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New results from our lab show that the geochemistry and physical properties of a sterile rock control which microorganisms are able to colonise that rock. In a study led by Alastair Tait, we show that the structure of the microbial community in stony meteorites collected from Australia’s Nullarbor Plain is controlled by the substrate and …

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Recent results from our group show that portable X-ray diffraction can be used for accurate field-based accounting of carbon sequestration in minerals. This study, led by Connor Turvey, shows that crystallographic carbon accounting results can be comparably accurate using portable and laboratory-based X-ray diffractometers. Find out more here: 10.2138/am-2017-5953.

Our lab has published new results that show the regrowth of arsenate–sulfate effloresences on the walls of processing plant buildings at an historical arsenic–tin mine in New South Wales. This result is interesting because it shows that simply removing the efflorescences will not remediate the processing site. You can learn more here: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2017.01.015.

  Check out our recent results on metal mobility during carbon mineralisation! This study was led by Jess Hamilton. It shows that potentially hazardous first row transition metals are immobilised within the crystal structures of carbonate minerals, and adsorbed to Fe-oxyhydroxides, under conditions relevant to carbon mineralisation in ultramafic landscapes and industrial reactors. You can …

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Congratulations to Alastair Tait on his new position as the EGEL’s Assistant Lecturer! We are delighted to be able to continue working with you on exciting new science, Al!

Congratulations from everyone at the EGEL to Bree Morgan who recently took up a permanent position as a Lecturer at The University of Sydney. You have all our best wishes for success – we know that you and Prof Bunnington will do great things!

Catch Connor Turvey and Jessica Hamilton at the Denver X-ray Conference in a few weeks. Jessica won an all-expenses paid trip to DXC for having the top poster at this year’s Australian X-ray Analyatical Association Conference. Connor won a DXC Robert L. Snyder Student Award to support his travel to give an invited talk. Nice …

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Congratulations to Dr Alastair Tait, whose Doctor of Philosophy has now been conferred! Brilliant job! Great to have you on board as a newly minted postdoctoral fellow and assistant lecturer! Huge congratulations @HoorayForRocks on the award of your PhD! Marvellously done! #geomicrobiology #meteoritics @MonashEAE @Monash_Science pic.twitter.com/1GY0G6qpr4 — The EEGL (@The_EEGL) July 9, 2017

Catch EGEL members at Goldschmidt2017! Two of our number, Jessica Hamilton and Connor Turvey, have been granted Global Environmental Sustainability Awards from the Balwyn Rotary Club (balwynrotary.org.au) to support their travel to Paris. Well done!

Congratulations to Connor Turvey for winning the top poster prize at the 2016 Victorian Universities Earth and Environmental Sciences Conference. Nicely done on taking home the top prize for the second time! Congrats Connor Turvey for taking out best poster at the Victorian Univ. Earth and Env. Sciences conference for the 2nd time! @MonashEGEL pic.twitter.com/E5qQSvpUtX …

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