Jabrane Labidi - Isotope geochemist

The news and views article written by colleague and carnegie alumni Rita Parai is amazing. I will seriously use some of the vocabulary she uses in her document to explain the notion of clumped isotopes to a general audience https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01020-5?utm_source=twt_nv&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsandviews a pdf version of Rita's article is available for free on the nature website! go check it out

The text written up, after the CNRS press release, in english:  http://www.cnrs.fr/en/new-tool-predict-volcanic-eruptions Earth’s atmosphere is made up of 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen, a mixture that is unique in the Solar System 1 . The oxygen was produced by some of the first living organisms. But where did the nitrogen come from? Did it escape from Earth’s mantle through volcanic activity? To try to answer these questions, Jabrane Labidi, a CNRS researcher at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (CNRS/IPGP/IGN) 2  and his colleagues collected samples of gas from several volcanic sites on our planet. Their study, published on 16 March 2020 in the journal  Nature,  shows that nitrogen from magma formed within the mantle does not have the same isotopic 3  composition as atmospheric nitrogen, implying that the latter does not come from degassing of the mantle. However, the team were able to use these measurements to identify, in geysers, fumaroles and oth...

http://www.cnrs.fr/fr/un-nouvel-outil-pour-la-prevision-des-eruptions here is the CNRS press release. They definitely stretched it and went for the 'volcanic eruption prediction' thing. but still fun. Will post other articles about this

The second leg of my trip brought me to Guiyang where i joined Dr. Au Yang. I got to meet a lot of excellent researchers in the Key state geochemistry center. Thank you David! shown: a selfie of David and I after a gorgeous walk in the city park. Not shown: the foodz see my pages: https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Jabrane-Labidi/32454567 https://www.linkedin.com/in/jabrane-labidi-560079111/?originalSubdomain=fr Jabrane Labidi (@JabraneLabidi) | Twitterhttps://twitter.com › jabranelabidi

I went on my first China trip! i met Prof. Jiasong Fang at the university and we had fascinating interactions about the future of isotopologue geochemistry. I stayed only two days in shanghai and had the opportunity to visit this overwhelming city and experience bizarre spring weather in december, before i spent a whole day in the university to work with Prof. Fang and his research group. May or may not have taken more food pictures than anything else Skipping AGU and the conference mess for this trip was probably my best idea of 2019. see my pages: https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Jabrane-Labidi/32454567 https://www.linkedin.com/in/jabrane-labidi-560079111/?originalSubdomain=fr Jabrane Labidi (@JabraneLabidi) | Twitterhttps://twitter.com › jabranelabidi

in picture: the gorgeous mutli anvil press at LMV.  Nice to be invited in clermont, at the Magma et Volcans brand new building, to show some of my UCLA research! This time, i got to talk about the nitrogen origin in the mantle

Hi All - Just in case someone would want to find tweets and facebook posts, i have the following pages, active on social medias - Add me! my facebook page https://www.facebook.com/jabrane.labidi a brand new twitter handle https://twitter.com/JabraneLabidi Yes i've tried flickr too https://www.flickr.com/photos/154030634@N06/ as a good professional, i have a linkedin page https://www.linkedin.com/in/jabrane-labidi-560079111/?originalSubdomain=fr My researchgate page https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jabrane_Labidi