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On Thursday
For an overview of several fields of Geochemistry I recommend heading to Small Theatre either side of lunch, where 4 of today's anniversary talks are taking place
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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
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Xenoliths, meteorites, and Mercury
The reputation of Goldschmidt is certainly well deserved, it is indeed huge, certainly the largest conference I've attended - four floors of the conference centre filled door to door with geochemists
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It came from the land
I have just spent the first half of my morning avoiding the rain in session 22c travelling back in time to the Precambrian. This is a pretty weird time period for me, being so
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The critical condition of coral: awareness, and obligation of the scientific community
o say the conference has been animated over the past 27 hours would be a gross understatement. Acquisitive brains flit purposefully between the nerve centers