August 2003
VGP Section Newsletter#13
Dear Colleagues,
The primary aim of this issue of the VGP quarterly newsletter is to highlight
the variety of awards within AGU that are open to VGP members. Please
take the time to think of candidates who are worthy of nomination. In addition,
the latest Fall Meeting information is included at the end of the newsletter.
Please address any comments or suggestions for future issue to fagents@hawaii.edu.
In this issue:
(1) Union Medals and Awards
(2) Call for Nominations for AGU Fellows
(3) Call for Bowen Award Nominations
(4) Call for Macelwane Medal Nominations
(5) A Message from your Fall Meeting Program Committee Representatives
(1) UNION MEDALS AND AWARDS
A note to VGP members - there are several Union medals and awards in
addition to the Macelwane and Fellows that may be appropriate for VGP members,
as listed below. If you know any worthy candidates, I encourage you
to visit the AGU Honors web page to find out details of the nominations process.
The Athelstan Spilhaus Award recognizes members of the American Geophysical
Union who have devoted portions of their lives to expressing the excitement,
significance, and beauty of the Earth and space sciences to the general public.
The William Bowie Medal is given for outstanding contributions to fundamental
geophysics and for unselfish cooperation in research, one of the guiding
principles of AGU. The Harry H. Hess Medal honors outstanding achievements
in research of the constitution and evolution of Earth and sister planets.
The Walter H. Bucher Medal recognizes original contributions to the basic
knowledge of the Earth's crust [every other year - next 2004]
(2) CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR AGU FELLOWS
The deadline for nomination for AGU Fellows is October 1, 2003, and I encourage
you to nominate deserving colleagues. Guidelines for nomination can be accessed
at AGU's web site at www.agu.org/inside/fellguides.html. Our section
has been very successful over the past several years, and the committee would
very much like to build on it. In addition to the AGU web site, inquiries
can be addressed to nshimizu@whoi.edu.
Nobu Shimizu, VGP Fellows Committee Chair
(3) CALL FOR BOWEN AWARD NOMINATIONS
Nominations for the Norman L. Bowen Award 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.
Rebecca Lange
(4) CALL FOR MACELWANE MEDAL NOMINATIONS
Nominations are sought for the Macelwane medal, which recognizes significant
contributions to the geophysical sciences by an outstanding young scientist
(less than 36 years of age in the year the award is given). If you know of
such an outstanding young scientist, please send your recommendation with
a brief summary of why you think this person is deserving of the award to
the committee at the address below. Further information is available
at http://www.agu.org/inside/awardnom.html. Nominations are due by October
15.
Michael Garcia (mogarcia@hawaii.edu) for the VGP Macelwane Award Committee
(5) A MESSAGE FROM YOUR FALL MEETING PROGRAM COMMITTEE REPRESENTATIVES
Fall AGU promises to be a great meeting. With the move to Moscone West,
there will again be 23 rooms for oral sessions (compared to 19 in 2002),
and so the oral/poster ratio should increase from last year.
There are a wide range of special sessions in VGP this year:
- V00 General Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology Contributions
- V01 Centennial Celebration of Radioisotopic Geochronology: Dates, Rates, and New Debates
- V02 The Growth and Collapse of Hawaiian Volcanoes
- V03 Melting of the Mantle and Formation of Basalt Magmas: Experiments, Field Studies, and Models
- V04 Modeling Metamorphism
- V05 Many Facets of Garnet: Recorders of Crust and Mantle Dynamics
- V06 Volcanic Emissions to the Troposphere: Fluxes, Feedbacks, Impacts
- V07 Isotopic Constraints on Rates of Building Active Volcanoes
- V08 Light Element Geochemistry: Insights Into High-Temperature Processes
- V09 Birth, Growth, and Death of Magmatic Arcs: Comparisons Among Arcs in Different Settings
- V10 Crustal and Mantle Processes in Ophiolites and Ocean Crust Generation
- V11 Rift Zones on Volcanic Islands: Structure, Evolution, and Magmatic Processes
- V12 The Origins of Hot Spots, LIPS, Seamount Chains and Volcanic Ridges
- V13 U-series in Continental Environments: Soils, River, and Ground Waters
- V14 Modern Trends in Petrography: Textural and Microanalysis of Igneous Rocks
- V15 The First Historical Eruption of Anatahan Volcano, Mariana Islands
- V16 Medical Mineralogy
- V17 New Frontiers in High-Pressure Research
- V18 State of the Art in Theory of Materials: Methods and Applications
The following Union sessions may also be of particular interest to the VGP membership.
- U02 The Contributions of 20 Years of Scientific Ocean Drilling
- U08 The Core-Mantle Boundary: Theoretical, Experimental, and Observational Constraints
- U09 Evolution of Biogeochemical Cycles
Additionally, VGP will also co-sponsor many sessions from other sections.
For more complete descriptions of all sessions see http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm03/fm03_ApprovedSessions.html
If your contribution does not fit well into one of the special sessions,
please submit your abstract to the general session (V00). Such contributions
will be organized into topical sessions by the Program Committee.
The abstract deadline is September 4 at 1400 GMT. Also
note that the AGU web submission tool will not allow you to submit an abstract
unless your AGU membership is current or unless you are sponsored by a current
member. You must renew your membership by August 27 in order to use
the abstract web tool.
Marc Hirschmann University of Minnesota
Tom Sisson USGS-Menlo Park
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