Published on December 04, 2024

Seminar by Dr. Igor S. Puchtel

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Published on July 17, 2024

On October 27 and 28, 2022, the MEET partners gathered for the first time on the French UGA campus in Grenoble (Kick-off).
On September 17-18, 2024, the second scientific meeting took place at GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ) in Potsdam. It was be a unique opportunity for our scientific community to share results, discuss the latest achievements and the coming challenges.
PI’s, associated scientists, postdocs, PhD students of the 5 following teams involved in the project presented their (…)

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Published on February 15, 2024
From Rock to Earth’s birth

On February 8, 2024, 24 teenagers visited ISTerre with their Earth Science teacher. Several ISterre and MEET researchers, PhD students, engineers together with the communication officer, the financial manager and the MEET Operations manager spent a whole morning with them.
What is the link between a rock and Earth’s birth ? 4 workshops were organized to answer this question: fieldtrips, sample preparation & analysis, vulcanoes and mantle convection. A unique opportinity for these (…)

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Published on September 12, 2023
“Implications of the Hf-Nd isotope record of the Acasta Gneiss Complex, Canada, for the formation of the earliest continents,”

Annie Bauer (Madison MEET Team) gave a keynote talk during the Xth Hutton Symposium in Baveno, Italy.

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Published on June 12, 2023

The MEET team was present at the Goldschmidt Lyon 2023 (9-14 July) and has contributed to the organisation of the Session 3i - Early Earth: Mantle-crust evolution in Hadean and Archean Eons
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Published on June 06, 2023

On June 6, 2023 Sasha Chugunov and Nick Arndt told us about the fascinating trip they made and what they were looking for in South Africa.
The research support team (techniciens, engineers, administrative staff) and non-MEET scientifics staff discovered Barberton in South Africa, see 3.2 billion year old rocks, understood what went on during a field trip, and heard what the ERC MEET project is all about.

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Published on April 27, 2023
Understand what is our research about

We consider as one of the major achievements in the first two years of our project the establishing of a new microanalytical platform in ISTerre. Even if you don’t belong to the scientific community, watch our film. It will help you understand what our research is about.
The video is online!

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Published on January 27, 2023

What about meeting after each field trip with those of the team who didn’t have the chance to travel, including technical and administrative staff helping on the project ? Lunch is shared while photos and videos of the trip are to be seen on a big screen. This is a unique opportunity for non-scientific team members to know more what’s going on, learn about the project and feel part of it. Let’s meet on January 27, 2023 !
This session was dedicated to the October, 2022 field trip of (…)

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Published on January 24, 2023

On Thuesday January 24, 2023 at 10 a.m., Alexander Sobolev PI gave a short talk about the origin of Earth in front of L1 and L2 students at ISTerre (Amphi Kilian). It was followed by a visit of the MEET Micro-analytical Platform.

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Published on January 11, 2023

On October 27 and 28, 2022, the MEET partners gathered for the first time on the UGA campus in Grenoble, a unique opportunity for our scientific community to exchange and "meet". PI’s, postdocs and PhD students of University of Wisconsin in Madison (MSN), Deutsches Geoforschungszentrum GFZ, Postdam Institut für Klimaforschung (PIK), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität (LUH) and Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) were present. 18 presentations were given online and on UGA campus by external (…)

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