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 October-December 2008 |
From the council
The 2008 IMA report to IUGS was sent on the 18th of November to the IUGS secretariat.
Have a copy of the report with its annex. The different contents of the annex may be uploaded or linked to IMA webpages:
Item 1 - List of the adhering mineralogical societies or groups
Item 2 - List of council members
Item 3 - List of IMA Commissions and Working groups with their officers (14 November 2008)
Item 4 - Medal Committee Member
Item 5 - Checklist for 2009 IMA medal nomination
Item 6 - Handbook of the Outreach Committee
Item 7 - Report of the IMA Outreach subcommittee on IMA databases on Mineral properties comprising the IMA list of minerals
Item 8 - List of 2008 meetings, workshops and short courses with the participation of IMA Commissions and working groups
Item 9 - List of IMA Commission and Working group publications
Item 10 - Publication in Elements
Item 11 - Agenda of Council and business meetings in Vancouver
Item 12 - Interim Report to IMA Council on the CNMNC, by J. Grice
Item 13 - CAM report for 2008
Item 14 - CMGIP report for 2008
Item 15 - CNMNC report for 2008
Item 16 - COM report for 2008
Item 17 - CPM report for 2008
Item 18 - WGEMG report for 2008
Item 19 - WGIM report for 2008
Item 20 - WGME report for 2008
Item 20 - WGSECE report for 2008
IMA Medal Committee
C. Prewitt will be invited by the 2009 Goldschmidt scientific committee chaired by Christopher Ballentyne, to present a plenary lecture on Tuesday 23 June 2009 at the Davos Goldschmidt meeting on the occasion of his award of the IMA medal.
The 2009 IMA medal - message from Marcello Mellini, chair of the IMA medal Committee:
The second IMA Medal recipient will be presented by the International Mineralogical Association in 2009. It will be awarded for excellence in mineralogical research. The recipient will be chosen for scientific eminence as demonstrated primarily by scientific publications of outstanding original research in mineralogy. It will be a lifetime
achievement award.
The successful candidate will be drawn from one of the 39 national societies or groups that are members of the IMA.
Service to mineralogy, teaching, and administrative accomplishment will not be the primary consideration for the award.
Nomination packages must be up to date and complete. Each nomination must be accompanied by a nomination checklist, which is available online or from the IMA secretariat. A nomination package must include:
* a cover letter from the nominator outlining the candidate qualifications in light of the criteria for the award.
* supporting letters from at least three but no more than five individuals. These letters should focus on how the candidate meets the criteria for the award.
* a complete curriculum vitae and a bibliography of published works, exclusive of abstracts, book reviews, and papers that have not yet been accepted for publication.
The IMA encourages the nominator to send an electronic version of the nomination package to the committee chair, Marcello Meelini.
The recipient of the IMA Medal will present a lecture on a topic related to the award a year after at the meeting during which the medal recipient is named. The lecture will be published in a suitable international journal of mineralogy, with the agreement of the IMA Medal Committee.
Nomination packages are to be received by the chair of the IMA Medal Committee before April 1, 2009.
Informations on the procedure to submit nominations is also available on the nomination page of the IMA website.
Commissions and Working Groups - Latest NEWS
Commission on Applied Mineralogy (CAM) - Informations received on the 9th of October from Dogan Paktunc, chair of the CAM:
CAM annual report received on the 29th of october, from Dogan Paktunc, Chair of the CAM.
Commission on Mineralog Growth and Interface Processes (CMGIP) - Annual report for 2008 received on the 15th of November from the CMGIP Chair, Katsuo Tsukamoto.
Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification - Annual report for 2008 received on the 14th of November from the CNMNC Secretary, Stuart Mills.
Commission on Ore Mineralogy - Annual report for 2008 received on the 15th of November from the COM Secretary, Federica Zaccarini.
A short course will be held following the IMA General Meeting in 2010 (28 August - 1 September).
Have a flyer on the short course announcement to get more informations.
Commission on Physics of Minerals - Annual report for 2008 received on the 14th of November from the CPM Chair, Eiji Othani.
CPM minutes on the scientific session during the Oslo meeting.
Working Group on Inclusions in Minerals (WGIM) - Informations from M.K. Panigrahi, Convener of ACROFI-2 meeting, November 12-14, 2008.
Contact M.K. Panigrahi:
Associate Professor & Convener, ACROFI-2
Department of Geology & Geophysics
I.I.T., Kharagpur
WB 721302 India
Ph: +91-3222-283376 (O) 283377(R) 279822(R)
Fax: +91-3222-255303 / 282268
Mobile: +919434041987
Other informations on the WGIM activities are available from the 2008 WGIM report provided by the WGIM chairman, Sergey Smirnov (13 November 2008).Working Group on Environmental Mineralogy and Geochemistry - Informations from the chair David Vaughan. See the WGEMG annual report.
