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Abstract submission now open!
January is always an exciting month on the Goldschmidt calendar, with the opening of abstract submissions. With over 140 sessions to choose from, the Science Program for Goldschmidt2019 in Barcelona is as exciting as ever. Visit the abstracts webpage for instructions for how to prepare and submit your abstracts, as well as our handy tutorials.
Abstract submission deadline: 29 March.
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Goldschmidt Grants Program
The Goldschmidt Grant Program aims to make the Conference as accessible as possible by providing waived registration fees and travel support for early career delegates whose institution is located in a country designated by the World Bank as “low-income” or “lower-middle-income” economy.
Additionally, for US-based students and postdocs, Geoscience Diversity grants and Planetary Science grants are available through support from US funding agencies.
Visit the Grants page to check eligibility and for more information on the different programs.
Application deadline: 15 March.
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Goldschmidt2019 is looking for student helpers!
The help provided by student volunteers is vital to the smooth running of Goldschmidt Conferences. If you are interested in getting involved and speak English fluently, you can apply for 4 or 6 days' volunteering at Goldschmidt2019. Check out the Student Helpers page for more information and to apply.
Application deadline: 29 March.
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Sigurður Reynir Gíslason starts as EAG President
Following his mandate as Vice-President, Sigurður Reynir Gíslason (Siggi) has now started his term as EAG President for 2019-2020. Siggi is a Research Professor at the Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland, and is the chairman of CarbFix, the initiative to store carbon in basaltic rocks. He has been involved with EAG since 2015, serving both as a councillor and on nominations committees. Read a message from our new President on the EAG Blog.
The EAG Council also welcomes Derek Vance as Vice-President, Dan Frost as Goldschmidt Officer, and Maud Boyet, Kate Kiseeva and Alberto Vitale Brovarone as Councillors. The EAG would also like to thank all those moving on -- former secretary Andreas Kappler, Goldschmidt Officer Antje Boetius, councillors Don Canfield and Kirsten Küsel, and former President Liane Benning -- for their exceptional dedication and their lasting and substantive contributions.
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EAG-GS Outreach Program: Hasnaa Chennaoui Aoudjehane visits Mauritania for the start of the 2019 tour
The EAG-GS Outreach Program is a partnership between the EAG and the Geochemical Society with the directive of developing outreach activities in geochemistry in under-represented regions of the world.
2019 Outreach Lecturer, Hasnaa Chennaoui Aoudjehane (University Hassan II of Casablanca), a scientist in the fields of Meteoritics, Planetary Sciences and Geochemistry, will start this year's tour in Mauritania on 28 January, where she will give a seminar and workshop on Morocco and Mauritania meteorites at the University of Nouakchott.
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EAG-sponsored short-course: Tools in Biogeochemistry - Apply now!
11-16 August 2019 - University of Tuebingen. This 5-day course, co-sponsored by the European Association of Geochemistry, will focus on the use of cutting edge analytical, spectroscopic and microscopic tools in environmental biogeochemistry. The course is designed for PhD students with a strong interest in biogeochemical processes (max. 20 participants). Price is 300€ (incl. lunch and 5 nights’ accommodation).
To apply, please send a CV and motivation letter to Prof. Andreas Kappler and Dr. Casey Bryce by 31 January 2019.
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Student Sponsorship Program: next deadline is 1 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 February 2019.
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Calling all geo-bloggers!
The EAG Blogosphere is seven years old this January! During this time, we've published almost 200 posts from students, researchers, professors, EAG Ambassadors and even EAG Presidents, on topics as diverse as searching for the origins of life, photons in the night skies, remote volcanoes, famous geochemists, and post-submission protocols!
We are always on the look out for new contributors, so if you are passionate about communicating science and have some ideas for a regular feature, or if you are planning on attending Goldschmidt2019 in Barcelona this August and would like to gain some experience as part of the Goldschmidt blogging team (in return for a free banquet ticket!), please do contact the EAG office!
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Important Dates and Deadlines
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New in Geochemical Perspectives Letters
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Onset of volatile recycling into the mantle determined by xenon anomalies
Noble gases serve as unique tracers of the origin and evolution of Earth’s volatile reservoirs owing to their inert nature and contribution from extinct and extant radioactivities. However, noble gases are low in abundance relative to many other elements, particularly in the Earth’s mantle. Additionally,…
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Goethite, a tailor-made host for the critical metal scandium: The FexSc(1-x)OOH solid solution
Scandium is the subject of increasing interest and is even becoming critical for a number of institutions in Europe and the U.S.A. among others because of its economic value and supply risk...
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Bridging the depleted MORB mantle and the continental crust using titanium isotopes
The mechanisms driving the chemical complementarity between depleted MORB mantle (DMM) and continental crust (with an average 'andesitic' composition) remain unclear. By investigating Archean komatiites, and modern enriched (E) and normal (N) MORB samples...
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An oxygen isotope test for the origin of Archean mantle roots
The origin of the peridotites that form cratonic mantle roots is a central issue in understanding the history and survival of Earth’s oldest continents. A long-standing hypothesis holds that the unusual bulk compositions of some cratonic peridotites stem from...
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Geochemistry Making the News
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Plastic pollution discovered at deepest point of ocean
[The Guardian] The deepest point on Earth is heavily polluted with plastic, scientists have discovered, showing how pervasively the world has been contaminated...
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Ice-filled Martian crater is a permanent winter wonderland
[NewScientist] Even Mars is getting into the festive spirit. This is the Korolev Crater near the north pole of the Red Planet, which is filled with a mound of water ice...
