EMU supported two young scientists who attended the 8th European Conference on Mineralogy and Spectroscopy in 2015. These are:
Elena Zhitova (University of St.Petersburg, Russia) who presented her work Low temperature single crystal X-ray diffraction study of quintinite-1M, a natural layered double hydroxide (LDHs)
Sari Romppanen (Nanoscience Center, University of Jyväskylä, Finland) who presented her work Analysis of luminescent calcite by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy
In 2015, EMU supported young scientists who attended the International Diamond School 2015 at the University of Padova, Brixen – Bressanone. The supported students were
1) Matthew Hardman (Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta)
2) Nico Kueter (Institute for Geochemistry and Petrology, ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
3) Rebecca Stone (Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta)
4) Lorenzo Scandolo (Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e dell’Ambiente, Università di Pavia, Italy)
5) Yannick Busseweiler (Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta)
6) Vanni Tecchiato (Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, La Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy)
EMU sponsorship @ the 25th Anniversary Goldschmidt Conference 2015, Prague, August 16th – 21st
European Mineralogical Union (aside from the medal lecture by Encarnaciòn Ruiz-Agudo) sponsors two travel grants, which go to specific mineralogy-related sessions:
Travel grant I: 12a: “Frontiers in Trace Element Geochemistry of Ore Minerals and Accessory Phases: Micro- and Nano-Analytical Developments and Applications“ – Convenors: Martin Reich, Ross Large & Artur Deditius.
The travel grant in this session was awarded to Robert Sievwright (Imperial College London) for his contribution Thermodynamic controls on the partitioning of divalent cations between magnetite and silicate melts.
Travel grant II: 16c: “Accessory Mineral Petrology, Geochemistry, Geochronology, Diffusion, and Kinetics“ – Convenors: Alicia Cruz-Uribe & Horst Marschall.