Working Group on Solid Earth Composition and Evolution (WGSECE) - Informations from the officers of the SECE are reported in the annual report (12 November 2008) with the plans for the 2009 - 2010 period consisting in organization of a symposium during the Goldschmidt Conference and workshops, and publications.
A change will occur regarding the officers of the SECE from January 1st 2009, on. Andrew Kerr will be the new chairman and Treasurer, replacing Yaoling Niu, the present-day chair. Pat Castillo will be the new vice-chairman and David Peate will be the new Secretary, replacing Ian Campbell.
Elements -
Informations provided by Frances Wall, October 9, to be published in Elements, December 2008:
A report on the 6th Mineralogy and Museums Conference held in Denver, Colorado by Peter Modresky
IMA news by Frances Wall.
IUGS
"The 60th Executive Committee Meeting of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) will take place on 11-15 January 2009. This annual meeting provides an important opportunity to discuss the activities and concerns of various member organizations such as your own. To ensure that the IUGS EC is able to focus discussion on your organization, we would need to receive your annual report by the IUGS Permanent Secretariat no later than 14 November 2008. E-mail submissions are preferred."
Meetings with IMA participation in 2009
Goldschmidt2009, June 21 - 26, Davos, Switzerland
http://www.goldschmidt2009.org
abstract forms available 1 January 2009
abstract deadline 22 February 2009
Charles Prewitt's plenary lecture on Tuesday 23rd June
Title: History and Significance of ABX3 Crystal Chemistry Investigations
Abstract: There is substantial interest among the mineralogical and related communities in phase transitions involving materials with the general formula, ABX3, e.g., MgSiO3, CaSiO3, FeTiO3, FeGeO3, NaMgF3, Al2O3, Fe2O3, Gd2S3, and many others. The interactions of elements in these specific configurations provide an interesting framework for analysis of many different, but related properties. Although some of these phases are not considered to be major constituents of Earth's mantle, knowing their crystal-chemical behavior is considered to be essential for understanding overall mineralogical character and, in particular, how they react to changing environmental conditions. Recent developments based on synchrotron-related experiments provide powerful new tools, especially those that give new information on high-pressure, high-temperature mineral properties.
Part of a message from Chris Ballentine, Janet Hering and Philippe Van Cappellen of the Goldschmidt2009 Science Committee
""The Science Committee have finalised the science program for Goldschmidt2009. An international science panel of more than 150 geochemists has selected 130 sessions within 19 themes covering the breadth and depth of geochemistry.
For full details click here.
The conference website will open to accept abstract submissions on 1st Jan 2009 with a closing date of 22nd Feb 2009.
The conference will be held in a dedicated conference centre (expanded since the successful 2002 Goldschmidt meeting) with additional space in the adjacent indoor stadium.""
Meetings with IMA participation in 2008
This summer IMA was involved in several meetings:
6th Mineralogy and Museums Conference, Denver, Colorado (September 7-9) with the participation of the Commission on Museums and that on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification.
A report written by Peter Modreski, USGS, Denver, Colorado, is available here. This report will be published in Elements.
Abstracts of communication given during the Conference are also available here.
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MM6 conference attendees at the Green Center, Colorado School of Mines campus, Golden, Colorado, Sept. 8, 2008. Photograph courtesy of Gary Baughman. |
MM6 group on a field trip to pegmatites of the Pikes Peak batholith, taken outside the Pikes Peak Historical Society Museum, Florissant, Teller County, Colorado, Sept. 7, 2008. Photograph courtesy of Ray Berry. These photos or one of them will be published in Elements in December 2008. |
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The IMA website has specific pages for social events which display photographs of meetings in which IMA was involved. Photographs related to such events could be sent to the IMA Secretariat to be put on the IMA website.
Meetings organized by Mineralogical Societies:
Link to the Mineralogical Society of America calendar
Other meetings: ACROFI-2 meeting, November 12-14, 2008 with the participation of the WGIM.
IMA Web site evolution
The Web designer, Christine Lecluse and Webmaster, Maryse Ohnenstetter have followed a two-day course on MySQL and PHP langages to learn to use the IMA database, and a one-day course on the creation of a dynamic website (7, 10, 14 October).
Since the creation of the first IMA database on the 16th of September, several modifications were made to include the maximum of informations on the different IMA components and IMA activities, which are progressively, recorded on the eleven tables of the IMA database.
An additional one-day course has to be followed on the structure of a dynamic website. Later on, a first project has to be created on an IMA dynamic website using the IMA database.
Presently, informations are currently included on the present-day static website.
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