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The Mineralogical The Geochemical Society Society News Editor: Patrice de Caritat The Sociedad Española Society of America is (GS) is an international ([email protected]) de Mineralogía (Spanish composed of individuals organization founded in Association of Applied Geochemists Mineralogical Society) was interested in mineralogy, 1955 for students and P.O. Box 26099 founded in 1975 to promote crystallography, petrology, scientists involved in the Nepean, ON K2H 9R0, Canada research in mineralogy, and geochemistry. Founded practice, study and teaching Tel.: 613-828-0199; fax: 613-828-9288 petrology, and geochem in 1919, the Society promotes, of geochemistry. Our [email protected] istry. The Society organizes through education and research, the under programs include co-hosting the annual www.appliedgeochemists.org annual conferences and furthers the training standing and application of mineralogy by Goldschmidt ConferenceTM, editorial over of young researchers via seminars and industry, universities, government, and the sight of Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta The Deutsche special publications. The SEM Bulletin public. Membership benefits include special (GCA), supporting geochemical symposia Mineralogische published scientific papers from 1978 to subscription rates for American Mineralogist through our Meeting Assistance Program, Gesellschaft (German 2003, the year the Society joined the Euro- as well as other journals, a 25% discount on and supporting student development Mineralogical Society) pean Journal of Mineralogy and launched Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry through our Student Travel Grant Program. was founded in 1908 to Macla, a new journal containing scientific series and Monographs, Elements, reduced GS annually recognizes excellence in “promote mineralogy and news, abstracts, and reviews. Membership registration fees for MSA meetings and short geochemistry through its medals, lectures, all its subdisciplines in benefits include receiving the European courses, and participation in a society that and awards. Members receive a subscription teaching and research as well as the personal Journal of Mineralogy, Macla, and Elements. supports the many facets of mineralogy. to Elements, special member rates for GCA relationships among all members.” Its great Society News Editor: Juan Jimenez Millan and G-cubed, and publication and confer Society News Editor: Andrea Koziol tradition is reflected in the list of honorary ([email protected]) ence discounts. ([email protected]) fellows, who include M. v. Laue, G. v. Sociedad Española de Mineralogía ociety ews ditor Seth Davis Tschermak, P. Eskola, C.W. Correns, P. Mineralogical Society of America S N E : [email protected] ([email protected]) Ramdohr, and H. Strunz. Today, the Society 3635 Concorde Pkwy Ste 500 especially tries to support young researchers, www.ehu.es/sem Chantilly, VA 20151-1110, USA Geochemical Society e.g. to attend conferences and short courses. Tel.: 703-652-9950; fax: 703-652-9951 Washington University Membership benefits include the European The Swiss Society of [email protected] Earth & Planetary Sciences Journal of Mineralogy, the DMG Forum, GMit, Mineralogy and www.minsocam.org One Brookings Drive, Campus Box #1169 and Elements. Petrology was founded in St. Louis, MO 63130-4899, USA 1924 by professionals from The Mineralogical Tel.: 314-935-4131; fax: 314-935-4121 Society News Editor: Michael Burchard academia and industry and Society of Great Britain [email protected] ([email protected]) by amateurs to promote and Ireland is an inter Explore GS online at www.geochemsoc.org Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft knowledge in the fields of national society for all [email protected] mineralogy, petrology, and geochemistry those working in the The European Association www.dmg-home.de and to disseminate it to the scientific and mineral sciences. The of Geochemistry was public communities. The Society coorganizes Society aims to advance the founded in 1985 to promote The Società Italiana the annual Swiss Geoscience Meeting and knowledge of the science of mineralogy and geochemical research and di Mineralogia e publishes the Swiss Journal of Geosciences its application to other subjects, including study in Europe. It is now Petrologia (Italian Society jointly with the national geological and crystallography, geochemistry, petrology, recognized as the premiere of Mineralogy and Petro paleontological societies. environmental science and economic geochemical organization logy), established in 1940, Society News Editor: Urs Schaltegger geology. The Society furthers its aims in Europe encouraging interaction between is the national body repre ([email protected]) through scientific meetings and the publica geochemists and researchers in associated senting all researchers deal tion of scientific journals, books and mono fields, and promoting research and teaching ing with mineralogy, petrology, and related Swiss Society of Mineralogy and Petrology graphs. The Society publishes Mineralogical in the public and private sectors. disciplines. Membership benefits include Université de Fribourg, Département des Magazine and Clay Minerals. Students receive Géosciences Society News Editor: Liane G. Benning receiving the European Journal of Mineralogy, the first year of membership free of charge. Chemin du Musée 6, Pérolles 1700 ([email protected]) Plinius, and Elements, and a reduced registra All members receive Elements. tion fee for the annual meeting. Fribourg, Switzerland Membership information: Tel. +41 26 300 89 36 ociety ews ditor Kevin Murphy S N E : www.eag.eu.com/membership Society News Editor: Marco Pasero fax: +41 26 300 97 65 ([email protected]) ([email protected]) http://ssmp.scnatweb.ch The Mineralogical Society The International Società Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia 12 Baylis Mews, Amyand Park Road Association of Dip. di Scienze della Terra The Meteoritical Society Twickenham, Middlesex TW1 3HQ, UK GeoChemistry (IAGC) has Università di Pisa, Via S. Maria 53 is an international organi Tel.: +44 (0)20 8891 6600 been a pre-eminent interna I-56126 Pisa, Italy zation founded in 1933 for Fax: +44 (0)20 8891 6599 tional geochemical organi Tel.: +39 050 2215704 scientists, collectors, and [email protected] zation for over 40 years. Its Fax: +39 050 2215830 educators to advance the