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An EAG ambassador aims for the bullseye at the 49th LPSC

Attending my very first Lunar and Planetary Science Conference was an exciting prospect. As a planetary scientist whose background is in biology, it feels like a long and winding road that led me

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Outreach
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Axel Hofmann’s 2017 EAG-GS Outreach Program to Africa

As part of the 2017 EAG-GS Outreach Program to Africa I travelled to Earth Science departments in Ghana, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Nigeria to give a 3-day short course on Early Earth Life and Mineral

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EGU2018: This is where all the science happens!

The prospect of attending a large international conference during your PhD can be really daunting, especially if you’re only in your second year and in the early stages of data collection

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2017 EAG Distinguished Lecture Program: Lenny Winkel’s tour of Central and Eastern Europe

I was honored to hear that I had been selected as the 2017 EAG Distinguished Lecturer. As I love both research and teaching I was thrilled about the opportunity to talk about emerging research areas

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Lives of the great geochemists: Fritz Houtermans

Fritz Houtermans, Göttingen University, 1927. Source: Physik Journal. The EAG Houtermans Award for young scientists is named after him, but how many of us geochemists really know who Friedrich

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On the Rocks
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Working in Mineral Exploration: a guide

In the final throws of an undergraduate degree there are commonly two concerns: firstly, the cramming of knowledge to ensure the exam results guarantee the best overall grade and secondly lining up

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An ocean of science

Every two years, the American Geophysical Union, The American Association for Limnology and Oceanography and The Oceanographic Society join forces to organize the ‘Ocean Sciences Meeting’ in an effort

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Metal stable isotopes: a tool for improving sustainable land-use in tropical regions

I am very grateful that the EAG supported me to attend “The International Conference and final IsoNose workshop “Metal Stable Isotope Geochemistry”, which took place from January 8-11 2018 in

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33rd Nordic Geological Winter Meeting

The Nordic Geological Winter Meeting is organised every two years in a different Nordic country (Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Iceland) and is considered one of the foremost multidisciplinary

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All things volcanic and magmatic at VMSG 2018

During the first week of the year I travelled to Leeds, UK, where the Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group (VMSG) 2018 conference was held from January 3rd to 5th. I am very grateful to the EAG for

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On the Rocks
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Core logging course – Navan, Tara Mine Corestore

Recently I have had the chance to attend a core logging course organised by IAEG (Irish Association for Economic Geology) and hosted by Boliden, Tara Mines. The course was dense and helpful and most

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EAG Ambassadors at the AGU2017 Fall Meeting – Part 2

Last December, six EAG Early Career Science Ambassadors travelled to New Orleans to attend the 2017 AGU Annual Fall Meeting. In the first of our two-part blog, Laia Comas Bru, Deirdre Clark

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