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Advance registration closes 18 July

The advance registration deadline for Goldschmidt2019 is just two days away. Register by 18 July to save 50€ off the regular member and non-member rates. EAG members and members of EAG partner societies benefit from the member rate. Join/renew or find your EAG membership number in member login.

18 July
is also the booking deadline for the pre-conference workshops.

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Attending Goldschmidt for the first time?

If this is your first Goldschmidt, or even your first international conference, you might be starting to get a little nervous in the weeks and days leading up to the event. But don't worry, help is on hand in the new guide for first-time attendees, which contains useful information about the conference and venue as well as valuable tips and resources for planning your schedule, getting ready for your presentation and making new contacts.

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Society News

Geochemical Perspectives Letters receives its first impact factor

Following publication of the 2019 Journal Citation Reports, we are delighted to announce that Geochemical Perspectives Letters (GPL), the European Association of Geochemistry’s fully open-access community-led letters journal, has received an impact factor of 4.03, which puts GPL amongst the top journals in geochemistry.


The editors and editorial office thank all the authors, reviewers and readers who have contributed to GPL‘s growing success and recognition.

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Outreach 2019: EAG co-sponsors short course on African Metallogeny

This 5-day short course on gold deposits, exploration and mining, co-sponsored by the EAG as part of the 2019 Outreach Program,  will take place in Yamassoukro, Ivory Coast, from 28 Oct. to 1 Nov. 2019. The course is addressed to researchers, lecturers, PhD students, geologists from exploration, mining companies and government institutions. Grants are available for students and young researchers.

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Elements: Propose a thematic issue

The Elements Editorial Team are inviting submissions of proposals for future thematic issues. The team will consider a wide range of  topics broadly related to mineralogy, geochemistry, and petrology. For full consideration, proposals should be submitted by 31 July. Four to six proposals will then be selected for inclusion into the 2021 lineup at the annual meeting on 18 August. Full information about how to submit a proposal can be found at http://elementsmagazine.org/publish-in-elements/.

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Resources for Early Career Scientists

The PhDiaries: An Introvert at a Conference

"Introvert: a person who gets their energy from being by themselves rather than with other people. Can enjoy socialising but is quickly drained and must seek alone time to recharge." 

One year ago, Lucy Kissick attended Goldschmidt2018 in Boston, her first international academic conference. Lucy video diary’d the experience to share on her vlog 'The PhDiaries', hoping to help fellow introverts see that they're not alone and to help others understand why some conference-goers go home and hide at the end of each day!

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EAG Blogosphere

"Great science, friendly community, and mountain views":  Geobiology in beautiful Banff

[By Jenine McCutcheon] I was excited to attend the 2nd Geobiology Society Conference because it is a very topic-focused meeting, bringing together many leading and emerging experts in the field. Additionally, this meeting has a particular interest in highlighting the research of young scientists, making it an ideal target for the EAG early career funding. The meeting was hosted at the Banff Conference Centre in beautiful Banff, Alberta, Canada...

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Important Dates and Deadlines

Goldschmidt2019 and EAG deadlines


18 July: Goldschmidt2019 workshop and social event bookings close; standard registration deadline

2 August: Goldschmidt2019 Pop-up Talks submission deadline
18-23 August: Goldschmidt2019 Conference
1 September: EAG Student Sponsorship application deadline
1 October: EAG Early Career Science Ambassador application deadline

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Other geochemistry related event deadlines


30 July: ISEB24: 24th International Symposium on Environmental Biogeochemistry (organised by EAG partner society, EAG members benefit from member rates) early registration deadline
31 July: AGU Fall Meeting 2019 abstract deadline
31 July: European Conference on Mineralogy and Spectroscopy 2019 standard registration deadline
19 August: GSA2019 early registration deadline
9 September: Royal Society Meeting: The origin and rise of complex life advance registration deadline

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New in Geochemical Perspectives Letters

Graphite floatation on a magma ocean and the fate of carbon during core formation

Carbon is a strongly siderophile element and current models assume that in a magma ocean, most of the carbon is sequestered into the core. Here we show that (i) for an initially highly reduced magma ocean, most of the carbon will be…

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182W evidence for core-mantle interaction in the source of mantle plumes

Tungsten isotopes are the ideal tracers of core-mantle chemical interaction. Given that W is moderately siderophile, it preferentially partitioned into the Earth’s core during its segregation, leaving the mantle depleted in...

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Geochemistry Making the News

Japan’s Hayabusa2 Spacecraft Lands on Asteroid It Blasted a Hole In

[New York Times] When last we checked in with Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft in April, it had blown a crater in a large rock that orbits the sun. On Wednesday night...

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Tree planting 'has mind-blowing potential' to tackle climate crisis

[The Guardian] Planting billions of trees across the world is by far the biggest and cheapest way to tackle the climate crisis, according to scientists, who have made the first...

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Sahara was home to some of largest sea creatures, study finds

[The Guardian] Some of the biggest catfish and sea snakes to ever exist lived in what is today the Sahara desert, according to a new paper that contains the first reconstructions of...

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The largest seaweed bloom ever detected spanned the Atlantic in 2018

[ScienceNews] During the summer, vast, floating islands of Sargassum algae can blanket entire parts of the tropical Atlantic Ocean. The algae reached their largest extent on record...

