(1) VGP at the Spring Meeting 2003
(2) 2003 VGP AGU Fellows
(3) AGU  Hawaiian Volcanoes  Monograph Wins Award
(4) Call for VGP Articles for Eos
(5) Call for Bowen Award Nominations
(6) Call for Fall Meeting Special Session Proposals
(7) 2002 Fall Meeting Outstanding Student Presentations

The Spring Meeting in 2003 is a Joint Assembly with the EGS and EUG (which organizations now have combined as the EGU); it will be held in Nice, France, 07 - 11 April 2003.

The scientific program is available from the EGS web site (or via the AGU web site under  Meetings ) at http://www.copernicus.org/EGS/egsga/nice03/programme/overview.htm (sessions of potential interest to VGP Members are listed under VGP and under TS).

The Daly lecture by Claude Jaupart of the Laboratoire de Dynamique des Systemes Geologiques, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris is on Tuesday 8 April at 1930, in the Apollo room.

The deadline for pre-registration, pre-reservation of accommodation and participation in the Exhibition is 07 March 2003 (see http://www.copernicus.org/egsagueug/index.html)

Michael Brown, University of Maryland, Spring Mtg.Chair

Congratulations go to the following VGP members who were elected AGU Fellows in 2003.

R. Carlson (CIW)
Eiji Ito (Okayama-U, Japan)
L. Labeyrie (Orsay, France)
O. Phillips (Johns Hopkins)
B.L.K.Somayajulu (Phys. Res. Lab., India)

AGU's Geophysical Monograph 128, "Hawaiian Volcanoes, Deep Underwater Perspectives  won the award for 2002's best book in Geography and Earth Science by the Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers. This book was edited by Takahashi, Lipman, Garcia, Naka and Aramaki, all of whom are VGP members, and offers 25 contributions on bathymetry, the submarine geology of the Hawaiian Islands, geochemistry and geophysics. The book also contains a very useful CD with digital files of data, maps and images. Congrats to the editors and the many authors for a job done well!

Eos Editor Paul Renne encourages ideas (and more importantly, authors) for VGP-related articles for Eos. To volunteer, please contact him at prenne@bgc.org or +1 510 644 1350. Renne reports a very poor success rate in getting book reviews, even after getting "firm" promises. Anyone who would be interested in reviewing new books is urged to contact him.

This is the first announcement that solicits nominations for the Norman L. Bowen Award, which are due on October 1, 2003. The award is given annually for outstanding contributions to volcanology, geochemistry or petrology . The contribution may be: (1) a single outstanding paper published in any journal; (2) a series of papers which, taken together, constitute an outstanding contribution; or (3) any other contribution that the Selection Committee considers worthy. Special consideration is given to nominees who have not previously received a medal.

The nomination file should include: (1) a nominating letter from a colleague, (2) a CV for the candidate, (3) a list of publications for the candidate, (4) three letters of recommendation (no more or less) from colleagues that are neither from the candidate's current institution nor from the candidate's Ph.D. institution. Nominations should be sent to Rebecca Lange, 2534 C.C. Little Bldg, Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1063.

The 2003 Fall meeting will once again be the main meeting for the AGU in general and for the Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology (VGP) section members. I think that many of you will agree that interesting and timely special sessions significantly enhance the quality of the Fall AGU meeting experience. As Chair of the Fall Meeting committee I want to urge you to consider contributing a proposal for a special session, either at the Section, Inter-Section or Union level. You may submit your suggestions to the AGU via your section representative (i.e., me). The deadline for proposals is May 20, but it's not too soon to begin germinating ideas, talking to potential co-conveners, etc. Never done it before? It's easy, fun, and rewarding - just email me and I'll help you get started.

Marc Hirschmann, Marc.M.Hirschmann-1@umn.edu

There were just over 170 student presentations at the 2002 Fall Meeting, and we made six awards for outstanding papers. The awards will be publicized in an upcoming issue of EOS.

Thanks goes to all those that judged the presentations.

The presentations and awardees are:

V22A-1213 Edward J. KOHUT (kohute@geo.orst.edu) and Roger L Nielsen, Cooling Rate and Isothermal Crystallization Effects on Melt Inclusion Formation in MORB High-An Feldspar and High-Fo Olivine. (Dept. of Geosciences, Oregon State University)

V22A-1218 Zachary D. ATLAS (zatlas@rsmas.miami.edu), Gautam Sen, Michael Finny, Jacqueline E. Dixon, Melt Inclusion from Volcán Colima and Popocatépetl: melt generation by combined fractionation and degassing. (Department of Marine Geology and Geophysics, University of Miami)

V22B-1234 Matthew S. FANTLE (mfantle@eps.berkeley.edu) and Donald J. DePaolo, The Isotopic Composition of Continental Iron and Implications for the Global Iron Cycle. Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science, UC Berkeley.

V52C-1297 Amitava GANGOPADHYAY (amitava@geol.umd.edu), Richard J. Walker, and Eero Hanski, A Comparative Os Isotopic Study of University of Maryland)

V61C-10 Jeffrey G. CATALANO (catalano@pangea.stanford.edu), John M Zachara, Steve M Heald, and Gordon E Brown, AFX-ray Spectroscopic Investigation of the Distribution and Speciation of Uranium in Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University)

V72A-1283 Jonathan Z. KAYE (jzkaye@ocean.washington.edu), and John A Baross Salinity, pressure and heavy-metal stress response of moderately halophilic bacteria isolated from hydrothermal-vent environments. (School of Oceanography, University of Washington)

Congratulations to all.

Vincent Salters, Education/Outreach Chair