May 2005
VGP Section Newsletter #20
Dear Colleagues,
Here is the May issue of the AGU VGP Newsletter.
Current and past issues are archived at http://vgp.agu.org. Please submit feedback or suggestions
for future news items to Sarah Fagents at fagents@hawaii.edu .
In this issue:
(1) Message from VGP President
- AGU Honors and
Recognition in 2006
- Thanks to Tom Sisson
and Jonathan Castro
(2) New Orleans
Joint Assembly, 23-27 May, 2005
(3) Fall Meeting, 5-9 December, 2005
(4) AGU Chapman Conference on Volcano-Tectonics, 16-20
November, 2005, Philippines
(1) MESSAGE FROM VGP PRESIDENT
* AGU Honors and Recognition in 2006 -- Nominations for the 2006 Fellowship and Union
medals and awards will be due October 1 (Fellows) and 15 (the rest),
2005. The VGP Fellows, Macelwane, and Union Awards Committees (http://vgp.agu.org/committee.html)
will be soliciting nominations in the coming months. Contributed
nominations also are encouraged. Now is the time to get started.
You may be surprised at how many Union honors could
be awarded to VGP members (http://www.agu.org/inside/insidaguhn.html). I urge
potential nominators to get advice from members or chairs of VGP committees
whose charge is to ensure that the section is well represented at AGU awards ceremonies.
VGP committee chairs are Alex Halliday (Fellows; alexh@earth.ox.ac.uk), John
Eiler (Macelwane Medal; eiler@gps.caltech.edu), and Sidney Hemming (Union
Medals; sidney@ldeo.columbia.edu).
* Thanks -- I want to take this opportunity to thank Tom Sisson for
helping to organize VGP sessions at the last two Fall Meetings. The size
of the Fall Meeting has necessitated having help for our Secretary with this important
task that involves encouraging people to submit proposals for special sessions,
as well as trips to AGU Headquarters in Washington
to organize presentation titles in order to create the Fall Meeting program.
Tom sorted through countless abstracts, started many session conveners on their
way to being on the program in San
Francisco in 2003 or 2004, and provided continuity
between Secretaries Marc Hirschmann and James Brenan. VGP owes Tom a
hearty Thank You for behind-the-scenes work that is crucial to our
participation and visibility at the Fall Meeting. Jonathan Castro
(Smithsonian Institution) has generously agreed to take over from Tom and help
James Brenan organize VGP for the 2005 Fall Meeting.
Charlie Bacon
VGP President
(2) NEW ORLEANS
JOINT ASSEMBLY, 23-27 MAY, 2005
VGP will have two special events at the Joint
Assembly. The first is the Daly Lecture, this year to be given by Calvin
Miller: "Transport, storage, deposition, and remobilization of felsic
magmas and their products in the upper crust." Following the Daly
Lecture on Tuesday, May 24, VGP, Planetary Sciences, Seismology, and Tectonophysics
sections are jointly hosting a reception ("business meeting") to
celebrate 2005 Fellows and awardees. Traditional refreshments will be
provided - snacks and free beer until we run out, followed by the usual cash
bar.
Sessions at the Joint Assembly of interest to VGP members
include the following - scheduling details for these sessions are available on
the meeting web site www.agu.org/meetings/sm05/ :
VGP sessions
V01: Volcanology and Geochemistry General Contributions
V03: The Growth And Evolution Of Large Silicic Magma Bodies
V04: Connecting Slabs to Volcanic Arcs and the Mantle:
Recent Advances in the Petrology and Geochemistry Of Subduction-Related
Rocks.
V05: Physical and Chemical Properties of the Lower(most)
Mantle
V06: Interpreting Volcaniclastic Sediments
V07: Morphology, Mixing, and Melting of the Sub-Hotspot
Mantle--from the Asthenosphere to D''
V08: Volcano Hydrology
V09: Mantle Heterogeneities: Geochemistry, Dynamics, and
Length Scales
V10: Mechanisms of Activity, Unrest and Hazard Evaluation at
Large Collapse Calderas
Sessions cosponsored by VGP
G06: Wireless Sensor Networks for Earth Process
Characterization and Natural Hazard Mitigation
G07: Surface Deformation on Active and Quiescent
Stratovolcanoes: Cyclic Deformation, Pre- and Post-Eruption Signals, and
Relationship to Magmatic Processes
MR01 Mineral and Rock Physics General Contributions
NS05: Near Surface Geophysics Applied to Geologic Hazards
T03: The Ocean-Continent Transition at Rifted Continental
Margins: What Is It, How Is It Formed And How Do We Locate It?
Union sessions of special interest to VGP members
U01: External Triggering of Natural Disasters
U06: A New Phase Change in the Earth's Deep Mantle: What
Does this Mean for the Rest of Us?
(3) AGU FALL MEETING, DECEMBER 5-9, 2005
It's not too early to start thinking about possible special
sessions for the Fall 2005 Meeting. In the next few months there will be
a call for special session proposals, so keep an eye on the AGU website (www.agu.org).
James Brenan
VGP Secretary
(4) AGU CHAPMAN CONFERENCE ON VOLCANO-TECTONICS
From: Alfredo Mahar Francisco A. Lagmay
<mlagmay@nigs.upd.edu.ph> International Geoscience Programme
UNESCO-IUGS-IGCP n. 455
"Effects of basement, structures and stratigraphic
heritages on volcano behaviour" 16-20 November 2005, Philippines
*
Deadline for abstracts: 31 May 2005
: You are kindly invited to submit your work for oral or
poster presentation.
*
Scientific Focus: The basement can influence the evolution and behaviour of
volcanoes due to several possible factors. These factors can be mainly linked
to the geological, structural and geomorphological character of the basement and
can control the formation of intrusive and effusive complexes, dry and eruptive
fracture systems, calderas and sector collapses. Conversely, the volcanic
edifice can modify the character of its substratum. The extent of this
interplay between the volcano and the substratum is fundamental to our
understanding of the evolution of volcanoes. It is necessary for the proper
assessment of volcanic and related geologic hazards. This includes the
understanding of the reciprocal influence between volcanoes and their basement,
which may lead to tsunami-generating phenomena. With a wide variety of
volcanoes found in different geodynamic settings, a multidisciplinary approach
in the investigation of this topic is imperative. Research work in different
volcanic regions and geodynamic settings should be correlated. This meeting
will bring together researchers working with data collected in different
regions using diverse approaches to improve our understanding about the
interaction between volcanoes and their substratum.
* Conveners:
A. Tibaldi, University of Milan-Bicocca, Dept. Geological
Sciences and Geotechnologies,
Milan,
Italy
A.M.F. Lagmay, National Institute of Geological Sciences,
University of the
Philippines,
Diliman,
Quezon City, Philippines
Vera Ponomareva, Institute of Volcanic Geology and
Geochemistry,
Petropavlosk,
Russia
(Tectonics and Geodynamics Group, National Institute of
Geological Sciences, University of the
Philippines)
* Field Workshop:
A field workshop on Taal Caldera and the Macolod Corridor
will take place after the congress.
* Grants: Funding may be available for some IGCP 455 participants by
contacting the IGCP-455 Project Leader (A. Tibaldi). Submit your abstract
before 31 May 2005 to: alessandro.tibaldi@unimib.it together with a
detailed list of expected costs and eventual external funding. Normally, a
maximum of US$ 700 per person is available. Exceptional cases will be
considered based also on fund availability.
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