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 talks:

• 08:30-09:00 Conel Alexander, Theme 24, Club B/C/D
• 11:00-11:30 Simon Redfern, Theme 14, Small Theatre
• 14:00-14:30 Ross Large. Theme 12, Small Theatre
• 14:30-15:00 Katherine Morris, Theme 13, Small Theatre
• 15:00-15:30 Chris Hawkesworth, Theme 18, Small Theatre
• 16:00-16:30 Bernhard Wehrli, Theme 4, Chamber Hall

Today’s Plenary is given by Andrew Revkin – Can Science Help Shape a “Good” Anthropocene?

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

• 14:00-14:15 Ruza Ivanovic, 2C, North Hall – Sudden Ice Sheet Melt, Changing Ocean Circulation & Surface Climate: Understanding the Events of 14.6 ka
• 14:45-15:00 Michael Krom, 3C, Terrace 2 – Controls of Acid Dissolution of P in Mineral Dust during Atmospheric Processing
• 16:45 -17:00 Rhian Rees-Owen, 9A, Meeting Hall IV – Constraints on the Antarctic Hydrological Cycle during the Neogene
• Poster 2120 Pilar Ramírez García – The Effect of Temperature on Switching between Calcite and Aragonite Seas

Andy’s Pick of the Day

For an overview of several fields of Geochemistry I recommend heading to Small Theatre either side of lunch, where 4 of today’s anniversary talks are taking place.