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Nuit de la Science 2016
A big 聯Thank You聰 to all those, who have represented the Earth and Environmental Sciences at the lake during the Nuit de la Science in July 2016 !
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New article in Geobiology
This article presents the first evidence of the presence of intracellular amorphous granules of alkaline-earth metal (AEM) carbonates (Ca, Sr and Ba) in unicellular eukaryotes. These inclusions, named micropearls, show concentric and oscillatory zoning on a nanometric scale. Widespread in certain ph…
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Bravo Hervé !
Hervé Rezeau won the prize for the best student talk at the "Society of Economic Geology 2016 Conference on the Tethyan Tectonics and Metallogeny聰, held in Cesme, Turkey, September 25-28, 2016.
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Congratulations to Line Probst
Congratulations to Line Probst who got awarded the "Prix d'Excellence de l'Association Genevoise des Femmes Diplômées des Universités聰, an award given every two years to a female PhD student of AV短视频 who is at the beginning of a promising PhD project.
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New H2020 Marie-Curie ITN « MANTEL» Management of Climatic Extreme Events in Lakes and Reservoirs for the Protection of Ecosystem Services
A H2020 Marie-Curie-ITN was awarded to a consortium including Profs Ibelings and Beniston. It allows 12 PhD students to use high-frequency monitoring stations, like being developed for Lake Geneva (see image), to capture episodic climatic events and their effects on lake ecosystem resilience and ris…
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First Determination of the Dissolution Rates of Two Industrially Important Tellurides
CdTe (used in solar cells) and Bi2Te3 (used in Peltier-cooling devices) will dissolve completely under environmental conditions but, as the measured rates are slow on an absolute scale, the accidental release of these compounds into the natural environment would hardly pose a threat and would leave …
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Thermal erosion of cratonic lithosphere as a potential trigger for mass-extinction
Mass extinction events (e.g., at the end of the Triassic, see picture) consisted of a short cold period due to massive SO2 injection in the atmosphere, followed by a greenhouse climate due to CO2 degassing. The article presents a petrological-geochemical model of progressive thermal erosion of conti…
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Workshop on application of genomic tools for benthic monitoring of marine environment: from technology to legal and socio-economic aspects
4-5 April 2016 聴 Natural History Museum, Geneva Jan Pawlowski and Daniel Ariztegui, AV短视频 Although DNA sequences have been used widely in biomedical, forensic and other applied sciences, they have been ignored until recently in environmental monitoring, despite their considerable po…
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The connection between plutons and volcanoes
The genetic link between rhyolites and associated subvolcanic intrusions and lavas from Turkey creek, Arizona (USA) was examined by scientist from Princeton AV短视频, ETH Zurich, Bowdoin College Brunswick and AV短视频. U-Pb zircon geochronology evidenced 300'000 years of zircon growth …
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New Article in Frontiers in Microbiology
Hospital Effluents Are One of Several Sources of Metal, Antibiotic Resistance Genes, and Bacterial Markers Disseminated in Sub-Saharan Urban Rivers
