Great news for Geo: "NSF funds the Synchrotron for Earth and #Environmental Science facility #SEES #geology #geochemistry #geophysics

https://new.nsf.gov/news/nsf-announces-new-award-synchrotron-earth

Could blending of crushed rock with arable soil lower #GlobalTemperatures? Researchers of @uni_mainz_eng study #GlobalWarming events from 40 and 56 million years ago to find answers // #ChemicalWeathering #climate #geosciences #geochemistry #sedimentology
https://news.idw-online.de/2023/08/29/enhanced-chemical-weathering-a-solution-to-the-climate-crisis

Could blending of crushed rock with arable soil lower #GlobalTemperatures? Researchers of @uni_mainz_eng study #GlobalWarming events from 40 and 56 million years ago to find answers // #ChemicalWeathering #climate #geosciences #geochemistry #sedimentology
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2023/08/29/enhanced-chemical-weathering-a-solution-to-the-climate-crisis

Another LAICPMS day, another totally new (to us!) problem. This supports my hypothesis that LAICPMS NEVER goes smoothly. No one cried though, so it could have been worse!

#ECR #LAICPMS #MassSpectrometry #geochemistry

That feeling when you find a paper that has SIGNIFICANT overlap with the paper you're currently writing 🤦‍♀️

Anyway, the paper led by Carmen Sanchez-Garcia is great and if you're interested in fires and ash chemistry you should check it out https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2023.108065

Nice work @GabrielS and co!

#Wildfire #Ash #geochemistry #EnvironmentalScience

So, about the new round of #USGS #Mendehall #Postdoc #Fellowship opportunities…

The #MojaveDesert has a long history of #mining (see, for example, http://www.desertsymposium.org/publications/2023_Mines_of_the_Mojave.pdf). From 19th century mule teams hauling boron, to the uranium boom of the 1950’s, to modern mining operations like the Mountain Pass #RareEarthElements #mine, the #Mojave has been in the middle. If you’ve ever dreamed of being a part of that history then do we have the opportunity for you!

The need for #CriticalMinerals, like #lithium or #RareEarth #minerals for use in gadgets and as part of the transition to clean energy has never been greater. Mendenhall Opportunity 22-13, “Constraining the geologic and tectonic conditions of critical element mineralization in the Mojave Desert, California” (https://www.usgs.gov/centers/mendenhall-research-fellowship-program/22-13-constraining-geologic-and-tectonic-conditions), seeks a #postdoc to apply #GeologicMapping, #geochemistry, and #geochronology to better characterize critical minerals systems in the Mojave. The application window opens 1 September and closes on 1 November.

Article highlighting a new paper in #GreatLakes Research on links between #algalblooms and #hypoxia. Low oxygen in the Central Basin is an important impairment to the #LakeErie ecosystem that will be a focus of the 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Cooperative Science and Monitoring Initiative #CSMI next year. We are in the midst planning many projects to target #geochemistry, #nutrients, #foodwebs and habitat use during the 2024 fieldyear.
#Canada #USA #ClimateChange
https://windsor.ctvnews.ca/more-algal-blooms-likely-in-lake-erie-report-1.6493160

Become my colleague at the University of Groningen! 🌏👽🔭🖥️
The Kapteyn Astronomical Institute is searching for two tenure-track assistant professors. The exoplanet position is focused on rocky/low-mass exoplanet atmospheres, from either an observational or theoretical perspective. Please share! 🤗

https://jobregister.aas.org/ad/c81c19d3
https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S000AACP

#Exoplanets #Atmospheres #Astronomy #Geophysics #Geochemistry #PlanetaryScience #OriginOfLife #Astrodon

From 12 Jul: Has the century-old mystery of Antarctica’s “Blood Falls” finally been solved? - Enlarge / Blood Falls seeps from the end of the Taylor Glacier into Lake Bonney. Scientist... https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/has-the-century-old-mystery-of-antarcticas-blood-falls-finally-been-solved/ #antarctica #astrobiology #blood-falls #chemistry #geochemistry #geology #materials-science #mineralogy #science

#Goldschmidt2023 is over. A very intense but rewarding week talking about #geochemistry, #petrology and #volcanoes 🌋 and meeting lots of colleagues. Looking forward to the next one...

Has the century-old mystery of Antarctica’s “Blood Falls” finally been solved? - Enlarge / Blood Falls seeps from the end of the Taylor Glacier into Lak... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1952810 #materialsscience #astrobiology #geochemistry #antarctica #bloodfalls #mineralogy #chemistry #science #geology

Ars Technica: Has the century-old mystery of Antarctica’s “Blood Falls” finally been solved? https://arstechnica.com/?p=1952810 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #materialsscience #astrobiology #geochemistry #Antarctica #BloodFalls #mineralogy #chemistry #Science #geology

LA-ICP-MS is temporally wild. It somehow manages to be both incredibly fast (getting the data!) and incredibly slow (processing the data!). Staving of frustration by reminding myself that this is thousands of years of data, and if it takes a day to process, well that's still really, really, quick!

#niche #LAICPMS #speleothem #geochemistry

The expression “Old as the hills” means really, really old when you’re referring to #JackHills in Western Australia.

How old are they? They’re so old that isotopic analysis of zircon rocks 🪨 found there indicate that they were formed BEFORE tectonic activity on Earth 🌏 began! 👉 https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/earths-oldest-minerals-date-onset-plate-tectonics-36-billion-years-ago

This fascinating result of #geochemistry agrees with the second oldest rocks on Earth from the Canadian Shield.

New publication: "Inferring Upper Palaeolithic Human Mobility Strategies in the Pyrenees" #OpenAccess #MaterialsScience #Geochemistry #Archaeology https://doi.org/10.33552/OAJAA.2023.04.000586

Re Strong research background in earth and/or universe science? Apply before 24 July!
#Universe #Science, #Astrophysics, #Astronomy, #Cosmology, #Earth, #Geophysics, #Climatology, #Geochemistry, #Seismology, #Oceanography

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1675772688084660224

New publication: "Geochemical Study of Chert Artefacts from Xicotó Rockshelter (NE Iberia) Archaeological Site. New Data on Neolithic and Mesolithic Human Occupations" #OpenAccess #Geochemistry #Archaeology https://doi.org/10.24916/iansa.2022.2.1

New publication: "Characterising the pigment on a Mesolithic cranium from Corsica using ion beam analysis" #OpenAccess #Geochemistry #Archaeology https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2022.08.003

Happy birthday to #geochemist Charles David Keeling (1928 - 2005) whose decades long observations of CO2 in air samples from Mauna Loa Observatory were some of the 1st direct data to show the human contribution to greenhouse effect & global warming. The 'Keeling Curve' (in copper & red) shows both the seasonal variations (the wiggles) & the strong upward trend with time as the greenhouse gas built up in the atmosphere.

#linocut #printmaking #climateChange #geochemistry #KeelingCurve #sciart

The #Goldschmidt2023 programme has been published. This year I will present my results on how to synthesise vaterite. In addition, I will present a poster on the crystallographic models we have designed in 3D and on how to make 3D models of our samples to be used in dissemination activities (to be presented by a friend).

All the info can be found here: https://conf.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/2023/meetingapp.cgi/Person/36872

#Geochemistry #Mineral