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Volume 17, Number 4, November 2001

The Newsletter of theMineralogical Society

of America

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Table of Contents

President’s Letter ............... p. 2Notes from Washington ..... p. 4Secretary’s report .............. p. 5All about submissions ........ p. 6MSiG report ....................... p. 7Website report ................... p. 8New members ................... p. 10In Memoriam ...................... p. 14Lattice deadline ................. p. 14Am Min preview ................. p. 15Meetings calendar ............. p. 17Lattice ad info .................... p. 22

The eighty-second annual awards luncheonof the Mineralogical

Society of America was heldon November 6, 2001, duringthe 2001 Geological Society ofAmerica meeting in Boston,Massachusetts. Medallistswere Peter J. Wyllie (RoeblingMedal), Peter C. Burns (MSAAward), and Jeffrey E. Post(Distinguished Public ServiceMedal).

Peter J. Wyllie was awardedthe Roebling Medal, theSociety’s highest honor, in rec-ognition of lifetime scientificachievement. Peter Wylliegraduated from the Universityof St. Andrews, Scotland withdegrees in geology and phys-ics. He was awarded the PolarMedal for his work as assistantgeologist and dogsled driverwith the British NorthGreenland expedition in1952–1954. A research assis-tantship with O.F. Tuttle atPenn State followed. He hastaught at Leeds University(1959–1961), Penn State(1961–1965), the University ofChicago (1965–1983) and theCalifornia Institute of Technol-ogy (1983–1999), with termsas chairman at Chicago andCaltech. The focus of his re-search program has been theexperimental petrology ofmagmas and volatile compo-nents, using whole rocks andparallel mineral systems to elu-

cidate and constrain processes,which has led to the publica-tion of more than 300 scien-tific articles. The rock typesinvestigated include granites,andesites, kimberlites, andcarbonatites. Dr. Wyllie’s hon-ors include the MSA Awardand election as fellow or for-eign member to seven nationalscience academies. He hasserved as President of MSA,the International Mineralogi-

MSA Awards Luncheon at 2001 GSA Meetingby Andrea Koziol

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cal Association, and IUGG. Heis well known for the books hehas written or edited, such asUltramafic and Related Rocks(1966), The Dynamic Earth(1971), and The Way the EarthWorks (1976). He is now revis-ing and expanding the latter tocover revolutions in earth sci-ences after plate tectonics. ArtMontana, in his citation, alsorecognized Romy Wyllie, who

Roebling Medalist 2001, Peter J. Wyllie (center), Kase Klein (right),and citationist Art Montana (left).

Jeffrey E.Post, Distin-guished Pub-lic ServiceAward iscenter, withCitationistPeter Heaney(left), KaseKlein (right).

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The Lattice, November 2001

Letter from the President

As I begin my year as presi-dent of the Mineralogical So-ciety of America, I can reportthat the Society has an activeand distinguished member-ship that is involved in awide variety of importantactivities. These efforts havea solid financial base. Ourglass does not runneth over,but it is more than half full.

The greatest asset of theSociety is its people. The af-fairs of the Society and itsheadquarters staff are guidedby an Executive Director,Alex Speer, who has a re-markable knowledge of thehistory and details of theSociety’s programs and aManaging Editor, RachelRussell, who supervises the

increasingly efficient pro-duction of the AmericanMineralogist. Bob Dymekand Lee Groat bring expe-rience and enthusiasm totheir job as Editors of theAmerican Mineralogist. Dur-ing 2002, two special themeissue issues will honorMichael Holdaway andRobert C. Reynolds. PaulRibbe continues as the se-ries editor for the Reviews inMineralogy & Geochemis-try. At least five RIMG vol-umes are anticipated forpublication during 2002.The new vice-president,Doug Rumble, will also as-sume the position of Publi-cations Director and specialattention will be focused on

issues related to electronicpublications. The Secretary,Dave Jenkins, and Trea-surer, Jim Blencoe, willcontinue to serve the Soci-ety. The Council, with itstwo new members, PeterHeaney and Nancy Ross, isoperating efficiently and isfocusing its attention on themajor issues confronting theSociety. The Financial Advi-sory Committee, chaired byStephen Huebner, has de-veloped an explicit state-ment of the responsibilitiesof the Committee that shouldinsure both the growth andstability of the endowedfunds. The Society’s web-site continues to expand anddevelop, in October there

were 138,000 hits, thanks tothe constant attention ofGordon Nord. The web-siteincludes important new ad-ditions for outreach, fundedin part by the NSF. An im-portant addition has been theaddition of “Mineralogy 4-Kids” developed by the K-12 Outreach Coordinator,Nancy McMillan. The web-site also includes the CrystalStructure Database managedby Bob Downs and PaulHeese. Check out theCollector’s Corner maintainedby David Von Bargen withselected articles from the past85 years in the AmericanMineralogist or the on-lineversion of the Handbook ofMinerals Vol. II – Silicates,

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The Lattice is published quarterly (February, May, Au-gust, November) by the Mineralogical Society of America.It is distributed to MSA members and subscribers as aservice. Articles and letters are welcome.

The Mineralogical Society of America is composed ofindividuals interested in mineralogy, crystallography, andpetrology. Founded in 1919, the Society promotes, througheducation and research, the understanding and applica-tion of mineralogy by industry, universities, governmentand the public.

Membership benefits include: American Mineralogist,published bi-monthly; 25% discount on volumes in theReviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry series; The Lat-tice; special subscription rates for Mineralogical Ab-stracts, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, Journal ofPetrology, Rocks and Minerals, and Mineralogical Record;reduced registration fees at MSA short courses; memberrates for the MSA/Geological Society of America annualmeeting and member rates at MSA’s spring meeting withthe American Geophysical Union; participation in a So-ciety that supports the many facets of mineralogy.

Dues for 2001: professional members $50; student mem-bers $5. American Mineralogist subscription: professionalmembers add $30; student members add $25. Member-ship is on a calendar year basis. Individuals who join af-ter January 1, 2001 will be sent all back issues of volume85 for 2001.

Additional membership information and an application,and/or a price list of the Society’s publications are else-where in this newsletter, or contact the Business Office.

Institutions may subscribe to the 2001 volume of Ameri-can Mineralogist for the annual rate of $480 in the USand $490 for non-US addresses. The subscription priceincludes any new volumes of the Reviews in Mineralogyand Geochemistry series and issues of the Lattice pub-lished during the calendar year of the subscription. Pay-ment must be received in full before a subscription willbe started.

2001 President: Cornelis Klein, Univ. of New MexicoPast-President: William D. Carlson, Univ. of Texas-AustinVice President: Rodney C. Ewing, Univ. MichiganSecretary: David Jenkins Binghamton Univ.Treasurer: James G. Blencoe, Oak Ridge Nat. Lab.Editor of The Lattice: Andrea Koziol, University of DaytonMSA Executive Director: J. Alexander SpeerProduction Manager: Rachel A. Russell

Mineralogical Society of America1015 Eighteenth Street N.W., Suite 601Washington, D.C. 20036-5212, U.S.A.Tel: (202) 775-4344; Fax: (202) 775-0018E-mail: [email protected]

made available by Dick Bideaux. The MSA Lecture Pro-gram, coordinated by Helen Lang, has been expanded toinclude tours outside of North America. The reviews of thisprogram by the lecturers and hosts were unanimously posi-tive, and during the next year three lecturers, Bob Bodnar,Roberta Rudnick and Catherine McCammon, will visit35 institutions. In summary, the Society is benefiting fromthe efforts of its dedicated members who serve at every level.We have superb people at every skill position many of whomI have not named. The efforts of our members account forthe quality and number of our publications, the solid finan-cial base, and an extensive array of services to the mineral-ogical and geoscience communities. Finally, the membershiphas increased to just over 2100 members, still less than 1995levels, but reversing the trend of recent declines.

All of this said, I think that it is my responsibility to focusduring the next year on that part of the glass that is remainsempty—the unrealized potential. During the next few yearsthe Society will be faced with important challenges that willdetermine our long-term success. These challenges include:

1. What will be the impact of electronic media on our pub-lications? How will the Society preserve the quality of it pub-lications and produce them in a competitive market?

