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OGU News February/March

18 March 2014

Life in the OGU

New Papers:
  • Gerbault, P., Roffet-Salque. M., Evershed, R.P., Thomas, M.G., 2013. How long have adult humans been consuming milk? IUBMB Life
  • Gibson R.A., Sherry A., Kaur G., Pancost R.D., Talbot H.M. (2014) Bacteriohopanepolyols preserved in silica sinters from Champagne Pool (New Zealand) indicate a declining temperature gradient over the lifetime of the vent. Organic Geochemistry, 69, 61-69.
  • Cramp, L.J.E., Jones, J., Sheridan, A., Smyth, J., Whelton, H., Mulville, J., Sharples, N., Evershed, R.P., 2014. Immediate replacement of fishing with dairy by the earliest farmers of the northeast Atlantic archipelagos. Proc. R. Soc. B 281: 20132372.
  • Styring, AK; Fraser, RA; Bogaard, A; Evershed, RP 2014. Cereal grain, rachis and pulse seed amino acid delta N-15 values as indicators of plant nitrogen metabolism. Phytochemsitry (97), 20-29

Other News:

  • Prof Rich Pancost gave his inaugural lecture as Professor of Biogeochemistry on February the 27th. The talk was entitled "From the land to the rivers to the sea: how biogeochemical cycles have regulated the global climate system throughout Earth history". The lecture was recorded by the Cabot Institute and can be found here:
  • An article written by senior members of the Cabot Institute, including Rich Pancost, was published in The Guardian in February in response to the UK flood crisis. The article can be viewed here.
  • As we enter Spring, we also herald the arrival of conference season. In April, members of the Pancost group will be attending the first GDGT workshop in Texel, Holland. Gordon Inglis, David Naafs, Jan Peter Mayser and Yanhong Zheng will be presenting posters while Rich Pancost will be giving a keynote. Members of the Evershed group will also be heading to Los Angeles for the International Symposium on Archaeometry in May. Those in attendance include Helen Whelton, Marisol Correa Ascencio and Richard Evershed.
  • A number of PhD students are also due to participate in the Natural Systems and Processes Poster Session, a university-led poster session for postgraduate science students. This event will be held on March 24th from 2-5pm and is in the Great Hall, Wills Building.


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