2. Mineralogical Societies
From the Ukrainian mineralogical
society: According to Victor Kvastnitsa, the president of the
Ukrainian Mineralogical Society inform that they should be assigned
to group C membership, as the number of members has increased.
Accordingly the balloting power has passed from 1 to 2.
The IMA secretariat was recently
informed that the Mineralogical Society of New Zealand has joined
the Geochemical Group of New Zealand, In fact since December
2004. Contacts are renewed to find a National delegate.
Several National Societies have
changed of National Representatives in 2006
|
Mineralogical Society
or group
|
Former National
Representive
|
New National
Representative
|
Date of information
arrived to the IMA Secretariat
|
| Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft - Germany |
Martin Okrusch (since Oct. 1994) |
Walter Maresch |
January 2006 |
| CEGMG - Greece |
Georgio CHRISTOFIDES |
Michael Vavelidis |
February 2006 |
Societa Italiana di Mineralogia e petrologia
Italy |
Pietro Armienti |
Andrea Orlando |
March 2006 |
| Mineralogical Society of Korea |
Soo Jin KIM |
Sung Keun Lee |
March 2006 |
| Mineralogical
Society of Great Britain and Ireland |
Frances
Wall |
Mark
Hodson |
March
2006 |
| Mineralogical
Society of America |
Charles
Prewitt |
George
Hralow |
July
2006 |
Seven mineralogical societies,
members of IMA, participate to the consortium of societies publishing
Elements :
1) the Mineralogical Society of America,
2) the mineralogical association of Canada,
3) the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and
4) the French Society of Mineralogy and Cristallography (Societié
française de Minéralogie and Cristallographie)
5) the German Mineralogical Society (Deutsche Mineralogische
Gesellschaft)
6) the Italian Society of Mineralogy and Petrology (Società
Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia)
7) and the Mineralogical Society of Poland (Polskie Towarzystwo
Mineralogiczne).
The three latter societies have joined the consortium in 2006.
3. IMA participation in meetings
GENERAL MEETING of IMA
XXth General Meeting of IMA in 2010
The mineralogical societies of Austria, Croatia, Czech, Hungary,
Romania, and Slovakia will organize the 20th general Meeting
of IMA in Budapest in August 2010. The IMA Council has unanimously
accepted on the 8th of December, that the mineralogical societies
of Croatia and Czech join the previous consortium to organize
the XXth General meeting in 2010.
XXIth General Meeting of IMA
in 2014
Mineralogical societies are kindly invited to prepare proposals
in order to organize the XXI General Meeting of the IMA in 2014.
Other meetings
33rd IGC
in oslo, Norway, 5-14th Auhust 2008
Anders
Solheim, 33rd IGC Secretary General, has informed the IMA secretariat
on the preparation of the 33rd International Congress. There
is still time before the publication of the second circular in
Spring 2007 to submit any proposal relative to symposia, short
courses, business meetings, etc. See the website of the 33rd IGC, for
more detailed informations.
4. Designation of a Communication Officer
Frances Wall is the first Communication
Officer of IMA. She was designated by the IMA council in November
2006.
Frances Wall
Department of Mineralogy, The Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
Tel. +44 (0)20 7942 5623
Fax. +44 (0)20 7942 5537
Email f.wall@nhm.ac.uk
5. IMA Funding
The IMA Council has decided to help the WGIM gor the organization
of the second ACROFI meeting (voted up to the 8th of December).
The IMA Council will also help the CNMNC to publish its results
in the Canadian Mineralogist.
6. IMA Commissions
The following officers of IMA Commissions and Working groups
were unanimously elected by the IMA Council (8th of December
2006):
Commission on Mineral Growth
and Interface Processes (CMGIP) - Vice chair: Andreas Luttge;
Secretary: Jeanne Paquette.
Working Group on Environmental
Mineralogy and Geochemistry (WGEMG) - Vice Chair: Tom Sato;
Secretary: John L. Jambor.
Commission on Ore Mineralogy - Chair: Nigel J. Cook.
Commission on Applied Mineralogy
(CAM)
Creation of a
past-Chair position in the CAM.
Dick Hagni who became chair of the CAM in 1990, is the first
Past-Chair of CAM, following the Kobe General Meeting, when Dogan
Paktunc was designated as the new chair of CAM.
Creation of
three sub-commissions in the Commission on Applied Mineralogy
(CAM).
A sub-commission on mineralogy applied to building materials
is chaired by Maarten Broekmans, a research scientist from the
Geological Survey in Norway. The second one is entitled "sub-commission
on cultural heritage and archaeological materials", and
is chaired by Isabella Memmi, from the University of Siena. For
further information see the 2006 annual report
of the CAM.
A third one was created few time after, on Advanced Ceramics
and Glasses. The new
subcommission is chaired by
Hans-Joachim Kleebe.
A
new name for the Working Group on Environmental Mineralog!
The environmental
received a new name during the Kobe business meeting of the group.
It is now called the Working Group on Environmental Mineralogy
and Geochemistry (WGEMG).
7. Work in progress
The IMA Council is still
discussing on :
- the way to register IMA
- the evolution of the WGA
- the designation of council correspondant in IMA commission-working
Group
- the shape of the IMA medal
- the composition of the IMA medal committee
- the way to fund IMA publication
you can get 
1. IMA 2006
report to IUGS