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Liane G Benning

@lianegbenning.bsky.social

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🧪geek who ❤️ 3 big science M’s = minerals, microbes, microscopes I study biogeochemical cycles, polar processes, climate change I work in 🇩🇪🇮🇸🇳🇴🇬🇱 on 🌎💎🧊❄️🦠🧬🔬⚗️ I ❤️all📚and am a speed reader https://www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/section/interface-geochemistry/overview/ .. more

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Liane G. Benning is a biogeochemist studying mineral-fluid-microbe interface processes. She is a Professor of Interface Geochemistry at the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam, Germany. Her team studies various processes that shape the Earth Surface with a special focus on two aspects: the nucleation, growth and crystallisation of mineral phases from solution and the role, effects and interplay between microbes and minerals in extreme environments. She is also interested in the characterisation of these systems, developing in situ and time resolved high resolution imaging and spectroscopic techniques to follow microbe-mineral reactions as they occur. .. more

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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · Jul 27

A marvellous day sampling on the Greenland ice sheet wt a top rate all female science team and on top of that flown by the sole female helicopter pilot in Greenland 🇬🇱- thanks Tina from Sermeq for the fantastic day

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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · Aug 4

The perfect rainbow 🌈 hill seen from Langjokull
#fieldwork joys

Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · Aug 4

Hitchhiking Iceland style

Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · Aug 3

Rainy and windy Iceland is not great for sampling - but that is fieldwork joy 🥹

Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · Aug 3

Bye bye Greenland 🇬🇱
Hello Iceland 🇮🇸

Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · Aug 2

Bye bye Greenland 🇬🇱

Hello Iceland 🇮🇸

Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · Jul 25

Scientist at work 😃 #fieldwork

These floaty algae are really cool
Mirjam im her element
Greenland 2025

Emily and Mirjam ready for PAM and DinoLight measurements
#algae galore on the Greenland ice sheet
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Scientist in Greenland 🇬🇱
Cool
But happy after a long day at work

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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · Jul 25

Melting over 80.6% of the area of the Greenland Ice Sheet. This is the highest value in our data set, which starts in 1981.

@polarportal.bsky.social

Screenshot from polarportal.dk, a website that makes research on the Arctic research conducted by Danish institutions available to the public and researchers. The image shows Greenland in tan and the Greenland Ice Sheet in red and white. The red part indicates melting and covers all except about 20% in the northeast, which is roughly the area higher than 2500 m above Se level.

Below the map is a chart that compares 2025 melting to the 1981-2010 average. The average melting peaks in mid-July at about 35%. For the last few days, melting has occurred over roughly 80% of the area of Greenland, with a maximum melt area of 80.6% on 24 July 2025. This is the highest value in our dataset, which starts in 1981.

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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · Jul 24

Start of 2025 summer polar fieldwork travel - stage 1 ✅

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Pablo Forjanes @forjanes.bsky.social · Apr 23

Very excited to share my first 100% @gfz.bsky.social paper on mineral pseudomorphism with my Interface Geochemistry fantastic team! @lianegbenning.bsky.social @jeffperez.bsky.social

EAG @eageo.bsky.social · Apr 23

New in #GPLetters: Pseudomorphism, one of the most prominent features of mineral replacement phenomena, can survive several successive mineral transformations, as experimentally demonstrated for the 1st time by Forjanes et al ➡️ buff.ly/FbNFwXw
@forjanes.bsky.social
@jeffperez.bsky.social

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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · May 16

Senior Scientists Must Stand Up Against Attacks on Research and Education

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Senior Scientists Must Stand Up Against Attacks on Research and Education - Eos

They can use their position and collective power to influence institutional actions and mobilize to support more vulnerable colleagues.

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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · Jun 21

N’’ should II have and I
See a a e sass’siiI🚑🚕🚕🚑🚙🚕🚓🚓xi🩴
🛞🚓🦁👢🐼😟👢

Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · May 16

Great @eos.org piece by @profmoldwin.bsky.social

Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · May 16

Senior Scientists Must Stand Up Against Attacks on Research and Education

eos.org/opinions/sen...

