Here is the spring issue of the Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology section newsletter. As usual, suggestions for
future issues can be sent to fagents@asu.edu.
 

In this issue:

 (1) A message from the VGP president and president elect
 (2) Call for session at the Fall 2001 AGU Meeting
 (3) 2001 Hess Medal recipient
 (4) Update on Chapman Conference on Explosive Subaqueous Volcanism
 (5) VGP website

Fred A Frey, President (fafrey@mit.edu)
Kathy Cashman, President Elect (cashman@oregon.uoregon.edu)
 

(2) CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS AT FALL 2001 AGU MEETING
Please be reminded that the deadline for the submission of special sessions to the Fall AGU meeting is 25 May. Members of VGP are strongly encouraged to help guarantee the success of the 2001 Fall meeting by providing suggestions for special sessions. Sessions may be at a section, intersection of Union level.

Requested information is,

• the title of the session,
• a few lines describing the aims and anticipated contents of the session,
• the names and contact addresses of the conveners (+ email addresses).

D B Dingwell (dingwell@petro1.min.uni-muenchen.de)
VGP Secretary and Fall Meeting Chair

(3) 2001 HESS MEDAL RECIPIENT

Congratulations are due to Al Hofmann (VGP Fellows Committee Chair), who was awarded the  2001 Harry H. Hess Medal by AGU for his outstanding contributions to the geochemistry and dynamics of the Earth's mantle. This award will be presented to Al at the Fall San Francisco  meeting.

(4) UPDATE ON CHAPMAN CONFERENCE ON EXPLOSIVE SUBAQUEOUS VOLCANISM

January 21-25, 2002, Dunedin, New Zealand

Conveners:

James D. L. White, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Bruce F. Houghton, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii

Program Committee:

Ray Cas, Monash University, Australia
Kathy Cashman, University of Oregon, Portland, Oregon
David Clague, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA
Kazuhiko Kano, Geological Survey of Japan, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Wulf Mueller, University of Quebec at Chicoutimi, Canada
Ian Skilling, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS
John Smellie, British Antarctic Survey
Ken Wohletz, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM

The conference will bring together volcanologists, geophysicists and marine geoscientists with interests in the processes and significance of explosive subaqueous eruptions in seafloor settings, and in the formation of clastic volcanogenic successions on the modern seafloor and in ancient successions. The conference will foster better communication among these groups of scientists, and 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.

• Magmatic Processes: Physical Models and Limiting Observations
• Phreatomagmatic Processes: Physical Models and Limiting Observations
• Shoaling and Subglacial Eruptions and Deposits
• Basaltic Shallow Subaqueous Eruptions and Deposition
• Basaltic Modern Deep Seafloor Deposits
• Young Pyroclastic Deposits of Evolved Magmas
• Deposits and Processes of Ancient Subaqueous Eruptions

The conveners are currently planning for four and a half days of presentations with a mid-meeting field trip devoted to examining seacliff exposures of early Cenozoic subaqueous surtseyan deposits. There will be morning, afternoon, and evening sessions. Posters will be put up at the beginning of the conference and remain available for viewing and discussion throughout the conference.

Travel Support: October 1, 2001

Applications are being made to several U.S. agencies to support travel of conference participants. Graduate students and young scientists will receive priority for funding. Application information can be obtained from the AGU website: www.agu.org

Additional information and program content as topics are developed will be available at www.agu.org/meetings/chapman.html. To be placed on a mailing list, send an e-mail to meetinginfo@agu.org