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Mineral resources: exhaustion is just a myth
In contrast to recent articles announcing that deposits of mineral raw materials (copper, zinc, etc.) will be exhausted within a few decades, an international team including Lluís Fontboté (UNIGE) has shown that the resources of most mineral commodities are sufficient to sufficient to supply countle…
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New Article in Nature Communications
The article, co-authored by Dario Ventra (Basin Analysis Group, UNIGE), challenges the long-held view that pre-vegetation fluvial channels on Earth’s Proterozoic landscapes would have differed substantially in morphology from Phanerozoic channels. Outcrop and remote-sensing datasets show that well-d…
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New paper in Geology: sea level changes and carbon isotopes
Sebastien Castelltort, Louis Honegger and colleagues from Lausanne, Austin and Barcelona found that carbon isotopes on the continental slope of the Eocene Pyrenean foreland basin are in remarkable correlation with eustatic sea level signals recorded independently on the New Jersey margin. This revea…
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SETAC Young Scientist Award 2017 for Mme Amandine Laffite
The SETAC Young Scientist Award 2017 for best poster presentation was attributed to Amandine Laffite at the SETAC Europe 27th Annual Meeting held in Brussels between 7 and 11th of May 2017. Amandine is a PhD student working on the epidemiology of antibiotic resistance in Sub-Saharan African Countri…
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New Paper in Water Research
In this study, the possible antibiotic mechanisms prevailing in Pseudomonas spp., isolated from aquatic ecosystems under tropical (30-37°C, from Congo and India) and temperate (10°C, from Switzerland) climatic conditions was investigated. The conjugative transfers of antibiotic resistance plasmids o…
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A Study Investigating the Distribution of Organic Aerosol in the North Atlantic Ocean Published in Nature Scientific Reports
This study resulting from the DeepWater Expedition and a collaboration between scientists of the GAP, ISE and FOREL linking the distribution of aerosols with surface ocean dynamics has just been published in Nature Scientific Reports.
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New Paper in Scientific Reports
We discovered that the fly larvae Chaoborus spp. utilize methane in lake sediments to propel themselves. The larvae live in the sediment, and migrate to the surface to feed at night via this “gas lift”, saving substantial energy. Consequently, they liberate this important greenhouse gas to the surfa…
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Modelling copper endowment of porphyry copper deposits
New numerical modelling quantifies the link of Cu endowment of porphyry deposits with the duration of magmatic-hydrothermal activity and the Sr/Y composition of magmas associated with them. The model shows a remarkable fit with natural porphyry data and can potentially be used in early exploration s…
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Ice age at the Permian-Triassic boundary
The mass extinction at the Permian-Triassic boundary is linked to a period of glaciation! The article of Baresel et al. in Scientific Reports calls into question the theories that the big mass extinctions are related to a global temperature increase. It suggests that the injection of H2S and SO2 dur…
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New book on finite element modeling
Congratulations to Guy Simpson !