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Are You a Student Going tothe Cologne GoldschmidtConference?The Geochemical Societyprovides at least US$10,000 ofsupport annually to deservinginternational students attendingthe annual Goldschmidt Confer-ence.

For details and applicationrequirements, visit www.geochemsoc.org/announce/2007goldtravel.html.

Welcome, Drs. Fogeland Krishnaswami! Dr. Marilyn Fogel and Dr. SethKrishnaswami are the newestmembers of the GS board ofdirectors. Brief biographies andphotos are provided in thesidebar. For a full list of 2007committee officers visitwww.geochemsoc.org/aboutgs/personnel.html

Thank You foryour Contributions! Thank you to the members whodonated to the GeochemicalSociety in 2006. Although wehave always accepted donations,2006 marked the first year wewere proactive. Your response waswell received, as we raised nearlyUS$1700 from 42 members. For2007, we have added the optionto contribute online, either withyour membership renewal orsimply as a donation. If youwould like to make a donation tothe Geochemical Society, pleasevisit our website atwww.geochemsoc.org.

Contributions received betweenJanuary 1, 2006 and December31, 2006:

Prof. Robert C. AllerMr. Aria AmirbhmanProf. John AyersDr. Harald BiesterMr. Martin M. CassidyDr. Thure E. CerlingDr. William S. CorduaDr. Ghislaine CrozazDr. Henry DickDr. Geoffrey P. GlasbyDr. Robert T. GregoryDr. Gudmundur GudfinnssonDr. Jan HertogenProf. Bor-ming JahnDr. Blair F. JonesDr. Adam J.R. KentDr. Yousif K. KharakaProf. Yehoshua KolodnyDr. Rama K. KotraDr. Thomas KroghDr. Kenneth M. KrupkaMr. Mark J. LogsdonBarbara J. MacGregorJuraj MajzlanProf. Edmond A MathezProf. Alan MatthewsProf. William McDonoughProf. Valeria MurgulovDr. Klaus NeumannDr. Paul NorthrupDr. Lindsay P. OberemProf. Peggy A. O’DayDr. Radomir PetrovichDr. Erik ShererDr. Nobumichi ShimizuDr. E. Craig SimmonsDr. Brian J. SkinnerDr. Wolfgang SturhahnDr. Lawrence A. TaylorDr. Fangzhen TengDr. George R. TiltonDr. Yumiko Watanabe

Seth DavisGS Business Manager

NOTES FROM SAINT LOUIS

Listed below are sessionssponsored and cosponsored bythe Geochemical Society at theupcoming AGU Joint Assembly(Acapulco, Mexico, May 22–25,2007).

Sessions Sponsored bythe Geochemical Society(GS01) Geochemical Society generalcontributions

(GS02) Coastal Lagoons Geochemistryand Pollution

(GS03) Petrography, Microstructure,Textures, and Reactivity of SwellingClays

(GS04) The Role of Radioisotopesin Geologic Environments

(GS05) Fluid Geochemistry (associatedwith fluid–rock interactions, gasclathrate CO2 sequestration, andfluid inclusions)

(GS06) Uranium in the Environment

Sessions Cosponsored bythe Geochemical Society (U13) Global Geodynamics: Core,Mantle, and Crust

(H38) Natural Contaminants inGroundwater Resources: Occurrence,Geochemistry, Health, and Remedia-tion

(H40) Establishing the Scientific Basisfor Reliable Predictions of theGeochemical and HydrologicConsequences of Mining Projects

(PP04) East Pacific Tropical Cyclones:Past, Present, and Future (CiclonesTropicales del Pacifico Este : Pasado,Presente y Futuro)

(T06) Mexican and Central AmericanSubduction Zones: Bringing TogetherSeismology, Petrology, Geology,Tectonics, and Geodynamics

(V03) The Origin, Evolution, andTectonic Significance of CoevalMagmas of Differing Parentage

(V08) Diversity of the Subarc Mantle –Insights from Studies of PeridotiteXenoliths, Ophiolites and Metamor-phic Rocks from Subduction Zones

(V11) Deep Subduction Zone Meta-morphism and Rheology: Role of Fluids

(V18) High-Mg Andesites, Slab Melts,and Wedge Melts – Significance forCrustal Genesis

(V21) Volcanoes, Plutons, and OreDeposits: What’s the Connection?

(V23) Deep Drilling in Volcanic Areas:Developments in Volcanology andPerspectives for Geothermal EnergyExploitation

See www.agu.org/meetings/ja07for more information.

GEOCHEMISTRY AT THE SPRING AGU

Marilyn Fogel has been a staff scientist at theCarnegie Institution’s Geophysical Laboratory

since 1979. Her undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate research has spanned the spectrum of biolo-gy, chemistry, and geology. She graduated with hon-ors with a BS in biology from Pennsylvania StateUniversity and went on to get her PhD at the Univer-

sity of Texas Marine Science Institute. Fogel’s current research proj-ects include the following themes: astrobiology: distinguishing bioticfrom abiotic signatures; paleoclimate of Australia; isotopic composi-tion of nitrate as a tracer of denitrification; paleoecology of mangrovepeat islands in Belize; AMASE: Arctic Mars Analogue Svalbard Expedi-tion; and isotopic studies of organic matter in meteorites. Recentawards and honors include a Senior Specialist Fulbright Award in2006 (University of Oslo, Physics of Geological Processes), appoint-ment as a GS/EAG Fellow in 2003, and Mellon and Loeb Fellowshipsfrom 1999 to 2003.

