Geochemical Society www.geochemsoc.org 2016 BOARD OF DIRECTORS PRESIDENT THREE ELECTED TO GS BOARD Laurie Reisberg, Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Society members elected a new vice president Géochimiques, Nancy (France) and two directors with terms beginning 1 January VICE PRESIDENT 2016. Our new vice president, who will take up Roberta Rudnick, University of California, Santa Barbara (USA) a two-year term, is Roberta Rudnick, a professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at PAST PRESIDENT the University of California, Santa Barbara (USA). Barbara Sherwood Lollar, University of Toronto (Canada) Her research focuses on the origin and evolution TREASURER of the continents, particularly the lower conti- Sam Savin, New College of Florida (USA) nental crust and the underlying mantle litho- sphere. Roberta specializes in integrating data from a wide diversity of SECRETARY sources, including petrography, petrology, major and trace element Anton Eisenhauer, GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum geochemistry, stable and radiogenic isotope geochemistry, and für Ozeanforschung Kiel (Germany) geophysics, in order to determine the bulk composition of the crust, ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY DIVISION CHAIR the processes that have infl uenced crustal composition through time, Elisabeth L. Sikes, Rutgers University (USA) and answer the basic question of why the Earth has continents. ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY DIVISION SECRETARY Dominique Weis was elected to a three-year Hilairy Hartnett, Arizona State University (USA) term on the board of directors, representing North America. She is Professor and Canadian GOLDSCHMIDT OFFICERS Research Chair Tier I at the University of British Paul Renne, Berkeley Geochronology Center, California (USA) Columbia, Vancouver (Canada). She is also Harue Masuda, Osaka City University (Japan) Director of the University of British Columbia’s GCA EXECUTIVE EDITOR Pacifi c Centre for Isotopic and Geochemical Marc Norman, Australian National University (Australia) Research, an integrated research facility that promotes innovative analytical developments DIRECTORS and multidisciplinary research. Her research interests include the Tim Eglinton, ETH Zürich (Switzerland) geochemistry of the Earth’s mantle, especially the Hawaiian and Chris Hawkesworth, University of St. Andrews (Scotland, UK) Kerguelen mantle plumes, the isotopic evolution of the northern Tomoki Nakamura, Tohoku University ( Japan) Cascades volcanoes, and low-temperature studies using new applica- Anne Peslier, Jacobs Technology, NASA’s Johnson Space Center (USA) tions of transition metal geochemistry. Yuji Sano, University of Tokyo (Japan) Dominique Weis, University of British Columbia (Canada) Tim Eglinton was elected to a three-year term representing Europe. He is Professor of STUDENT PROGRAMS AT THE V. M. GOLDSCHMIDT Biogeoscience and Chair of the Geological CONFERENCE 2016 (YOKOHAMA, JAPAN) Institute at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich (Switzerland). His Students are not just observers at Goldschmidt conferences: they are research focuses on the application of molecular active participants, and their role is becoming increasingly important and isotopic (most notably radiocarbon) tracers each year. In addition to traditional favorites such as the student poster to understand the origin, cycling and legacy of award and continuing the highly successful mentoring and “Meet the biospheric carbon over a range of spatial and Plenary” programs that were introduced during the preceding two temporal scales. 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