Registration and Abstract Submission are open - early registration deadline July 30, 2019
Note - a discount on registration fees is available to members of ISEB, as well as members of EAG. Not a member? You can join ISEB first to save and register at the reduced member rate.
Keynote Speakers - Barbara Sherwood Lollar (University of Toronto); Daniel Ariztegui (University of Geneva); Catherine Larose (Ecole Centrale de Lyon); Adrian Mellage (University of Tübingen)
Sessions - Subsurface Biosphere (terrestrial, marine); New Techniques in Biogeochemistry (omics, isotopes); Extreme Environments (dry, saline, high/low pH, cold environments/permafrost/cryosphere, astrobiology); Soils (organic matter, element cycling and dynamics, mineralogy); Freshwater Environments (groundwater, rivers, lakes, wetlands); Paleobiology (fossil ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles, earth early biogeochemistry); Biogeochemistry of Energy and Resources (heat and energy storage systems, carbon capture and storage, nuclear, geothermal)
Abstracts (2000 character maximum) may be submitted online for oral (15 minutes) or poster (A0 size; 84.1 x 118.9 cm/33.1 x 46.8 in; portrait orientation)
See the ISEB 2019 website for more information regarding deadline dates, the symposium program, field trip, travel and accomodations, as well as graduate/postdoctoral student grants and awards.
News
ISEB 2019 mid-week field excursion - The tentative plan is to go to the Lausitz area southeast of Berlin. It is one of the world’s largest lignite mining areas; the open pits are so large they can be seen from outer space! Some of the abandoned pits have been flooded and recultivated, which causes some major biogeochemical problems, e.g. acid mine drainage etc. We will take a look at the “Hühnerwasser” (Chicken Creek), which is a model site for recultivation. On the way back to Potsdam we’ll stop at the UNESCO Biosphere Heritage Site “Spreewald”, a 475 km2 freshwater wetland. The area has been inhabited for several millennia and is a unique place to see how humans have altered and adjusted to the natural landscape. Please in mind that this as a very preliminary program, we can only sort out the details once we know the number of participants.
ISEB is pleased to announce a partnership with the European Association of Geochemistry. The agreement offers benefits to members of both organizations.
ISEB 22 Special Volume on Biogeochemical Dynamics of Sediment-Water Systems: Processes and Modelling is available in the Journal of Soils and Sediments. Issue Editors: Nives Ogrinc and Jadran Faganeli
A Graduate Student's Introduction to the International Biogeochemistry Scene
Brock Edwards, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada
The 23rd International Symposium on Environmental Biogeochemistry (ISEB), which converged on tropical Palm Cove, Cairns, Australia in September 2017, was a great success. The symposium series has been in existence for nearly 50 years, occurring every two years and bringing together the best minds in the environmental sciences from around the world.
ISEB 23 in Australia – an organiser’s perspective
Simon Apte, CSIRO Land & Water, Sydney Australia.
After two years of planning, the 23rd International Symposium on Environmental Biogeochemistry (ISEB23) took place in September 2017 at Palm Cove in far north Queensland, Australia. The location, which is a perfect showcase of tropical Australia with the Great Barrier Reef and rainforests being within easy reach, is an obvious attraction for any environmental scientist.
The organisers felt a strong responsibility to observe the tried and tested meeting traditions developed over 40 years that define an ISEB symposium. These included a four day single session program with a day in the middle for organised field trips and a comprehensive social program that is designed to maximise networking between delegates. The Symposium attendance was deliberately kept small (around 100 delegates) as we wanted to offer an alternative to the large, impersonal mega-conferences where attendees often find it difficult to engage with fellow scientists and make new contacts. The ISEB meeting format has always encouraged networking and informal dialogue between delegates.
Read more: ISEB 23 in Australia – an organiser’s perspective