2. What are the long-term prospects for increased member-ship? The recent increase by several hundred members is en-couraging; however, over half of the increase is from studentmemberships. In addition, most of the growth in membershipover the last decade has come from outside of North America.In North America, there has been a substantial decrease (ap-proximately 500) in the number of regular members.

3. How will we interact with other Societies in arrangingmeetings and related publications? The recent GoldschmidtConference that was co-sponsored with the Geochemical So-ciety was a tremendous success. In the future we will continueto have our joint meetings with the GSA and AGU, and we arealso planning our Spring 2003 meeting with the Clay MineralsSociety. Are there other societies in materials and environmen-tal science communities that should be included? We need toinsure that the combinations of cosponsored meetings satisfythe needs and interests of our members.

4. Finally, there is increasing concern that the disciplineof “mineralogy” is perceived as less relevant to rapidlychanging curricula in geoscience departments. We com-monly bemoan the loss of familiar courses and old skills,such as optical mineralogy. Can we, as mineralogists, growand expand with these inevitable changes?

On the last point, I want to simply declare that mineral-ogy is an increasingly relevant field, destined to grow inimportance. However, we will have to broaden the defini-tion of what mineralogists do. We need to realize that min-eralogists are making important contributions in materialsscience, environmental science, and the life sciences. Weneed to get this message to our colleagues and, most impor-tantly, to students. During the past twenty-five years we havebeen the seed of new sub-disciplines, such clay mineralogy,geochemistry and mineral physics. I believe that we mustfind mechanisms to reclaim these sub-disciplines as part ofthe broader discipline of mineral sciences. ■

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Notes from Washington

by J. Alexander Speer

• MSA 2002 membership renewals were mailed in lateOctober 2001. If you have not renewed your MSA member-ship, and not received a paper notice by time you read this,please contact the Business Office. MSA sent a notice aboutonline membership renewal on the afternoon of 9/10/2001to 1562 e-mail addresses (about 73% of MSA membership).Members were asked to renew online before 10/01/2001 ifthey wished to use this method. It was not the most auspi-cious of timing. A reminder was sent on 9/21/2001. By 09/28/2001 about 310 members had renewed online. The lownumber is attributed to the timing of the first notice, but it isa bit better than last year for the same time frame. We ex-pect to receive more online renewals once members beginreceiving their paper notices. Senior and life members andfellows were also sent renewal notices. They need not re-new. They were sent notices because this seems the bestway to prompt an update of their membership information,particularly mailing addresses. You can save your Societymoney by renewing early, whether you chose to do so onlineor with the traditional paper version mailed to you, and bytelling us about changes in your mail or e-mail address.

At least in the first group of 310 renewals, most mem-bers subscribed to the paper American Mineralogist thatcomes with electronic access (213), and many fewer justthe electronic access (45). Preliminary indications are thatmany of those signing up for electronic access only previ-ously did not subscribe to the journal. At least among thisearly group there are a higher percentage of members re-ceiving the journal in some form than last year.

There were a few problems reported to us with the elec-tronic renewal. The largest problem was members identify-ing themselves to the database. These were solved bysearching on just their last name, or city alone. This sametrick applies to MSA online searchable database, in caseyou encounter the same problem there. Most simply askedthe Business Office for their member ID number. Othershad problems with their browser or server set-up. These werethe most difficult problems to solve, if they could be. Sev-eral members wrote to say that they do not trust electroniccommerce or that their institutions require original hardcopydues invoices. There is also a problem of timing. Memberswho renewed online between the time we printed the paperrenewal notices and the time they received it in the mailoften felt we had made a mistake in their renewal. This is aproblem inherent in using two renewal formats.

• You have read or heard about anthrax-bearing letters atthe Brentwood Post Office in Washington. It is MSA’s PostOffice. There were several days of mail interruption afterOctober 19, but within the week our normal mail serviceresumed. Since then there has been much more security sur-

rounding all shippers, with the expectation that higher costswill be inevitable. However, mail that was in the BrentwoodPost Office on October 20-21 has been sequestered and, asfar as we know, is still there with plans for decontaminationor destruction. Given the timing, little MSA mail should beaffected. But it will be some time before we will discoverwhat, if anything, was sequestered.

• In this issue of The Lattice there is an announcement ofthe 2003 Grant for Research in Crystallography from theEdward H. Kraus Crystallographic Research Fund and the2003 MSA Grant for Student Research in Mineralogy andPetrology Research from an endowment created by contri-butions from the MSA membership. Council had increasedthe amount of the grants to $5000 starting in 2002. Thisought to be a more attractive sum than the earlier $3500,and enough to make an impact on some research. This waspossible because of the continued generous contributionsfrom MSA members and the healthy investment climate ofthe last three to four years. For the 2002 grants there were38 applicants. Only three could be funded, though manymore were deserving.

• MSA generally does its membership figures for the yearjust before renewal notices for the next year are received.There was a pleasant surprise this year. MSA had moremembers than last, and the highest number since 1996. Thereappears to be a halt in declining membership figures thatbegan in the early 1980s, and perhaps an increase. Worri-some is the continuing decline in institutional subscriptionsto the journal. Much of the loss here is in non-US addressinstitutions, most likely the result of the strong US dollar.

Table of Membership History

Category 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001*Membership

Membersregular 1300 1227 1191 1157 1152 1113 1180life dues 84 78 72 72 71 72 68

Fellowsregular 318 356 334 310 328 313 297life dues 156 152 148 143 144 142 138

Seniormembers 22 22 25 23 20 22 49fellows 28 34 45 51 56 57 75

Students 287 252 252 237 220 213 320Honorary 4 4 3 3 3 3 3Spouses 5 4 — — — — — Total 2204 2129 2070 1996 1994 1935 2137

Journal SubscriptionsMembers

members 1792 1743 1658 1549 1545 1537 1451students 287 252 252 237 202 213 213

Institutionsdomestic 592 596 600 594 584 601 585foreign 512 458 425 384 328 304 288

Total 1104 1054 1025 978 912 905 873

• There are two Mineralogical Society of America andGeochemical Society short courses in 2002:

–Applications of Synchrotron Radiation in Low-Tem-perature Geochemistry and Environmental Science, October26–27, 2002, preceding the 2002 GSA Denver Meeting, Boul-


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Secretary’s report to the 82nd MSA Business meeting

The 82nd annual business meeting of the Mineralogi-cal Society of America was held on November 6,2001, at 5:00 PM in the Hynes Convention Center,

Boston, Massachusetts. What follows is a brief overview ofthe main actions taken by the council and executive commit-tee, society election results, and other actions since the lastbusiness meeting.

MEMBERSHIP

As of Sept 10th the total membership of the society stands at2137. This represents a significant increase (nearly 10%) inmembership and contrasts sharply with the steady decline thathas been occurring in recent years. Society membership in-creased in almost all catego-ries but the largest was instudent members (50% in-crease). This may be the re-sult of the $5 (no-journal)student membership categorythat was instigated last year,but it is also the result of theefforts of at least one councilmember who gives new stu-dents no excuse not to joinMSA. I encourage all of us toextend an invitation to stu-dents to join in the activitiesof our society. On-line mem-bership renewal appears to bean option that is used by an increasing number of members.Early renewals not only save the business office time and ef-fort by not having to send out renewal notices, but you aregiven a $5 discount on your renew before December 31.

The total number of institutional subscriptions continues todecline each year, with equal losses in both the domestic andforeign categories this year.

NEW FELLOWS

I am pleased to announce the following ten new Fellows ofthe Society:

Dennis BirdBenedetto DeVivoHermann GiesBradley HackerDavid M. JenkinsOle JohnsenAndré LalondeRoberta L. RudnickRobert B. Von DreeleHexiong Yang

The society extends its congratulations to these individu-

als! To the society members, let me assure you that the Com-mittee on Fellows welcomes your nominations for fellows.

MEDALISTS/AWARD WINNERS

I am also pleased to announce the following Medalists andResearch Grant Recipients:

Roebling Medalist is Werner SchreyerDistinguished Public Service Medalist is David P. HillDana Medal Award recipient is Mark Ghiorso (for 2003)MSA Award recipient is John M. Eiler.

2001/2002 Kraus Crystallographic Research Grant recipi-ent is Jeffrey R. S. Brownson for studying the “Effect oforganopolymers on kaolinite crystal habit modification.”

