Dr. Katharina Marquardt is the 2018 recipient of the EMU Research Excellence Medal, presented at Goldschmidt 2019 in Barcelona. This medal is presented to young scientists who have made significant contributions to research in mineralogy and whose professional and societal activities contribute to strengthening scientific links in Europe. Dr. Katharina Marquardt is a Lecturer in […]

Bethany Ehlmann is a professor in planetary science at the California Institute of Science (Caltech) and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). She gave a plenary talk on Monday about, “Mars: Geochemical Cycling on a Once Habitable World.” The summary of the plenary talk, written by Dr. Eleanor Berryman, can be found here. I had an […]

An ongoing problem for geologists is that we are very small and our planet is very large.  This means that we are all busily looking at little pieces of a much larger picture, and try as we might, some of the pieces have been lost or have proved to be very difficult to find. In […]

Blogging from the Exhibition Hall gets weirder by the day. You find yourself inventing bizarre ideas for posts because your observations are limited to a finite space.* And with each post comes an increasing amount of worry that someone from the Goldschmidt Planning Committee will finally take notice and say, “Hmm, who gave this guy […]

Sometimes, you need to loosen up after spending all day at the Goldschmidt conference. Professor Geoff Gilleaudeau from George Mason University did just that at the Pop-up talk on Wednesday, by taking the famous song from The Beatles’, “Let it be,” and making his own cover song called, “Geochemistry Song.” Geoff Gilleaudeau presents, “Geochemistry Song”: [Verse […]

Staffing a booth at Goldschmidt 2019 has afforded an unexpected opportunity to observe the conference in a new light. The first, and perhaps most striking, observation is the vast difference in population size of the exhibit/poster hall as a function of time: We see distinct peaks in hall occupancy corresponding to energy availability. Acceptable forms […]

We asked Goldschmidt attendee Jill McDermott (Lehigh University, USA) about how she survives an intense week-long, science conference. Not surprisingly, her gear is similar to Donato’s. And here’s a photo of Dr. McDermott the moment she realizes that she might’ve made a huge mistake volunteering for this.

Interview with professor Yuichiro Ueno Goldschmidt conference is a fantastic place to meet new scientists and colleagues in your field. Here, I had an opportunity to talk to professor Yuichiro Ueno, who recently gave a talk on “A New Method for Measuring 34S-18O Clumping of Sulfate.” Yuichiro Ueno is a professor in biogeochemistry at the Earth-Life Science […]

We asked Goldschmidt attendee Donato Giovannelli (University of Naples, Italy) about how he survives an intense week-long, science conference. Here is his survival gear.

  The Goldschmidt volunteers are the first line of defence for any issues which may arise during the conference. From organizing registration to tech support, there are many different tasks involved in being a volunteer.  As a veteran of six years who enjoyed the experience, I would like to share some of the perks and […]