www.minersoc.org principal objectives are to [email protected] study of meteorites and foster cooperation in the advancement of www.socminpet.it other extraterrestrial mate The Mineralogical applied geochemistry by sponsoring specialist rials and their parent asteroids, comets, and Association of Canada scientific symposia and the activities organized The International Asso- planets. Members receive our journal, Mete- was incorporated in 1955 by its working groups and by supporting its ciation of Geoanalysts is oritics & Planetary Science, reduced rates for to promote and advance journal, Applied Geochemistry. The administra a worldwide organization Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, which we the knowledge of miner tion and activities of IAGC are conducted by supporting the professional cosponsor, the Meteoritical Bulletin, and alogy and the related disci its Council, comprising an Executive and ten interests of those involved Elements. We organize annual meetings, plines of crystallography, ordinary members. Day-to-day administration in the analysis of geological workshops, and field trips, and support petrology, geochemistry, and economic is performed through the IAGC business office. and environmental mate young planetary scientists worldwide. geology. Any person engaged or interested Through our medals and awards, we recog Society News Editor: Chris Gardner rials. Activities include the management of in these fields may become a member of the nize excellence in meteoritics and allied ([email protected]) proficiency testing programmes for bulk rock Association. Membership benefits include a and micro-analytical methods, the production fields. subscription to Elements, reduced cost for IAGC Business Office and certification of reference materials and Society News Editor: Cari Corrigan subscribing to , a 275 Mendenhall Laboratory The Canadian Mineralogist the publication of the Association’s journal, ([email protected]) 20% discount on short course volumes and 125 South Oval Mall Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research. special publications, and a discount on the Columbus, OH 43210, USA Membership information: registration fee for annual meetings. Tel.: 614-688-7400; fax: 614-292-7688 Society News Editor: Michael Wiedenbeck http://meteoriticalsociety.org www.iagc-society.org ([email protected]) Society News Editor: Pierrette Tremblay The Japan Association ([email protected]) International Association of Geoanalysts The Société Française Ms. Jennifer Cook, Hon. Sec. of Mineralogical Mineralogical Association of Canada de Minéralogie et de British Geological Survey Sciences (JAMS) was 490, de la Couronne Cristallographie, the Keyworth, Nottingham, NG12 5GC, UK established in 2007 by Québec, QC G1K 9A9, Canada French Mineralogy and http://geoanalyst.org merging the Mineralogical Tel.: 418-653-0333; fax: 418-653-0777 Crystallography Society, Society of Japan, founded [email protected] was founded on March 21, The Polskie in 1955, and the Japanese www.mineralogicalassociation.ca 1878. The purpose of the Towarzystwo Mineral- Association of Mineralogists, Petrologists, Society is to promote mineralogy and ogiczne (Mineralogical and Economic Geologists, established in The Clay Minerals crystallography. Membership benefits include Society of Poland), founded 1928. JAMS covers the wide field of mineral Society (CMS) began as the the “bulletin de liaison” (in French), the in 1969, draws together sciences, geochemistry, and petrology. Clay Minerals Committee European Journal of Mineralogy, Elements, and professionals and amateurs Membership benefits include receiving the of the US National Academy reduced registration fees for SFMC meetings. interested in mineralogy, Journal of Mineralogical Sciences (JMPS), the of Sciences – National Ganseki-Koubutsukagaku (GKK), and Society News Editor: Anne-Marie Boullier crystallography, petrology, geochemistry, Research Council in 1952. . ([email protected]) and economic geology. The Society promotes Elements In 1962, the CMS was links between mineralogical science and Society News Editor: Hiroyuki Kagi incorporated with the primary purpose of SFMC education and technology through annual ([email protected]) stimulating research and disseminating Campus Boucicaut, Bâtiment 7 conferences, field trips, invited lectures, and information relating to all aspects of clay 140 rue de Lourmel publishing. Membership benefits include Japan Association of Mineralogical science and technology. The CMS holds an 75015 Paris, France subscriptions to Mineralogia and Elements. Sciences annual meeting, workshop, and field trips, www.sfmc-fr.org c/o Graduate School of Science, Tohoku and publishes Clays and Clay Minerals and Society News Editor: Zbigniew Sawłowicz University the CMS Workshop Lectures series. Member The Association of ([email protected]) Aoba, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan ship benefits include reduced registration fees Applied Geochemists is Mineralogical Society of Poland Tel./Fax: 81-22-224-3852 to the annual meeting, discounts on the an international organiza Al. Mickiewicza 30, [email protected] CMS Workshop Lectures, and Elements. tion founded in 1970 that 30-059 Kraków, Poland http://jams.la.coocan.jp specializes in the field of Tel./fax: +48 12 6334330 Society News Editor: Jeffery Greathouse applied geochemistry. It ([email protected]) [email protected] aims to advance the science www.ptmin.agh.edu.pl The Clay Minerals Society of geochemistry as it relates to exploration 3635 Concorde Pkwy Ste 500 and the environment, further the common Chantilly, VA 20151-1110, USA interests of exploration geochemists, facili Affiliated Societies Tel.: 703-652-9960; fax: 703-652-9951 tate the acquisition and distribution of The International Mineralogical Association, [email protected] scientific knowledge, promote the exchange the European Mineralogical Union, and the www.clays.org of information, and encourage research and International Association for the Study of Clays are development. AAG membership includes affiliated societies of Elements. The affiliated status the AAG journal, Geochemistry: Exploration, is reserved for those organizations that serve as an “umbrella” for other groups in the Environment, Analysis; the AAG newsletter, fields of mineralogy, geochemistry, and petrology, but that do not themselves have EXPLORE; and Elements. a membership base.
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