2001/2002 Mineralogy/Petrology Research Grant recipientsare:

Kevin J. Davis for the study “Resolving the intertwined rolesof temperature, growth rate, and growth mechanism in deter-mining Mg-calcite compositions: Towards a physical baselinefor the Mg/Ca paleothermometer”

andRobert L. King for the study of “B systematics during pro-

gressive Si metasomatism of the mantle wedge.”Congratulations to all of the award and research-grant re-

cipients. Council encourages you to nominate individuals forthe various awards (detailed information can be found in theLattice). Please encourage students to apply for the variousresearch grants, which now provide funding up to $5000 each.

As a reminder, MSA offers the Undergraduate Award tooutstanding undergraduates recommended by faculty members.In addition to providing recognition to deserving students, theseawards can help make the society a more tangible entity forundergraduates and the population at large. Details on nomi-nating undergraduates can be found on the MSA website.

SHORT COURSES

This is a banner year for short courses.Molecular Modeling Theory and Applications in the Geo-

sciences which was co-sponsored with the Geochemical Soci-ety, was held on May 18-20 at Roanoke, Virginia, prior to theGoldschmidt Conference held in Hot Springs, Virginia. Theconveners were Randy Cygan and Jim Kubicki. There were75 participants (17 students and 58 professionals). The ac-companying book is RiMG Vol. 42.

Stable Isotope Geochemistry was just held on Nov. 2–4 priorto this GSA meeting in the Colonnade Hotel, in Boston, Mas-sachusetts. The conveners were John W. Valley and David R.Cole. At total of 80 participants attended the short course andthe accompanying book, RiMG Vol 43 is now available forsale by the MSA business office.

Nanoparticles in the Environment and Technology will be

Regular members: 1180Life members: 69Fellows: 297Life fellows 138Senior members 49Senior fellows 75Students 320Honorary members 3Spouses: none Total 2137

Domestic Institutions 585Foreign institutions 288

by David M. Jenkins, MSA Secretary

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The big news forAmerican Mineralo-gist, from this year’s

November 4 MSA Councilmeeting, is the approval ofAllenTrack, a web-basedsubmission and peer reviewsystem. With such a system,manuscripts can be submit-ted by uploading them viathe World Wide Web. Then,the associate editors (AEs)and reviewers access the pa-per via the web, and the edi-tors and staff have a muchgreater ability to keep trackof the status of papers. AEs,editors, and reviewers can allwork wherever they havecomputer access. The com-puter tracks the dates re-ceived, so the AEs will nolonger need to, and the com-puter can even send variousreminders out automatically!An advantage for the authorsis that once they have loggedin one paper, the computerwill remember their addressand other data for subse-quent submissions.

I spent considerable timethis year investigating web-based submission and re-view systems, both by usingdemos, and by talking to cur-rent users and vendors. In theend, AllenTrack is the soft-ware I recommended formany reasons. One reason isbecause Allen Press, whomwe know and trust as ourprinter, will be the applica-tion service provider. An-other is that AllenTrack isvery easy to use and learn,while at the same time be-ing very flexible. It can becustomized for MSA’s spe-cific needs. In addition, theGeological Society ofAmerica is already leadingthe way. They have been us-ing AllenTrack for several

months for Geology and theBulletin. AGU is using thesame program, created by e-Science Journals, for theirpublications. Thus it makessense for earth scientists tobe able to learn one basicinterface (although eachjournal is obviously a littledifferent). It also makessense that each journal canlearn from one another andimprovements for one couldbe improvements for all.

Planning, personalizing,and testing of this systemshall start early next year,with the target for going“live” – that is, open to au-thors to actually submit pa-pers via the web – beingearly April 2002.

The most common ques-tion I heard from AssociateEditors at the annual AELuncheon was how wouldreviewers indicate specificedits to sentences when themanuscript is distributed bya web-based system? Thesimplest answer is afterprinting and reviewing themanuscript, the reviewerwill then fax or mail thiscopy to the associate editoras always. The reviewer’sofficial form will be on theweb site and can be directlyfilled out while on line. Afurther possibility is that ofscanning in the version withthe line edits and then up-loading it to AllenTrack.This option might be best forany line edits the associateeditors do for the editors’ at-tention. We can do this scan-ning at the editorial office,but several of the associateeditors at the luncheon feltthey could use the Acrobatprogram to do this them-selves.

Another concern was re-

garding the artwork. To re-view certain halftones, suchas micrographs, the qualityneeds to be fairly high. Aphotocopy is often inad-equate, and a common PDFscan can be inadequate. Withthe web-based system theauthor’s actual file can beuploaded so the qualityshould be represented ex-actly as the author sees it.Related to this concern is theexperience of GSA, which is

AMERICAN MINERALOGIST FACTS AT A GLANCE

FOR 2001

∑ Total published pages 1564.∑ 158 papers were published.∑ As of 10/29/01, there have been 50 papers rejectedthis year, for a rejection rate of 31%.∑ The average total submission-to-publication timeis 11 months, and improvement from last year’s 11.8average.∑ The average time in peer review is almost 3 months;the past two years it has been just over 3 months.∑ The average time in revision (with the author) is3.7 months. This is a slow down as in the past theauthors have averaged three months.∑ The average time with the editors is 27 days.∑ The average time in production (from acceptanceto publication) is 3.5 months, which is an improve-ment from last year’s 4.2 and 1999’s 4.3 months.∑ 58% of the papers have a non-U.S.A. affiliationfor the first author.∑ As of 10/29/01, we’ve had 240 submissions thisyear. With November and December still to come, Iwould estimate our yearly total of submissions willbe close to 300.∑ This summer we started sending packets to associ-ate editors via e-mail; and we have just recently be-gun to accept submissions via e-mail. Both changeshave been well received.

UPCOMING FOR 2002

∑ Two special-themed issues, one in honor of MichaelHoldaway and one in honor of Robert C. Reynolds,will be published in 2002.∑ We will move to a web-based submission and peerreview system.

All About Future Submissions to American MineralogistBy Rachel A. Russell, Managing editor

that reviewers do not wish tohave to open a separate filefor each piece of art.AllenTrack is working on acomputer solution for thisright now, but in the mean-time the editorial office cancombine the artwork intoone PDF file. And the bestpart of this solution is that ifthe reviewer needs the qual-ity of the original, then it isright there as an option.

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The 2001 GoldschmidtConference was a superbmeeting for those interestedin all aspects of mineralstructures research. The ses-sions on mineral structuresand on gem materials spon-sored by our special interestgroup included a range ofexcellent presentations froma healthy mix of students, se-nior researchers, and every-one in between. Thanks toDavid Veblen, Nancy Ross,Peter Heaney and GeorgeHarlow for helping to orga-nize the sessions! Therewere also related sessions onenvironmental mineralogy

and structure modeling, andrelated topics.

At the Goldschmidt Con-ference, approximately 50people attended the meetingof the special interest group,clearly an indication of thehigh level of interest and ac-tivity in mineral structuresresearch. Some items thatcame out of the meetingwere:

(1) MSiG will sponsor amineral structures session atthe 2002 Spring AGU meet-ing in Washington, DC. Pe-ter Burns offered to helporganize the session.

(2) We discussed spon-

soring another workshop ateither the fall GSA or SpringAGU meeting. Possible top-ics include an introduction tothe crystallographic soft-ware on the CCP-14 websiteby Dr. Lachlan Cranswick,or structure solution frompowder diffraction data. Atthe present it appears thatthis might be more feasiblefor the Spring AGU meeting.Please feel free to suggestother topics for workshops,and/or express your thoughtsabout the topics listed. Con-tact Jeffrey Post at the emailaddress below.

(3) Peter Burns has

agreed to co-chair our spe-cial interest group.

(4) Ross Angel offered toprovide a copy of his versionof the RFINE crystallo-graphic refinement programto anyone interested.

The MSA Mineral Struc-tures interest Group (MSiG)was formed to promote andcoordinate communicationand activities among re-searchers working in all ar-eas related to structures ofminerals and materials. Ifyou wish to join the MSiG,please send your name ande-mail address to Jeffrey Post([email protected] .edu).

Mineral Structures Interest Group (MSiG): Report from the 2001 GoldschmidtConference

A final concern expressedat the luncheon was for au-thors around the world whodo not have access to theweb. These authors can maildiskettes or paper versions asthey do now and we shallscan or upload them into theweb site for them. This sys-tem is meant to help all au-thors, and to exclude no one.

