We are delighted to announce the five young researchers who have been awarded the EMU Travel Grant to participate in mineralogical and geochemical conferences this year.

Four researchers will be presenting their work at the EMC-2024 in Dublin, and one researcher will be attending the Goldschmidt 2024 conference in Chicago.

Below are the details of their presentations:

• Alice Taddei (University of Firenze, Italy)
  The puzzle of an allanite-like epidote mineral from Malmkärra, Sweden: Toward the new (OH)-analogue of dollaseite-(Ce)
  Oral presentation (EMC 2024): Friday, 23 August 2024, 13:40, session 33

• Ena Topalovic (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
  Rare Earth Element Distribution in Tošići-Dujići Bauxite Deposit: Insights from BCR Sequential Extraction
  Poster presentation (EMC 2024): session 18/19

• Yuri Galliano (University of Genoa, Italy)
  Bat guano-derived hydroxylapatite: an overlooked testimony of past biological activity and a sink of metals in cave environments
  Oral presentation (EMC 2024): Tuesday, 20 August, 15:20, session 1

• Zhengzheng Chen (GFZ, Germany)
  Geochemical and microbiological reactions controlling siderite in redox active soils
  Oral presentation (EMC 2024): Tuesday, 20 August, 11:40, session 21/23

• Margot Bruneau (University Gustave Eiffel, France)
  The Platinum Group Elements and Rare Earth Elements’ particles in road dusts
  Poster presentation (Goldschmidt 2024): Wednesday, 21 August 2024, 17:30, session 11h