Archive for "General"

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Goldschmidt 2017
Deirdre Clark

“That is wild! Nature made proteins that are ultra acidic” – How Corals Make Rocks

Good morning! This is my second Goldschmidt during my PhD and luckily I was able to join the EAG Blogging Team again (the first time was 2 years ago in Prague). Also very fortunate to have given my or

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Goldschmidt 2017
Clare Stead

Love Triangles and Spies – Geochemistry in 3 minutes

Goldschmidt 2017 sees the introduction of the pop-up talks; an exciting new initiative organised by three early-career scientists (Steffi Lutz, Kimberley Bitterwolf, and Alex Holland). Eleven students

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Goldschmidt 2017
Tadhg Dornan

How the Roman Empire can be linked to geochemistry

Throughout our geological education, we are taught to think in terms of deep time. To forget about weeks and months and focus on the millions and billions. However, when the time span of human history

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Goldschmidt 2017
Claire Cousins

Goldschmidt Wild Orbit Cinema

Goldschmidt, like all conferences, is about communicating science among like-minded individuals, and connecting with people. The necessity to communicate this science more broadly – to members of the

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Goldschmidt 2017
Martin Mangler

Is it a thunderstone? Is it a pallasite? No – it is Goldschmidt 2017!

It's official - Goldschmidt 2017 has kicked off! After a convivial, ice-breaking party yesterday night, things got serious this morning, with a myriad of sessions well on their way. At 11:45 then the

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Goldschmidt 2017
Invited contribution

Goldschmidt2017: Meet the bloggers (2/2)

In Part 1 of 'Meet the Bloggers', we caught up with four of the Goldschmidt2017 blogging team, who'll be bringing us all the latest from Paris throughout the next week. Next up, we have a few words of

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Goldschmidt 2017
Invited contribution

Goldschmidt2017: Meet the bloggers (1/2)

We’re now just a few days away from the start of the 27th Goldschmidt Conference on geochemistry. More than 4000 delegates from over 50 countries across the globe will be polishing their presentations

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Invited contribution

Students at EGU2017

Three EAG sponsored students visited the city of Vienna at the end of April 2017 to present their work at the General Assembly of the European Geoscience Union, the biggest geoscience conference in

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Martin Mangler

Volcano Tales: Shiveluch

At any given day, there are about 20 volcanoes erupting around the globe. Some of them are notorious for frequently showering nearby cities with ash, others wake up and blow without any warning

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Invited contribution

Announcing the winners of the Photo Contest ‘Wonders of Geochemistry’

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2017 Photo Contest 'Wonders of Geochemistry'. Of the final ten photos selected by our jury, the following three received the highest number of votes

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Goldschmidt 2017
Marie-Aude Hulshoff

Early Career Scientists at Goldschmidt2017

Early Career Scientists are at the heart of the Goldschmidt conference, and various programs aimed at young professionals in geochemistry have been developing in recent years. Goldschmidt2017 will

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Goldschmidt 2017
Tadhg Dornan

Any questions for the speaker?

Over the past few days, we have all heard our fair share of audience questions. As most of you may know, the main purpose of these questions is to enhance the audience's understanding of the presented

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