The information for au-thors on the web site shallcontinue to provide updatesand information about sub-missions. Right now we areaccepting submissions via e-mail at [email protected], especially if the authoruses PDF format. Check outthe specifics on the web!

A final note is that uponacceptance of a paper, aWord (or rtf) version of thetext and tables is still re-quired, as well as print qual-ity artwork files, and weshall still work with authorsto obtain these materials aswe do now. ■

Submissions, Continued frompage 6

held prior to the Fall AGUmeeting on Dec.7–9 at theUniv. of California—DavisConference Center. Conven-ers are Jillian Banfield andAlex Navrotsky. The accom-panying RiMG Vol. 44 will beavailable for sale by the endof the year.

In 2002, there is:Applications of Synchro-

tron Radiation in Low-Tem-perature Geochemistry andEnvironmental Science whichis sponsored by theGeochemical Society and willbe held before the GSA meet-ing in Denver. Conveners arePaul Fenter, Mark Rivers, NeilSturchio, and Steve Sutton.

Phosphates: Geochemi-cal, Geobiological and Mate-rials Importance beingorganized by Matthew J.Kohn, John Rakovan, andJohn Hughes also to be heldbefore the GSA meeting inDenver, Colorado.

Plastic Deformation andDeformation Microstructures

of Minerals and Rocks is to beheld at UC Berkeley beforethe Fall AGU meeting. Con-veners are Shun-ichiro Karatoand H-R. Wenk.

In 2003 there will be ashort course on Biomineral-ization co-sponsored with theGeochemical Society andconvened by Patricia Dove,James De Yoreo, and SteveWeiner.

A short course on Zirconis being organized by JohnHanchar and Paul Hoskin foreither 2003 or 2004.

It should be mentioned thatthe US Department of Energyhas graciously directed fund-ing to both MSA and theGeochemical Society to helpdefray the cost of running sixof the short courses (Molecu-lar Modeling, Stable IsotopeGeochemistry, Nanoparticles,Synchrotron Radiation, Phos-phates, and Biominerali-zation). MSA is grateful toDOE for its financial supportof these short courses.

In addition to the shortcourses mentioned above,

there was a Workshop on“Practical Applications ofXRF Techniques to the Analy-sis of Geological Materials”that was held Nov. 5th and 6that the Philips Analytical appli-cation facility in Natick, Mass.The convenors were DaveColer and James Willis. Thesetypes of practical “hands-on”workshops are quite success-ful and appear destined to be-come a regular feature atfuture annual meetings ofGSA, AGU, etc.

PUBLICATIONS

Volume 45 of the Reviewsin Mineralogy and Geochem-istry series titled Natural Zeo-lites edited by Dave Bish andDoug Ming, is nearly com-plete. There is no accompany-ing short-course.

MSA LECTURE PROGRAM

As was initiated last year,this year the Lecture Programseries included a Europeanlecturer along with the twoNorth American lectures nor-mally involved in the Lecture

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The MSA Website oper-ated during the year 2001with only two hours ofdowntime running on twoApple Macintosh 120 MHz8550 machines. The webserver is Webstar, the cgi isLasso and the database isFileMaker. The current sys-tem is incredibly stable.Even the nimda probes(code-red) have no effect.

The front page has beenredesigned as a portal to fea-ture current events and newfeatures as well as easy linksto all MSA activities as re-quested by Council. Thewebsite has minimal graph-ics to load quickly.

During the year the num-ber of hits has increasedfrom about 100,000 hits permonth to nearly 150,000 hitsper month. The system isnearing its limit and will bereplaced by two AppleMacintosh 867 MHz G4’sthis winter.

Additions to the websitethis year include the “Collec-tors Corner” and “Mineral-ogy 4Kids” along with thepopular “Ask-a-Mineralo-gist”.

About 30% of the activ-ity on the website is due to

spiders and robots. These arethe digital data searchers forthe search engines. Theycome and extract pdfs,htmls, and everything thesite has to offer. They are ourfriends because they indexthe site for inquiring minds.Google.com is at the top ofthe list, usually visiting ev-eryday to update its data-base. In fact Google has suchan intensive scientific data-base that we decided to adda Google presence to thehome page. Google also in-dexes pdfs and does a morecomplete job than our owninternal search engine.

MSA now has the years1997 to 2001 online as ab-stracts and most of the years1998 to 2001 online as Ar-ticles. The remaining monthsof 1998 and the year 1997will be online soon. This willfinish the existing pdf ar-ticles available for access.The most requested pdf isNew Minerals. There is alarge audience out there fornew mineral information.

A log of the month of Oc-tober indicates that∑ 138,000 hits occurred.∑ Mon, Tues and Wed are the

busy days.∑ 9 a.m. to noon EST are thebusy times.∑ Computers from 81 differ-ent countries have accessedthe website.

The leaders are∑ .com 22%∑ unresolved 21%, (probablysearch engine probes)∑ .net 17%∑ .edu 10%∑ Japan 3.6%∑ Germany 2.8%∑ Portugal 2%∑ France 1.9%∑ Italy 1.9%∑ Canada 1.7%∑ .gov 1.4%∑ Australia 1.2%∑ UK 1.1%∑ Spain 1.0%∑ Austria 0.9%

This is particularly inter-esting because .com is wayahead of .edu. Perhaps MSAis not as academically cen-tered as we think.

Of the search engines“Google” has visited themost times: 11,000 hits.

Of the types of filesdownloaded, 35% werehtml, 28% were gifs, and17% pdfs. This indicates thatpdfs are very popular.

The most requested pagewas the home page, followedby the American Mineralo-

gist pages, followed by Ask-A-Mineralogist, followed byCollectors Corner and fol-lowed by Mineralogy 4Kids. Note that Mineralogy4Kids has recently under-gone considerable changesand it should be the mostpopular area in the futurewith a bit of advertising.

The top browsers visitingour website are various ver-sions of Internet Explorerand various versions of Win-dows. Macs and Netscapeare only a few percent of thevisiting browsers and oper-ating systems. I try to designfor all browsers and cur-rently design for 15" moni-tors.

The top referrers areGoogle, Yahoo, Altavista,and MSN.

Last year the Councilvoted to place the AmericanMineralogist articles online.There were approximately680 articles available fordownload from the years1998 to 2001. The report onthis activity follows.

During the year article-downloads were identifiedby member ID. 430 uniquemembers used the electronicdownload. This is about 20%of the membership. Approxi-mately 3000 attempts weremade to download articlesbut only 1500 of these were

MSA Website Report 2001by Gordon Nord, MSA Webmaster

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successful for a variety ofreasons. If a member hadtrouble and contacted thebusiness office we workedwith them to resolve theproblem. All known problemswere corrected. Usually it was

a browser problem but occa-sionally it was a path problem.In any case all problems wereresolved. I am guessing therest of the problems were con-nection problems, brokenlinks, and such. Commonly

the next attempt was suc-cessful.

In summary the member-only download of articleshas been successful and willbe continued into the nextyear with the following

change. Articles from 2000back will be available free-to-download on Jan.2002and the articles from 2001back would be availablefree-to-download onJan.2003 and so forth. ■

Mineralogy for the New Millennium

18th GENERAL MEETING OF THEINTERNATIONAL MINERALOGICAL ASSOCIATION

1–6 September 2002, EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND

Organized Jointly by the Department of Geology and Geophysics,University of Edinburgh and The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain

and Ireland

SECOND AND FINAL CIRCULARNOW PUBLISHED

E-Mail [email protected] for your copy or visit www.minersoc.org/IMA2002 for programme and details of registration and abstract

submission

Supported financially by:Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Mineralogical Society ofAmerica, the University of Edinburgh, European High Pressure Research

Group, Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft, Mineralogical Association ofCanada, Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie, Società

Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia, Australian Geological Society

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Welcome New Members

The following individualsjoined MSA July 17 through No-vember 17, 2001. We welcomethem to the Society. The areas ofinterest are: Mineralogy (MI),Crystallography/Crystal Chemis-try (CC), Material Properties(PP), Igneous Petrology (IP),Metamorphic Petrology (MP),Sedimentary Petrology (SP),Geochemistry (GE), Phase Equi-libria (PE), Economic Geology(EG), Clay Mineralogy (CM),Industrial Mineralogy (IM), En-vironmental Mineralogy (EM),Gems (GM), Planetary Materials(PM), Teaching (TC), TopologicMineralogy (TP), Biological-Mineral Interactions (BM), andothers as indicated.

