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Lotta Purkamo @microecolotta.bsky.social · Aug 29

Few days left to submit your abstract to ISEB 2025 meeting, www.iseb-2025.org and beginning from next week, abstract submission starts for Nordic Geological Winter Meeting! For example the session 3: Biogeochemical cycles and geomicrobiology 😉 Welcome to Turku, Finland! ngwm2026.fi

ISEB 2025

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Lotta Purkamo @microecolotta.bsky.social · Aug 28

Tänään Itämeripäivä! Kirjoiteltiin vähän blogia aiheeseen liittyen @mudjones.bsky.social @eeroasmala.bsky.social Karoliina Koho ja Kristiina Nuottimäki @gtk-fi.bsky.social

Geological Survey of Finland - Geologian tutkimuskeskus GTK @gtk-fi.bsky.social · Aug 28

Hyvää Itämeripäivää!💙 Mitä GTK:lla tehdään Itämeren hyväksi ja miten geotieteet auttavat Itämeren suojelua? Siitä lisää🔗

Tule viettämään kanssamme Itämerifestiä Helsingin Kansalaistorille tänään klo 12‒19: itameripaiva.fi/tapahtuma/it...

#Itämeripäivä #Itämerifest

www.gtk.fi/ajankohtaist...

Tietoa pinnan alta ‒ geotieteet Itämeren hyväksi | GTK

Itämerelle omistettu teemapäivä tarjoaa hetken pysähtyä pohtimaan, mitä voimme tehdä meren puolesta nyt ja tulevaisuudessa.

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Geological Survey of Finland - Geologian tutkimuskeskus GTK @gtk-fi.bsky.social · Aug 14

Espoo-päivä lähestyy – tule tutustumaan Suomen kallioperän ja merenpohjan salaisuuksiin la 30.8. Otaniemeen! Tutki kivi- ja sedmenttinäytteitä, tunnista kivilajeja ja ilmoittaudu ekskursiokävelylle. 🌍

Tutustu ohjelmaan ⬇️
www.gtk.fi/tapahtuma/ma...

#EspooPäivä #VisitEspoo #Geologia #Luonto #Tiede

Maapallomme muisti, muutokset ja ominaisuudet: mitä näytteet kertovat? | GTK

Maapallomme muisti, muutokset ja ominaisuudet. Espoo-päivänä 30.8. GTK:lla avoimet ovet Otaniemessä klo 10-15.

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Lotta Purkamo @microecolotta.bsky.social · Aug 20

Please share in your networks! @egu.eu @egu-gmpv.bsky.social @geochemgroup.bsky.social @isme-microbes.bsky.social #biogeosciences #geochemistry #hydrology #palaeontology #climate #geomicrobiology

Lotta Purkamo @microecolotta.bsky.social · Aug 20

International Society of Environmental Biogeochemistry ISEB is going to have a great meeting (as always) in Dublin in October! Submit your abstract now to be part of it, great talks, cool mid-conference trip, and mad dancing guaranteed! :D www.iseb-2025.org

ISEB 2025

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Lotta Purkamo @microecolotta.bsky.social · Jun 24

Have a look at the thematic issue from last ISEBxISSM2023 meeting, and then register to our upcoming ISEB2025 meeting in October! www.iseb-2025.org

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Tillmann Lueders @luederslab.bsky.social · Jun 16

This excellent thematic issue connected to the #2023ISEBxISSM conference in Banff is finally out! ♨️
Thanks to our co-guest editors @microecolotta.bsky.social and #MariaDittrich for their great work. 👏

FEMS Journals @femsjournals.bsky.social · Jun 16

Groundbreaking (literally!) research alert ⛏️ #FEMSMicrobiolEcol 's thematic issue, Subsurface Microbiology, highlights the roles microbes play in various environments, from deep subsurface ecosystems to industrial gas storage systems. Read collection: buff.ly/t7ICAEo

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Lotta Purkamo @microecolotta.bsky.social · Jun 23

Last week for early bird -registration to ISEB2025!
Abstracts can be submitted until the end of July, so keep them coming! www.iseb-2025.org/register/

Register – ISEB 2025

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Lotta Purkamo @microecolotta.bsky.social · Jun 12

You want to join www.iseb-2025.org in Dublin? Early bird registration day is approaching quickly!

ISEB 2025

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Lotta Purkamo @microecolotta.bsky.social · May 16

I will look into it!

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Lotta Purkamo @microecolotta.bsky.social · May 16

Thematic issue of FEMS Microbiology Ecology originating from last ISEB-ISSM joint meeting in 2023 is out and there are many exiting papers: academic.oup.com/femsec/artic...

Editorial: celebrating the biogeosphere at the joint meeting of International Societies for Environmental Biogeochemistry and Subsurface Microbiology

We show that chemical pollution alters microbial communities in predictable ways, making their evolutionary relationships a useful tool for tracking enviro

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Lotta Purkamo @microecolotta.bsky.social · Apr 29

Hey peeps, now it's time to register to the next International Society of Biogeochemistry www.iseb-2025.org meeting in Dublin, in October!!