Seth Krishnaswami graduated in chemistry fromthe University of Kerala, India (1960). After a year

of training at the Atomic Energy Training School, hejoined the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research(TIFR), Bombay (1964) and obtained a PhD (1974)from Bombay University. Krishnaswami moved to thePhysical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, in 1973,where he is currently a visiting professor. Krishnaswa-

mi is a fellow of all three scientific academies in India, the Third WorldAcademy of Sciences, AGU, and the Geochemical Society – EuropeanAssociation for Geochemistry. He received the S.S. Bhatnagar Prize(Earth Sciences, 1984) from the Council of Scientific and IndustrialResearch, India. Krishnaswami has served in a number of national andinternational scientific committees, including as an officer in the IGBP-SC, the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR). CurrentlyKrishnaswami is a member of the editorial boards of Geochimica etCosmochimica Acta, the Geochemical Journal, and the Journal of EarthSystem Science. Krishnaswami’s research interests include the applica-tion of natural radionuclides and radiogenic isotopes in the field oflow-temperature geochemical processes. He has also made significantcontributions to the understanding of marine and lacustrine ferro-manganese nodules. His current focus is chemical weathering in theriver basins of the Himalaya and the Deccan traps.

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17th ANNUAL GOLDSCHMIDT CONFERENCE, COLOGNE, GERMANY AUGUST 19–24, 2007

EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR GEOCHEMISTRY AND THE GEOCHEMICAL SOCIETYINCORPORATING THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE GERMAN MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY

The 17th annual V.M. Gold-

schmidt Conference will take

place August 19–24, 2007, on the

campus of the University of

Cologne in Germany. The local

organizing committee invites you

to come and discover the unique

blend of geology and culture that

Cologne has to offer. The

conference will be located in the

heart of Europe, and the organiz-

ing committee has striven to keep

costs low ( 310 for members and

200 for students), in order to

attract students and younger

scientists to this major crossroad

of transport, culture and, we

hope, geochemistry. Cologne: A Great Meeting Place Cologne is a great place for alarge meeting. Cologne is servedby two airports and is the hub oflow-cost flights in the region. Italso has excellent rail connec-tions to cities all over Europe.The university is one of thelargest in Germany, and we havebooked central facilities that canaccommodate the 2000 or moredelegates expected next August.Added to this, as the Romansdiscovered 2000 years ago, thiscity on the Rhine is a great placeto visit. It attracts millions ofvisitors each year looking toexplore the city and surroundingarea.

ProgramThe organizing committee andthe international programcommittee have been working onmaking the scientific content ofthe meeting the most excitingyet. Sixteen broad themes havebeen selected covering the fullrange of geochemical research,from the formation of the solarsystem to environmental research,and from biogeochemistry tomineralogy. Details of thesethemes and registration informa-tion are given on the Goldschmidt2007 website www.goldschmidt2007.org/.

The conference will begin lateafternoon on Sunday withregistration and an icebreaker inthe mensa building. Scientific

sessions will start at 8:30 a.m.on each of the following days.A plenary lecture each day willtrack the origin and evolution ofthe Earth, commencing at itsdusty beginning on Monday andconcluding with the appearanceof life on Friday. Late morningsand early afternoons will bedevoted to symposia in some 14lecture halls. Poster sessions willbe held in the late afternoon ofMonday, Tuesday and Thursday.An area of 1200 square meters onthe second floor of the mensabuilding will be reserved forposters, with beer from Cologne(Kölsch) on hand to facilitate thefree flow of ideas. Wednesdayafternoon will be free for visitingthe city and for short excursionsin the surrounding area, e.g. visitsto Bonn or the NeanderthalMuseum near Düsseldorf. Theconference dinner will be servedin the Gürzenich, the traditionalballroom and reception hall ofthe City Council (dating from1444), which was restored afterthe war and renovated in1996–1998. Award ceremonies ofthe sponsoring societies will beheld before the dinner. The twoCrafoord Prize winners in Earthsciences from 1986, C. J. Allègreand G. J. Wasserburg, havepromised to come to the meetingand address the audience. Theconference will end Friday after-noon with a farewell party. Detailsof the program are available onthe conference website (www.goldschmidt2007.org).

We look forward to seeing you all in Cologne.

H. Palme, S. Chakraborty,P. Kegler, A. Hofmann, C. Münker

www.goldschmidt2007.org

� Panorama of Cologne’s Old Townfrom the bank of the Rhine in Deutz.PHOTO BY INGE DECKER

� The picturesque Fischmarkt is theideal place to discuss the latest ingeochemistry. PHOTO BY GÜNTHER VENTUR

� Severinstor Gate on the Chlodwig-platz. Of the twelve gates in the 8 kmlong city wall (as of 1180), only threewere spared demolition. Today theydominate squares to the north, west andsouth of the Old Town. PHOTO BY INGE

DECKER

� Gothic towers of Cologne Cathedral.PHOTO BY GÜNTHER VENTUR

Please do not forget the key datesfor the meeting:

April 19 abstract submission deadline

1 Juneend of early registration

1 Augustend of pre-registration

19–24 August Goldschmidt 2007

• A one-day trip to the 13 ka LaacherSee volcano and the QuaternaryEast Eifel volcanic field

• A one-day trip to the West Eifelvolcanic field

• A one-day hike to see the TertiarySiebengebirge explosive, subaque-ous volcanic eruptions, syn-volcanic intrusions, and medievalcastles

• A three-day trip to the impactstructure at Nördlinger Ries,southern Germany

• A five-day trip to examine a crustalcross-section in the Ivrea Zone,northern Italy

• A ten-day trip to Santorini andCrete (Greece) on the themes ofQuaternary arc volcanism andTertiary high-P–T metamorphismin the South Aegean

Details are posted on the website

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