Senior Scientists Must Stand Up Against Attacks on Research and Education - Eos

They can use their position and collective power to influence institutional actions and mobilize to support more vulnerable colleagues.

eos.org

Reposted by Kevin O’Rourke, Liane G. Benning, Artjoms Ivļevs , and 3 more Kevin O’Rourke, Liane G. Benning, Artjoms Ivļevs, Niels Keijzer, Joseph P. Laycock, Ryan J. Thomas

Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · May 14

This is bleak reading

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · May 13

If you would like to attend a #microscopy or #bioimageanalysis training course in the next 6 months but don’t have funding, check out our Microscopy Training Grant from @jcellsci.bsky.social and @focalplane.bsky.social.

Next deadline: 6 June 2025

www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f...

#Training

Microscopy Training Grants

Supporting microscopy training for early-career researchers in cell biology

Apply for a grant of up to £1,000

Application dates:
6 June 2025
5 September 2025
7 November 2025

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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · May 8

Come join the Interface geochemistry team @gfz.bsky.social

We play with minerals, microbes and microscopes and study earth surface processes at interfaces between them- and we have fun 😀

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · May 6

IAVCEI cancel one of their meetings due to the ongoing situation in the US 🌋

AVCEI
In agreement with the Cities and Volcanoes Commission and the
IAVCEI Executive Committee, the Local Organizing Committee for the 13th Cities on Volcanoes (COV13) conference, originally planned for July 2026 in Bend, Oregon (U.S.A.), has made the difficult decision to postpone the event to a future date.
Recent developments have created uncertainty around our ability to confidently and effectively host the conference in 2026 and to welcome attendees without concern.
This decision follows many months of collaboration with more than 70 local, regional, and international partners to shape an engaging and meaningful program. We recognize this news will be disappointing, but we believe it is the most responsible choice under the current circumstances, grounded in care for our colleagues and partners.
With continued support from the Cities and Volcanoes Commission and IAVCEl, we are already exploring the possibility of hosting COV in Bend in 2030 or 2032, and we remain hopeful for opportunities to gather in the future.
The COV13 Local Organizing Committee
The Cities and Volcanoes Commission
The International Association for Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior

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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · May 5

YES ! Well done Europe !

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Jon Brudvig @jonbrudvig.bsky.social · May 1

A tardigrade just got the world's tiniest tattoo.
This, and so much more, in Nature's roundup of the best #science images from April. 🧪

And yes, you should take 20 seconds to play the aurora video. 😍

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

#SciencePhotography #Microscopy

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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · May 1

Congrats Arwyn 👍💪

Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · Apr 29

OMG 😱 - naturally I meant “his”

Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · Apr 29

And Christoph is also one of the @egubg.bsky.social team promoting through various activities Biogeoscience research @egu.eu and beyond

Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · Apr 29

Christoph Keuschnig gave her @MSCA project on fungal highways and their role in soil development
@egubg.bsky.social @gfz.bsky.social @egu.eu

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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · Apr 28

What is @egu.eu without a classical concert in the Musikverein - not an option but a sin.

Musikverein Vienna for a classical concert - a must @egu

Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · Apr 28

Very happy about this science art collaboration wt Michael Najjar - have. Look also at his Arctic Stream installation www.michaelnajjar.com/news/new-art... that is based on our work funded by the @ERC synergy grant DeepPurple

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GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung @gfz.bsky.social · Apr 28

One of the leading publications in the art world, @theartnewspaper.bsky.social, is running a feature on the work of Michael Najjar, an artist who accompanied our @lianegbenning.bsky.social & her team to Greenland. His work is so impressive! See for yourself 👇
www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/04/25/c...

Can graphic imagination wake audiences up to the climate emergency? This multimedia artist believes so

Berlin-based Michael Najjar has been working with scientists in Greenland to tell stories with images designed to replace familiar memes of environmental journalism

www.theartnewspaper.com

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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · Apr 28

And now #IceBio PhD student Kara Sampsell taking about the microbes and glacier flower link in terms of nutrient delivery mechanisms - @egu.eu

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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · Apr 28

Alex Anesio now presenting in the ECO- OMICS session the Metatranscriptomic workflow from our DeepPurple work - a study led by Thanassis Zervas and Laura Perini from @au.dk @gfz.bsky.social @egu.eu

Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · Apr 28

Pamela Rossel giving the intro talk about how the DOM/ POM of red snow and glacier ice algae change over 21 days during melting @prossel.bsky.social @gfz.bsky.social @egu.eu

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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · Apr 28

Christoph Keuschnig introducing the EVO-OMICS session starting us of on Monday morning in room 2.33 level -2 @egu.eu