GGRiP 2026 – Bristol
We are excited to announce that the next Geochemistry Group Research in Progress (GGRiP) meeting will take place inBristol on the24th-26th of March 2026. Visit the GGRiP website for the full schedule.
For GGRiP 2026 in Bristol, we are running 2 pre-conference workshops that will be free for all conference attendees. The first will be a Geochemistry Laboratory Operator Workshop, covering lab techniques and lab management. Register for this workshop here.
The second workshop will be aimed at ECRs, covering the basics and foundations of mass spectrometry techniques. To register for this workshop, please fill in this form. There will be guest lecturers from across earth science/chemistry/Archaeology. Topics will include:
(1) Introduction to Atoms, Molecules, Ions, Fields and Forces. (2) Inorganic Mass Spectrometry for Elemental and Isotope Ratio Determination: Quads, TOF, Sectors, (CC)-MC-ICPMS. (3) GC and LC Mass Spectrometry Techniques for Separating and Quantifying Molecules in Complex Mixtures; compound specific IRMS (C,N,H).
Visit the GGRiP website to register and submit your abstract!
GGRiP 2025
Venue: University of Birmingham
Dates: 8th-10th April, 2025
Thank you to everyone that attended the GGRiP meeting in Birmingham. It was a fantastic few days of science! The following student presentations were awarded:
The best oral presentation was awarded to Matthew Allison (University of Birmingham).
The best poster presentations were awarded to:
- Gemma Baker (University of Birmingham)
- Friso de Graaf (Queen Mary, University of London)
We had brilliant keynote presentations from Aled Evans (University of Southampton) who received our 2025 Postdoctoral Medal, and Ross Whiteford (Royal Holloway) who was the recipient of our 2024 Prominent Lecturer award.
This year, we also held a Photography and Art Competition with prizes going to Kerys Meredew for their photo ‘Fuego at Dusk’ and Elaine Gao for their photo ‘Sunny days on the Assynt Fieldtrip’
GGRiP 2025 – Registration now open!
Registration and abstract submission for the GGRiP 2025 meeting is now open! Please visit the conference website for more information: https://ggrip2025.co.uk/
Abstract submission and early bird registration will close on Monday 10th March.
The main meeting will be held in the Alan Walters Building (R29) on the Edgbaston Campus, University of Birmingham, on the 8th-10th April.
This year’s conference will also include an ice-breaker at the Lapworth Museum of Geology, with the opportunity to showcase any hidden talents at an Open Mic fringe-style event, along with an art and photography competition, in aid of fundraising for the Midlands Art Centre. So please sign up!
Confirmed keynotes include: Dr Ross Whiteford (Royal Holloway), Dr Aled Evans (University of Southampton), Prof. Clare Warren (The Open University), Prof. Kirsty Penkman (University of York), and Dr Tom Dunkley Jones (University of Birmingham).
GGRiP 2025 – SAVE THE DATE!
We are excited to announce that the next Geochemistry Group Research in Progress (GGRiP) meeting will take place in Birmingham on the 8-10th of April 2025.
GGRiP 2024
Venue: Durham University
Dates: 9th-11th April, 2024
Thanks to all who attended the GGRiP meeting in Durham. It was a great meeting with some fantastic presentations. The following student presentations were awarded:
The best oral presentations were awarded to:
- Peter Methley (Cambridge)
- Laura Spencer (Cardiff)
The best poster presentations were awarded to:
- Caris Jaffe (Imperial)
- Alasdair Knight (Cambridge)
- Jane MacDonald (Cambridge)
- César Nicolás Rodríguez Díaz (CSIC)
We also had fantastic keynote presentations from Rayssa Martins-Pimentel (Cambridge) who received the Postdoctoral Medal 2024, and Elliot Carter (Trinity College Dublin) who received the 2023 Prominent Lecturer award.
GGRiP 2024
Registration for the next Geochemistry Group Research in Progress (GGRiP) meeting is now live! The meeting will be held in the Teaching and Learning Centre (TLC) at Durham at Durham University on the 9th (afternoon only), 10th, and 11th of April 2024. For those who have not attended GGRiP before, this is an annual meeting run for all UK geochemists and we particularly encourage PhD students and early career researchers to present their research in this friendly and stimulating environment.
You can register here: https://events.minersoc.org/Event-Registration/EventId/45
The GGRiP 2024 programme is available here: oral and posters
Note: Posters need to be A1 portrait. Oral talks are 12 minutes + 3 minutes questions.
Getting to the venue: the Teaching and Learning Centre is located along South Rd, opposite the Lower Mountjoy site. Use the postcode DH1 3LS if using a SatNav or GPS. More details can be found here.
The abstract submission and early-bird registration deadline is the 14th of March and late registration will be possible until the 29th of March. The conference dinner (included in costs) will be held on Collingwood College on Wednesday the 10th of April.
Confirmed keynotes include Prof. Erin McClymont (Durham University), Dr. Elliot Carter (Trinity College Dublin), Dr Michelle Harris (Plymouth), and Dr. Matt Horstwood (BGS).
Conference Dinner information:
- Food included in price of registration, but attendees must buy their own drinks
- The conference dinner will be held on Wednesday evening at Collingwood College
- Link to information about the college including directions: https://www.durham.ac.uk/event-durham/our-venues/collingwood-college/#d.en.985167
- The College Bar (The Stag’s Head) will be open for us from 6pm to 9pm and dinner will be served in the college dining hall from 7 to 8pm.
