Special Lectures at Goldschmidt 2025
March 06, 2025
(Pictured, from left: Nathalie Goodkin, Ronnie Glud, Benjamin Mills)
The Geochemical Society is pleased to announce three special lectures to be given at the 2025 Goldschmidt Conference. The Earl Ingerson Lecture will be delivered by Nathalie Goodkin of the American Museum of Natural History. She is recognized for outstanding work developing coral geochemical proxies and generating paleo records that clarify the ocean's role in driving climate on decadal to centennial time scales.
The Endowed Biogeochemistry Lecture will be given by Ronnie Glud of the University of Southern Denmark. The selection honors his research around oxygen fluxes in aquatic systems and the role of hydrological, chemical and biological processes in oxygen diffusion and consumption.
The Robert Berner Lecture (a joint award with EAG) will be presented by Benjamin Mills of the University of Leeds. He has made fundamental advances in understanding the evolution of the Earth and its habitability through time. He is at the forefront of the paleo-biogeochemical modeling discipline, continuing to adapt and extend Berner's original modeling approach.
Ellen Hopmans Named 2025 Recipient of Alfred Treibs Award
March 04, 2025
Ellen C. Hopmans, Head of Analytical Laboratory at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, will receive the 2025 the Alfred Treibs Award. Presented by the society's Organic Geochemistry Division, the award is given for major achievements, over a period of years, in organic geochemistry. Dr. Hopmans is recognized for significant contributions to organic geochemistry, particularly through pioneering analytical advances. She introduced liquid chromatography, enabling the detection of membrane-spanning lipids like GDGTs, revolutionizing paleoclimate research with the TEX86 proxy. Additionally, her teaching and mentoring have inspired and empowered the next generation of organic geochemists, especially women.
Chris Hawkesworth Named 2025 Recipient of V. M. Goldschmidt Award
February 11, 2025
Chris Hawkesworth, Professor Emeritus at the University of Bristol (UK) will receive the 2025 Victor M. Goldschmidt Award this July. The Goldschmidt Award is the society's highest honor, presented annually for major achievements in geochemistry over a career. Prof. Hawkesworth is recognized for exceptional scientific contributions, made through the application of advanced geochemical proxies, that have guided our understanding of the crust and lithosphere and their interactions with the convecting mantle. His work has helped transform geochemistry by emphasising its applicability to understanding the processes operating over the entirety of Earth's existence.
Avner Vengosh Named 2025 Recipient of Clair C. Patterson Award
February 11, 2025
Avner Vengosh, Distinguished Professor of Environmental Quality at Duke University (USA) will receive the 2025 Clair C. Patterson Award in July. The award is presented annually for an innovative breakthrough in environmental geochemistry of fundamental significance within the last decade, particularly in service to society. Prof. Vengosh is recognized for his work evaluating the impact of conventional and nonconventional energy development on environmental geochemistry, especially of water resources.
Suzanne Birner Named 2025 Recipient of F. W. Clarke Award
February 11, 2025
Suzanne K. Birner, Associate Professor of Geology/Earth Science at Berea College (USA) will receive the 2025 F. W. Clarke Award this July. The Clarke Award honors a single outstanding contribution to geochemistry or cosmochemistry by an early-career scientist. Prof. Birner is recognized for her series of papers that decipher and document the processes occurring in the Earth's mantle that have generated variations of several orders of magnitude in oxygen fugacity, with broad implications for the history of Earth's interior and atmosphere.
Paula Welander to Receive John Hayes Award
January 15, 2025
Paula V. Welander, Professor in the Department of Earth System Science at Stanford University (USA) is the recipient of the 2024 John Hayes Award from the GS. Prof. Welander is also the Associate Dean of Integrative Initiatives (DEI) in the Doerr School of Sustainability and Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Postdoctoral Affairs. The award is given to a mid-career scientist for outstanding accomplishments that draw together multiple fields of investigation to advance biogeochemical science. It was created in 2017 by the Organic Geochemistry Division and a group of friends, colleagues, and students of John Hayes. Prof. Welander is recognized for discovering the pervasive role of radical chemistry in the biosynthesis of geostable microbial membrane lipids. The new knowledge generated by her work is fundamental to the use of chemical fossils for reconstructing the history of ocean plankton and their application to climate reconstructions both recent and ancient. The presentation of the award will take place at the IMOG this September.
Edoardo Ammannati and Goldschmidt Student Helpers to Receive GS Distinguished Service Award
June 25, 2024
Edoardo Ammannati and the Goldschmidt student helper teams are the recipients of the 2024 GS Distinguished Service Award, to be presented at the Goldschmidt Conference in August. The award recognizes the exceptional contributions made by the student helpers at the conference each year. From helping delegates register at the start of the meeting to making sure that every presentation and poster goes smoothly, the team has become an integral part of the conference. Since his first conference in Florence in 2013 as a team member to his role as team coordinator today, Edoardo has trained and organized hundreds of students over the years. He works from sunrise to sunset (and beyond) each day with the volunteers to ensure a pleasant and productive experience for delegates. Much of their work is done behind the scenes, so on this occasion the GS is very pleased to recognize the extraordinary contributions of Edoardo and the entire student helper teams over the years.
The Distinguished Service Award is presented on an irregular basis to recognize contributions that greatly exceed the normal expectations of voluntary service.
Timothy Eglinton to Receive Treibs Award from OGD
April 17, 2024
Timothy Eglinton, Full Professor at the Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich (Switzerland), will receive the 2024 Alfred Treibs Award. Presented by the society's Organic Geochemistry Division, the award is given for major achievements, over a period of years, in organic geochemistry. Prof. Eglinton is recognized for his achievements in compound-specific radiocarbon analysis and other areas, which have transformed the field of organic geochemistry and also had a profound impact on various scientific disciplines.
Donald Canfield Named 2024 Victor M. Goldschmidt Medalist
February 19, 2024
Donald E. Canfield, Professor and DIAS chair at Syddansk Universitet (Denmark) will receive the 2024 Victor M. Goldschmidt Award this August. The Goldschmidt Award is the society's highest honor, presented annually for major achievements in geochemistry over a career. Prof. Canfield is recognized for his reinvention of how to extrapolate sophisticated mechanistic understandings of microbial metabolisms and their elemental and isotopic consequences to elevate our understanding of Earth's environmental and biological history.
Satoshi Utsunomiya Named 2024 Clair C. Patterson Medalist
February 19, 2024
Satoshi Utsunomiya, Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Kyushu University (Japan), will receive the 2024 Clair C. Patterson Award in August. The award is presented annually for an innovative breakthrough in environmental geochemistry of fundamental significance within the last decade, particularly in service to society. Prof. Utsunomiya is recognized for his creative application of advanced techniques, especially electron microscopy and spectroscopy, to the understanding of the environmental mobility of radionuclides, and other elements/particles of concern. His research provides the foundation for estimates of health effects and the development of mitigation/decommissioning strategies.