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 Ruhr-University Bochum. The course was held right after this year’s Goldschmidt conference in Prague and brought together almost 40 students, postdocs and faculty from 11 […]

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 […]