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First close-ups of Ultima Thule reveal it resembles dark red snowman
[The Guardian] Nasa’s New Horizons spacecraft has beamed home its first close-up images of Ultima Thule, a lump of rock the shape of an unfinished snowman that lies...
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Engineers identify improved membranes to capture CO2 at coal-fired power plants
[ScienceDaily] A computational modeling method developed at the University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering may help to fast-track the...
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How an ancient cataclysm may have jump-started life on Earth
[Science] ATLANTA—A cataclysm may have jump-started life on Earth. A new scenario suggests that some 4.47 billion years ago—a mere 60 million years after Earth...
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Sunscreen and cosmetics compound may harm coral by altering fatty acids
[ScienceDaily] Although sunscreen is critical for preventing sunburns and skin cancer, some of its ingredients are not so beneficial to ocean-dwelling creatures...
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Scientists Just Drilled Through Thousands of Feet of Ice Into a 'Lost' Antarctic...
[ScienceAlert] Antarctica has a new hole. It's more than a kilometre (just under 4,000 feet) deep, barely a hand-span or two in width, and ends in a body of water named...
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Retreating ice sheets could be uncorking another new source of carbon pollution
[ArcticToday] Most people are familiar with the sudden appearance of bubbles in a bottle of soda after the lid is opened. The explanation for why that happens...
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Internships, MSc and PhD positions
| Position | Employer | Application deadline |
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
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
PhD position in Environmental Chemistry | Inorganic Environmental Geochemistry Group /
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
| until the position is filled | Type: PhD Position
The Organic/Inorganic Interface in Biominerals | Synchrotron SOLEIL_ANATOMIX beamline, L'Orme des Merisiers, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
| until the position is filled | Type: PhD Position
Uptake, accumulation, and metabolic fate of thioarsenates in rice | Environmental Geochemistry, Bayreuth University, Germany
| until the position is filled | Type: PhD Position
Nitrogen as a building block of life in subsurface serpentinizing systems and early life on Earth | National Oceanography Centre Southampton, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
| 19 Jan | Type: PhD Position
Planetary science PhD projects at the University of Manchester are now advertised | University of Manchester, United Kingdom
| 11 Feb | Type: PhD Position
Ph.D. Positions in Trace Element Molecular Geochemistry | STARLAB / Earth and Atmospheric Sciences / Central Michigan University, United States
| 01 Feb or until position is filled | Type: PhD Position
PhD studentships in planetary science at the Natural History Museum, London. | Planetary Materials Group, Department of Earth Science, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
| 15 Feb |
PostDoctoral positions and Fellowships
| Position | Employer | Application deadline |
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
Postdoctoral position in stable isotope geochemistry | The Wollongong Isotope Geochronology Laboratory (WIGL), Australia
| 16 Dec | Type: Research Associate
Associate Research Scientist | Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, United States
| until the position is filled | Type: Research Associate
Post-doctoral position utilizing U-PB LA-ICP MS geochronology | Dept. Geological Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden
| 31 Dec or until position is filled | Type: Research Associate
Postdoctoral research scientist in marine dissolved organic phosphorus cycling | Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, United States
| until the position is filled | Type: Research Associate
Postdoctoral Research Scientist | The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, United States
| until the position is filled | Type: Research Associate
Postdoctoral Fellow: Watershed Biogeochemical Data Synthesis and Modeling | Basu Lab at the University of Waterloo, Canada
| until the position is filled | Type: Research Associate
Postdoc position in Applied Geochemistry | Applied Geochemistry Group, Institute of Applied Geosciences, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany
| 20 Jan or until position is filled | Type: Research Associate
Application of a Portable Laser Ablation Sampling Device and ICP-MS to the Analysis of Cultural Heritage Objects | Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, Yale University, United States
| 03 Mar | Type: Research Associate
Postdoc position in geochemistry | The University of Chicago, Department of the Geophysical Sciences and Enrico Fermi Institute, United States
| 10 Feb or until position is filled |
Faculty, Technical and other positions
| Position | Employer | Application deadline |
Type: Other
Staff Associate - Geochemistry | The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, United States
| until the position is filled | Type: Other
Professor of Geology | Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
| 11 Feb | Type: Other
Associate Professorship of Petrology and Crustal Processes | Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
| 15 Feb | Type: Other
Senior Transmission Electron Micro-Spectroscopy Researcher / Laboratory Manager. Permanant Post. | Interface Geochemistry, GFZ Potsdam, Germany
| 15 Feb | Type: Other
Assistant or Associate Professor - Mine Systems Biogeochemistry - tenure track position | The University of Arizona, United States
| until the position is filled | Type: Academic (faculty positions)
Assistant/Associate Professor Mining Biogeochemistry - tenure track position | University of Arizona, United States
| until the position is filled | Type: Other
GeoEnvironmental Engineer | Queen's University - Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering, Canada
| 22 Feb |
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15th SGA Biennial Meeting: "Life with Ore Deposits on Earth"
The SGA, the Local Organising Committee, the Lord Provost of the City of Glasgow, Eva Bolander, and Scotlandʼs First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, extend the warmest invitation to you to come to The University of Glasgow for the SGA's 15th Biennial Meeting, 27-30 August, 2019. Abstract submission and registration are now open. Abstract deadline: 11 March 2019.
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81st EAGE Annual Conference and Exhibition
The 81st EAGE Annual Conference and Exhibition (London, UK; 3-6 June 2019), is the world's most significant multi-disciplinary geoscience and engineering event, gathering geoscientists and engineers from across the field for the most comprehensive technical programme of its kind. Early registration deadline: 15 March 2019.
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