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Words from the ghost
My role at Goldschmidt 2015 was mostly photography. With a side portion of blogging thrown in, like a salad relish afterthought. There was also the poster of course, presenting my PhD hydrothermal
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Remember the hydrosphere!
Barbara Sherwood Lollar from the University of Toronto, Canada gave the plenary session this Wednesday on "Dark Energy from the Deep Hydrosphere: Water-Rock Reactions Sustaining Deep Subsurface
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A damp Moon?
For almost 50 years the Moon was considered dry. Then in 2008 Alberto Saal and colleagues published a paper detailing the discovery of water in lunar fire fountain glasses
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Yesterday’s Plenary. Follow the Water
Barbara Sherwood Lollar is a University Professor in Earth Sciences at the University of Toronto and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Barbara's pioneering research on the geochemistry of
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A Doodle A Day. Hg in Meteorites & the End of the Dinosaurs
Matthias M.M. Meier is a young cosmochemist / meteoriticist currently working as a Swiss National Science Foundation Ambizione Fellow at ETH Zurich. His research interests are very wide in scope and i
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Thoughts from a First-Time Attendee
When I first arrived bright-eyed (well actually super sleepy) early Monday morning, I still had no idea exactly what this week would be like. That first day all seems like one strange chaotic dream
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How comet impacts may have formed the building blocks of early life
Comet Hale-Bopp in 1997 Proteins form the machinery of life: they catalyze the chemical reactions that allow organisms to gain energy and reproduce. A study presented at the 2015 Goldschmidt conferen
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What do Roman plumbing and Gondwana crust have in common?!
Janne Blichert-Toft’s plenary talk Tuesday lunchtime gave us an overview of what could be achieved with Pb isotopes with what she termed “Neo -plumbotectonics”. In her 45 minute talk she took us from
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Martian meteorites old and new
Tuesday afternoon saw the Mars community come together for some reminiscing and new findings! The keynote talk by Allan Treiman was a fantastic "greyhead review" of past and more recent advancements
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The Global Weathering Thermostat
Yesterday in Terrace 1 was an absolute delight. I sat there for most of the day listening to some fantastic biogeochemistry. From weathering of rock to soil and sediment, to the profound influence
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Today’s Plenary. Neo-Plumbotectonics
Janne Blichert-Toft is Directeur de Recherche with the CNRS appointed at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (ENSL), since 1997. She is a geochemist specializing in radiogenic isotopes with
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A Doodle A Day. A Rock Star
Bernard Marty is a Professor of Geochemistry at CRPG-CNRS, Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine and Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie, Nancy, France. His research interests include the