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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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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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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. I’m...
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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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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 a...
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Application of Diffusion Studies to the Determination of Timescales in...
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 the...
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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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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 and there...
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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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EAG Early Career Science Ambassador in 250th ACS in Boston
The public garden. I just say thanks to the EAG Early Career Science Ambassador program for giving me the opportunity to attend the ACS (American Chemical Society) Boston for the 250th ACS National...
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EAG Ambassador in La Serena, Chile 2015
Conference hall Attending to the Congreso Geólogico de Chile is always a great experience, not only because I’m Chilean and I live far from my country (currently I’m living in Spain) but because this...
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The story behind the winning photos
The EAG would like to thank all who submitted photos to the Photo Contest 2015 and all who casted their vote. We have 2 winners: Ingrid Smet for the theme ‘Earth, Fire, Air, Water’, and Anton Bischoff...
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EAG Early Career Ambassador at the 2015 AGU Fall Meeting (San Francisco).
Thanks to the EAG’s early career ambassador program I was fortunate to be able to attend the recent American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco. The AGU Fall meeting is one of...
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Volcanic and magmatic studies in Ireland
Steam plume at Popocatépetl volcano, Mexico, January 2016 From the 5th-9th of January 2016, the annual meeting of the Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group (VMSG) took place at Trinity College in Dublin....
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Speleothems connecting East and West
It was a great honor and challenge to be asked to present the 2015 EAG Distinguished Lecture Tour in four institutes in Ukraine, Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia. My lectures included 1) Speleothems as...
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Five questions to Al Hofmann
Albrecht “Al” Hofmann is Emeritus Director of the Geochemistry Division of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz (Germany). Currently, he is also Adjunct Professor and Visiting Senior...
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An ambassador at OMS 2016
The 2016 Ocean Meeting Science (OMS) took place 21-26 February 2016 in New Orleans (LA) at the Ernest N. Morial convention center. This conference is one of the most important and largest event for the...
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Learning about cable bacteria
This year, the third “International Workshop on Microbial long-distance Electron Transfer by Cable Bacteria” was organized in Munich (Germany), after previous editions in Aarhus (Denmark) and Antwerp...
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How exploring Mars could help us fight climate change on Earth
Image copyright courtesy of ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum): Mars showcase The surface of Mars is a cold desert. Scars in the landscape point to a history of flowing rivers, standing lakes and possibly...
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Ice Core Scientists meet in Hobart, Tasmania
The International Partnership for Ice Core Science (IPICS) Open Conferences are set every 4 years. IPICS is the principal international planning group for international ice core science and this IPICS...
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