Here is the first VGP electronic newsletter of the New Year. There will
be plenty of activity within VGP this year, so here are the latest announcements
and updates to keep you abreast of events. As usual, if any VGP member
has items for possible inclusion in future newsletters, please e-mail fagents@asu.edu.
In this issue:
Times of transition of websites are always good times for new initiatives
and we invite broad comments on how this website can be most useful to
the section. (Specific comments and edits are always welcome.) Current
lists and contact information for officers and committees are clearly
central, and have been recently updated. Current lists of honorees
are also kept.
An idea for new content which emerged at fall AGU is an index of resources which are useful, but not part of the formal literature. These could include links to various online databases, computational tools, and other information sources. Clearly earthref.org and GERM have nailed down huge pieces of this task. Is there enough left to justify another site? If so please forward information about suggested content or links to vgpweb@giseis.alaska.edu. Some avenues for expansion include bibliographic, geographic, volcano seismic, and other graphical data.
Please let us know how we can make this website most useful to section members.
Chris Nye (cnye@giseis.alaska.edu)
Web coordinator
(2) NEW VGP EDITOR FOR EOS
Paul Renne (Berkeley Geochronology Center and University of California,
Berkeley) replaced Joop Varekamp as VGP editor for Eos effective on Feb.
1. He is grateful for Joop's ongoing help through the transition.
Renne's term is three years. He reminds VGP members that Eos is intended
to help readers keep informed about the latest topics in other fields,
be of interest to a large proportion of AGU members (i.e., in other sections
too), and be thought-provoking. Please consider submitting articles along
these lines after consulting him about your contribution. General guidelines
and submission instructions are found at http://www.agu.org/pubs/eos_inst.html.
(3) SPRING AGU MEETING HIGHLIGHTS
Planning for the Spring AGU Meeting in Boston, May 29 - June 2, 2001
is in full swing. All VGP members, please note the
following deadlines, special events, and special sessions of interest.
ABSTRACT DEADLINES: The postal and express mail deadline for receipt of abstracts is MARCH 1. The deadline for receipt of abstracts by electronic means is MARCH 8 at 1400 UTC: (1400 UTC is 9:00 a.m. in Washington, 7:00 a.m. in Arizona, 6:00 a.m. in San Francisco).; Check the AGU Web Site at http://www.agu.org and the January 23 edition of Eos.
MEETING HIGHLIGHTS AND SPECIAL EVENTS FOR VGP: The R.A. Daly Lecture will be given by B J Wood, Bristol University, on Wednesday, May 30. The title is "Crystal-Melt Partitioning: Recent Theoretical and Experimental Advances". The time will be late afternoon and the lecture will be followed immediately by a joint Volcanology/Geochemistry/Petrology - Planetary Sciences reception.
SPECIAL SESSIONS: The following is a list of Special Sessions that VGP is sponsoring or cosponsoring at the Spring Meeting. If you are interested in contributing to one of these Special Sessions, please contact the convener listed for the session soon. See http://www.agu.org/meetings/sm01_spss.html#Volcanology for further details and full contact information for conveners.
V01 - Continental Weathering and Ocean Chemistry (Joint With GS, H,
OS).
Conveners: Robyn E. Hannigan, Arkansas State University, hannigan@navajo.astate.edu;
Asish R. Basu, University of Rochester, abasu@earth.rochester.edu;
V02 - New Views of Mars Volcanism: Extrusive, Explosive, and Possible
Influences of H2O (Joint With P).
Conveners: Susan Sakimoto, NASA/GSFC, sakimoto@denali.gsfc.nasa.gov;
Tracy Gregg, University at Buffalo, Tgregg@nsm.buffalo.edu; Lori Glaze,
Proxemy
Research, lori@proxemy.com;
V03 - Advances in Subsurface Sampling and Borehole Measurement.
Conveners: Donald Thomas, University of Hawaii, dthomas@soest.hawaii.edu;
Allan R. Sattler, Sandia National Laboratories, Tel: +1-505-844-1019; David
Goldberg, Columbia University, Tel: +1-845-365-8674 ext. 674;
V04 - Petrological and Geochemical Constraints of the Formation of Archean
Cratons (Joint With GS, MSA, T).
Conveners: Timothy L. Grove, MIT, tlgrove@mit.edu; Steven B. Shirey,
Carnegie Institution of Washington, shirey@dtm.ciw.edu;
V05 - The Construction of Archean Cratons: Reconciling GS, T).
