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Meetings calendar
Meetings of interest to (bio)geochemists, environmental chemists, and others.
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Protecting Sandy Coasts
In 2000, SmarterScience was involved in a field trip to the German barrier island of Norderney, organized for graduate students at the University of Twente. Several web pages were launched as a follow-up to this field trip (which still takes place from time to time).

The sandy coast pages also contain the following NOURTEC reports (pdf files):

• Dominant processes and synthesis - Norderney case (9.2 MB)
• Effectiveness of a combined beach and shoreface nourishment on the island of Norderney, East Frisia, Germany (1.2 MB)
• Behaviour and effectiveness of the NOURTEC experimental shoreface nourishments - Norderney case (1.3 MB)

Fluid inclusions
In 2002, I (Angelina Souren) published an entertaining review article that focuses on melt inclusions - in honor of Jacques Touret.

Gases: of cows, volcanoes and bioterrorism
In 2004, I wrote a brief article for the Geochemical News on new open-path technologies (pdf). I also wrote a related item for the magazine Elements of engineering company ARCADIS.

Geotraces
In October of 2003, I published a brief article on the Geotraces program (pdf).

Chris German
In 2005, I interviewed Chris German at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton (pdf).

History of geochemistry
Article about the history of geochemistry, was published in the newsletter of The Geochemical Society. pdf version of this article (in a new window).

Tidal rivers
In 2000, the University of Twente asked SmarterScience to carry out a study and incorporate the results into the translation (also by us) of an existing teaching text for M.Sc. students. The original text covered the mathematics and physics of tidal rivers. SmarterScience added ecology, chemistry and biology. See on the right...

This client also needed a new lab exercise involving modeling with SOBEK: 1-D (Delft, The Netherlands). Together with René Buijsrogge, I designed, taught and graded this lab (about five meetings with students). The lab exercise was further fine-tuned after this first run and is still being used today. The other course materials are also still being used and I maintain a web page with tidal-river links.

The secret of successful co-operation
Inspirational gem regarding international research projects

Globetrotting microbes
Micro-organisms can travel all around the world, but they don't need airplanes to do that. Or: Why facts of nature can be mistaken for acts of biological warfare.

Harmful algal blooms in marine wildlife populations
Article (in condensed form) by Julie Siler about harmful algal blooms (also sometimes called red tides). More...

Exsolution in a meteorite
Gem about a meteorite in a Swedish museum

Chaos
Gem with inspiration for when you are writing a revolutionary research proposal

Euros and europium
Gem about europium in euros

Other applications of europium
Gem about recent developments in the applications of europium

Fungi in the marine environment
Discussion in GCA between me (Angelina Souren), Bradley Tebo (Scripps) and James Moffett (WHOI), regarding the oxidation of cerium, cobalt and manganese in the marine environment. Written in 1996. Published in 1998.

European citizens' views of science
A few conclusions from two science surveys conducted by the EU in 2005

Interview with Professor Sir Keith O'Nions
In 1999, I interviewed Professor Sir Keith O'Nions in Oxford (pdf, in new window) - for colleagues at The Geochemical Society.

The book mentioned in this interview is
The Biological Chemistry of the Elements : The Inorganic Chemistry of Life, by J.J.R. Frausto Da Silva, R.J.P. Williams.

Mariana trench
Mrs. Sippi's Mariana Trench pages are intended for the general public. They are located on smarterscience.NET. Mrs. Sippi also addresses other topics, such as the Black Sea.

Pro- en prebiotica
Kort, Nederlandstalig artikel voor leken, naar aanleiding van publicatie van de American Society for Microbiology

(Article in Dutch about prebiotics and probiotics, based on a publication by the American Society for Microbology.)

Tax tip for PhD students in The Netherlands
Belastingtip voor promovendi in Nederland

Retaliation against Whistleblowers
Article by Kristin Shrader-Frechette, currently Professor at the University of Notre Dame, about one case in a chain of of cases of serious harassment and intimidation by a state-funded American university.

The University of South Florida - a convincing facade that provides a handful of people with the power and means to do whatever they want with total disregard for the law? Or just academia as usual?

Vrouwen in de natuurwetenschappen
Pagina met wat gegevens over vrouwen in de natuurwetenschappen in Nederland. (Meer...)

(Page - in Dutch - with data on the participation of women in the sciences in one of the world's least emancipated countries: Holland.)

Book store
In conjunction with Amazon.com, I offer you selected science books and personal favorites