If you know of someone whowould like or should join MSA,give them the membership appli-cation that appears in this issueof The Lattice, or is availablefrom either MSA’s web site(http://www. minsocam.org) andthe MSA Business Office, 1015Eighteenth St NW Ste 601,Washington, DC 20036-5212,USA.

Atlas, Mr. ZacharyD., 3934 SW 107thAve, Miami FL 33165-

3653. Ph: (305) 223-5618. E-mail: z_atlas@ hotmail.com(12-00). MI, IP, GE, PE, OTHER,VOLCANOLOGY

Bindeman, Dr. Ilya N.,Univ of Wisconsin,Dept of Geology & Geo-

physics, 1215 W Dayton St,Madison WI 53706-1692. Ph:(608) 262-7118. Fax: (608) 262-0693. E-mail: [email protected] (11-00). IP, GE,

Burt, Mr. Jason B., Wash-ington State Univ, Dept of Geol-ogy, P.O. Box 642812, PullmanWA 99164-2812. Ph: (509) 335-5087. E-mail: [email protected](12-00). MI, CC, PP, IP, MP, GE,EM, PM,

Cade, Ms. Andrea M.,Univ of WesternOntario, Dept of Earth

Sciences, London ON N6A 5B7,CANADA. Ph: (519) 661-6605.E-mail: [email protected] (12-00). MI, CC, IP,MP, GE, EG, GM, TC,

Carmichael, Ms. Sarah K.,Johns Hopkins Univ, Dept ofEarth & Planetary Sci, 3400 NCharles St, Baltimore MD21218-2687. Ph: (410) 243-8270.Fax: (410) 516-7933. E-mail:[email protected] (12-00).MI, CC, IP, MP, SP, GE, PE, EG,OTHER, GEOLOGIC FLUIDS

Decker, Dr. David L.,Desert Research Institute, 2215 Raggio

Pkwy, Reno NV 89512-1095. Ph:(775) 673-7353. E-mail:decker@dri. edu (11-00). MI,CC, PP, MP, SP, GE, PE, EG,CM, IM, EM, PM, TP, BM,

Degterov, Dr. Sergei A.,CRCT Ecole Polytechnique deMontreal, C.P. 6079, SuccursaleCentreville, Montreal QC H3C3A7, CANADA. Ph: (514) 340-4711 x5796. Fax: (514) 340-5840. E-mail: [email protected]. ca (11-00). PE, CC, PP,GE, IM, EM,

Dragovic, Mr. Besim, Univof Connecticut, Dept Geology &Geophysics, 354 Mansfield RdU-45, Storrs CT 06269-2045. Ph:(860) 429-2536. E-mail: [email protected] (12-00). MI, CC, IP,MP, GE, TC,

Elkins, Ms. Lynne J.,1308 Stanford Dr NE,Albuquerque NM

87106-3724. Ph: (505) 266-3703.E-mail: [email protected] (12-00). MI, IP, GE, PE, TC,OTHER, VOLCANOLOGY,IGNEOUS PETROGENESIS

Finnigan, Mr. Craig S.,Univ of Toronto, Dept ofGeology, Earth Sciences

Centre Ste 1066B, Toronto ONM5S 3B1, CANADA. E-mail:cfinnigan@ sympatico.ca (12-00). MI, CC, IP, MP, SP, GE, PE,EG, GM, TP,

Freeman, Mr. Gary M.,1795 SW Saint Andrews Dr.,

Palm City FL 34990-2205. Ph:(561) 283-6540. Fax: (561) 283-8020. E-mail: [email protected] (11-00). MI, CC,GM, TP,

Harder, Dr. Vicki M., 19Ocean Mirador, P.O.Box 57, Santa Teresa

NM 88008-0057. Ph: (505) 589-9447. Fax: (505) 589-9448. E-mail: vharder@ aol.com (11-00).MI, EG, TC,

Kauffman, Ms. MaryE., P.O. Box 1625 MS2203, Idaho Falls ID

83415-1625. Ph: (208) 526-2684.Fax: (208) 526-0828. E-mail:[email protected] (12-00). MI,CC, PP, IP, MP, SP, GE, PE, CM,EM, PM, TP, BM,

Kerrigan, Mr. Ryan J., 68Spring St Apt 3, Bridgewater MA

02324-1743. Ph: (508) 279-4497.E-mail: [email protected](12-00). MI, CC, PP, IP, GE, PE,TP,

Lee, Ms. Victoria E., P.O.Box 206841, New HavenCT 06520-6841. Ph:

(203) 436-1225. E-mail:[email protected] (12-00).MI, CC, PP, IP, MP, GE, PE, PM,TC,

Lopano, Ms. Christina L.,Pennsylvania State Univ, Dept ofGeosciences, 332 Deike Build-ing, University Park PA 16802-0000. Ph: (814) 861-1362.E-mail: [email protected](12-00). MI, CC, PP, IP, GE, EM,OTHER, ENVIRONMENTALGEOCHEMISTRY

Lowers, Mrs. Heather Ann,11195 W 17th Ave Apt 9-306,

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Lakewood CO 80215-6248. Ph:(303) 462-1374. E-mail:[email protected] (12-00).MI, CC, GE, EG, EM,

Lozano, Mr. Guillermo,5908 Via Norte Ln, CoronadoOaks, El Paso TX 79912-6600.Ph: (915) 581-7690. Fax: (915)581-9049. E-mail: [email protected] (12-00). IP, MP, SP, GE,EG, CM, IM, EM,

Luo, R. Shengnian, Califor-nia Inst of Technology, Seismo-logical Lab, MC 252-21,Pasadena CA 91125-0000. Ph:(626) 395-3825. E-mail: [email protected] (12-00). MI, PP,PM, TC,

Perkins, Dr. Robert B.,US Geological Survey,345 Middle-field Rd MS

901, Menlo Park CA 94025-3591. Ph: (650) 329-5479. E-mail: [email protected](11-00). SP, GE, EM, TC,

Pili, Dr. Eric, Commissariata L’Energie Atomique, DIF/DASE/SRCE, BP 12, Bruyeres-le-Chatel F-91680, FRANCE.Ph: +33 (169) 265011. Fax: +33(169) 267065. E-mail: [email protected] (11-00). GE,

Ruiz, Mr. Juan A., 845 WTaylor St MC 186, Chicago IL 60607-7059. Ph:

(773) 477-0941. Fax: (312) 413-2279. E-mail: [email protected](12-00). IP, GE, EG,

Stein, Ms. Ellen Lee, 1600Forest Lake Dr,Tuscaloosa AL 35401-

3656. Ph: (205) 752-9958. E-mail: [email protected] (12-00).MP, PE, EG,

Veilleux, Ms. AnnetteM., 1955 Paseo del SolPl, El Paso TX 79936-

4481. Ph: (915) 855-3377. E-mail: veilleux@geo. utep.edu(12-00). IP, MP, SP, PE,

Walter, Dr. MichaelJ., Okayama University, Inst for

Study of the Earth’s Interior,Misasa Tottori 682-0193, JA-PAN. Ph: +81 (858) 433732. Fax:+81 (858) 433450. E-mail: [email protected] (11-00). MI, CC, PP, IP, GE, PE, PM,

Wang, Dr. Pei-Ling,Carnegie Inst of Washington,Geophysical Lab, 5251 BroadBranch Rd NW, Washington DC20015-1305. Ph: (202) 478-8967.Fax: (202) 478-8900. E-mail:[email protected] (11-00). MP,GE, PM, BM,

Wasserman, Ms. Abigail A.,3201 E Fort Lowell Rd Apt 2061,Tucson AZ 85716-1688. Ph:(520) 621-1485. E-mail: [email protected] (12-00). MI,CC, IP, MP, GE, PE, PM, TC,

Whittington, Mrs. Jenni-fer K., 133 Highland Park Dr,

Baton Rouge LA 70808-5632.Ph: (225) 765-2338. E-mail:[email protected] (12-00).MI, IP, MP, SP,

Zang, Dr. Joachim W.,Area de Quimica doCEFET-GO, Rua 75 N.

