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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
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SNF AP Energy Grant for Professor Matteo Lupi
Congratulations to Prof. Matteo Lupi, who recently obtained an Assistant Professor Energy Grant of the National Science Foundation starting in July 2016. The project is nicknamed GENERATE - GEophysical and Numerical Experiments for Reservoir Analysis and fluid-Transported Energy, and will involve…
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Interaction between climate and volcanism
Scientists from Caltech, the University of Cambridge, the University of Geneva and ETH Zurich explain how climate change can influence the frequency of volcanic eruptions. Melting of ice and drainage of water into the oceans decreases the pressure applied on the Earths mantle, where magmas are gene…
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Best wishes for 2016
The Department of Earth Sciences was gathering together to close the year. The enjoyable atmosphere was an excellent prelude for 2016. We wish to all members of the Section that the new year will keep bringing satisfaction and success in science and teaching !
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Starting Grant for Professor Luca Caricchi
Congratulations to Prof. Luca Caricchi, who recently obtained a starting grant of the European Research Council, starting in April 2016. The project entitled Forecasting the recurrence rate of volcanic eruptions (FEVER) will target the identification of the physical processes controlling the freq…
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Research in marine biodiversity
The Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS) has funded the project « Monitoring Marine Biodiversity in the Genomic Era » leaded by professors Jan Pawlowski and Daniel Ariztegui from the Departments of Biology and Earth Sciences (Faculté des Sciences, UNIGE), respectively. Learn more about thi…
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Research Front on Microplastics
The harmful effect of plastics on marine organisms is well-documented and cases of seabirds, turtles or mammals receive intensive media coverage. Less spectacular, but probably more insidious, are the effects caused by microplastics. A Research Front on Microplastics, coordinated and edited by Monts…
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Geneva to return Roman-era sarcophagus to Turkey
Detailed mineralogical and geochemical analyses carried out by the Department of Earth Sciences using a combination of the new QEMSCAN technology, clay-XRD and XRF (Branimir Segvic and Andrea Moscariello 2014) were instrumental to identify the likely origin of the famous roman Sarcophagus held for s…
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New Paper in Environmental Science & Technology
Natural methane bubble release from freshwater sediments was traditionally believed to enhance the mobility of dissolved substances in sediment porewater. However, our work demonstrates that free gas bubbles in the sediment slows down the diffusion of soluble substances. On the contrary, these gas…
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New Paper in Geology
Goren, L., Castelltort, S., Klinger, Y., 2015. Modes and rates of horizontal deformation from rotated river basins: Application to the Dead Sea fault system in Lebanon. Geology. doi:10.1130/G36841.1 Rivers on the western flank of Mt Lebanon do not take the shortest path to the sea An international…
