GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES: A 'LEED'ING VIEW
THE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, AUGUST 27-29, 2008
An international symposium in honour of Professor Robert Raiswell's retirement from the School of Earth and Environment
Jointly funded by WUN and the University of Leeds
TALKS POSTERS GEOCHEMISTRY CLINIC PHOTOS
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Day One: Wednesday, August 27th Venue: Devonshire Hall
THEME: GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES-PAST
09.20-09.30: Mike Krom, University of Leeds, 'Welcome and Introduction'
09.30-10.10: Rob Newton, University of Leeds ‘Epeiric seas and global biogeochemical cycles’
10.10-10.50: Tim Lyons, University of California at Riverside ‘Ironing out metal cycling in the early ocean’
10.50-11.20: TEA (Devonshire Hall Foyer)
11.20-12.00: Andy Ridgwell, University of Bristol ‘A Hitchhiker's Guide to carbon isotopes through time’
12.00-12:40: Paul Wignall, University of Leeds ‘Mass extinctions and geochemical perturbations’
12.40-14.10: : LUNCH (Devonshire Hall Lunch Room)
14.10-14.50: Andrey Bekker, University of Manitoba ‘Fractionation between inorganic and organic carbon during the Lomagundi carbon isotope excursion'
14.50-15.30: David Beerling, University of Sheffield ‘Plants, CO2 and weathering: Towards an experimental assessment’
15.30-16.00: COFFEE (Devonshire Hall Foyer)
16.10-18.00: POSTER SESSION (Evans, Kirkby and Belfield Rooms, Devonshire Hall; Drinks and Nibbles served)
18.00-18.40: Don Canfield, University of Southern Denmark ‘DOP: The evolution of an idea’
19.00 ONWARDS: DINNER @ Akmals, Hyde Park
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Day Two: Thursday August 28th Venue: Devonshire Hall
THEME: GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES-PRESENT
09.30-10.10: Susan Brantley, Pennsylvania State University ‘Bedrock to Soil: Earths Weathering Engine’
10.10-10.50: Liane Benning, University of Leeds ‘A nanoscale perspective of how fungi "make" soils’
10.50-11.20: TEA (Devonshire Hall Foyer)
11.20-12.00: Bob Aller, State University of New York, Stonybrook ‘Unsteady diagenetic processes and the sulphur cycle in tropical deltaic muds: implications for the sedimentary record’
12.00-12.40: Philippe Van Cappellen, Utrecht University ‘The Biogeochemical Cycle of Silicon: Some Recent Developments’
12.40-14.10: LUNCH (Devonshire Hall Lunch Room)
14.10-14.50: Bernard Boudreau, Dalhousie University ‘Modelling Microbial Diagenesis’
14.50-15.30: Martyn Tranter, University of Bristol ‘Glaciers and Global Biogeochemical Cycles’
15.30-16.00-COFFEE (Devonshire Hall Foyer)
16.00-16.40: Caroline Slomp, Utrecht University ‘Redox-dependent P burial in modern and ancient sediments’
16.40-17.20 Sigurdur Gíslason, University of Iceland ‘Climate, basalt weathering, vegetation and the carbon cycle’
18.45 onwards: BANQUET FOR ROB RAISWELL @ University House, Leeds Main Campus
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Day Three: Friday August 29th Venue: Leeds University Campus
THEME: EARTH SYSTEMS SCIENCE AND SCIENTISTS TODAY
9.00-10.45:
Venue: Centenary Gallery, Parkinson Building
THE GEOCHEMISTRY CLINIC, a speed networking meeting
11.00-12.00:
Rob Raiswell, University of Leeds
Venue: Centenary Gallery, Parkinson Building
‘The Iron Cycle Revisited: Small Matters in the New Iron Age’
12.00-13.00: BREAK FOR LUNCH
13.00-14.00:
Colin Prentice, University of Bristol
Venue: Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre
‘The QUEST for an engaged Earth System Science’
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Informal Poster Session, August 27th, 4-6PM Back to top
| Presenter | University/Company | Poster Title |
| Alexandra Xylouri | University of Leeds | 'Cloud processing affecting the solubility of iron and manganese in seawater' |
| Alison McAnena | Newcastle University | Siderite reactivity and the abiotic formation of methanev |
| Anthony Stockdale | Lancaster University | Small scale heterogeneity in sediments: Iron and trace metal sulphide formation at microniches |
| Aryani Sumoondar | University of Leeds | Green rust as a precursor for magnetite: an in situ synchrotron based study v |
| Ellen Avery | University of Leeds | Anaerobic pyrite oxidation rates determined via direct volume loss measurements: a Vertical Scanning Interferometric approach |