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Great Barrier Reef hard coral cover close to record lows

[The Guardian] Hard coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef is near record lows in its northern stretch and in decline in the south, surveys by government scientists...

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Low retention of impact material by the Moon

[Nature] As a planetary body forms, precious metals, such as gold and iridium, are stripped from its rocky mantle and passed into its metallic core. Successive...

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Lead pollution in Arctic ice shows economic impact of wars and plagues for past 1,500 years  

[ScienceDaily] How did events like the Black Death plague impact the economy of Medieval Europe? Particles of lead trapped deep in Arctic ice can tell us. Commercial and industrial processes have...

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Producing graphene from carbon dioxide

[ScienceDaily] The general public knows the chemical compound of carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas in the atmosphere and because of its global-warming effect. However, carbon dioxide can also be a useful raw material for chemical reactions. A working group at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has now reported…

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Job Opportunities

Internships, MSc and PhD positions

PositionEmployerApplication deadline
Type: PhD Position
Two PhD Positions at University of Waterloo and Laurentian University, Canada
University of Waterloo and Laurentian University, Canada
30 Jun or until position is filled
Type: PhD Position
Phase diagram and equation of state of solid and liquid iron alloys at planetary core conditions
Institut de mineralogie, de physique des materiaux et de cosmochimie (IMPMC), Sorbonne Universite, Paris, France
22 Jul or until position is filled
Type: PhD Position
PhD positions in geothermal, isotope and experimental geochemistry
The Geochemistry Group of the Institute of Earth Sciences University of Iceland, Iceland
01 Jul or until position is filled
Type: PhD Position
PhD opportunities in petrology/geochemistry/high-pressure experiment to work in a large project "Deep Earth Cycles of Carbon, Water and Nitrogen"
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
31 Jul
Type: PhD Position
Time constants and modeling of the hydrological transfers and alteration processes in the deep critical zone (Granitic Vosges Mountains - France)
Laboratory of Hydrology and Geochemistry of Strasbourg, France
01 Jul or until position is filled
Type: PhD Position
Comparative study of Messinian fossil stromatolites and modern analogues from Sardinia: towards a better understanding of paleogeobiological archives
CNRS @ Sorbonne University & Museum National d'Historie Naturelle, Paris, France
01 Jul or until position is filled
Type: PhD Position
ENAC - PhD position to investigate the microbial community dynamics during variable hydrological forcing
EPFL - Environmental Microbiology Laboratory, Switzerland
until the position is filled
Type: PhD Position
Unlocking eruption source parameters of ancient volcanic eruptions using geochemistry in ice cores
Climate and Environmental Physics (CEP), University of Bern, Switzerland
15 Jul or until position is filled
Type: PhD Position
Composition and structure of iron-organic-matter complexes in antimicrobial compounds
University of Tuebingen, Geomicrobiology Group, Germany
19 Jul or until position is filled
Type: PhD Position
The role of tidal wetlands and shallow vegetated coastal systems as sources or sinks of greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O)
Centre for Coastal Biogeochemistry, Southern Cross University, Australia
16 Aug or until position is filled

PostDoctoral positions and Fellowships

PositionEmployerApplication deadline
Type: Research Associate
Non-traditional stable isotope systematics of geothermal fluids and minerals
The Geochemistry Group of the Institute of Earth Sciences University of Iceland, Iceland
01 Jul or until position is filled
Type: Research Associate
Silicon isotope systematics of geothermal fluids and minerals
The Geochemistry Group of the Institute of Earth Sciences University of Iceland, Iceland
01 Jul or until position is filled
Type: Research Associate
Novel reconstructions of ocean chemistry and atmospheric CO2 over the last 100 million years
University of St Andrews, United Kingdom
08 Jul
Type: Research Associate
Modelling the environmental impact of permafrost thaw on the Arctic Shelf
BGeoSys (Biogeochemistry and Modeling of the Earth System), Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
until the position is filled
Type: Research Associate
Postdoctoral Researcher in Aqueous Geochemistry / Hydrothermal Systems
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; Department of Earth Sciences, United States
until the position is filled
Type: Research Associate
Postdoctoral researcher, FRM II Garching, Germany
Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
until the position is filled
Type: Research Associate
Postdoctoral Research Associate - Biogeochemistry
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States
until the position is filled
Type: Research Associate
Development and test of nano zero-valent iron for in-situ treatment of anoxic arsenic contaminated groundwater
Soil Chemistry, Department of Soil and Environment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
19 Aug

Faculty, Technical and other positions

PositionEmployerApplication deadline
Type: Other
Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Experimental Planetary Physics
The Institute for Planetary Materials (IPM), Okayama University, Misasa, Japan
08 Jul or until position is filled
Type: Other
Tenure-track Assistant Professor Position in Astrobiology
The Institute for Planetary Materials (IPM), Okayama University, Misasa, Japan
09 Sep or until position is filled
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EAG Partners

ISEB: 24th International Symposium on Environmental Biogeochemistry. Early registration deadline: 30 July

The 24th ISEB Symposium of the International Society for Environmental Biogeochemistry will be held on 22-27 September in Potsdam. Early registration deadline: 30 July. EAG Members benefit from reduced member rates.

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15th SGA Biennial Meeting: "Life with Ore Deposits on Earth"

The 15th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits will take place on 27-30 August in Glasgow. EAG Members benefit from reduced member rates.

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