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Many thanks for attending Goldschmidt2021 Virtual!

Over 3200 delegates attended Goldschmidt2021 Virtual and we hope everyone had a successful conference, interesting discussions, was able to catch up with colleagues and even had some fun at the various social activities!

What is available until 23 July?
Until 23 July, all session recordings and uploaded e-presentations are available to registrants to view on the conference website. The SpatialChat platform is also open until this date, so take advantage of the space to meet up with colleagues and browse the various rooms.

Sponsorship Challenge winner announced!
We congratulate Alice Bäckström, winner of the Goldschmidt2021 Sponsorship Challenge! Many thanks to the sponsors for their ongoing support, and to all who took part in this tough challenge!

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Your feedback helps us to shape and improve future meetings for the benefit of the whole community. If you attended Goldschmidt2021 and haven't yet completed the short survey, please do take two minutes to fill it in at the link below.

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Goldschmidt2022: important dates

Next year’s Goldschmidt2022 Conference will take place from 10-15 July in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, USA and online. The call for session and workshop proposals will open on 10 August and close on 30 September. Mark your calendar with these important dates!

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Society News

2020 impact factor announced for Geochemical Perspectives Letters

Following publication of the 2021 Journal Citation Reports, we are pleased to announce that the impact factor of Geochemical Perspectives Letters (GPL) has risen to 5.567, consolidating its place among the top journals in geochemistry.

The editors and editorial office thank all of the authors, reviewers and readers who have contributed to the success of GPL.

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Latest Elements issue: Speleothems

Growing slowly drip by drip through the millennia, stalagmites, stalactites, and flowstone—collectively known as speleothems—are some of the most fantastic mineral features in nature. Speleothems are also critical archives of past environments, and their study incorporates expertise from groundwater hydrogeology and geochemistry, atmospheric chemistry, climate science, geobiology, and even geophysics. Research on speleothem trace element and isotopic geochemistry, constituent organic compounds, noncarbonate minerals, and morphology can help illuminate paleoenvironmental conditions and document historical anthropogenic land-use changes. This issue of Elements will introduce the many ways that speleothems are used within the geoscience community to learn about natural Earth processes and our role in modifying them.

All EAG members have online access to current and past issues of Elements.

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Important Dates and Deadlines

EAG and Goldschmidt2022 deadlines

1 September: EAG Student Sponsorship application deadline
1 October: EAG Early Career Science Ambassador
application deadline

30 September: Goldschmidt2022 Call for session and workshop proposals deadline

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Other geochemistry related event deadlines

 20 July: GSA Connects 2021 abstract deadline
 4 August: AGU Fall Meeting 2021 abstract deadline

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Upcoming online community events

Ongoing Weekly: Pal(a)eo PERCS
Ongoing Weekly: Seds Online
Ongoing Weekly: Ore Deposits Hub – Open Geoscience Talks
Ongoing Fortnightly: Astrochemistry Discussions
Ongoing: MicroSeminars - Microbiology Seminar Series

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New in Geochemical Perspectives Letters

207Pb-excess in carbonatitic baddeleyite as the result of Pa scavenging from the melt

For the last two decades, the end of the voluminous phase of eruptions of the Siberian Traps large igneous province has been constrained by a U-Pb date of discordant baddeleyite collected from the Guli carbonatite intrusion with the assumption...

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Black shale Mo isotope record reveals dynamic ocean redox during the Mesoproterozoic Era

Eukaryotes reached ecological importance in the late Neoproterozoic Era, some one billion years after their emergence. Their slow rise to prominence has been ascribed to prolonged environmental stagnation, but testing...

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Geochemistry Making the News: Goldschmidt Special

Unexplained cache of prehistoric SHARK TEETH is discovered at a 2,900-year-old site in the City of David - 50 miles from where these fossils would be expected to be found

[DailyMail] Scientists have found an 'unexplained' cache of fossilised shark teeth at a 2,900-year-old site in the City of David, Jerusalem. The mysterious collection, consisting of 29 teeth in all, dates back 80 million years – making them as old as the late dinosaurs. Researchers say they were found at least 50 miles (80 km) from where such objects would be expected – in the desert...

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Atomic arsenic key to gold concentration

[AustralianMining] French scientists have dived deeper than ever before into gold and arsenic’s relationship, improving the understanding of gold concentration and how it can be recovered more effectively. Using intense X-ray machines from the European Synchotron in France, the researchers probed the chemical bonds between gold and minerals containing iron...

