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The science behind the science
What do you think - in five days of Goldschmidt presentations, the product of how many years worth of labwork have you seen projected onto the screen, how many months of troubleshooting
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Conscripting plants and the microbial community for mineral exploration
Geologists have a great deal of geochemical tools for exploration of new mineral deposits. But, as most of the unexploited treasure is hiding at great depth, geologists have to invent and employ
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The rain, the Seine and the Eiffel Tower
Paris appears to be a bit sad that this year's conference is drawing to end since it has started to rain yesterday evening. The rain was especially timely for those making their way from the Palais
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Prof Eiji Ohtani – nature is seamless
Prof Eiji Ohtani is the 2017 Urey Medal Awardee for outstanding contributions advancing geochemistry over an entire career. Eiji Ohtani shares his thoughts on what it feels like to win this
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Dr Shuhei Ono – protect people from academic bullying
Dr Shuhei Ono is the 2017 Gast Lecturer. Dr Ono is a ‘hard-core’ isotope geochemist and feel that we should protect all scientists from academic bullying, especially Early-Career Scientists
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“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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Dr Li Zhang – the freedom to fail
Dr Li Zhang is the 2017 Shen-su Sun Awardee. Dr Zhang shares her thoughts on what it feels like to become an award winning scientists, explains how she was given the freedom to fail, and feels that
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Dr Julie Prytulak – It’s deeply humbling
Dr Julie Prytulak is the 2017 Houtermans Awardee. Dr Prytulak shares her thoughts on what it feels like to become an award winning scientists, provides constructive advice on an important issue faced
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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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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 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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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