Goldschmidt2024: Call for Sessions and Workshops closing on 31 October
The Goldschmidt Conference science program is built from the ground up with contributions from scientists around the world. We invite the entire geochemistry community to submit suggestions for sessions and workshops to help form the program. The deadline for proposals is 31 October. Learn more
New Geochemical Perspectives: 'Carbon Capture and Storage: From Global Cycles to Global Solutions'
Limiting carbon emissions to the atmosphere and its effects on global warming are critical for the future of society. This issue of Geochemical Perspectives by Eric H. Oelkers & Sigurdur R. Gislason, reviews the natural processes influencing atmospheric carbon concentrations and how we can use these lessons to potentially attenuate anthropogenic carbon emissions.
Geochemical Perspectives is an open access community journal published by the European Association of Geochemistry. EAG members who opted to receive a print copy will receive it next month. Please log in to the membership platform to make sure your postal address is up to date.
EAG Annual General Meeting
All EAG members are invited to join the Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 25 October on Zoom at 16:00 CET (Paris) / 15:00 London / 10:00 New York / 07:00 Los Angeles / 19:30 Mumbai / 22:00 Beijing / 23:00 Tokyo.
An invitation was sent to EAG members on 10 October. If you have not received it, please check your spam folder, then contact us.
Recognizing deserving scientists is at the core of EAG's mission. The EAG Award Nomination Committee is currently working hard to identify potential candidates and nominators, but we need the help of all the community to create a diverse pool of candidates.
Nomination deadline for Fellows: 31 October
Nomination deadline for Urey, Science Innovation and Houtermans Awards: 15 November
On 17 October, EAG members received an invitation to cast their vote to select two new councillors amongst the three candidates proposed.
Our councillors participate in discussions, decisions, and initiatives, and therefore play a crucial role in determining the future of the society. Participation is essential to the success of these elections and we thank our members for taking a few minutes to vote.
Organizing a short course or conference in Europe or online in 2024? Apply for EAG sponsorship by 1 November
The EAG Short Course and Conference Sponsorship Program is open to EAG members organizing a short course or small conference in Europe focused on special topics or techniques from the broad field of geochemistry. The program aims to directly support student attendance at the event.
For events taking place in 2024, the application deadline is 1 November 2023.
Applications for online as well as hybrid and in-person events will be considered.
On 21-22 November in Hungary and Czech Republic, Sandra Arndt (Université Libre de Bruxelles) will present three lectures covering different aspects of carbon cycle-climate feedbacks and their role in determining the magnitude and pace of climate change. Some lectures will be in hybrid format therefore open to online participants.
EAG Student Sponsorship Program: Next Deadline 1 December
The EAG Student Sponsorship Program supports onsite participation at events held in Europe, or online participation at events held anywhere in the world. Successful applicants will receive sponsorship of up to 500 euros to cover registration, abstract fees, and travel expenses where applicable. Applicants may be based in any country.
In this thematic issue of Elements, we look into biomagnetism and the production of magnetic minerals by microorganisms. In popular culture, this may have supernatural connotations; however, in reality, there are many microscopic biological organisms possessing magnetic behaviour owing to their formation of magnetic nanoparticles (MNP) such as magnetite (Fe3O4), maghemite (γ-Fe2O3), and greigite (Fe3S4)...
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EAG Blogosphere
2022 Global Geochemistry Survey – The Results Are In …
[by the DEI committee] Geochemistry is a uniquely varied discipline, combining laboratory-, field-, +/- ship- and computational-based work, leading to distinct challenges in fostering a diverse and inclusive community...
[by Sonja Aulbach] explores the process of reviewing a scientific paper. She discusses what constitutes a good review, and gives some advice on how to approach reviewing...
Non-academic careers: Interview with David Au Yang, Analytical research engineer
[Interview by Thaïs Couasnon] What is your job? I am a research engineer at the Center for Research and Education of Environmental Geosciences (Centre de Recherche et d’Enseignement des Géosciences de l’Environnement...
[by Bernard Marty] I was delighted and honored to be asked to deliver the 2022 Distinguished lecture tour in eastern Europe, namely Hungary and Romania. I am a geochemist and cosmochemist working on planetary volatiles, C, N and...
