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Not freaking out, but PHREEQC-ing it out

From the 18-20th of August I attended a geochemical modelling workshop that was ran before the 25th annual Goldschmidt conference in Prague. The purpose of the two-day-long course was to learn and

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Astronomy in the State of Aloha

“Aloha!”, that’s the first thing people say to you on Hawai’i, and that’s what you answer them. While doing that, fear not about being a guest on these islands. All people are minorities here

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EAG Early Career Science Ambassador in 250th ACS in Boston

I had wanted to attend an ACS (American Chemical Society) meeting for many years. Thanks to the EAG Early Career Science Ambassador program I had the pleasure to be in Boston for the 250th ACS

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Application of Diffusion Studies to the Determination of Timescales in Geochemistry and Petrology

With the support of a EAG student sponsorship, I was able to attend the shortcourse “Application of Diffusion Studies to the Determination of Timescales in Geochemistry and Petrology” at

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EAG sponsored student in Odense

The Aquatic Microbial and Molecular Ecology (AMME) course has been held at the University of Southern Denmark (Odense University before it merged with other institutions) since 1992. It started as

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EAG Ambassador in Woods Hole

Thanks to the support from the European Association of Geochemistry I was able to attend the Molecular Evolution workshop which took place from the 19th to 29th of July at the Marine Biological

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Fred Bowyer

Lunch… and Glycerol Dialkyl Glycerol Tetraethers

The last plenary talk of the conference was given by Professor Ann Pearson of Harvard University and provided a detailed overview of recent advances in the understanding of the TEX86 proxy

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Adrienne Macartney

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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Deirdre Clark

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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Jessica Barnes

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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Andy Bray

Friday Finale

I trust you enjoyed the Conference Banquet in the fantastic Municipal House, last night. And, I hope you are eager this morning to see our final day of science.

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Nastasia Louveau

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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