Event Detail | July 13 – 18, 2008
Goldschmidt 2008 - "From Sea to Sky"Vancouver, Canada
Abstract Deadline: Saturday, 1 March 2008
For further information, please go to:
http://www.goldschmidt2008.org/
or contact:
Martyn Tranter
E-mail: m.tranter@bristol.ac.uk
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The Goldschmidt Conference is the premier annual meeting in geochemistry. Vancouver is repeatedly voted to be one of the best cities on the planet. Goldschmidt in Vancouver should be a meeting not to be missed!
The convenors of the "Biogeochemistry of Weathering in Glacial Environments" session (16d) at the Goldschmidt 2008 Conference invite presentation abstracts. The conference will take place on 13-18 July 2008, in Vancouver, Canada.
The ice within and the beds beneath glaciers are no longer believed to be inert. Instead, there is a microbial presence, which may be metabolizing slowly in interconnected liquid vein networks within the ice and is active in aquatic environments at the bed. The expectation now is that microbial communities will exist in the basal waters - lakes and other hydrological flow paths - under the Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets, and that these communities can be sustained by energy and nutrient sources produced by glacial erosion of bedrock and other over-ridden debris. This session will have four principal sub-themes: a) Biogeochemical processes in the glacial environments; b) Microbial utilization of diverse REDOX couples in glacial environments; c) Geochemical fluxes from glaciated terrain and their consequences and; d) Geochemistry of glacial weathering on other icy planetary bodies.
All abstracts must be submitted on the authorized abstract template by Saturday, 1 March 2008. The registration fee is $100 CDN.
For further information and to download the application template, please go to:
http://www.goldschmidt2008.org
For further information about the session, please contact:
Martyn Tranter
E-mail: m.tranter@bristol.ac.uk