EAG Sponsored student Fernanda Torres García reports back from the 6th EGU Summer School
[by Fernanda Torres García] Owing to the COVID-pandemic the EGU Summer School last took place in 2019, so once I learned that it was going to be organised again in the summer of 2023, I started preparing my field gear!...
EAG ambassador Ke Zhu attends the Meteoritical Society 86th annual meeting
[by Ke Zhu] I recently had the great opportunity to be an EAG ambassador at the 86th annual meeting of The Meteoritical Society. This conference took place on the campus of the University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA)...
Contribution of the nuclear field shift to kinetic uranium isotope fractionation
Isotopic fractionation of heavy elements (e.g., >100 amu) often invokes the nuclear field shift effect, which is due to the impact of the elements’ large nuclei on electron density. In particular, it has been explicitly described for...
The Idiwhaa gneiss, part of the Acasta Gneiss Complex, Canada, is a key source of information concerning formation of continental crust on the early Earth. However, zircon crystals from this oldest dated felsic...
Primordial noble gas isotopes from immoderate crushing of an Icelandic basalt glass
Noble gas isotopes carry important information about volatile accretion, mantle differentiation and the preservation of early formed radiogenic isotope heterogeneities. However, extremely low abundances and pervasive...
A magmatic copper and fluid source for the sediment-hosted Mount Isa deposit
The world class Mount Isa deposit is a unique, sediment-hosted, copper deposit with no known equivalent around the world and a controversial origin. We report δ65Cu values (n = 90) from chalcopyrite grains collected...
Sr-Nd-Pb isotopes of fluids in diamond record two-stage modification of the continental lithosphere
High-density fluid (HDF) microinclusions in diamonds allow direct investigation of deep carbon- and water-rich fluids that influence the properties of Earth’s mantle. Identifying the sources and evolution of such fluids in the...
Contrasting oxygen isotopes in garnet from diamondiferous and barren eclogitic parageneses
Eclogite is a minor mantle lithology, present in subducted slivers in cratonic roots. Mantle eclogites carry O and C isotopic signatures from surface organic and inorganic carbon and also are modified by reaction with fluids in...
New Method Can Tell If We’ve Found Signs Of Alien Life Presented at Goldschmidt2023
[by IFL science] A machine learning program trained to differentiate between living and non-living things has a 90 percent success rate at differentiating the products of biology from those of non-living origin...
Osiris-Rex: Nasa reveals first look at 'beautiful' asteroid sample
[by BBC News] "It's beautiful, it really is - certainly what we've seen of it so far," said Dr Ashley King. The UK scientist was in a select group to put first eyes and instruments on the rocky samples that have just been brought back from asteroid Bennu..
A source of carbon — a building block of life — is found on Jupiter's moon Europa
[by NPR] In an intriguing breakthrough, astronomers have concluded that carbon, an essential component of life on Earth, is also present within Europa, Jupiter's ice-covered moon that's believed to hold huge oceans of liquid salt water beneath its...
“New” mineral discovered in abandoned gold mine dumps
[by Mining.com] A newly discovered mineral, named kanatzidisite, was recently unearthed in the mining dumps of the abandoned Nagybörzsöny gold deposit at Alsó-Rózsa, northern Hungary....
New research finds that ancient carbon in rocks releases as much carbon dioxide as the world's volcanoes
[by phys.org press release: University of Oxford] A new study has overturned the view that natural rock weathering acts as a CO2 sink, indicating instead that this can also act as a large CO2 source, rivaling that of volcanoes. The results, published today, have important implications...
Festive Lecture on the 175th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Hungarian Geological Society 22 November
A special programme is planned to celebrate the 175th anniversary of the founding of the Hungarian Geological Society. This will be held on November 22, starting at 10:00 am at the Ceremonial Hall of the Geological Directorate of SZTFH, 1143 Budapest, Stefánia út 14.
Q14: "The Quaternary in all its states: land, sea, ice" Early Registration 15 January
The 14th International conference on the Quaternary will be held in Rennes from 26 February to 1 March, 2024 . It will be organized by the Research Center in Archaeology, Archaeosciences, History (CReAAH, UMR 6566) under the patronage of AFEQ-CNF INQUA. Aiming to bring together scientific communities working on the Quaternary, the “Q14” conference will be structured around nine sessions and a round table, which will highlight the variety of themes and research objectives of French Quaternarians.
Registration: 15 January (early), 15 February (late)
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