46, Setor Central, Goiania Goias74055-110, BRAZIL. Ph: +55(62) 212 5050. Fax: +55 (62) 2131451. E-mail: joachim.zang @t-online.de (11-00). MI, CC, PP,GM, TC,

See page 3 for member-ship/subscription

information

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America’s oldest popular magazine about mineralsAmateurs as well as professional scientists delight in and poreover Rocks & Minerals, which has published articles on mineralogy, geology, and paleontology since 1926. Regulardepartments explore such topics as minerals for the collector,microminerals, and current geologic events. Detailed lists of collecting opportunities in specific localities appear periodically,as do special theme issues. Spectacular color photographsappear throughout each issue. Rocks & Minerals works with the Mineralogical Society of America to promote cooperationbetween collectors and professional mineralogists.

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was present at the luncheon.The Distinguished Public Service Award was presented

to Jeffrey E. Post for his work as lead curator of the Smithsonian’snew permanent exhibition “Geology, Gems and Minerals.”This beautiful exhibit is also one of the museum’s most popu-lar, visited by 7 to 8 million people annually. Jeffrey Postattended the University of Wisconsin–Platteville and ob-tained a B.S. in Geology and Chemistry in 1976. He earnedhis Ph.D. in chemistry, with a specialty in geochemistry,with Peter Buseck at Arizona State University in 1981. Hewas a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard from 1982 to 1984,where he studied theoretical modeling of mineral structureswith Charles Burnham. He joined the Department of Min-eral Sciences at the Museum of Natural History, SmithsonianInstitution in 1984 and was department chair from 1989 to1994. He has served as the Curator of the National Gem andMineral Collection since 1991. Dr. Post’s current researchinterests include single-crystal and synchrotron-powder X-ray diffraction studies of the structures, dehydration, and ex-change behaviors of manganese and iron oxide and clayminerals. Peter Heaney, as citationist, highlighted the posi-tive reviews of the Smithsonian exhibit and the influence ofthis exhibit in conveying the wonders of minerals and thenatural world to millions of people.

Peter C. Burns received the Mineralogical Society ofAmerica Award for outstanding research early in one’s re-search career. Peter C. Burns was born in 1966 in NewBrunswick, Canada. He graduated from the University of

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Synchrotron Radiation: Earth, Environmental and MaterialsSciences Applications

May 25 and 26, 2002

University of Saskatchewan campus, prior tothe 2002 GAC-MAC meeting in Saskatoon.

THE short course will present what synchrotron radiation is, what the latesttechniques are, what types of Earth, environmental and materials scienceproblems can be investigated using synchrotron techniques, what the

Canadian Light Source can do, how one gains access to the CLS and othersources, and how data are reduced and analyzed for specific techniques.

Most of the material will be at a level of understanding for most upper undergrad-uate and graduate students although recent results and ideas presented through-out the lectures will appeal to both pure andapplied researchers working on Earth, envi-ronmental and materials sciences. The pre-sentations of the first day (90-minutelectures) will be broad overviews ofvarious aspects of synchrotronresearch. The second day will bededicated to more specific applica-

tions, and some of the lecturers will gothrough the reduction and analysis of real rawdata with the audience (where appropriate).On the afternoon of the second day, there will be atour of the Canadian Light Source. A symposium onAPPLICATIONS OF SYNCHROTRON LIGHT SOURCES TOTHE EARTH SCIENCES will also be held during the GAC-MAC meet-ing. Both oral and poster presentations are welcome.

Organizers

G. Henderson, University of TorontoD. Baker, McGill University

Contributors

G. Michæl Bancroft, Director, and De-Tong Jiang, Canadian Light Source, Saskatoon

Gordon E. Brown, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Stanford University

T.K. Sham, Department of Chemistry, and H. Wayne Nesbitt, Department of EarthSciences, University of Western Ontario

J.S. Tse, Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, NRC, Ottawa

John B. Parise, Departments of Geology and Chemistry and Center for High PressureResearch, SUNY, Stony Brook

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New Brunswick with a B.Sc. (first class honors) in geologyin 1988 and from the University of Western Ontario with aM.Sc. in geology in 1990. He continued his graduate workat the University of Manitoba, and received a Ph.D. in 1994.His dissertation concerned theoretical aspects of the crystalchemistry of copper oxysalt minerals, and he was advisedby Frank C. Hawthorne. In 1994 he was awarded a NationalSciences and Engineering Council of Canada PostdoctoralFellowship, which he used to conduct research in mineralphase transitions at Cambridge University from 1994 to1995, and then in the mineralogy of uranium at the Univer-sity of New Mexico from 1995 to 1996. He was a visitingassistant professor at the University of Illinois-Urbana from1996 to 1997. He became an assistant professor of geologyat the University of Notre Dame in 1997, was promoted toAssociate Professor in 1999, and became the Henry Masman

tour. They are:Robert Bodnar — Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State

University – who is speaking on”The search for water and lifein the solar system: Are we alone?” and “Experimentalgeochemistry in a bottle: The use of synthetic fluid inclusionsto teach and understand basic geochemical and petrologicalprinciples.”

Catherine McCammon – University of Bayreuth, Germany– who is speaking on “Diamonds are not forever: How com-positional zoning in garnets can tell us why.” and“Oxidation-reduction in the Earth: What old cars and the lowermantle have in common.”

Roberta Rudnick – University Maryland – who is speakingon “Origin of Earth’s enigmatic continental crust” and“When young rift meets old continent: Xenolith studies from

the Tanzanian craton.”MSA heartedly thanks these folks for their time and effort

in speaking to colleges and universities around North Americaand Europe, and to Helen Lang for coordinating this program.The feedback that Helen has received emphasizes the positiveimpact that the MSA lecturer program can have on undergradu-ate and graduate students.

We also thank last year’s speakers John Holloway, RhianJones, and Ian Parsons.

DEATHS

I would like to ask the audience to please rise at this time tohonor those fellows and members of the society who havepassed away this year. Please remain standing and observe amoment of silence after the names have been read.

Robert S. Dietz, Life Fellow, 1943

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Chair in Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences in 2000.He directs the Environmental Mineralogy and Crystal Struc-tures research laboratory, and has research interests in low-temperature mineralogy, especially the mineralogy ofactinides. Frank Hawthorne, his citationist, also acknowl-edged Peter’s wife Tammy and son Kelson, who were bothpresent at the luncheon.

Cornelis Klein, as master of ceremonies, also recognizedthe contributions of the MSA Distinguished Lecturers for2000–2001, John Holloway, Rhian Jones, and Ian Parsons.John Holloway spoke on Mid-Ocean Ridge Black Smokers:Biogeochemical Cauldrons on the Seafloor and The Upside-down World of Subduction Zones: Cold Slabs to ExplosiveVolcanoes. Rhian Jones spoke on From Stardust to Aster-oids: Meteorites and their Record of Solar System Forma-tion, and Martian Meteorites: A Sneak Preview of Samplesfrom our Neighbor Planet. Ian Parsons spoke on Self-orga-nization in Crystals: Feldspar Weathering, and Origin ofLife and Twelve Orders of Magnitude: How Nano-scale Fea-tures of Minerals Solve Problems on the Kilometer Scale;the Klokken Intrusion, South Greenland. Ian Parsons wasthe first MSA Distinguished Lecturer who did not reside inNorth America. Also of note, Rhian Jones and Ian Parsonsboth did lecture tours in Europe as well as in North America.

A special gift was awarded to Anne Hofmeister for herservice as co-editor of the American Mineralogist.

A special guest at the 2001 luncheon was RobertReynolds, the 2000 Roebling Medallist, who was not ableto attend last year. He expressed his thanks for this honorvia Kase Klein but did not wish to speak. Dr. Reynolds’citation is published in Volume 16, no. 4 of The Lattice.

Finally, Kase Klein passed the gavel of the MSA presi-dency to Rod Ewing, who then closed the 2001 MSA Awardsluncheon. ■

MSA Award 2001 is given to Peter C. Burns (center) by CornelisKlein (left) and citationist Frank Hawthorne (right).


