February 2006
VGP Section Newsletter #23
Dear Colleagues,
Here is the first VGP Section Newsletter of the new
year. Archives are found at
http://vgp.agu.org. Feedback is welcome at
fagents@hawaii.edu.
In this issue:
* Message from the President
* New AGU Fellows
* 2005 AGU Fall Meeting Outstanding
Student Presentations
* 2006 Joint Assembly, Baltimore, MD,
23-25 May
-Abstract submission
information
-Sessions of interest
-Daly Lecture, Roberta
Rudnick
-Dana Lecture and symposium
IMPORTANT
DEADLINES:
(1) MESSAGE
FROM THE PRESIDENT
New AGU Fellows for 2006 have been announced. In item (2) of
this Newsletter we list those who have a primary or secondary
affiliation with VGP. Alex Halliday (chair) and members of the
VGP Fellows Committee (
http://vgp.agu.org)
have done a superb job of soliciting nominations and sending a
strong slate forward to the AGU Fellows Committee.
Congratulations, Fellows!
The Fall Meeting set a new attendance record. As usual, VGP
had a major presence in San Francisco. Student presentations
assigned to VGP totaled 286. Vincent Salters assembled a large
team of volunteers to judge talks and posters in order to make
Outstanding Student Presentation Awards announced in item (3)
below. I want to personally thank Vincent and the judges for
contributing their time and expertise to this important effort.
One of the benefits of being VGP President is the opportunity to
select the person who will give the annual Daly Lecture. Named
for Reginald Daly (1871-1957;
http://www.agu.org/inside/awards/daly.html),
the lecture is VGP's member of the AGU Bowie lecture series and is
traditionally given at the spring meeting. The 2006 Daly Lecture,
"Geochemical insights into continental dynamics", will be presented at
the 23-26 May Joint Assembly by
Professor
Roberta Rudnick of the University of Maryland. A list of
past Daly lecturers can be found at
http://vgp.agu.org. The 2006 Joint Assembly
should be of interest to many VGP members. The program and
special events are described in item (4) below by Joe Pyle, VGP Program
Chair. Don't miss the reception planned to be jointly sponsored
by VGP Section, MRP Focus Group, Mineralogical Society of America,
Geochemical Society, and Microbeam Analytical Society. A 2005
Bowen Award will be presented to Bob Bodnar at the reception.
—Charles R.
Bacon, VGP President
(2) NEW AGU
FELLOWS
The number of new AGU Fellows elected in any year is limited to 0.1% of
the total membership. From the nominations submitted to the VGP
Fellows Committee by AGU for consideration as either VGP or joint with
VGP for 2006, eight were approved by the Union Fellows Committee.
Congratulations from the VGP Executive Committee to the following new
Fellows of AGU (primary affiliation in parentheses) who were elected on
the 14th of January 2006:
Robert
J. Bodnar (VGP), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University, Blacksburg
Michael
F. Hochella Jr. (VGP), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University, Blacksburg
Richard
M. Iverson (H), U.S. Geological Survey, Cascades Volcano
Observatory
Catherine
A. McCammon (MRP), Universität Bayreuth
Harry
Y. McSween Jr. (P), University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Eiji
Ohtani (MRP), Tohoku University, Sendai
Roger
E. Summons (B), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Colin
J. N. Wilson (VGP), University of Auckland
(3) 2005 AGU
FALL MEETING OUTSTANDING STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
At the 2005 Fall meeting 286 of the 919 presentations within VGP were
given by students. Of those 286 presentations six have been
chosen for Outstanding Student Presentation Awards. The award
consists out of a certificate from AGU as well as one hundred dollars
credit towards future AGU expenditures. The Fall 2005 awardees
are:
Tanya
Lubetskaya, Yale University, for "Composition of Earth's Mantle
and its Variance", Coauthor: Korenaga, J
Matt
Jackson, MIT-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program,
for "Implications of new High 3He/4He Values from the Samoan Hotspot",
Coauthors: Kurz, M D, Hart, S R, Workman, R
Jeremy
Boyce, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for "A Comparison
of Excimer Laser Microprobe (U-Th)/He and Conventional Laser-Heating
(U-Th)/He Thermochronometry", Coauthors: Hodges, K V, Olszewski, W J,
Jercinovic, M J, Carpenter, B, Reiners, P W
Dana
Vukajlovich, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, for " Helium
and Carbon Isotope and Relative Abundance Relationships in Lau Basin
Basalts: Resolving Mantle Source Composition from Degassing and
Contamination Effects", Coauthors: Hilton, D R, Castillo, P R, Hawkins,
J W
Ma.
Edweena Joan Alincastre Cabato, Mineralogisches Institut,
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, for "Light Elements in
Plagioclase Phenocrysts of the Nea Kameni Dacites: What do they say
about processes during and after crystallization, and just how fast
crystallization can take place", Coauthors: Altherr, R, Ludwig, T
Chloe Michaut, Institute de
Physique du Globe, Paris, for "A new Model for Crystallization and
Differentiation in Magma Chambers", Coauthor: Jaupart, C.