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Diamonds really are forever: Study

[7news] Ancient diamonds indicate earth was primed for life's explosion at least 2.7 billion years ago, researchers say. Volatile gases conserved in diamonds discovered in ancient rocks were present in similar proportions to those found in the earth's mantle, which lies between the planet's core and crust. This indicates there has been no fundamental change in the...

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Civilization May Have Collapsed in 1200 B.C.E. but the Silver Trade Didn’t, Researchers Discover

[Haaretz] Before the invention of coinage bearing images of religious icons, emperors and local egomaniacs, the peoples of the prehistoric southern Levant were using bits and bobs of practically pure silver as money, or as pre-money, depending on whom you ask. It is perhaps ironic that the silver the ancient Israelites and their predecessors in the region used had itself...

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New Method To Identify Dirt Helps Track Criminals

[Forbes] "Knowledge of Geology. – Practical, but limited. Tells at a glance different soils from each other. After walks has shown me splashes upon his trousers, and told me by their colour and consistence in what part of London he had received them.” - Dr. Watson’s description of Holmes’s abilities in “A Study in Scarlet“ Scientists at the National Centre for Forensic Studies...

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Racial minorities 'systematically excluded' from geology and climate change sciences

[Phys.org] Climate change and the geosciences risk being seen as largely "white sciences" in the Global North, according to a new study. The research shows that racial minority students are significantly underrepresented in Geology and other sciences of relevance to climate change. Presenting the work at the Goldschmidt Geochemistry conference...

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This One Planetary Feature May Be Crucial For The Rise of Complex Life in The Universe

[ScienceAlert] The way a planet is tilted on its rotational axis with respect to its orbital plane around a star - what we know as 'axial tilt' - could be key to the emergence of complex life. According to a new study, a modest axial tilt, like Earth's, helps increase the production of oxygen, which is vital for life as we know it - and planets with tilts that are too small or too large might not...

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Barrage of city-sized asteroids peppered Earth between 2.5B, 3.5B years ago

[UPI] According to new research, scheduled for presentation Friday at the Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference, Earth was struck by a city-sized asteroid an average of once very 15 million years between 3.5 and 2.5 billion years ago -- a rate 10 times higher than earlier estimates. Though...

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Job Opportunities

Internships, MSc and PhD positions

Position Employer Application deadline
Type: PhD Position
PhD fellow in Geochemistry/Geology at the Department of Geoscience and Natural Resource Management
Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
30 September 2021
Type: PhD Position
Cerium isotopic composition of the upper mantle
University Clermont-Auvergne, France
20 May 2021 or position open until filled
Type: PhD Position
Tracing the Archean Earth in modern ocean basalts from multiple sulfur isotopes signatures
CNRS-IPGP, France
Position open until filled

PostDoctoral positions and Fellowships

Position Employer Application deadline
Type: PostDoctoral Position
Stable Isotope Geochemistry of Lunar Rocks
Freie Universität Berlin, Geological Sciences, Germany
Position open until filled
Type: PostDoctoral Position
PDRA Offer at University du Littoral Cote d’Opale (Northern France) in Marine biogeochemistry / Isotope geochemistry
Université du Littoral Cote d’Opale, France
15 August 2021 or position open until filled
Type: PostDoctoral Position
Postdoctoral Researcher - Biomineral Capture and Enrichment of Rare Earth Elements
Geomicrobiology Laboratory, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Delaware and Delaware Biotechnology Institute, United States
Position open until filled
Type: PostDoctoral Position
Geomicrobiology
University of Copenhagen / GLOBE Institute, Denmark
23 July 2021
Type: PostDoctoral Position
Research Associate (PostDoc/ Instrument Scientist ) in Electron Microscopy (f/m/x)
Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam German Research Centre for Geosciences , Germany
10 August 2021 or position open until filled
Type: PostDoctoral Position
Postdoctoral fellow in Geochemistry/Geology at the Department of Geoscience and Natural Resource Management
Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, Faculty of Science at University of Copenhagen, Denmark
30 September 2021
Type: PostDoctoral Position
Post-doctoral position in isotope geochemistry
University of Bayreuth - Bavarian Geoinstitute, Germany
Position open until filled
Type: PostDoctoral Position
Two postdoctoral positions in geo/cosmochemistry on meteorites and petrology/mineralogy on micrometeorites
Free University of Brussels, Belgium
01 September 2021 or position open until filled

Faculty, Technical and other positions

Position Employer Application deadline
Type: Academic
Postdoctoral, PhD and MSc Positions - Microplastics fingerprinting at the watershed scale: from sources to receivers
University of Waterloo, Canada, Canada
Position open until filled
Type: Academic
Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Geochronology and Geochemistry
University of Geneva, Switzerland
31 August 2021
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