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Field trip to Antarctica
Richard Spikings from the isotope geochemistry and geochronology group recently completed one month of field work in the Antarctic Peninsula and the South Shetland Islands. This project was the first field trip of a new PhD student in the Earth science department, Joaquin Bastias. A total of 400kg o…
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New Paper in Environmental Science & Technology
Size Does Matter: Importance of Large Bubbles and Small-Scale Hot Spots for Methane Transport T. DelSontro, D. F. McGinnis, B. Wehrli and I. Ostrovsky Methane bubble release from freshwater sediments is the most efficient pathway for atmospheric release of this important greenhouse gas. Due to the…
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New paper in Geology
The role of gravitational instabilities in deposition of volcanic ash Irene Manzella, Costanza Bonadonna, Jeremy C. Phillips, Hélène Monnard An accurate description of the sedimentation of volcanic ash is crucial to the mitigation of volcanic risk, but it is limited by our poor understanding of co…
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New paper in Environmental Science & Technology
Enhancing Surface Methane Fluxes from an Oligotrophic Lake: Exploring the Microbubble Hypothesis Daniel F. McGinnis, Georgiy Kirillin, Kam W. Tang, Sabine Flury, Pascal Bodmer, Christof Engelhardt, Peter Casper, and Hans-Peter Grossart In an oligotrophic lake, we observed up to a 3 4 times enhan…
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Geneva capital of Sedimentology
Last August 2014 UNIMAIL was literally invaded by a global crowd of sedimentologists participating in the 19th International Sedimentological Congress (ISC). Organized by the Department of Earth Sciences, the meeting was a real success as reflected in the International Association of Sedimentologi…
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Le Rhône, la renaissance d'un fleuve
An Arte / CNRS movie tells the story of the Rhone restoration in France. First broadcast on ARTE Friday 23td January 2015 at 22:20. Read more
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10.10.14 - Dies Academicus
The University of Geneva confers the title of Doctor Honoris Causa to Dr. Hedenquist (Ottawa) under proposition of the Faculty of Science and the Section of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Jeffrey Hedenquist Dies Academicus Program and more information
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Critical review in Ecotoxicology
Oxidative stress induced by inorganic nanoparticles in bacteria and aquatic microalgae - state of the art and knowledge gaps Nadia von Moos and Vera I. Slaveykova Read the review Comprehensive review combining fundamental principles of cellular reactive oxygen species chemistry and the paradigm o…
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New paper in Geology
Transient explosions at open-vent volcanoes: The case of Stromboli (Italy) L. Pioli, M. Pistolesi and M. Rosi Geology Article Stromboli is a natural laboratory for understanding the relationships between degassing and explosivity in basalt. Analysing its large explosions we found that they are as…
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Welcome to Daniel McGinnis as a new professor for aquatic physics at Institut F.-A. Forel
Prof. D. McGinnis will study physical processes in natural waters, including bubble occurrence and constituent transport. He is also interested in investigating transport at the air-water, and sediment-water interfaces. He and his future research group are currently located at Battelle D (route de D…