Costs for GGRiP 2024…
| Professional member | £165.00 | |
| Professional non-member | £180.00 | |
| Student Member | £110.00 | |
| Student non-member | £125.00 | |
| Retired/Emeritus | £115.00 | |
| Unwaged | £80.00 | |
| Professional member (remote) | £70.00 | |
| Professional non-member (remote) | £80.00 | |
| Student member (remote) | £50.00 | |
| Student non-member (remote) | £60.00 | |
| Retired/emeritus (remote) | £60.00 | |
| Unwaged (remote) | £45.00 | |
| Registration for remote attendance by delegates from Research 4 Life countries (https://www.minersoc.org/r4l.html) | £0.0 |
GGRiP 2023
Venue: Cambridge University
Dates: 18th, 19th and 20th April 2023
Thanks to all who attended our recent GGRiP meeting at Cambridge. We had a fantastic three days of science and were able to award the following student presentations:
The best oral presentations were awarded to:
- Madeleine Murphy (St Andrews)
- Arianna Olivelli (Imperial)
- Sophie Slater (Cardiff)
The best poster presentations were awarded to:
- Sanjana Sridhar (Oxford)
- Chia-Yu Tien (Cambridge)
- Madi East (Cambridge)
We also elected two new committee members (Dr James Bendle, University of Birmingham, and Dr Madeleine Stow, University of Oxford) to the steering committee. We also said goodbye to two committee members (Dr Jess Crumpton Banks and Dr Hal Bradbury). We would like to thank them for all their help!
GGRiP 2022
Venue: Cardiff University (Main Building, Park Place, CF10 3AT).
Date: 5th and 6th of May.
Thanks to all who attended our first hybrid GGRiP meeting. This meeting was held at Cardiff University and online and was our highest attendance ever (>100 attendees, with > 80 on-site participants).
The quality of science was exceedingly high and we were able to award 7 (!) prizes to PhD students.
The best oral presentations were awarded to:
- Bridget Warren (University of Birmingham – “Carbon isotopic composition of leaf wax n-alkanes under elevated CO2”)
- Madeleine Stow (Durham University, “Does the Vanadium isotopic composition of magnetite record fO2 variations in magmatic
systems?”) - Phoebe Ross (Imperial, “Global deep ocean circulation through the early Eocene Climatic Optimum – a
neodymium isotope perspective”)
The best poster presentations were awarded to:
- Alice Hardman (University of Birmingham, “Exploring the environmental controls on 3-hydroxy fatty acid bacterial lipids and their ability to reconstruct palaeoclimate”)
- Ellie Pryor (Cardiff University, “Investigating Provenance Changes in Riverine Sediments Supplying the South-East African Margin”)
- Yun-Ju Sun (University of Bristol, “Meltwater discharge and water mass evolution in Southwest Greenland since the end of the Little Ice Age: implications on AMOC variability”)
The final prize is awarded via Ziess and is given to the best talk or poster with a microscopy focus. This was given to Adrienne Szucs (Trinity College Dublin, “Reaction pathway towards bastnasite; the role of dolomite and aragonite in bastnasite formation”). Congratulations to all – the standard was exceptionally high!
We also elected two new committee members (Dr Catriona Menzies, Durham University and Dr Eleanor Georgiadis, University of Oxford) to the steering committee. Alongside the re-election of Dr Paul Savage (St. Andrews), we also said goodbye to two long-standing committee members (Dr Andrea Burke and Dr Trish Clay). We would like to thank them for all their help!
Thanks also to our fantastic keynotes:
- Dr Ernest Chi-Fru (Cardiff University)
- Prof Rachael James (Southampton University)
- Dr Jung-Woo Park (Seoul National University)
- Dr Arola Marti (University of St Andrews, postdoctoral medal 2022)
- Dr Martin Mangler (Durham university, ECR prominent Lecturer 2021)
- Dr Katie Joy (University of Manchester)
GGRiP2021
Due to COVID-19, we hosted our Research in Progress meeting online this year. We had a jam-packed two-day programme spanning the full gamut of geochemistry research. You can see real-time updates on Twitter via #GGRiP2021.
The abstracts and meeting schedule is located here: https://www.minersoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Abstract-volume-GGRiP-2021.pdf
GGRiP 2020
24/3/2020 IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON OUR 50TH ANNIVERSARY SYMPOSIUM & GGRiP MEETING: We regret to announce that in light of the increasing scale & severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Geochemistry Group will no longer be holding our 50th Anniversary Symposium or #GGRiP2020 from 3rd-5th June in Oxford. We will look to reschedule the 50th Anniversary Symposium at an appropriate time, & will make further announcements on this in due course. Unfortunately #GGRiP2020 has been cancelled, thus our next Research in Progress meeting will take place in 2021.
We hope that you stay safe and well over the next few months, and look forward to seeing you at the Group’s next meeting… whenever that may be!
You can find updates via our Twitter feed @GeochemGroup.
GGRiP 2019
The 2019 Geochemistry Group Research in Progress (#GGRiP19) meeting was hosted by the University of Portsmouth on the 16th-17th April 2019.
GGRiP 2018
The Geochemistry Group Research in Progress 2018 (GGRiP) meeting was hosted by the University of St. Andrews, running 27-28th March 2018.
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