| Jesse Muratli | Oregon State University | Variations in the extent of Antarctic Intermediate Water in the SE Pacific over the last 30 ka. |
| Juan Rodriguez-Blanco | University of Leeds | How to make ‘stable’ ACC: protocol and preliminary structural characterization |
| Kirsty Crocket | University of Bristol | A Pb isotope tracer of glacial Fe inputs to the open ocean? |
| Loredana Brinza | University of Leeds | Adsorption studies of molybdenum and vanadium onto ferrihydrite |
| Maggie White | Newcastle University | Fe redox cycling within clays: the degradation of redox-sensitive organics using bio-reduced Fe(II) |
| Nefeli Kafousia | University of Athens | Carbon-isotope signature of the Early Toarcian OAE as recorded in the Pindos Ocean passive-margin sediments (N. Peloponnesus, Greece) |
| Nikolai Pedentchouk | University of East Anglia | Stable Carbon and Hydrogen Isotopes of Leaf Wax n-Alkanes from Western European Angiosperms and Conifers: Implications for Palaeoclimate Studies |
| Pieter Bots | University of Leeds | Uranium mobility in subsurface aqueous sediments: the influence of redox conditions |
| Rebecca Bartlett | University of Leeds | Nitrogen cycling in marine sediments: anoxic nitrification coupled to manganese reduction |
| Rebecca Bartlett | University of Leeds | Dissolved organic carbon dynamics under recovery from acidification: the importance of sulfur cycling |
| Rebecca P. Brucker | Oregon State University | Sediment Geochemistry in Lake Tanganyika, East Africa |
| Simon Bottrell | University of Leeds | TBA |
| Tatiana Goldberg | Newcastle University | Towards an understanding of the ocean molybdenum isotope budget - Mo isotope fractionation during adsorption to Fe (oxyhydr)oxides |
| Verity Payne | University of Leeds | TBA |
| William Homoky | National Oceanography Centre | Constraining the utility of Fe isotopes in marine sediments: lessons from deep-sea and continental shelf porewaters |
| Zongbo Shi | University of Leeds | Change in speciation of iron in mineral dust during simulated atmospheric processing |
THE GEOCHEMISTRY CLINIC, FRIDAY, AUGUST 29TH, 09.OO-10.45 A.M Back to top
The Geochemistry Clinic provides a networking opportunity for graduate students and starting post doctoral fellows (the ‘patients’ in the clinic!) to introduce themselves to, and discuss scientific queries with, senior colleagues at the meeting (the ‘consultants’). The clinic will be constructed so that the consultants are seated at a row of desks, and the patients will move around the room from desk to desk at ~10 min intervals (a bell will ring to mark the end of each consultation period). All the speakers (plus other volunteers) will act as consultants and all the students and postdocs should aim to participate as patients. There will only be sufficient time for the patients to meet with about half of the consultants but any patients who wish to speak with a particular consultant should make their choice known to Rob Raiswell.Patients should prepare themselves by thinking of a geochemical query. The same query can be used for each ‘consultation’ which may be related to the patient’s research area (but does not have to be) and could be supported with a diagram, graph, photograph or any other small amount of input. Alternatively the query might be related to a topic raised in one of the talks, or emerging in discussions. The patients should start by introducing themselves to the expert and taking about a minute to describe their research area before posing their query. Patients should play an active role in the consultation, for example by seeking clarification, asking follow-up questions etc. This clinic is designed to provide experience in discussing geochemistry in an informal setting.
Consultants may be asked to deal with a wide range of geochemistry. This may sometimes be simple, where the query bears on the individual’s research interests and where the consultant has detailed knowledge. In these cases detailed responses can probably be given (for example by suggesting references). Consultants may only be able to deal with other queries on a very general level (for example by suggesting how an analogous problem was tackled). This is still satisfactory; the purpose of the clinic is more to provide experience in science discussion and science networking, rather than prescriptive advice. Back to top
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