Geochemical Society www.geochemsoc.org 2017 GS BOARD OF DIRECTORS Sam Savin was elected to another term as GS This winter, the membership of the Geochemical Society (GS) elected Treasurer, the position responsible for overseeing four new members to its Board of Directors and re-elected Treasurer Sam the society’s finances. Now retired and consulting Savin to another term. New Goldschmidt Officer Stephen Parman also on geochemical, environmental and administra- joined the board as co-chair of the 2018 Goldschmidt Local Organizing tive matters, Dr. Savin previously served as Dean Committee. of Arts and Sciences at Case Western Reserve University (USA) and as Provost at New College Magali Ader was elected to a three-year term as of Florida (USA). His research applied stable GS International Secretary. She will lead efforts isotope techniques to a wide range of problems to increase the society’s reach and membership relating to the sedimentation, diagenesis and in under-represented countries. She is a professor low-grade metamorphism of siliclastic sediments, and to weathering of geochemistry at the Institut de Physique du and soil formation. He has worked on the reconstruction of paleocli- Globe de Paris (France), where her research focuses matic and paleoceanographic conditions of the past 100 million years, mainly on deciphering C, N and Cl stable isotope based on carbon and oxygen isotope distributions in planktonic and compositions in sedimentary rocks and fluids. benthic foraminifera. He has also used stable carbon isotopes to study This has led to research on the evolution of carbon metabolic processes in human infants and mothers. He was named a and nitrogen biogeochemical cycles through time, Geochemical Fellow in 2009. bacterial vital effects, diagenesis, fluid–rock interactions in CO2 storage sites and solute transport properties in sedimentary basins. Claudine Stirling was elected as a GS Director representing members in Africa, Asia, Australia Sasha (Alexandra) Turchyn, a low temperature and South America. She is an isotope geochemist isotope geochemist in the Department of Earth and Associate Professor in the Department of Sciences at the University of Cambridge (UK), Chemistry at the University of Otago (New joins the board as GS Secretary. She will manage Zealand). Her research has focused on the official communications of the board and keep geochemical analysis of the U-decay series records of its meetings. Dr. Turchyn is currently isotopes, including the non-traditional U ‘stable’ Reader in Biogeochemistry and Fellow of Trinity isotope system, with emphasis on technique Hall College. Her research focuses on the use of development by multiple collector inductively light stable isotopes to elucidate pathways and coupled mass spectrometry and applying this to paleoclimatology, processes in the sedimentary biosphere and to paleoceanography, and cosmochemistry. She also investigates the stable understand the role of sedimentary diagenesis in isotope systems of bioactive metals, such as cadmium, and redox-sensi- the global carbon cycle. tive elements, such as iron, to investigate their biogeochemical cycling Tamsin Mather, began her term as a GS in the oceans and to track past ocean–atmosphere conditions. non-officer director representing Europe. She is a The GS Board consists of 11 officers and 6 directors that represent the volcanologist and professor of earth sciences at 3 geographic regions of the society. The board meets in person at the the University of Oxford, where she has been on Goldschmidt Conference every summer and virtually at other times the faculty since 2006. Her research explores the throughout the year. many and diverse ways in which volcanoes interact/have interacted with Earth’s environ- ARE YOU RECEIVING GEOCHEMICAL NEWS? ment. She also researches volcanic behavior from Every week, the GS shares information about the latest discoveries a hazard perspective. This has led to collabora- in geochemistry through our electronic newsletter, Geochemical News. tions with a broad range of geochemists and This newsletter includes faculty and postdoctoral position openings, geophysicists working from mantle to ionosphere and beyond. a scientific conferences calendar, and updates on society activities. It’s Stephen Parman, associate professor at Brown sent by email each Tuesday and subscriptions are free! You can find a University (USA) in the Department of Earth, link to subscribe at www.geochemsoc.org. We also welcome suggestions Environmental and Planetary Sciences, joins the for news items to feature in future editions. If you have information of board as a GS Goldschmidt Officer. In this role, interest to the geochemical community that you would like to share, he will represent the Local Organizing Committee please contact