News 2015

January 2015

A good time was had by all at the Manchester Museum's Big Saturday-Siberia event on the 24th January. The team explained to the public the importance of Arctic research and demonstrated the principles of chromatography using felt tip pens. Bart and dummy

News 2014

December

Holly Barden and Bart van Dongen are co-authors on a new paper in the journal Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments on a geochemical analysis of micro-bodies on a tadpole from the Oligocene Enspel Formation of Germany Tadpole paper Hearty congratulations to Martha Jiménez-Castañeda who passed her PhD viva. Martha Jiménez-Castañeda

September

Congratulations to Nicola Ashton and Ayca Doğrul Selver who recently passed their PhD vivas. Ayca Doğrul Selver and Nicola Ashton

January

Metallomics cover art Bart van Dongen and Holly Barden are co-authors on a new paper in the journal Metallomics on the chemical inventory of 50 million year old fossilised leaves of the Green river Metallomics paper

News 2013

December

Christmas festivities were great fun this year, full of pizza, wine, santa hats and all manner of bizarre presents. Christmas party 2014

October

Bart recently attended a special climate change summit in Moscow for a discussion on the development of UK-Russia collaboration. UK-Russia climate science meeting Image used under the Open Government Licence v2.0

September

Robert Sparkes, Ayca Doğrul Selver, Stuart Rae, Irma Gonzalez and Bart van Dongen presented work at the International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry in Tenerife. Though they found better uses for their fabric posters, as beach towels. IMOG 2013

July

Well done to Robert Sparkes, Akmez Nabeerasool, Nicola Aston, Ayca Doğrul Selver and Holly Barden for excellently presented talks and posters at the British Organic Geochemistry conference in Plymouth. Particular congratulations to Holly for winning the prize for best talk. BOGS 2013

June

Congratulations to Holly Barden for passing her viva on the 19th with minor corrections. This month she also began her new job as a research technician with the group. Holly's post viva celebrations

May

Congratulations to Holly Barden who has a new paper out in the Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry.

Manning P.L., N.P. Edwards, R.A. Wogelius, U. Bergmann, H.E. Barden, P.L. Larson, D. Schwarz-Wings, V. M. Egerton, D. Sokaras, R.A. Mori, W.I. Sellers. 2013. Synchrotron-based chemical imaging reveals plumage patterns in 150 million year old early bird. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry. 28, 1024-1030. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c3ja50077b

Paper - Synchrotron-based chemical imaging reveals plumage patterns in 150 million year old early bird

April

Stuart Rae has won the outstanding poster award at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2013 (Soil System Sciences Division) in Vienna, Austria. For this he has won free entry to the conference next year.

February

Congratulations to Stuart Rae for being awarded the Brian Hitchon postgraduate student travel fund to attend the 2013 International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry, Tenerife.

January

Congratulations to Laura Richards who has a new paper out in the Journal of Environmental Science & Technology.

Richards L.A., B.S. Richards, B. Corry, A.I. Schäfer. 2013. Experimental energy barriers to anions transporting through nanofiltration membranes. Environmental Science & Technology. 47 (4): 1968 – 1976. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es303925r

Paper - Experimental energy barriers to anions transporting through nanofiltration 
					membranes

News 2012

December

Well done to all those who entered a talk or poster for the Manchester Postgraduate Research Conference 2012. Particular congratulations to Robert Sparkes for being awarded the 1st place poster prize, and to Natalie McCreesh for winning the 3rd place presentation prize. Postgraduate Research Conference 2012 This years Christmas meal was a great success, replete with good food, merriment and a large dose of poundland secret Santa presents. We also took the opportunity to wish Sharon a Happy Birthday. Christmas meal Many congratulations to Rachel Muito kabuyah for passing her PhD viva. Rachel Muito Kabuyah

September

Congratulations to Bart van Dongen for publishing a paper in Nature. Click on the reference or image below to be taken to the paper on Nature.com.

Vonk J., L. Sánchez-García, B.E. van Dongen, V. Alling, D. Kosmach, A. Charkin, I. Semiletov, O. Dudarev, N. Shakhova, P. Roos, T.I. Eglinton, A.Andersson, Ö. Gustafsson. 2012. Activation of old carbon by erosion of coastal and subsea permafrost in Arctic Siberia. Nature. 489, 137-140. doi:10.1038/nature11392

Paper - Activation of old carbon by erosion of coastal and subsea permafrost in Arctic Siberia

August

Congratulations to Ayca Dogrul Selver for publishing a paper in Organic Geochemistry. Click on the reference or image below to be taken to the paper on ScienceDirect.

Ayça Doğrul Selver, Helen M. Talbot, Örjan Gustafsson, Stephen Boult, Bart E. van Dongen, Soil organic matter transport along an sub-Arctic river–sea transect, Organic Geochemistry, Volume 51, October 2012, Pages 63-72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2012.08.002

Paper - Soil organic matter transport along an sub-Arctic river–sea transect

July

Hearty congratulations to Phai Do and Wafa Al Lawati for passing their PhD vivas. We wish them all the best for the future. Phai and Wafa at a celebratory meal

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