Conveners: Samuel A. Bowring, MIT, sbowring@mit.edu; Desmond E. Moser,
University of Utah, demoser@mines.utah.edu;
VGP will cosponsor the following Special Sessions:
GP06 - Banded Iron Formation, its Chemical and Physical Properties and
Relation to the Origin of Life (Joint With B, GS, M, MRP, P, V)
Conveners G. Kletetschka, GSFC/NASA, gunther@denali.gsfc.nasa.gov;
J. William Schopf, UCLA; S. Moorbath, Oxford, United Kingdom;
GS01 - Magmatic Volatile Histories: Stable Isotopic Tracing of Sources
and Degassing Processes in Magmatic Systems and Implications for Volcanology
and Earth System Science (Joint With M, T).
Conveners: Bruce E. Taylor, Geological Survey of Canada, btaylor@nrcan.gc.ca;
Charlie Mandeville, American Museum of Natural History, cmandy@amnh.org;
GS02 - Light Stable Isotope Ratio Standards Metrology: Recent Advances
and Needs Assessment (Joint With V).
Conveners: Donna B. Klinedinst, National Institute of Standards and
Technology, donna.klinedinst@nist.gov;
M01 - Elastic Properties of Materials at High Pressure and Temperature
(Joint With MRP, SEDI, T, V)
Conveners Baosheng Li, SUNY at Stony Brook, Baosheng.Li@sunysb.edu;
M02 - Characterizing Organic and Inorganic Hydrothermal Systems (Joint
With GS, V).
Conveners: Anurag Sharma, Carnegie Institution of Washington, sharma@gl.ciw.edu;
Przemyslaw Dera, Carnegie Institution of Washington, pdera@gl.ciw.edu;
Sediments (Joint With GS, V).
Conveners: Alexander van Geen, Columbia University, avangeen@ldeo.columbia.edu;
Larry C. Peterson, University of Miami, peterson@rsmas.miami.edu;
P02 - New Views of the Moon (Joint With GS, P, V)
Conveners: Brad Joliff, Washington University, blj@levee.wust1.edu;
Carle Pieters, Brown University, Carle_Pieters@brown.edu;
S04 - How Rifting Worked in Northeastern North America (Joint With GS,
T, V).
Conveners: Vadim Levin, Yale University, vadim@geology.yale.edu; Bill
Menke, Columbia University, menke@ldeo.columbia.edu; Paul Olsen, Columbia
University, polsen@ldeo.columbia.edu;
S06 - The Structure and Early Evolution of Cratons (Joint With GS, T,
V).
Conveners: Paul Silver, Carnegie Institution of Washington, silver@dtm.ciw.edu;
Rob van der Hilst, hilst@mit.edu;
Steve Shirey
Spring Meeting Committee
(4) 2001 AGU FELLOWS SPONSORED BY VGP
Congratulations to the following VGP members who were elected AGU Fellows
this year.
Reinhard Boehler, Max-Planck Institüt für Chemie,
Mainz, GERMANY
Henry Elderfield, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, ENGLAND
Ross W. Griffiths, Australian National University, Canberra,
AUSTRALIA (joint nomination T and VGP)
Timothy L. Grove, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
Massachusetts USA
William M. White, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York USA
Bernard J. Wood, University of Bristol, Bristol, ENGLAND
(5) FALL MEETING BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARDS
Congratulations are due to the following VGP members for winning the
best student paper awards at the Fall 2000 AGU meeting.
Stephanie G. Prejean, Stanford University.
Earthquake Relocations and Stress Inversions in the Long Valley Caldera,
California
John D. Rogie, Pennsylvania State University.
Measurement and Analysis of Diffuse Degassing of Magmatic CO2 at Mammoth
Mountain, California 1997-2000
Constanza Bonadonna, University of Bristol.
The 17 June 1996 Fall Deposit from Ruapehu Volcano, NZ: Grainsize and
Volume Considerations and Modeling of Sedimentation from the Eruption Plume.
Alan Koenig, Colorado State University
Inclusions and Chemical Heterogeneities in Garnet: Problems Pitfalls
and Potential for Sm-Nd Geochronology
Roger Nielsen
Education/Outreach Committee Chair
(6) G-CUBED ALERT SERVICE
G-cubed, the electronic journal of Geochemistry, Geophysics and Geosystems
has an alert system, to which interested readers may subscribe. The
service automatically sends out an e-mail notification every time
a G-cubed paper comes out. Visit http://g-cubed.org and click on Subscriptions-Alerts
for details.
