1 Apr
2026
1 Apr
'26
10:45 a.m.
Dear Geochemists,
A big thank you!
We first want to thank everyone who attended GGRiP in Bristol last week. For all those who
attended, I am sure you will agree that it was a fantastic meeting!
Thanks again to all our sponsors who make the meeting possible, and to the Bristol local
organising committee for all their hard work in making it run so smoothly.
The standard of student presentations at this year's meeting was outstanding, which
made judging incredibly difficult! We awarded three best student poster presentations to
Lucy Stott, Jose Sebastian Nava de la Pena and Bernat Heszler, and three best student oral
presentations to Judy Wang, Will Osborne and Kyra Schroeder. Congrats to our winners, and
all our student presenters!
We had a brilliant keynote from Lena Chen, our 2026 Postdoctoral medal winner and a great
invited talk from Paul Beguelin (honourable mention), as well as two fantastic keynotes
from our 2025 ECR Prominent Lecture awardees Rebekah Moore and Savannah Worne.
At GGRiP this year, we awarded the 2026 ECR Prominent Lecture award to Julia Neukampf.
Julia has proposed two lectures for hosts to choose from: 'Lithium fingerprints
across the silicic volcanic life cycle’ and 'Exploring the role of halogens and
lithium in early Solar System magmatic processes’. Our website will be updated soon with
further details, but if you would like to host Julia, you can reach out directly
(julia.neukampf(a)manchester.ac.uk) or or email the Geochemistry Group secretary, George
Cooper (CooperG3(a)cardiff.ac.uk).
Plans are already taking place for GGRiP 2027, which will be held at Royal Holloway -
watch this space for more information!
Design our new logo!
I am sure you will agree that our logo now seems a little outdated, so we are planning to
freshen it up...
To do so, we would like to open-up a competition to the community to design the new logo.
This is a rare opportunity to step out of the lab and let your artistic side out!
Please email your design ideas (however rough at this stage!) to George Cooper
(CooperG3(a)cardiff.ac.uk) by May 15th, We will then review the entries at our next
committee meeting before a final vote.
Please do send your ideas in, or we will have to hand over control to the questionable
hands of AI!
All the best
George