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Most complex organisms on Earth need to breathe oxygen to stay alive. As global warming continues, the amount of oxygen dissolved in ocean waters is expected to decline (i.e. deoxygenation). This will have disastrous consequence on the marine ecosystem and the human communities that depend on its service.

An international team of scientists, with participation of NCCR PlanetS and ETH Zurich, investigated the origin of water on Earth. Their results suggest that it has been here all along.

The ETH Zurich Isotope Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry groups play important roles in the largest global geochemistry conference – the Goldschmidt Conference in Barcelona in August 2019.

The ETH Zürich Isotope Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry Groups have two new Ambizione fellows – Dr. Netta Shalev and Dr. Bradley Peters – amongst a total of 15 awarded across the whole of ETH.

Emily Rose Ciscato, doctoral student of Prof. Derek Vance and Dr. Tomaso Bontognali, presented her research in an invited talk at the 2018 Geobiology Gordon Research Conference in Galveston, Texas.

Congratulations to Jesper Suhrhoff, a Master's student in the Earth Surface Geochemistry group, who has been awarded the Willi Studer Prize for the best Master's student in Earth Sciences (D-ERDW) in 2017.

“Goldene Eule” of VSETH: The Golden Owl is awarded by the students and honours lecturers who have provided exceptional teaching.

A new study led by scientists in the Earth Surface Geochemistry group at ETH Zurich, and just published in Nature Geoscience, shows that a single-celled algal organism in the Southern Ocean controls ocean trace metal chemistry.

PhD student Matthias Sieber, and post-doctoral researchers Greg de Souza and Nolwenn Lemaitre are braving the rough seas of the Southern Ocean to take part in a remarkable expedition to study the environment of the Southern Ocean, the sea surrounding Antarctica.