Good Morning Goldschmidters,

I trust you all enjoyed the Ice Breaker last night. Sadly, I was too late into Prague to make it. You can read about how Nicci found her first Goldschmidt Ice Breaker here.

It seems everything is all set to go at the start of this year’s science programme. Highlights today include 3 medal citations:

• 10:45-11:30 Encarnación Ruiz-Agudo (EMU Research Excellence Medal) Session 5B, Terrace 1
• 14:45-15:30 Chris Reddy (2014 Patterson Medal) Session 4B, Chamber Hall
• 15:15-16:30 Sophie Opfergelt (Eblemen Award) Session 7J, Meeting Hall V

Also, don’t forget today’s Plenary Lecture, Peter Sale – Oceans in the Anthropocene: End of the High Seas; Need for Repair and Reasoned Management.

From Cohen Geochemistry and the Earth Surface Science Institute at the university of Leeds we have the following presentations:

• 09:15 Edine Pape, 7i – Identifying Chemosymbiosis Through Geological Time by Stable Isotope Analysis of Shell Organics
• 10:30 Stefanie Lutz, 6e – Pan-Arctic Drivers of Glacial Microbial Community Structure and Function
• 10:45 Anthony Stockdale, 2a – Ocean Acidification: The Affect on Trace Metal Speciation Evaluated with WHAM/Model VII

And finally…

Andy’s Pick of the Day

16:30 Rachel Thorley, 5e

I saw Rachel present at Goldschmidt in Sacramento and I found her work fascinating. Today she is presenting the next stage of her PhD research on “The Role of Forest Trees and their Mycorrhizal Fungi in Carbonate Weathering and Phosphorus Biogeochemical Cycling”.

Have a great day!