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Eleanor Berryman

Roberta Rudnick: Evolution of the continental crust as sampled by wind and ice

An ongoing problem for geologists is that we are very small and our planet is very large.  This means that we are all busily looking at little pieces of a much larger picture, and try as we might

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Josh Wood

Thursday: Photos

Blogging from the Exhibition Hall gets weirder by the day. You find yourself inventing bizarre ideas for posts because your observations are limited to a finite space.*

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Ichiko Sugiyama

Sing your Heart out at the Pop-up Talk

Sometimes, you need to loosen up after spending all day at the Goldschmidt conference. Professor Geoff Gilleaudeau from George Mason University did just that at the Pop-up talk on Wednesday

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Katie Pratt

Observations and Hypotheses

Staffing a booth at Goldschmidt 2019 has afforded an unexpected opportunity to observe the conference in a new light. The first, and perhaps most striking, observation is the vast difference

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Josh Wood

Wednesday: Goldschmidt Survival Essentials II

We asked Goldschmidt attendee Jill McDermott (Lehigh University, USA) about how she survives an intense week-long, science conference. Not surprisingly, her gear is similar to Donato's.

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Ichiko Sugiyama

SO amazing: The new cutting-edge method for measuring clumping in sulphate

Goldschmidt conference is a fantastic place to meet new scientists and colleagues in your field. Here, I had an opportunity to talk to professor Yuichiro Ueno, who recently gave a talk on

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Josh Wood

Tuesday: Goldschmidt Survival Essentials

We asked Goldschmidt attendee Donato Giovannelli (University of Naples, Italy) about how he survives an intense week-long, science conference. Here is his survival gear.

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Ichiko Sugiyama

The Goldschmidt Volunteers

The Goldschmidt volunteers are the first line of defence for any issues which may arise during the conference. From organizing registration to tech support, there are many different tasks involved in

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Katie Pratt

#Goldschmidt2019: What’s going on on Twitter

Twitter is a great way to share conference goings-on with absent colleagues, collaborators, and broader audiences. So, what's going on on the #Goldschmidt2019 hashtag this week?

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Josh Wood

Monday: The Bells of Goldschmidt

Listen to a recording of the Bells

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Eleanor Berryman

Bethany Ehlmann: Water and Climate Change on the Martian Surface

In today’s plenary lecture titled 'Mars: Geology and Geochemical Cycling on a Once Habitable Planet', Professor Bethany Ehlmann captures our imaginations by taking us on a whirlwind journey back

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Josh Wood

Sunday: The Icebreaker

Sunday was set up day in the Goldschmidt exhibition hall—a life-sized game of tetris with shifting tables, pop-up banners, and large equipment. Exhibitors and conference organizers scrambled

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