---Vincent Salters,VGP Education/Outreach Chair
(4) 2006 JOINT
ASSEMBLY
The 2006 Joint Assembly, to be held in Baltimore, MD, 23-26 May, arises
from the combined efforts of the AGU membership as well as the Society
for Exploration Geophysics, Geochemical Society, Microbeam Analytical
Society, and the Mineralogical Society of America. The breadth of
interests displayed by the VGP special sessions reflects the
multi-disciplinary nature of the meeting, and as VGP program chair, I
am encouraging you to submit an abstract to one of the VGP special
sessions running at the 2006 JA; session titles and conveners are given
below.
ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS
The online abstract submission tool at http://www.agu.org/meetings/ja06/
is now available.
DEADLINE for electronic abstract submission is 1 March 2006, 2359
UT there are no exceptions to this deadline. The session search
tool is now available at
http://www.agu.org/meetings/ja06/?content=program.
Descriptions of all special sessions are listed at this site
SESSIONS OF INTEREST
V01:
General Contributions,
Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology
V02:
Origin, Behavior, And The Role of
Magmatic Sulfur in Terrestrial Planets: Theoretical, Experimental and
Observational Constraints (John Mavrogenes, ANU; Bruno Scaillet,
CNRS-ISTO)
V03:
Thermal State Of The Mantle: Hotspots,
Plumes, And Mantle Dynamics (Keith Putirka, CSU Fresno; Peter
Van Keken, Michigan)
V04:
Evolution of the Early Earth
(Nancy Chabot, Johns Hopkins; Elizabeth Cottrell, GL- CIW)
V05:
Tracing deep-Earth Processes With
Light Elements: Insights Into the Evolution of the Crust, the Mantle
and Magmas >From B, Li and Be Isotope and Abundance Systematics
(Roberta Rudnick, Maryland; Jeffrey Ryan, South Florida)
V06:
Environmental Mineralogy (Peter
Heaney, Penn State; Jeffrey Post; NMNH-SI)
V07:
Crustal Melts at Low Temperatures
(David London, Oklahoma; Mona-Liza Sirbescu, Central Michigan)
V08:
Sulfur in the Earth System: Insights
Into Evolution of Surface Environments and Secrets of the Deep Earth
(David Johnston and Sarah Penniston-Dorland, Maryland)
V09:
Biosignatures: Distinguishing Biology
from Abiological Look-Alikes (Albert Coleman, Maryland; Penny
Morrill and Shuhei Ono, GL-CIW)
V10:
Frontiers of Hydrothermal
Geochemistry: Organic Inorganic Interactions From Deep Crust to
Volcanic Systems (George Cody; GL-CIW; Anurag Sharma, RPI)
V11:
Earth's Carbon Cycle: Sources,
Recycling Pathways, and Geochemical Evolution (Jennifer
Eigenbrode and Marilyn Fogel, GL-CIW; Alison Shaw, WHOI; Steven Shirey,
DTM-CIW)
The following Union Sessions and Union Lectures may also be of
interest to the VGP membership:
U02:
Thermodynamic Variables in Magmatic and Metamorphic Processes in the
Terrestrial Planets: Theoretical, Experimental, and Observational
Constraints (Keith Putirka, CSU Fresno; James Luhr, NMNH-SI;
Richard White, Melbourne; Douglas Tinkham, Laurentian, conveners)
U07:
Evolution of the Andes -- Geodynamics, Magmatism, Landscapes and
Climate along the Andean Cordillera (Jon Davidson, University of
Durham; Adrian Hartley, University of Aberdeen, conveners)
U08:
Fluids in the Earth (Phil Piccoli, University of Maryland; Adam
Simon, UNLV, conveners)
The session will start with an overview
of fluids in the Earth by the 2005 N. L. Bowen Award recipient, Bob
Bodnar (Virginia Tech).
U11:
Microanalysis: Small Beams, Big Science (Heather Lowers, USGS;
Jennifer Jackson, GL-CIW; Mike Jercinovic, UMass; John Hanchar,
Memorial, conveners). This session is co-convened by VGP, MSA, MB, and
MR. Contributions will participate in a poster session that will
complement an oral session composed of seven invited papers.
DALY LECTURE
This year's Daly Lecture will be presented by Roberta Rudnick, University of
Maryland, and is titled "Geochemical insights into continental
dynamics".
DANA LECTURE AND SYMPOSIUM
Mineralogical Society of America Dana Lecture and Dana Symposium
(MO4) (Alex Navrotsky, UC Davis, and Lumin Wang, University of
Michigan, conveners):
To celebrate the award of the MSA Dana medal to Professor Rodney C. Ewing
(University of Michigan), the conveners plan a broadly based session on
topics relevant to his interdisciplinary research that extends beyond
traditional mineralogy to physics, materials science and nuclear
engineering. The symposium is paired with the Dana Lecture (one of
several Union Lectures to be held at the 2006 JA) by Professor Ewing,
which is entitled "Plutonium, Mineralogy & Radiation Effects".
I hope your efforts will join those of the special session
conveners in making the VGP sessions diverse, well-attended, and full
of intellectual exchange and lively (but good spirited!) debate. I look
forward to seeing you in Baltimore at the 2006 JA.
---Joe Pyle, VGP
Program Chair, 2006 Joint Assembly
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