Released a new version of #pyrolite today: v0.3.4. Mainly bugfixes and maintenance updates, but glad to have simplified/modernized the build configuration a bit.
#Python
#geochemistry
#opensource

Great to hear about the Technician Commitment initiative out of the UK from Matt Horstwood (on behalf of Dan Condon) in #Goldschmidt2023 Session 14e. Starting out my research life in a whole variety of labs certainly gave me an appreciation for the value of technical staff, and the consequences of insufficient support individually and across research departments.

Interestingly, the University of Sydney has now signed onto this previously UK-only program.

https://www.techniciancommitment.org.uk/

https://conf.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/2023/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/20045

#Goldschmidt
#geochemistry
#science
#research

For those interested in open source tools and software in geochemistry, petrology and related fields, the #Goldschmidt2023 session "Geoscientists’ Little Helpers – small software tools with big impact" is showcasing a wide ensemble of new and existing projects across the community. It's certainly nice to see a spotlight on all of these things enabling new science across the community!

https://conf.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/2023/meetingapp.cgi/Symposium/447

#geochemistry
#petrology
#thermodynamics
#Goldschmidt
#opensource
#openscience

Coming back into conference season, I have a talk at #Goldschmidt tomorrow afternoon AU-time (morning EU-time, for those in Lyon): "Developing reusable tools for geochemical data in Python: the pyrolite roadmap"

https://conf.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/2023/goldschmidt/2023/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/17461

#Python
#geochemistry
#opensource
#pyrolite
#Goldschmidt2023

When I picked an interesting sub-Neptune paper for my news report in AGU's Eos magazine, I unknowingly sniffed out a trend.

Within weeks, another related paper appeared.
Then an intriguing arxiv preprint.
Then another paper, in Nature no less.

What picture do they form together?

🧵 ⤵️

#exoplanet #geophysics #geochemistry

Nicely led by
@michcampbell 👍

Why use stalagmites as archives of past fires you might ask?

Well, stalagmites often contain annual laminae, so you can count back time at high precision.

Which means you can develop very long records of fire frequency, something difficult to do in other fire archives.

And that allows interesting and important research questions to be tackled. Such as the most appropriate fire frequency for hazard reduction burns. Or whether fire frequency has changed with climate change.

The link to the paper (Open Access):

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2022RG000790

#science #research #fire #wildfire #climatechange #caves #stalagmites #earthscience #academia #geochemistry

Teaching and educating can be fun and rewarding, and today it was my favourite class of the year.

#UNSW #GEOS1211 Earth and Environmental Science students took part in 'The Sandstone City' field class. An exploration of the Triassic Hawkesbury Sandstone, how it formed, and why it makes such a great building and decorative stone.

Thanks to my fellow educators Dr Indrani Mukherjee and Di Li Qian.

#sandstone #geology #earthscience #geologyrocks #sedimentology #geoscience #buildings #iron #geochemistry #sydney

Planets capable of hosting life may form more often than scientists had believed.

' The findings, based on painstaking chemical analysis of meteorites, imply that planet-forming disks around other stars ... should be well-stocked with the makings of wet, rocky planets that might be hospitable to life. '

#astromomy #PlanetaryGeology #meteorites #geochemistry #HabitablePlanets

https://www.science.org/content/article/earthlike-planets-should-readily-form-around-other-stars-meteorites-suggest

How to monitor karst formation at the lab scale ?
Coupling of #geophysics and #geochemistry is the way !
🪨💧⚡️👩‍🔬
Check out the new Rembert et al. (2023) in #HESS !!
https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/27/417/2023/

We strongly thank @INSU_CNRS for funding the #EC2CO project #STARTREK !! 🖖

Complex #carbonaceous matter in #Tissint martian #meteorites give insights into the diversity of organic #geochemistry on #Mars: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.add6439 ("We report a huge organic diversity in the Tissint Mars meteorite and the sampling of several mineralogical lithologies, which revealed that the organic molecules were nonuniformly distributed in functionality and abundance") -> https://carnegiescience.edu/martian-meteorite-contains-large-diversity-organic-compounds

Might have been excessively ambitious for a #geochemistry course redesign, now realizing I need to actually plan the course!

Have favorite ideas, #textbooks, #tutorials, #resources, to share?

The details:
1. Upper-level #undergrad #SLAC #geochemistry course, but no rigid pre-reqs (start with #basics).

2. Would like to build course around using #R #Rstats to make #geochemical #plots! I'm also an #Rnovice, though, so I'll also be learning as we go.

