Goldschmidt is the foremost annual, international conference on geochemistry and related subjects, organized by the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry. Goldschmidt 2018 will be held in Boston, Massachusetts on August 12-17, 2018.  

Important Dates:

• Call for Sessions & Workshops Deadline: 1 November 2018
• Abstract Deadline: 30 March 2018 (23:59 EST)
• Student and Early Career Grants Deadline: 30 March 2018
• Student Grant Applications Due: 11 May 2018
• Early Registration Deadline: 12 June 2018

CZ Related Sessions, Abstracts & Events at Goldschmidt 2018

Theme 11: Weathering, Erosion, and Geochemical Cycles

Coordinators: Joshua West (University of Southern California), Lin Ma (University of Texas et El Paso) and  Xiao-Ming Liu (University of North Carolina  at Chapel Hill)

Select Abstracts:

• 11b: Silicon Isotope Doping Method for Measuring Silicate Reaction Rates in the Critical Zone
  Zhang Y, Zhu C, Hu B, Wang J, Rimstidt D, Yuan H & Georg B
• 11c: Importance of Biological Processes in the Critical Zone: Insights from Mg Isotopes
  Bedja I & Galy A
• 11f Keynote: Fjords as Aquatic Critical Zones
  Bianchi T
• 11f: Climate Controls on Weathering Fronts and Implications for Critical Zone Responses to Global Change
  Buss H, Hayes N, Moore O & Pancost R
• 11g: Combining U-Series and Sr Isotopes to Trace Water Flow Through the Critical Zone
  White A, Ma L, Moravec B, McIntosh J & Chorover J

Theme 12: Soils and the Critical Zone 

Coordinators: Gan-Lin Zhang (Chinese Academy of Science) and Kate Maher (Stanford University). 

Sessions:

• 12a: Using Big Data to Understand the Critical Zone
  Conveners: Tao Wen, Susan Brantley

• 12b: Controls on the Recalcitrance of Organic Matter Across Diverse Environmental Conditions and Perturbations
  Conveners: Lisamarie Windham-Myers, Eric Sundquist, Malak Tfaily, Nancy Hess, Pat Megonigal

• 12c: Biogeochemical Cycling of Metals, Radionuclides, and Associated Colloids within Earth’s Critical Zone
  Conveners: Benjamin Kocar, Vincent Noel, John Bargar, Gabrielle Dublet, Naresh Kumar, Rose Cory

• 12d: Interactions between Soil and Biota as Controls on Ecosystem Function from Canopy to Rhizosphere
  Conveners: James Moran, Lisa Tiemann, Zsuzsanna Balogh-Brunstad

• 12e: Redox Transformations and Biogeochemical Cycling in the Critical Zone
  Conveners: Christian Mikutta, Klaus Kaiser, Elizabeth Herndon, Carla Rosenfeld, Dawn Cardace, Amanda Olsen

• 12f: Identifying and Modeling Mechanistic Drivers of Elemental Cycles Across the Critical Zone
  Conveners: Mengqiang Zhu, Avner Gross, Kristin Boye, Marco Keiluweit, Dragos Zaharescu, Rebecca Lybrand

• 12g: Co-evolution of the Critical Zone
  Conveners: Elisabeth Bui, Martin Goldhaber

Theme 14: Communicating Science: Outreach and Education

Coordinators: Sandy Kirtland Turner (University of California, Riverside) and Sarah Simpson (University of California, Riverside)

Sessions:

• 14d: 21st Century Geoscience Education: Building Digital Curricula
  Conveners: Lev Horodyskyj, Simon Kelley

• 14e: Engaging the Public Via New and Traditional Media
  Conveners: Sarah Simpson, Jennifer Glass

• 14f: Engaging Local Communities Where We Work
  Conveners: Sarah Simpson, Sandy Kirtland Turner

• 14g: Climate Communication and Education
  Conveners: A. D. Anbar, Adina Paytan

Select Abstracts:

• 01c: The Martian Critical Zone: Concept and Experimental Example
  Perdrial N, Armfield J, Reeder G, Gagnon A, Rampe E & Perdrial J
• 03a Keynote: The Use of Boron Isotopes to Explore Critical Zone Processes
  Gaillardet J & Lemarchand D
• 08i: Tracing Gypsiferous White Sands Aerosols in the Shallow Critical Zone at White Mountain, New Mexico Using Sr/Ca and 87Sr/86Sr Ratios
  Rea P, Ma L, Gill T, Gardea-Torresdey J, Tamez C & Jin L

Events:

• Early Career Workshop: Learn about Funding Opportunities, Tuesday 14th August 12:45-14:15
  Panelists will include Nicolas Sifakis from the ERC and Enriqueta Barrera from NSF. A light lunch is included in the ticket price (US$10), this is subsidised and so places are limited to the first 50 applicants. You may attend without a ticket in which case lunch will not be provided.
• Seminar: K-12 Delegates: Engaging students in understanding the Earth system as it intertwines with key societal issues, Tuesday 14th August 14:15-17:15 and Thursday 16th August 14:15-17:15
• Find a list of pre-conference workshops here. 

Awards:

• Susan Brantley (PSU, Shale Hills CZO) will be presented with the Urey Award Medel during the plenary on Tuesday, 14th August.
• Jerome Gaillardet (IPGP, OZCAR Network) and Susan Trumbore (University of California, Hainich CZE) have been named 2018 Geochemical Fellows of The Geochemical Society and The European Association of Geochemistry. Fellows will be awarded during plenary on Wednesday, 15th August.