the editors at [email protected]. of the 2018 Goldschmidt Conference in Boston (USA). Dr. Parman is an experimental petrologist 2017 LECTURE HONORING F. EARL INGERSON and geochemist and his research focuses broadly Dr. Karim Benzerara of the Institut de on the origin and evolution of the Earth and Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de terrestrial planets. Currently, his group’s main Cosmochimie, CNRS (France) will deliver the projects include volatile cycling in the terrestrial mantle, evolution of 2017 Ingerson Lecture at the Goldschmidt the continental crust, early Earth magmatism, lunar mantle evolution Conference in August. Dr. Benzerara is Director and, most recently, the evolution of Mercury’s interior and surface. His of Research at CNRS, where he studies the interac- primary mode of research uses high-pressure experiments to quantify tions between microorganisms and rocks, such as geochemical equilibrium and kinetic parameters and processes. The the formation (biomineralization) or alteration of experimental data is used in conjunction with geochemical observa- minerals. The title, date, and time of his lecture tions of terrestrial and planetary materials and with geodynamic will be posted at: https://goldschmidt.info/2017/ modeling. medalsView. ELEMENTS 132 APRIL 2017 BEGINNINGS The Geochemical Society’s founder, Frederick Earl Ingerson (1906– Ten years later, he helped establish the International Association of 1993), was a seminal figure in geochemistry. He is remembered today Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry (now the International Association by the Ingerson Lectures, delivered at the Goldschmidt Conference as of GeoChemistry, or IAGC) again serving as its first president and a means of honoring his significant and enduring contributions to the guiding it through its formative years. In 1986, the first three issues of field of geochemistry. More than 60 years after he helped launch the IAGC’s official journal,Applied Geochemistry, were dedicated to Ingerson GS, we look back at his legacy. (Hitchon 1986). Ingerson was born in 1906 in He was also active in the negotia- Barstow, Texas (USA), a town in the tions that created Geochimica et rural western part of the state with Cosmochimica Acta in 1950, served fewer than 1,000 inhabitants. He on its inaugural editorial board, and earned his BA in chemistry and MA continued serving as an editor for its in geology from Simmons University first 30 volumes – representing an (USA) before going to Yale University impressive 144 issues. And he was a (USA) to complete his PhD in geology founding editor of the International in 1934. Geology Review (Fleischer 1986). As an early career scientist, he As a researcher, Ingerson wrote nearly joined the staff of the Geophysical 200 scientific publications, including Laboratory at the Carnegie fundamental works on petrofabric Institution of Washington (USA), analysis and geologic thermometry, where his work focused on equilibria supervised the translation of a prodi- in hydrothermal systems. His influ- gious number of Russian geological ential work, along with that of publications, presented papers in George W. Morey and other experi- Spanish in Peru and Mexico, and menters, led later to the successful published papers in Portuguese on growth of synthetic quartz crystals Earl Ingerson (back row-center) poses with his Carnegie Brazilian quartz deposits (Alcade (Fleischer 1986). Moving to the U.S. Geophysical Laboratory colleagues in 1939. Geochemist 1977; Brantley 2007). George W. Morey, with whom Ingerson collaborated on Geological Survey, Ingerson headed the several studies in the 1930s and ‘40s, sits in front of him. Among many accolades and honors, Geochemistry and Petrology Branch for 11 Six decades later, the Geochemical Society’s business office Ingerson was awarded the Day Medal years. While there, he not only maintained moved to the Carnegie Institution campus. PHOTO: CARNEGIE INSTITUTION, GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY. from the Geological Society of America, the USGS tradition of supporting funda- the Distinguished Service Medal of the US mental research, he also led the survey Department of the Interior, an honorary into new fields, such as isotope geology DSc degree from his alma mater (Hardin- and organic geochemistry (Fleischer 1986). Simmons University), and was an honorary Life Member of both the Ingerson was recruited to the University of Texas at Austin (USA) in IAGC and GS. Today, with more than 4,000 members from 67 countries, 1958 at a time when the university was endeavoring to build a “truly the Geochemical Society is still pursuing Earl Ingerson’s mission of eminent and distinguished faculty,” thanks to his widely recognized bringing together geochemists from around