Hubert Staudigel
Publications Committee Chair
(7) ANNOUNCEMENT OF MOLECULAR MODELING SHORT COURSE
The Geochemical Society and the Mineralogical Society of America are
sponsoring a short course in molecular modeling before the May 2001 Goldschmidt
Conference. The short course will be held at the Roanoke Hotel and Conference
Center in Roanoke, Virginia, USA. The short course begins with a welcoming
party on Friday evening, May 18, 2001, and continues through the morning
of Sunday, May 20. Complete information for this course can be found by
visiting the short course website (http://www.sandia.gov/eesector/GScourse.htm)
or by sending a request for information to Dr. Randall Cygan (rtcygan@sandia.gov).
(8) CHAPMAN CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
"Explosive Subaqueous Volcanism" January 2002, Dunedin, New Zealand
(dates not yet fixed: 5 days including mid-meeting field trip)
Conveners:
J.D.L. White
University of Otago
PO Box 56
Dunedin, New Zealand 9015
+64 3 479-7519; Fax: +64 3 479-7527
james.white@otago.ac.nz
B.F. Houghton
Department of Geology and Geophysics
1680 East West Road
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
(808) 956 2561; Fax: (808) 956 5512
bhought@soest.hawaii.edu
Programme Committee (with approximate session focus):
K.V. Cashman (University of Oregon): Models of submarine magmatic eruptions.
K. Wohletz (Los Alamos Nat'l Lab): Models of submarine phreatomagmatism.
J. Smellie (British Antarctic Survey): Subglacial eruptions and deposits
I. Skilling (Southern Mississippi): Poster session.
D. Clague (Monterey Bay Aquarium): Modern seafloor hyaloclastite deposits.
K. Kano (Geological Survey of Japan): Young submarine pyroclastic deposits.
R. Cas (Monash Univ., Australia): Ancient submarine pyroclastic deposits.
W. Mueller (U. Quebec - Chicoutimi): Archean submarine pyroclastic deposits.
The purpose of this Chapman Conference is to bring together volcanologists,
geophysicists and marine geoscientists with interests in the formation
of clastic volcanogenic successions on the modern seafloor and in ancient
successions, and in the processes and significance of explosive subaqueous
eruptions in seafloor settings. Formation of subaqueous pyroclastic deposits
is an important topic that has received little mainstream volcanological
attention. It is scarcely addressed in
volcanological texts yet, because of the preservation bias in favor
of sub-wavebase marine deposits in the geological record, it is likely
that deposits of subaqueous explosive eruptions exceed in volume and economic
significance those of subaerial ones. The aim of the conference is to foster
better communication among these groups of scientists, and to provide an
opportunity for recent research results to be presented in a forum in which
there is scope to develop new perspectives and directions for future collaborative
research by interested scientists from a range of backgrounds. The
role of explosivity in subaqueous eruptions, particularly in the sea and
at large scales, is a topic of both high interest and acknowledged disagreement.
A better understanding of the abundance, size and style of subaqueous,
particularly submarine, eruptions has practical implications, both for
minerals exploration and for our understanding of hazardous natural processes.
Dr. Richard S. Fiske will give the conference Keynote Address. The goal of his keynote address will be to outline the body of evidence for the nature of large magnitude subaqueous explosive eruptions, to highlight important open questions, and to provide an update of his most recent work on the submarine caldera of Miyoke-jima.
The Conference will include four and a half days of presentations and
discussions with a mid-meeting field trip devoted to examining seacliff
exposures of early Cenozoic subaqueous surtseyan deposits. The first day
will focus on discussions of physical controls of subaqueous explosivity,
and on lessons learned from studies of observed shoaling eruptions. The
second day will examine evidence from marine studies of the deposits of
subaqueous eruptions, and from studies of recently uplifted onland equivalents.
The third day will open with short formal introductions to posters by poster
authors, then continue with a fieldtrip. Day four of the conference will
address ancient deposits and mineralization. The last day will focus on
integration and synthesis by considering both the consistencies and incongruities
among information from modern, ancient, analytical and experimental studies.
Posters will be installed the first day and remain available for viewing
in an area adjoining the meeting area throughout the conference.