3. Includes #lowT and #highT #geochem.

And if anyone is interested in the world of caves, stalagmites and climate, here are the links to the whole of the session. Even if you aren't registered, I believe you can read the abstracts:

Online PP11B poster session:
Monday 08:00-09:00 (CST), Online
Schedule: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm22/meetingapp.cgi/Session/174723

In person PP22A oral session:
Tuesday 09:00-10:30 (CST), McCormick Place - S405a (South, Level 4)
Schedule: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm22/meetingapp.cgi/Session/174716

In person PP25C poster session:
Tuesday 14:45-18:15 (CST), McCormick Place - Poster Hall, Hall A (South, Level 3)
Schedule: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm22/meetingapp.cgi/Session/158058

#AGU22 #caves #stalagmites #speleothems #climate #geochemistry #isotopes

Yesterday, I had to pleasure to be jury at the PhD defense of @AgatheDefourny in a beautiful place in the middle of Spa springs
Agathe did a great work using #Geochemistry and #InducedPolarization to better understand the origin of the sparkling water 🪨💦
Congrats Doctor !

New to Mastodon! I'm a senior lecturer at Colgate University, love teaching #science at a #SLAC, and doing #research with #undergrads in BLAST (#bubbles #lavas and #silicic #tephras) in the Dept of #Earth and #Environmental #Geosciences.

Always looking for new ideas in #pedagogy, #geology, #geochemistry, #GradingForEquity (#ungrading adjacent), #volcanology, and #inclusive #fieldwork.

And thankful for the delete-and-redraft function, since I probably mangled the use of #hashtags!

New to Mastodon! I'm a senior lecturer at Colgate University, love teaching #science at a #SLAC, and doing #research with #undergrads in BLAST (#bubbles #lavas and #silicic #tephras) in the Dept of #Earth and #Environmental #Geosciences.

Always looking for new ideas in #pedagogy, #geology, #geochemistry, #grading-for-equity (#ungrading adjacent), #volcanology, and #inclusive #fieldwork.

And thankful for the edit function, since I probably mangled the use of #hashtags!

Wrapped up the longest pyrolite workshop we've done yet on Sunday, with a five hour introduction to the world of Python as it pertains to #geochemistry.

We covered some #Python basics, key features of #pyrolite, and some useful adjacent libraries for spatial data and ML. For anyone interested, you can find the workshop materials on GitHub (https://github.com/morganjwilliams/202111-SGGMP-pyrolite-workshop), and boot up directly into the notebooks thanks to the #Binder team (https://mybinder.org).

I added a few little infrastructure things to help make these easier in the future - testing notebook content and automatically triggering environment image builds.

While I get back to work, the #SGGMP conference continues down south in Yallingup.

Wrapped up the longest pyrolite workshop we've done yet on Sunday, with a five hour introduction to the world of Python as it pertains to #geochemistry.

We covered some #Python basics, key features of #pyrolite, and some useful adjacent libraries for spatial data and ML. For anyone interested, you can find the workshop materials on GitHub (https://github.com/morganjwilliams/202111-SGGMP-pyrolite-workshop), and boot up directly into the notebooks thanks to the #Binder team (https://mybinder.org).

I added a few little infrastructure things to help make these easier in the future - testing notebook content and automatically triggering environment image builds.

While I get back to work, the #SGGMP conference continues down south in Yallingup.

Wow, so many new people are joining, it's hard to keep up. But great to be building a new world.

In case you missed my first #Introduction, I'm Science Media Producer for Chemistry World at the Royal Society of Chemistry. I like writing and talking about science.

I've a background in #geochemistry and #cosmochemistry having worked on #volcanoes #comets #asteroids using all manner of #massspecrometers and #labinstruments. My career highlights are my #popsci books, which are shown below.

I've been here for some months, but now I have some followers! So, time for #introductions!

Live: Zürich, Switzerland (immigrant from Lancashire, England)

Work: #technology #computers I've been a #macadmin since 2009. Before that I was a #webdev. Before that I did a Ph.D. in #glaciology #geochemistry at University of #aberystwyth.

Life: #hiking #trailrunning #travel especially to #eurovision, especially with my wife @rachelwarnock.

Fascinated by: the world in statistics, new things.

By way of #introduction...

I'm Kristy, a #geologist with a background in #geochemistry and #mineralogy. I'm currently a researcher at the Uni of QLD exploring for #criticalminerals in #minewaste. I'm interested in #sustainable mining practices, securing critical mineral resources for the #energytransition and in #STEM outreach and #scicomm.
Will definitely toot about cool #rocks and possibly my cat 👋