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articles from the archives of the American Mineralogist thatare of interest to collectors, and Frequently Asked Questions.Third, the full text of the Handbook of Mineralogy Volume II(Silicates) has been made available to MSA by the authors JohnW. Anthony, Richard A. Bideaux, Kenneth W. Bladh, and MonteC. Nichols. This volume contains basic mineralogical data for904 species viewable as Adobe Acrobat pdf files. Fourth, MSAcouncil has decided to allow free access to all articles of theAmerican Mineralogist from 2000 and prior (currently back tomid-1998) to the general public. Council believes that, in addi-tion to providing a valuable service to the general public, thiswill set a good example for other societies to follow in makingscientific information readily available. Our website currentlyreceives about 150,000 “hits” a month and is clearly an impor-tant component of MSA’s operations. Many thanks go to thewebmaster, Gordon Nord.

2001 ELECTION RESULTS

I am pleased to announce the results of the spring 2001 elec-tions.

The new President of the Society is Rodney EwingOur new Vice President — Douglas Rumble, IIIDavid Jenkins was re-elected SecretaryJames Blencoe remains in office as Treasurer

and the new Councilors are Peter Heaney and Nancy Ross.They will join the continuing councilors: David Bish, Jef-

frey Post, Craig Manning, and Kathryn Nagy.We thank the out-going councilors Sorena Sorensen and Michael

Carpenter for 3 years of dedicated service to the society.A total of 587 ballots were received by the August 1st dead-

line, representing 27% of the membership. You are stronglyurged to vote as each vote really does make a difference inthese closely contended elections. Let me extend a specialthanks to those who ran for office.

Let me add my personal thanks to the society for the honorof serving a second term as your secretary. ■

DeadlineMaterial for the February 2002 Lattice is January 11,

2001.Contributions may be sent to Andrea Koziol via surface

mail at the Department of Geology, University of Dayton,Dayton, OH 45469-2364 or via e-mail at [email protected]. ❑

IN MEMORIUMW.M.D. Bryant (Life Fellow-1936)

Nelson B. Dodge (Life Member-1945)Perry L. Ehlig (Member-1959)

Ian O. Knizek (Life Member-1946)Henry C. Mullner (Life Member-1947)Sidney W. Poole (Life Member-1945)

Deane K. Smith Jr. (Senior Fellow-1954)

James Graham, Member, 1981Walter D. Keller, Life Fellow, 1928Albert M. Kudo, Fellow, 1985E. F. Osborn, Life Fellow, 1940, MSA President, 1961Cyril J. Perusek, Life Member, 1947J. M. Piotrowski, Member, 1966Martin Prinz, Fellow, 1956H. P. Rooksby, Life Fellow, 1961Charles B. Sclar, Fellow, 1956Richard E. Stoiber, Life Fellow, 1935Shigeho Sueno, Fellow, 1972Charles J. Vitaliano, Life Fellow, 1938

Thank you. Please be seated.

Anyone who wishes to prepare a memorial, please contactAlex Speer, in the Business Office, who is serving in the ca-pacity of editor for memorials in the American Mineralogist.

COMMITTEES:

MSA’s endeavors depend primarily on the volunteer workof its members serving on the many committees that are inplace. Speaking as the one who has the privilege of contactingyou to serve on these committees, let me extend a special “thankyou” for taking the time to help MSA on these various com-mittees. Without your help, MSA could not undertake its manyfunctions to educate, grant money, and continue to serve ourprofession. Those who would like to volunteer their time andeffort to serve on a committee are welcome to contact me, AlexSpeer, or the in-coming chair of the Committee on Commit-tees, Doug Rumble.

I draw your attention to one other way in which you mayserve the profession of mineralogy and the earth sciences atthe “grass-roots” level, which is to add your name to the Direc-tory of Earth Sciences Speakers. This directory is the result ofan effort on the part of the national Friends of Mineralogy andMSA to assemble speakers who are willing to talk to mineralclubs, museum patrons, Scout groups, school classes, etc. ontopics ranging from minerals to Mars. Information should bedirected to Andrew Sicree at the Penn State University mu-seum. His contact information is in the notice that frequentlyappears in the Lattice, or is accessible from the MSA website.

WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT

The MSA website has undergone a number of importantdevelopments this year. First, the K-12 Outreach Committeehas developed the “Mineralogy 4 Kids” link which has infor-mation on the rock cycle, mineral properties, and other grade-specific information about minerals. Many thanks go to NancyMcMillan for heading up this effort. Nancy is currently askingpeople to send photos and descriptions of field localities toestablish “virtual” field trips on the web. Second, the “Collec-tors Corner” has been developed by David Von Bargen spe-cifically for mineral collectors. At this link you can find suchthings as resources for locating minerals on a state-by-statebasis, listings of minerals found at classic mineral localities,


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Coming in the American Mineralogist

LETTERS171 Closure in crystal size distributions (CSD), verification

of CSD calculations, and the significance of CSD fansMichael D. Higgins

176 Icosahedral domain structure of framboidal pyriteHiroaki Ohfuji and Junji Akai

ARTICLES1 Study on adsorption of submicrometer gold on kaolin-

ite by quantum chemistry calculationsHong Hanlie, Min Xinmin, and Fu Zhengyi

5 Image distortion in scanning probe microscopyK. Henriksen and S.L.S. Stipp

17 Multiple length scale growth spirals on metamorphicgraphite {001} surfaces studied by atomic force micros-copyJohn Rakovan and John A. Jaszczak

25 29Si MAS NMR study of diopside–Ca-Tschermakclinopyroxenes: Detecting both tetrahedral and octa-hedral Al substitutionRoberta L. Flemming and Robert W. Luth

37 Electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopic studyof synthetic fluorapatite: Part I. Local structural envi-ronment and substitution mechanism of Gd3+ at the Ca2siteNing Chen, Yuanming Pan, and John A. Weil

47 Electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopic studyof synthetic fluorapatite: Part II. Gd3+ at the Ca1 site,with a neighboring Ca2 vacancyNing Chen, Yuanming Pan, John A. Weil, andMark J. Nilges

56 Determination of the H3BO3 concentration in fluid andmelt inclusions in granite pegmatites by laser Ramanmicroprobe spectroscopyRainer Thomas

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Meeting Calendar 2002–2003

2002

JANUARY3–4 Volcanic and Magmatic

Studies Group 2002. UniversityCollege London. Details: Profes-sor Bill McGuire, Benfield GreigHazards Research Centre, UCL,Gower St., London UK. Email:[email protected]. Webpage: http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/template.cfm?name=VMSGagm

7–9 Timing, Transition, andTectonics. Derby University,UK. Details: Dr Neil Hudson. E-mail: [email protected] page: http://msg.gly.bris.ac.uk/pages/mpages/wm2002/wm02.html

FEBRUARY

17–21 The Minerals, Metals& Materials Society 2002 An-nual Meeting. Seattle, WA. De-tails: TMS ProgrammingDepartment, 184 Thorn HillRoad, Warrendale, Pennsylvania15086. Phone (724) 776-9000,ext. 237; fax (724) 776-3770. E-mail: [email protected]: http://www.tms.org/M e e t i n g s / A n n u a l - 0 2 /AnnMtg02Home.html

MARCH

3–8 Biomimetic Engineer-ing. Sandestin, FL. Details:United Engineering Foundation,Three Park Avenue, 27th Floor,New York, NY, 10016-5902.Phone 1-212-591-7836; Fax: 1-212-591-7441. E-mail: [email protected]. Web page: http://www.engfnd.org/2am.html

4–7 10th Annual Meeting ofthe German Society for Crystal-lography (Deutsche Gesellschaftfuer Kristallographie / DGK). Kiel,Germany. Details: Institut fürGeowissenschaften der UniversitätKiel, Olshausenstr. 40, D-24098Kiel. Tel.: 0431 880 2892/2851.Fax.: 0431 880 4457. E-Mail:

[email protected]. Webpage: http://www.ifg.uni-kiel.de/dgk2002/

11–15 33rd Lunar and Plan-etary Science Conference.South Shore Harbour Resort andConference Center, Houston, TX.Details: Publications and Pro-gram Services Department, Lu-nar and Planetary Institute, 3600Bay Area Blvd., Houston, TX77058-1113 phone: 281-486-2188; fax: 281-486-2125 Email:[email protected]. Web page:http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/meet-ings/lpsc2002/

10–13 AAPG Annual Con-vention and Exhibition. Hous-ton, Texas. Details: AAPGConvention Department, 1444 S.Boulder Ave., Tulsa, OK 74119USA. Phone: 800-364-2274 or918-560-2679. Email: [email protected]. Web page: http://www.aapg.org.

