The Pacific Centre for Isotopic and Geochemical Research is a @UBC Shared Research Platform dedicated to excellence and innovation in geochemistry.
Vancouver, British Columbia
Joined March 2018
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Pacific Centre for Isotopic & Geochemical Research retweeted
🐝Qu'ont en commun les minéraux essentiels et le miel?
Des chercheurs de l'@UBC, @pcigr utilisent un équipement financé par PacifiCan pour exploiter les minéraux critiques de la #CB et mesurer les concentrations de métaux dans le miel afin de surveiller les niveaux de pollution.
ALT La professeure Dominique Weis fait visiter le laboratoire.
ALT Image d'un équipement de spectromètre de masse dans un laboratoire.
Pacific Centre for Isotopic & Geochemical Research retweeted
🐝 What do critical minerals and honey have in common?
Researchers at @UBC, @pcigr are using PacifiCan-funded equipment to both unlock #BC’s critical mineral supply and measure metal concentrations in honey to help monitor pollution levels.
➡️ pcigr.ubc.ca/news-and-blogs/…
ALT Professor Dominique Weis leads visitors on a lab tour.
ALT Image of a mass spectrometer equipment in a lab
Pacific Centre for Isotopic & Geochemical Research retweeted
@pcig is world-class integrated analytical facility that fosters leading-edge research in the #naturalsciences, with applications in fields ranging from #archaeology to #zoology.
Explore their brochure👇, & see their Navigator profile to connect directly bit.ly/31asGes
Isotopes tell stories! PCIGR is proud to offer high-precision analyses of numerous radiogenic and stable isotopic systems to support your research, from mantle dynamics to archaeological science. tinyurl.com/276zp9zc
Pacific Centre for Isotopic & Geochemical Research retweeted
Our September issue is live!
- (On the cover!) mantle composition revealed by plumes 🌋👩🏾🔬
- Evapotranspiration on a greening Earth ♨️🌱
- Monitoring submarine turbidity currents🌊📡
- Iron cycling and OM transformation across redox interfaces🦠🪨
nature.com/natrevearthenviro…
ALT A picture of an erupting volcano
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Samples from @NASA’s Bennu asteroid mission touched down in the Utah desert this weekend—#UBC’s Dr. Dominique Weis and her team is preparing to help analyze rock and dust samples from ‘a rubble pile of an asteroid’. @UBCeoas
bit.ly/3rlhUUL
Pacific Centre for Isotopic & Geochemical Research retweeted
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has landed!
Here at UBC we are extra excited because one of the Bennu samples is headed our way for analysis!
(video clips of landing/Bennu taken by NASA)
#OSIRISREx #nasa #space #geochemistry #exploration #physics #astronomy #science
Pacific Centre for Isotopic & Geochemical Research retweeted
This week, Prof Dominique Weis led a team of 11 female scientists to publish an invited review in @NatRevEarthEnv
The paper is titled "Earth's mantle composition revealed by mantle plumes" and is available open access now for one more week!
Pacific Centre for Isotopic & Geochemical Research retweeted
🚨New Review!
Earth’s mantle composition revealed by mantle plumes
Dominique Weis and her all-female coauthor team discuss how plume-derived rocks are used to infer mantle compositions and constrain geodynamic models👩🏾🔬
Free to read for 2 weeks!
nature.com/articles/s43017-0… @Kharpp
ALT Representations of major mantle reservoir contributions to global plume buoyancy flux and of their relationships with ocean island arrays in 3D space.
Pacific Centre for Isotopic & Geochemical Research retweeted
Save the date! We are just one month from OSIRIS-REx’s return to Earth, when it will deliver a sample of asteroid Bennu. What we learn from the sample of 4.5-billion-year-old rocks and dust will help us answer big questions about the origins of life and the nature of asteroids.
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We had a quick chat with Dr Kendra Chritz before she leaves for fieldwork. Kendra will be in the Turkana Basin in northern Kenya this summer.
"We are going to search for clues of some of our earliest ancestors"
We're excited to hear about what you find when you get back!
Pacific Centre for Isotopic & Geochemical Research retweeted
Kīlauea volcano Halemaʻumaʻu crater is currently erupting. Watch the live stream now! youtube.com/usgs/live
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What do #environmental geochemistry, #honey, and #salmon all have in common? They're all being studied by Brooke Hoppstock-Mattson. Tune into this week’s episode of On Earth to learn more! Listen on Spotify, Soundcloud, or Apple #podcasts.
#ubc #science #geology #geochemistry
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Interested in learning how to become a chemistry research technician? Tune into this week’s episode of On Earth with Dave Daquioag, a research technician at @pcigr, to learn more about this fascinating field. Listen on Spotify, Soundcloud, or Apple Podcasts.
#podcast #Chemistry
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Read how researchers used an Attom with laser ablation (in Sweden) to map garnet minerals and then a microdrill to remove only the parts needed to accurately date the minerals in particular growth zones using a Nu Plasma (in Canada).
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
#Attom #Plasma #ICPMS
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After sampling mature pink salmon @pcigr we’re moving on to juveniles from the Strait of Georgia: a fun way to test my dissection skills
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Thrilled to be presenting some of our methods development on metal biomonitoring with Pacific Salmon as part of @pcigr and @UBCeoas at @goldschmidt2022 this week (and finally joining the world of twitter) 🎉 Come visit me at poster #381 tomorrow afternoon
Pacific Centre for Isotopic & Geochemical Research retweeted
Next week we'll be in Hawaii at @goldschmidt2022. Mike, Roy, Daniel, Yvan and Paul will be there at our Nu Instruments booth to discuss all of our instruments. We look forward to seeing everyone there. #Goldschmidt #Goldschmidt22
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Our research will be rooted in #soil #plant #feedbacks investigating root-induced #weathering mechanisms and their implications in soil formation and terrestrial biogeochemistry. #pedology #soilchemistry A MSc position @ubcLFS available in Jan23.
.@jtcornelis received a @NSERC_CRSNG Discovery Grant for his project on "elucidating how nutrient-limiting soil conditions drive plant-induced weathering processes under a changing climate."
Pacific Centre for Isotopic & Geochemical Research retweeted
Next Monday from 6:30pm (May 2nd), join Professor Dominique Weis, one of UBC's six newest Killam Professors, as she speaks about her research and its applications. Free event and not one to miss!
@pcigr
Join Dr. Dominique Weis of @UBCeoas & new Killam Professor as she shares recent game-changing applications of #geochemistry.
FREE in person & online Monday, May 2 6:30-8:00 pm #UBC
bit.ly/37GCMvU
