Susan L. S. Stipp
- 2023
- Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal
The 2023 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal is awarded to Susan L. S. Stipp in recognition of her fundamental research and unique applications of nano-geochemistry and mineralogy.
Division on Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology
President: Holly J. Stein
(gmpv@egu.eu)
Deputy President: vacant
The Division on Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology (GMPV) includes disciplines that are fundamental to, but not restricted to studies of the solid Earth. Important themes include the nature, composition, structure of the Earth’s mantle; the composition, origin and evolution of the oceanic and continental crust; the formation and crystallisation of magmas; the chemical compositions of igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks; element transfer between the surface envelopes of the Earth; volcanoes and volcanism. While most of these studies fall in the realm of fundamental research, studies of pollution in the surface or subsurface waters, the formation of ore deposits, and the environmental impact of volcanism are examples of more applied research.
The GMPV division collaborates with the VGP division of the American Geophysical Union, and with professional societies like the European Association of Geochemistry and the European Mineralogical Union.
Are you looking for a job within the GMPV see the Job listing sub page here.
Recent awardees
Xin Zhong
- 2023
- Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award
The 2023 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Xin Zhong for outstanding research in the field of elastic thermobarometry, resulting in many novel applications including the characterization of frictional melts formed during faulting, metamorphism in the deep crust, and the timing of kimberlite ascent.
Janne Blichert-Toft
- 2022
- Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal
The 2022 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal is awarded to Janne Blichert-Toft in recognition of fundamental research and unique applications of isotope geochemistry.
Austin Arias
- 2022
- Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award
The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Austin Arias Multidimensional Analysis of Serpentinite Dehydration Networks and Implications for Volatile Flux in Subduction Zones
Kajetan Chrapkiewicz
- 2022
- Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award
The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Kajetan Chrapkiewicz Magma chamber imaged beneath an arc volcano
Ludmila Maria Fonseca Teixeira
- 2022
- Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award
The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Ludmila Maria Fonseca Teixeira Subsolidus crystallization in the A-type Pikes Peak batholith
Fabian B. Wadsworth
- 2022
- Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists
The 2022 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to Fabian B. Wadsworth for outstanding research in the field of experimental volcanology.
Latests posts on the GMPV blog
Elemental etymology – what’s in a name?
- Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology
- posted 3 days ago
Like many scientists in the GMPV sphere, I work a lot with geochemistry – using chemical elements and their differing behaviours, abundances or isotopes as tools to understand Earth processes. While staring at the periodic table, something that’s always niggled at me is where the names of these come from: why is the stuff we breath called oxygen and the sand on the beach made of silicon? Even more puzzling to me has always been those cases where the element …
The role of Geothermal Energy in the energetic and environmental challenge.
- Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology
- posted 2 weeks ago
How does a Geothermal system work? Heat is a form of energy and, strictly speaking, geothermal energy is heat from inside the Earth. The large amount of thermal energy enclosed below the earth’s surface derives in part from its primordial formation process and in part originates from the decay of radioactive isotopes present mainly in the earth’s crust and, secondarily, in the mantle. Thermal flows thus originate towards the earth’s surface and from here, the heat is transferred to the …
EGU23 Friday Highlights
- Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology
- posted 1 month ago
It’s Friday and after a long week of conferencing you’re now on the home straight, the final day of EGU 2023! The following are some suggestions for that last bit of GMPV content to to bring your conference to the perfect close: Kicking things off first thing in the morning, there’s a big, exciting session on Volcanic processes: tectonics, deformation, geodesy, unrest with a loads of fascinating presentations covering everything from dyke propagation to inSAR monitoring and much much more. …
EGU23 Thursday Highlights
- Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology
- posted 1 month ago
It is Thursday, a bit more than halfway through your EGU-GA 23, and there are many interesting sessions, talks and posters to check out! If you are like me and tend to start feeling conference fatigue around this time, you will appreciate some of these highlights. Let me guide you through the Thursday sessions. Usually, about this time, I also take the opportunity to wander around the exhibition hall, talking to the exhibitors about job opportunities, new instruments that are …
Current issue of the EGU newsletter
In the May newsletter, EGU spoke to researchers about the exclusionary practices contributing to the low retention rate of minority groups within the geosciences, and to understand what needs to be done to usher in change.
We hear about the geological period that no one talks about: menstruation in the field, and the struggles of being a parent or caregiver in academia. David Fernández-Blanco also shares his plans to better support early career researchers as EGU’s new Union-level Early Career Scientist Representative.
Members of EGU’s Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Committee invite your inputs to their survey on workplace experiences of geoscientists and EGU’s Education Committee shares ways to bring science to educators! Want to do your part in making the geoscience community more inclusive? Watch our free EGUwebinar to identify and combat structural discrimination in your work environment and personal life.