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Here you find articles on topics like fluid inclusions and cyanide in the environment, resources such as literature lists and a few interviews with well-known scientists. The author is Angelina Souren, unless specified differently.

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Chirpy chirpy cheep cheep
On February 8, 2009 I wrote a little tidbit for The Geochemical News published by The Geochemical Society: Geochemistry for the birds.


Cyanide
Some years ago, I visited the terrain of a former manufactured-gas plant (MGP) in Amsterdam and later acquired the cyanide concentrations. I also wrote and published a review article in the newsletter of The Geochemical Society.


Europium, one of the rare earth elements (REEs)
In 2002, I wrote a brief article europium in euro notes.

Later in England, someone approached me who wanted to sell a large quantity of europium and I looked into the possible origin of this europium and into other applications in addition to the use in bank notes. I later wrote another brief article, this one on recent developments in the applications of europium as well as a blog post about rare earth elements and their use in for instance green technologies.


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


Fluid inclusions
In 2002, I published an entertaining review article that focuses on melt inclusions - in honor of Jacques Touret in the newsletter of The Geochemical Society.


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.


Gases: Of cows, volcanoes and bioterrorism
In 2004, I wrote a brief article on new open-path technologies (pdf) (used to measure gas concentrations) for the newsletter of The Geochemical Society. I also wrote a related item for the in-house magazine Elements of engineering company ARCADIS.


Geotraces
In October of 2003, I published a brief article on the international marine biogeochemistry program "Geotraces" (pdf) for the newsletter of The Geochemical Society.


Geochemistry
For the 100th issue of the newsletter of The Geochemical Society, I did a lot of reading and wrote an article on the history of geochemistry. There is also a pdf version of this article (opens in new window).


Geoforensic
Take a magnifying glass, put on a checkered hat and pretent your Sherlock Holmes when you read this page about geoforensics, and particularly about the use of geochemistry in forensics.


Geotraces
In October of 2003, I published a brief article on the international marine biogeochemistry program "Geotraces" (pdf) for the newsletter of The Geochemical Society.


Harmful algal blooms in marine wildlife populations
During her Master's research, Julie Siler wrote a comprehensive review about harmful algal blooms, also called red tides (here in condensed form).


Interviews


Luminescence dating
Luminescence dating is also called optical dating and fairly new to the earth sciences but not in archeology.


Meteorites
Some years ago, I cooked up a little gem on a meteorite displaying exsolution in a Swedish museum


Microorganisms
It was around the time when foot and mouth disease was wreaking havoc in the U.K. when I created a page about how microorganisms can travel all around the globe, but don't need airplanes to do that. Or: Why acts of nature can be mistaken for acts of biological warfare.


Power of salt
Salt plays a prominent role in new types of power generation. I am talking about clean and sustainable ways of harvesting heat and electricity, some already commercialized, some halfway there.


Power of life
Coming up soon!


Probiotics and prebiotics
A few years ago, a publication by the American Society for Microbiology inspired me write a few words in Dutch about probiotics and prebiotics (for lay persons).


Rare earth elements (REEs)
In addition to the above-mentioned pages about the use of europium, there is also a page about applications of rare earth elements (REEs) as a group.


Sandy coasts
Norderney In 2000, I was involved in a field trip to the German barrier island of Norderney, organized for graduate students at the University of Twente. I launched several web pages as a follow-up to this field trip, which still takes place from time to time.

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


Southern Water
wastewater in the aeration tanks of the activated sludge installation Along with a few other customers of Southern Water, I visited their brand-new wastewater treatment facility at Budd's Farm in Havant on December 11, 2009.


Tidal rivers
syllabus In 2000, the University of Twente asked me to carry out a study and incorporate the results in a reader for M.Sc. students, in LaTeX. The original text was in Dutch and 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 timbers of the Mary Rose
The Mary Rose was Henry VIII's favorite warship. It sank in 1545 and is now located in the Historic Dockyard of its hometown Portsmouth. Scientists from all over the world are involved in its preservation. A synchotron study was undertaken to look at sulfur accumulation in the ships timbers.


Utrecht and biogeochemistry
I've also got a few pages to read for you, if you're curious about
Philippe Van Capellen and biogeochemistry at the department of earth sciences in Utrecht, the Netherlands.


Vrouwen in de natuurwetenschappen
Er is nog steeds een pagina met wat gegevens over vrouwen in de natuurwetenschappen in Nederland. (Page - in Dutch - with data on the participation of women in the sciences in the Netherlands.)


These articles and other resources are intended for entertainment purposes. SmarterScience is not liable for any decisions made on the basis of these pages or any results of such decisions. When no author name is given, the author of the article is Angelina Souren (who also uses the pen name Armadilla Sippi on smarterscience.net).

Note that any data in these articles are generally NOT kept up to date. If no article date is given, the youngest references reflect the approximate date of when I wrote the article.




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