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 entirely new to this proxy, having only heard it mentioned very briefly in the past so I found the talk particularly informative. (If […]
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 experiment work. Poster sessions make me nervous. In fact, most social events make me nervous. I’m a nervous kind of creature. A flavour […]
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 Microbiology. This was actually quite a different set of water-rock reactions than what I focus on, thus ever-confirming the wide range of topics that geochemistry encompasses. I really […]
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. These findings (& a study by MCubbin et al 2007) initiated a community-wide reincarnation of lunar volatiles research.Later work would advocate in one extreme a lunar […]
Good morning Goldschmidters. 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. Today’s highlights… The only medal winner presenting today is Ann Pearson, our plenary speaker, who is the Gast Lecture Series recipient. 11:30-12:30 Ann […]
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 deep crustal fluids has focused on fracture fluids 1-3 km deep in Precambrian Shield rocks across Canada, Fennoscandian and South Africa. She gave a […]
Today there are 5 medal talks: 08:30-09:15 Anat Shahar (2015 Clarke Medal) 21C, Club E 09:00-09:45 Liping Qin (The Shen-su Sun Award) 24D, Club B/C/D 09:30-10:15 Steve Larter (2014 Alfred Treibs Medal) 9E, Meeting Hall IV 14:15-15:00 Miriam Kastner (2015 Goldschmidt Medal) 19A, Club H 14:45-15:30 Karen Johannesson (2015 Patterson Medal) 4E, Chamber Hall 25th Anniversary […]
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 include the analysis of noble gases in extraterrestrial materials (He, Ne), the Giant Impact and Hg in meteorites. His current project focuses on the […]
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 as I was trying to grasp the “conference” routine and ended up just wandering quite aimlessly around for the better part […]
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 conference shows how oligopeptides, the precusors of proteins, might have been formed when comets impacted the Earth nearly 4 billion years ago. Comets are believed to contain substantial quantities […]
