Themes and Sessions

The International Program Committee, chaired by Dave Cole, Ted Labotka, and Hap McSween, have organized the following themes for the 2010 Goldschmidt Conference. The program committee leaders for the individual themes are listed after the theme title. You may contact the theme leaders directly if you have any questions about the sessions and their organization.

Theme 00: Plenary lectures
Theme 01: Planetary Evolution and Astrobiology (Dave Des Marais, Malcolm Walter)
Theme 02: Evolution of the Early Earth (John Valley, Vickie Bennett)
Theme 03: Deep-Earth Processes: Core and Mantle (Steve Shirey, Bernard Bourdon, Bernie Wood)
Theme 04: Physics and Chemistry of Earth Materials (Rod Ewing, David Vaughan, Georges Calas)
Theme 05: Evolution of Oceanic Crust and its Hydrothermal Systems (Bill Seyfried, Wolfgang Bach)
Theme 06: Amalgamated into Theme 8 (Tom Chacko, Simon Harley)
Theme 07: Fluids, Magmas and Hydrothermal Ore Formation (Peter Larson, Chris Heinrich)
Theme 08: Metamorphism over Multiple Length and Time Scales (Barb Dutrow, Bjørn Jamtviet)
Theme 09: Geochemistry of Energy Systems (Yousif Kharaka, Richard Worden)
Theme 10: Global Element Cycles and Climate Change (Andy Jacobson, Anton Eisenhauer)
Theme 11: Oceans and Atmospheres (Juske Horita, Mitsuo Uematsu, Douglas Wallace)
Theme 12: Reconstruction of Paleoclimate (Ethan Grossman, Caroline Lear)
Theme 13: Hydrogeochemistry of Surface Earth Processes (Jun Abrajano, Werner Aeschbach-Hertig)
Theme 14: Weathering Interactions in Critical Zone Processes (Art White, Steven Banwart)
Theme 15: Mineral–Microbe Interactions (Jeremy Fein, Andreas Kappler)
Theme 16: Frontiers in Biogeochemistry (Nathaniel Ostrom, Jack Middelburg)
Theme 17: Nano-Geo and -Environmental Science: A New Frontier (Michael Hochella, Frank von der Kammer)
Theme 18: Atomistic and Molecular Modeling of Geochemical Processes (James Kubicki, Daniel Tunega)
Theme 19: Application of X-ray and Neutron Methods to Geochemistry (Nancy Ross, Georges Calas)
Theme 20: Analytical and Experimental Techniques (Vincent Salters, Jeroen Sonke)
Theme 21: Further Geochemistry Sessions (Cong-Qiang Liu)
Theme 22: General Geochemistry

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Themes and Sessions