ISEB 2025

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Lotta Purkamo @microecolotta.bsky.social · Mar 6

The upcoming Gordon Research Conference on Applied and Environmental Microbiology looks great! www.grc.org/applied-and-... Don't miss your chance, apply now!

2025 Applied and Environmental Microbiology Conference GRC

The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Applied and Environmental Microbiology will be held in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Apply today to reserve your spot.

www.grc.org

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Geological Survey of Finland - Geologian tutkimuskeskus GTK @gtk-fi.bsky.social · Mar 4

Kuinka huokoinen on laskiaispulla? Röntgentomografiakuvat paljastavat.

Normaalisti kuvaus on alkupiste tutkittaessa esim. kivi-, savinäytteitä tai malmirikasteita.

Tuottaa 3D-mallin rakenteesta, johon voidaan muilla menetelmillä saatuja tuloksia linkittää tilavuudellisesti. ½
#Laskiainen #Tiede

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Lotta Purkamo @microecolotta.bsky.social · Mar 4

At #EuropeanOceanDays in Brussels, representing BlueMissionBANOS project. We had a great workshop yesterday obout monitoring and KPI dev across CSAs, thanks to all! #missionocean

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Camille Thomas @camthomas.bsky.social · Feb 27

Also lake Bourget is truly beautiful !

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International Continental Scientific Drilling Program ICDP @icdpdrilling.bsky.social · Feb 26

🌤️ Blue Skies Ahead: ICDP Training Course 2025 🌤️
Calling all scientists & engineers! Join the ICDP Training Course 2025 in Weinan (near Xi'an) for a week of cutting-edge geoscience, hands-on learning, and unforgettable cultural adventures...😍
Apply NOW!!
👉 www.icdp-online.org/support/upco...

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Lotta Purkamo @microecolotta.bsky.social · Feb 27

And heads up also for the 2025 meeting for the International Society for Environmental Biogeochemistry ISEB! Dynamic Earth: Geochemical and biospheric interactions across time. Dublin, Ireland, the end of October. More info soon here: www.iseb-2025.org

ISEB 2025

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Lotta Purkamo @microecolotta.bsky.social · Feb 27

Consider yourself invited to 3rd Paleolimnology & Limnology International Symposium to be held in Aix-Les-Bains, France (6 - 10th October 2025). We are hosting the session IV-1, i.e. biogeochemical cycles in the sediment subsurface.
ialipa-2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...
The abstract dl 8.4.

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Lotta Purkamo @microecolotta.bsky.social · Feb 19

In case you are interested in a) more studies of Outokumpu, I challenge @riikkakie.bsky.social to tell about her papers, b) doing research in Outokumpu Deep Scientific Drill Hole, it is part of International Continental Drilling Program's infrastructure and open for science, be in contact with me!

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Lotta Purkamo @microecolotta.bsky.social · Feb 19

This publication describes the microbial communities (bacteria and fungi!) attaching the rock surfaces (mica schist) in the #deepbiosphere of Outokumpu. #geomicrobiology #SEM #microscopy #microcosms
www.frontiersin.org/journals/mic...

Frontiers | Epilithic Microbial Community Functionality in Deep Oligotrophic Continental Bedrock

The deep terrestrial biosphere hosts vast sessile rock surface communities and biofilms, but thus far, mostly planktic communities have been studied. We enri...

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Lotta Purkamo @microecolotta.bsky.social · Feb 19

There's a whole bunch of papers that have come out describing the #deepbiosphere in crystalline bedrock fluids in Outokumpu, for example bg.copernicus.org/articles/13/...

BG - Microbial co-occurrence patterns in deep Precambrian bedrock fracture fluids

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Lotta Purkamo @microecolotta.bsky.social · Feb 19

The Outokumpu Deep Drill Hole draws attention now because of a new publication about volatile organic compounds found from different depths of the bedrock fluids, see Kietäväinen et al. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Naturally occurring volatile organic compounds in deep bedrock groundwater - Communications Earth & Environment

A range of non-methane volatile organic compounds was identified in more than 500 m depth in groundwater-filled Precambrian bedrock fracture zones, along with indicators of microbial metabolism, using...

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Lotta Purkamo @microecolotta.bsky.social · Feb 19

I'm in TV! I was at Outokumpu last week, showing the Outokumpu Deep Scientific Drill Hole to reporters from YLE. areena.yle.fi/1-72548948 #deepbiosphere #voc #groundwater #deepdrillhole #geomicrobiology

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Lotta Purkamo @microecolotta.bsky.social · Feb 14

Finally ditched the Xitter. Hoping for less toxicity and more science in this forum <3

a cartoon of a girl in a lab coat holding a beaker with the word science written above her

ALT: a cartoon of a girl in a lab coat holding a beaker with the word science written above her

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