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Pre-registration closes tomorrow (12 July)
Goldschmidt2018 is just one month away and 12 July is the deadline for online pre-registration. All registrations after 12 July will be charged at the onsite rates. Don't forget, EAG members benefit from member rates for Goldschmidt registration. Join/renew or find your membership number in Member login.
12 July is also the deadline for workshop registration as well as for purchasing tickets for one of the exciting social events, and if you are still looking for hotel accommodation in Boston, 13 July is the deadline to take advantage of the special rates for conference attendees.
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Childcare reminder
Delegates are reminded that subsidized childcare, provided by Kiddie Corp, is available at the conference venue. Advance booking must be completed by 16 July.
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Oral Presentation Skills for Students: group leaders required
The organisers of this workshop (Sunday 12 August, 12:30-17:00) are looking for postdocs or senior graduate students to help lead informal practice sessions for groups of 4-5 students. Applicants should have an advanced level of English and experience of presenting at international conferences. A conference banquet ticket will be offered to group leaders in return for their help. To apply, please send a short CV to the Goldschmidt helpdesk.
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Important Dates and Deadlines
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Geochemical Perspectives Letters
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Recently published articles
Mass-dependent triple oxygen isotope variations in terrestrial materials
Z.D. Sharp, J.A.G. Wostbrock, A. Pack
Toxic anthropogenic pollutants reach the deepest ocean on Earth
S. Dasgupta, X. Peng, S. Chen, J. Li, M. Du, Y.-H. Zhou, G. Zhong, H. Xu, K. Ta
Properties of molten CaCO3 at high pressure
J. Hudspeth, C. Sanloup, Y. Kono
Geochemistry and metallogeny of Neoproterozoic pyrite in oxic and anoxic sediments
J. Parnell, M. Perez, J. Armstrong, L. Bullock, J. Feldmann, A.J. Boyce
Silicon and oxygen isotopes unravel quartz formation processes in the Icelandic crust
B.I. Kleine, A. Stefánsson, S.A. Halldórsson, M.J. Whitehouse, K. Jónasson
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Silicon world science: an EAG Ambassador at SILICAMICS 2
[By Lucie Cassarino] SILICAMICS 2 (Victoria, CA. June 2018) was the second SILICAMICS conference (first held in Aber Wrac’h, FR. September 2015). The conference focuses on the biogeochemistry and genomics of silicification and silicifiers, which gives the opportunity for international scientists working on silicon from all horizons to meet together. I attended the first SILICAMICS...
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Geochemistry Making the News
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Ingredients for life discovered gushing out of Saturn’s moon
[Washington Post] Last fall, as NASA's celebrated Cassini spacecraft spiraled toward its final, fatal descent into Saturn's clouds, astrochemist...
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Cementless fly ash binder makes concrete 'green'
[ScienceDaily] Rice University engineers have developed a composite binder made primarily of fly ash, a byproduct of coal-fired power plants...
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Simple chemical process that may have led to the origin of life on Earth
[ScienceDaily] Research led by Kuhan Chandru and Jim Cleaves from the Earth-Life Science Institute at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan...
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Japan’s new asteroid probe reaches its target after 3.2-billion-kilometer journey
[Science] SAGAMIHARA, JAPAN—After 3.5 years traveling 3.2 billion kilometers through space, Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft officially...
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CO2 Can Directly Impact Extreme Weather, Research Suggests
[Scientific American] Global efforts to tackle climate change rest on a common goal: to keep the planet’s temperatures from rising beyond...
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Baltic Sea oxygen levels at '1,500-year low due to human activity'
[The Guardian] The coastal waters of the Baltic have been starved of oxygen to a level unseen in at least 1,500 years largely as a result...
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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
PhD or Postdoc Position for chemical analysis of crude oil | Centre for Oil & Gas, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
| 01 Aug | 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 |
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
Assists research scientists and other research associates in the organizing, and conducting of advanced testing of gem materials. Interprets gemological and spectroscopic analysis results, and contributes to research projects, by performing the following duties. | Gemological Institute of America (protects the public trust in gems and jewelry by providing the education, research, and standards), United States
| 15 Jun or until 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
Postdoctoral position in environmental microbiology & biogeochemistry | Laboratory of Geology, University of Lyon, France
| until the position is filled | Type: Postdoctoral Position
PhD or Postdoc Position for chemical analysis of crude oil | Centre for Oil & Gas, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
| 01 Aug | 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 |
Faculty, Technical and other positions
| Position | Employer | Application deadline |
Type: Other
Position in Solid Earth Petrology / Geochemistry | Department of Geological Sciences,
University of Florida,
Gainesville, United States
| until the position is filled | 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
Senior X-ray Technologist (Geoscience), Institute for Future Environments | The Institute for Future Environments (IFE), Science and Engineering Centre at the Gardens Point campus. Queensland University of Technology, Australia
| 19 Jul | Type: Other
Research Infrastructure Specialist (X-Ray Diffraction) | The Institute for Future Environments (IFE), Science and Engineering Centre at the Gardens Point campus. Queensland University of Technology, Australia
| 08 Jul
Extended to: 22 Jul |
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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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