Congratulations on the new job, Al!
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 on the new position, Bree!
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!
EGEL members at the DXC
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 …
Congratulations, Dr Alastair Tait!
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
The EGEL is bound for Goldschmidt2017
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!
Poster Prize for Connor Turvey
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 …
MSA MINERALOGY/PETROLOGY GRANT TO JESSICA HAMILTON!
Congratulations to Jessica Hamilton, who has been awarded a 2017 Mineralogy/Petrology Grant from the Mineralogical Society of America! This is an internationally competitive grant that will support Jess’ Ph.D. research on accelerating CO2 capture from the atmosphere into the mineral waste produced by mines. You can read more about the MSA grants here: http://www.minsocam.org/msa/Awards/Min_Pet_Award.html
NEW TAIT et al. EPSL PAPER!
Alastair Tait’s paper on impact-induced pressure gradients in the Allende CV3 parent body has just been published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters. This paper emerged from Al’s summer internship at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. You can read more here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X16304952
AXAA STUDENT SEMINAR DAY SUCCESS!
Congratuations to Jessica Hamilton, Connor Turvey and Jessica Pocklington for doing the EGEL proud at the Australian X-ray Analytical Association’s Victorian Student Seminar Day! Jessica Hamilton and Connor Turvey came home with 2nd and 3rd prize for their talks! This is the second time Connor and Jess have been recognized for their public speaking skill …
ABC CATALYST EPISODE ABOUT EGEL ASTROBIOLOGY RESEARCH!
Alastair Tait’s Ph.D. research has been featured on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s show, Catalyst! Al is researching how terrestrial microorganisms colonise and live in meteorites in one of the driest places on Earth. His work on how bacteria use the properties of meteorites to live under harsh conditions, and leave behind geochemical traces of their …
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