Paul W. Gast Lecture

The Paul W. Gast Lecture Series honors the Geochemical Society's first Goldschmidt Medalist. The lecture is awarded to a mid-career scientist for outstanding contributions to geochemistry. The lecture is presented as a plenary at the Goldschmidt Conference and includes a certificate and an honorarium (1000 Euro).

The selection of the lecturer alternates between the GS Board of Directors and the EAG Council depending on the location of the Goldschmidt Conference.

YearLecturerTitle
2024 Jiubin Chen Tracing Metal Adventures from Earth to Life
2023 Phoebe Lam Marine particle geochemistry: influence on biogeochemical cycles in the ocean
2022 Vanessa Hatje Rare Earth Elements: Tracers of Natural and Anthropogenic Processes Along the Continent-Ocean Continuum
2021 Sonja Aulbach Chemical geodynamics with eclogite
2020 Jochen Brocks Lost World of Complex Life: Molecular Traces of our Deepest Eukaryotic Ancestors (video)
2019 Caroline Masiello New Synthetic Biology Tools to Track Microbial Processes in Soils and Sediments
2018 Caroline Slomp Oxygen Loss In Coastal Waters: Impact on Geochemical Cycles
2017 Shuhei Ono Clumped Isotopologue (13CH3D) Fingerprinting of Methane Sources
2016 Shogo Tachibana Chemical Evolution of the Solar System: Laboratory Experiments and Small-Body Explorations
2015 Ann Pearson Organic Geochemical Proxies
2014 Tim Elliott The implications of a non-chondritic terrestrial Mg isotope composition
2013 Sujoy Mukhopadhyay Probing the Hadean World with Noble Gases
2012 Ros Rickaby Tight coupling of life and metals throughout evolution
2011 Victoria Orphan Microbial Partnerships and Methane-Oxidation in the Deep Sea
2010 Jérôme Chappellaz Greenhouse gases and their isotopes in firn air and ice cores
2009 Kenneth Farley Major events in the recent history of the solar system recorded by 3He in deep-sea sediments
2008 Jérôme Gaillardet Direct coupling between chemical and physical erosion rates in the West Indies
2007 Kathrine H. Freeman Molecular and Isotopic Proxies--from Microbes to Mountains
2006 John Eiler Clumped isotope geochemistry
2005 Eric Oelkers Mineral Surface Reactivity from the Global to the Atomic Scale
2004 Peggy O'Day Cheeseburger in Paradise: Nutrients, Contaminants, and Cycling Across the Abiotic-Biotic Divide
2003 Hiroshi Ohmoto Chemical and Biological Evolution of the Early Earth: A Minority Report
2002 Patricia Dove Deciphering the Physical Basis of Biomineralization through the Lens of Mineral Assembly
2001 Don DePaolo Ca Isotope Geochemistry
2000 Jill Banfield  
1999 Bernard J. Wood Trace Element Partitioning: A Blunt Geochemical Instrument
1998 Everett Shock  
1997 Edouard Bard Geochemical and Geophysical Implications of the Radiocarbon Calibration
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