
Sentinel North Research Chair in Aquatic Geochemistry
| Aquatic Geochemistry Group, Department of Chemistry, Laval University, Canada
| until the position is filled | Type: PhD Position
MSc opportunity: Oxygen Monitoring in Soil and Sediment | Ecohydrology Research Group,
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo, Canada
| until the position is filled | Type: PhD Position
Isotopic fractionations during volatile loss from planets and asteroids | Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
| 31 Jul or until position is filled | Type: PhD Position
Elucidating natural nanoparticle driven processes in different geochemical environments | Department of Environmental Geosciences, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy, University of Vienna, Austria
| until the position is filled | Type: PhD Position
Refining geochemical tracers of oxygen in the modern and ancient oceans | Environmental Chemistry Research Lab, Griffith University, Australia
| 31 Aug or until position is filled | Type: PhD Position
PhD position in Environmental Chemistry | Inorganic Environmental Geochemistry Group /
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
| until the position is filled |
PostDoctoral positions and Fellowships
| Position | Employer | Application deadline |
Type: Research Associate
Two Postdoctoral positions in Biogeochemical and Ecosystem Modeling | Global Water Futures Program,
Ecohydrology Research Group,
University of Waterloo, Canada
| until the position is filled | Type: Research Associate
2 Postdoc positions in Environmental Geochemistry | Soil Chemistry Group, Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
| 31 Jul or until position is filled | Type: Research Associate
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Cosmochemistry | Carnegie Institution for Science, DTM, United States
| 15 Jul or until position is filled | Type: Research Associate
Environmental Mineralogy / Geochemistry -
Behaviour and transformation of chromium species during metallurgical processing of chromite ores
| NRCan, CanmetMINING, Canada
| until the position is filled | Type: Postdoctoral Position
Postdoctoral research associate in reactive transport during carbonate reservoir diagenesis | University of Calgary Department of Geoscience, Canada
| 01 Aug or until position is filled | Type: Research Associate
Post-Doctoral Position - Biogechemical Modelling: Linking national-scale efforts to understand the role of sediment processes in controlling water quality in eutrophic lakes | Aquatic Geochemistry Group, Department of Chemistry, Laval University, Canada
| until the position is filled | Type: Research Associate
Researcher or Senior Researcher in Inorganic Hydrogeochemistry | Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark
| 15 Aug | Type: Research Associate
Environmental Biogeochemistry position at the Environmental Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) | ORNL Earth Sciences Group (Primary Research Program website: https://www.esd.ornl.gov/programs/rsfa/), United States
| 26 Oct | Type: Research Associate
Research Fellow in Palaeoenvironmental Geochemistry | School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
| 27 Aug | Type: Research Associate
Postdoctoral position in stable isotope geochemistry | The Wollongong Isotope Geochronology Laboratory (WIGL), Australia
| until the position is filled |
Faculty, Technical and other positions
| Position | Employer | Application deadline |
Type: Other
Faculty position in the Institute of Environmental Engineering (IIE), either at the tenure track level (Assistant Professor) or the tenured level (Associate or Full Professor) | EPFL, Switzerland
| 01 Sep or until position is filled | Type: Other
Trace metal analysis facility manager/technician | Nordcee, Department of Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
| 13 Aug | Type: Other
Assistant or Associate Professor position in Geochemistry | Laurentian University - Harquail School of Earth Sciences, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
| until the position is filled | Type: Other
Staff Associate - Geochemistry | The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, United States
| until the position is filled | Type: Other
University Professor of Sedimentary Geochemistry (W3) | Institute of Geosciences, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany
| 29 Aug | Type: Other
Tenure-track Junior Professorship of Metamorphic Processes (W1) | Institute of Geosciences, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany
| 22 Aug | Type: Other
Permanent Lectureship (Research and Teaching) in Inorganic, Analytical Chemistry
| University of Plymouth, United Kingdom
| 19 Aug | Type: Academic (faculty positions)
Assistant/Associate Professor position in Geomicrobiology | Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo, Canada
| 01 Oct |
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EAGE is committed to supporting members by providing a platform for industry and academia to meet and share insights and knowledge that link across multiple geoscientific disciplines. In November EAGE will offer together with IGA, and DGMK, a joint Workshop on Deep Geothermal Energy. On 8-9 November 2018 you can join this interesting workshop in Strasbourg, France! Save the date and stay tuned for updates here.
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