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On the 27th of
November, the IMA council has approved the page charges to publish
a CNMNC report within the Canadian Mineralogist.
In the future, however, IMA wants to explore publishing options
with the other major journals.
Walter Maresch is the council member who is going to be talking
to the other editors.
A first paper was sent by Frances
Wall to Elements about IMA
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.
Annual reports
of IMA Commissions and Working Groups
Deadline
: 15th of November. Reports already received at the IMA secretariat
have been put on line within pages dedicated to the respective
Commissions and Working Groups:
2006
annual CAM report
2006
annual CNMNC report
2006
annual COM report
2006
annual CPM report
2006
annual WGIM report
2006
annual WGME report
2006
annual WGEMG report
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.
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).
Desigantion of chairs: Tom Sato was named as a vice-chair,
and John Jambor as the Secretary of the WGRMG.
IMA Communication Officer
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 Frances Wall
Mineralogical Societies
participating in Elements
The IMA secretariat was informed by Pierrette Tremblay, managing
Editor of Elements, that three other mineralogical societies
have now joined the Elements participating Societies :
the German Mineralogical Society (Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft)
the Italian Society of Mineralogy and Petrology (Società
Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia)
and the Mineralogical Society of Poland (Polskie Towarzystwo
Mineralogiczne).
Other participating mineralogical
societies, members of IMA, are
the Mineralogical Society of America,
the mineralogical association of Canada,
the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and
the French Society of Mineralogy and Cristallography (Societié
française de Minéralogie and Cristallographie).
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November 2006