Generous funding of ESF (MOLTER), NSF (BASIN) and our industry partners allowed ISOCOMPOUND’09 to offer a young investigator award to selected graduate students and post-docs. The award covers travel, accommodation and the conference fee for the successful candidates. Out of 50 applications, the ISOCOMPOUND’09  scientific steering committee selected 13 young investigators for the award based on the scientific quality and innovative nature of their submitted abstracts.

We would like to congratulate the following young scientists for their succesfull applications:

Samuel Bodé, Ghent University, Belgium - Determination of residence time of amino sugars precursors in soils by HPLC-IRMS - abstract

Maria Calleja, University of California Santa Cruz, USA - Compound specific δ13C and δ15N amino acid signatures in dissolved organic matter exudates from different autotrophic oceanic organisms: initial results - abstract

Anne-Julie Cavagna, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium - Biomarkers and their δ13C signature in suspended particles in the open ocean water column: the case of BONUS-GoodHope expedition (Southern Ocean) –  abstract

Kyungcheol Choy, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany - Investigation of single amino acid δ13C signatures from human and faunal bone collagen using LC-IRMS: Implications for reconstructing human paleodiets in Korean prehistory - abstract

Aaron F. Diefendorf, Pennsylvania State University, USA - 13C discrimination related to phylogeny and leaf habit in modern woody plant types: Implications for ecological controls on bulk, n-alkane, and terpenoid carbon isotope records preserved in Paleocene-Eocene terrestrial sediments - abstract

Lindsay E Hays, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA - Carbon isotope ratios and carbon-cycle perturbations at the Permian-Triassic boundary - abstract

Alexander Heim, University of Zurich, Switzerland - Stabilization of lignin in soils – lessons from compound specific 13C analysis in long-term field experiments - abstract

Stephanie Kusch, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany –  Synthesis, degradation and depositional dynamics of chloro- and pheopigments from the Western Black Sea: insights from combined δ13C, δ15N and Δ14C analysis - abstract

Clayton Magill, Pennsylvania State University, USA - Environmental variability in the ‘Cradle of Mankind’ at the Plio-Pleistocene boundary - abstract

Maura Pellegrini, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany - Investigating the relationship between olive oil bulk δ13C values , n-alkane δ13C and δD values, and climatic conditions: Implications for geographical characterization - abstract

Niina Tavi, University of Kuopio, Finland - Studying soil microbial communities by 13C-PLFA analysis – combining form and function - abstract

Marcel T.J. van der Meer, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, The Netherlands - A closer look at the hydrogen isotopic composition of alkenones as proxy for paleo sea surface salinity - abstract

Lori Ziolkowski, University of California, Irvine, USA - Compound specific radiocarbon analysis of black carbon in marine dissolved organic matter - abstract