Geochemistry combines geology and chemistry in order to understand the fundamental processes governing the distribution and cycling of the elements in the Earth's crust, atmosphere, and oceans.  Sustainability from a geochemical perspective includes a broad range of issues, from coupled earth-atmospheric processes and their control on climate change and ocean acidification, natural and anthropogenic impacts on water quality,  more effective and safer mining for critical elements, and preventing soil degradation due to intensive agriculture.  Grand challenges facing society require careful consideration of the geochemical impacts on the drastic changes of the fate and transport of elements induced by extreme natural resource extraction, conventional and unconventional energy production, new product manufacturing, and their agricultural use.

Sustainability: GEOC's perspective

248th National Meeting (2014)

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