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July 12, 2019
The Geochemical Society would like you to join in us in celebrating the launch of our Instagram! The society is taking this opportunity to get to know YOU better. In addition to our monthly "Meet the Scientist", we will be featuring geochemists from all around the world, debuting your research, your field work, your story.
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If you would like to be the next featured scientist or share a photo of your work, send us a message on Instagram or at gsoffice@geochemsoc.org.
Annual Members Meeting
June 27, 2019
The Geochemical Society will hold its annual membership meeting on Wednesday, August 21 in Barcelona, Spain during the 2019 Goldschmidt Conference. The meeting will take place in the VIP Room of the CCIB at 7:00pm CET. All society members are encouraged to attend. One topic of discussion will be the society's journal, GCA, and recent developments around open access publishing. A reception will follow the meeting.
Meet the Scientist: Aisha Al Suwaidi
June 19, 2019
Name: Aisha Al Suwaidi
Title: Associate Professor in Earth Sciences
Institution: Khalifa University of Science and Technology
Place of residence: Abu Dhabi, UAE
What kind of science do you do?
I try to understand how the carbon cycle has changed through the Mesozoic (occasionally I work on more recent things like the Paleocene-Eocene ~55 million years ago), but mostly I am very interested in understanding how long it takes the Earth to recover from carbon cycle perturbations, mass extinctions and anoxia in the oceans associated with large igneous province activity hundreds of millions of years ago.
GS Offers New Capacity-building Grants
June 04, 2019
The GS is pleased to announce the launch of a new outreach program to support networking, educational activities, analytical training, or related activities in low and lower-middle-income economy countries. Capacity-building grants of up to $2,500 are available for geochemistry programs in these countries. The application deadline for the first round of grants is September 30, 2019. Learn more
GS Strategic Planning Process
May 29, 2019
In 2018, the GS board identified a need for the society to examine its activities and how well they are serving the international geochemistry community. The organization has a broad mission statement: The Geochemical Society is a nonprofit scientific society founded to encourage the application of geochemistry to improving our understanding of the Earth and solar system. How effective is the society at achieving this mission? To answer that question, the board decided to undertake a strategic planning process this year.
Marc Norman to Receive GS Distinguished Service Award
May 28, 2019
Dr. Marc Norman, an Emeritus Fellow in the Research School of Earth Sciences of the Australian National University, will receive the 2019 Geochemical Society Distinguished Service Award. Dr. Norman is recognized for his service to the scientific community as the executive editor of Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta from 2012-2018. GCA is the journal of the GS and the Meteoritical Society. During his tenure, the journal continued to grow in size and stature, achieving an impact factor of 4.690 in 2017 and a 5-year impact factor of 5.052.
Meet the Scientist: Orit Sivan
May 23, 2019
Name: Orit Sivan
Title: Professor
Institution: Ben-Gurion University
Place of residence: Lehavim, Israel
Website: http://oritsivansgroup.weebly.com/
What kind of science do you do?
Environmental geochemistry. My group uses isotope geochemistry to learn about biogeochemical cycles and redox couplings of globally important species (as carbon, iron and sulfur) in natural aquatic systems. We focus on interfaces, such as the sediment-water and the fresh-saline groundwater in coastal aquifers. We combine field-work, laboratory experiments, chemical measurements, and reactive-transport models.
Three GS Members Elected to US National Academy of Sciences
April 30, 2019
Three Geochemical Society members have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences in the United States: James Farquhar of the University of Maryland, College Park; Marilyn Fogel of the University of California, Riverside; and John Valley of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. All three are Geochemistry Fellows of the GS and the European Association of Geochemistry. We congratulate them on this great honor!
Learn more on the National Academy's website.
Meet the Scientist: Bumsoo Kim
April 25, 2019
Name: Bumsoo Kim
Institution: Texas A&M University
Place of residence: College Station, Texas, USA
What kind of science do you do?
I am a graduate student studying organic geochemistry to understand the past climate change during the Earth's geological history. I collect marine sediment samples from the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) and analyze lipid biomarkers, so-called "molecular fossils". Lipid biomarkers are powerful tools in providing direct evidence of the microorganisms and understanding the climate variations in the present and in the past. I enjoy playing with analytical instruments, such as gas/liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry, to trace lipid biomarkers which are archived in marine sediments for millions of years.
Meet the Scientist: Fang Huang
March 24, 2019
Name: Fang Huang
Title: Professor of Geochemistry
Institution: University of Science and Technology of China
Place of residence: Hefei, Anhui, China
What kind of science do you do?
I am a geochemist. I want to understand how the Earth works and improve our environment using the knowledge of geochemistry.