18–19 Transport and FlowProcesses within Shear Zones:Joint International ResearchMeeting of the Tectonic Stud-ies Group, Geological Societyof London. London, England.Details: Ian Alsop, CrustalGeodynamics Group, School ofGeography & Geosciences, Uni-versity of St.Andrews, Fife, Scot-land, KY16 9AL UK. E-mail:[email protected]. Webpage: http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~www_sgg/tsg2001.html

24–27 EMPG IX: Ninth In-ternational Symposium on Ex-perimental Mineralogy,Petrology and Geochemistry.Zurich, Switzerland. Details:EMPG IX Organizing Commit-tee, Institute for Mineralogy andPetrography, ETH Zentrum,Sonneggstrasse 5, CH-8092ZURICH–SWITZERLANDPhone: +41 1 632 3779 (or 3955);Fax: +41 1 632 1294 . Email:[email protected]. Webpage:http://eurasia.ethz.ch/empg/

APRIL

1-5 Materials Research So-ciety Spring Meeting. San Fran-cisco, California, USA. Details:Materials Research Society, 506Keystone Drive, PA 15086-7573,USA. Telephone: 724-779-3003.Fax: 724-779-8313. E-mail:[email protected]. Web page: http://w w w. m r s . o r g / m e e t i n g s /spring2002/.

MAY

19-24 International Base-ment Tectonics AssociationMeeting. Rolla, MO, USA. De-tails: John P. Hogan, Departmentof Geology and Geophysics, Uni-versity of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla,MO 65409-0410. Phone: (573)364-4618. Fax: (573) 341-6935.E-mail: [email protected]

20–24 The Sixth Interna-tional Symposium on theGeochemistry of the Earth’sSurface (GES-6). Honolulu, Ha-waii USA. Details: GES-6 Sym-posium Secretariat, UH Dept. ofOceanography, 1000 Pope Road,MSB 525, Honolulu, HI USA96822. phone: +1-808-956-6344;fax: +1-808-956-7112. Email:[email protected]. edu. Webpage:http://www. soest.hawaii.edu/oceanography/ges-6/

25–30 American Crystallo-graphic Association AnnualMeeting. San Antonio, Texas.Details: Wally Cordes. E-mail:[email protected]. Webpage: http://www.hwi.buffalo.edu/ACA/ACA-Annual / futuremeetings.html

27 – 29 47th Joint AnnualMeeting of the Geological As-sociation of Canada and theMineralogical Association ofCanada. Saskatoon, Canada. De-tails: Mel Stauffer, Department ofGeological Sciences, Universityof Saskatchewan, 114 SciencePlace Saskatoon SK Canada S7N5E2. E-mail: mel. stauffer@

usask.ca. Web page: http://www.usask.ca/geology/sask2002/index.html

May 28–June 1 AGU 2002Spring Meeting. Washington,DC. . Details: AGU MeetingsDepartment, 2000 Florida Av-enue, NW, Washington, DC20009. Phone: 1-800-966-2481.Fax: +1-202-328-0566. Email:[email protected].

JUNE

3–7 Zeolite ‘02. Thessaloniki,Greece. Details: :Dr. PanagiotisMisaelides, Assoc. Professor,Dept. of Chemistry, AristotleUniv., P. O. Box 1547, GR-54006Thessaloniki, Greece. Tel.: ++3031 99 77 89, Fax: ++30 31 99 7753. Email: [email protected]. Web page:http://www.chem.auth.gr/activities/zeo2002

8–13 Annual Meeting of theClay Minerals Society. Boulder,Colorado, USA. Details:: Co-Chair: Kathryn L. Nagy, Associ-ate Professor, University ofColorado at Boulder, Departmentof Geological Sciences, CampusBox 399, Boulder, CO 80309-0399 OR Co-Chair Dennis Eberl,Division of Water Resources,USGS, 3215 Marine Street,Boulder, CO 80303 OR Co-ChairAlex Blum, Division of WaterResources, USGS, 3215 MarineStreet, Boulder, CO 80303. Email:[email protected], [email protected], or [email protected]. Web page: http://www.colorado.edu/geolsci/cms/

June 30–July 5 16th Austra-lian Geological Convention.Adelaide, Australia. Details: TheOrganising Committee, 16thAGC, PO Box 6129, HalifaxStreet, Adelaide, South Australia5000 Australia. Tel: +618 82270252 Fax: +618 8227 0251. E-mail: [email protected] page: http://www.16thagc.gsa.org.au/

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JULY

21–26 The 65th meeting ofthe Meteoritical Society. LosAngeles, California, USA. De-tails: Dr. Paul H. Warren, Insti-tute of Geophysics & PlanetaryPhysics, UCLA, Los Angeles,CA, 90095-1567. phone 310-825-3202, fax 310-206-3051.Email: [email protected]. Webpage:http://www.uark.edu/cam-pus-resources/metsoc/newmeet.htm.

25–25 9th InternationalPlatinum Symposium. Billings,MT, USA. Details: Roger Coo-per, Dept. of Geology, LamarUniv.,P.O. Box 10031, Beau-mont, TX 77710, USA. Phone:409-880-8239. E-mail: [email protected]. Web page: http://www.platinumsymposium.org.

22–27 11th QuadrennialIAGOD Symposium andGEOCONGRESS 2002.Windhoek, Namibia. Details: TheSecretary, IAGOD/GEOCON-GRESS 2002, P.O. Box 44283,Linden 2104, South Africa. E-mail:gssa@ pop.onwe.co.za. Web page:http://www.geoconference2002.com.

AUGUST

6–15 19th Congress andGeneral Assembly of the Inter-national Union of Crystallogra-phy. Geneva, Switzerland.Details: Congress Secretariat,XIX Congress and General As-sembly of the IUCr, P.O. Box50006, Tel Aviv 61500, Israel.Tel: 972 3 5140000. Fax: 972 35140077. e-mail: [email protected] page: http://www.kenes.com/iucr/index.html

17–23 12th V.M. GoldschmidtConference incorporating ICOGX. Davos, Switzerland. Details:Prof. A. Halliday, Institut furMin.und Petrographie, ETH-Zentrum, CH-8092, Zurich. Email:[email protected]. Webpage: http://www.goldschmidt-conference.com/gold2002/.

SEPTEMBER

1-6 September 2002 Min-eralogy for the New Millen-nium (IMA 2002) 18thGeneral Meeting of the Inter-national Mineralogical Asso-ciation, Edinburgh, Scotland.Details: Dr. Adrian Lloyd-Lawrence, Executive Secretary,Mineralogical Society of GreatBritain and Ireland, 41 Queen’sGate, London SW7 5HR, U.K.Phone +44 (0)20 7584 7516,Fax: +44 (0)20 7823 8021 E-mail: info@ minersoc.org. Website http://www.minersoc. org/IMA2002.

10–11 Uranium 2002—Ura-nium deposits from their gen-esis to their environmentalaspects. Prague, Czech Repub-lic. Details: Bohdan Kribek,Czech Geological Survey,Geologická 6, CZ-152 00 Praha5, Czech Republic. Tel., Fax:+420-2-5817390. E-mail:[email protected]. Web page:http://xrd.cgu.cz/uranium.htm.

OCTOBER

6–10 The Minerals, Metals& Materials Society 2002 An-nual Fall Meeting. Columbus,OH. Details: TMS ProgrammingDepartment, 184 Thorn HillRoad, Warrendale, Pennsylvania15086. Tel. (724) 776-9000, ext.237; fax (724) 776-3770. E-mail:[email protected]. Web page:http://www.tms.org/Meetings/Fall2002/Fall2002.html.

11–14 Mineral Diversity—Research and Preservation.Sofia, Bulgaria. Details: Organiz-ing Committee, Earth and ManNational Museum, 4, Cherny VrahBlvd., 1421 Sofia, Bulgaria. phone(+359 2) 656 639; Fax (+359 2)661455. E-mail: mindiv @web.bg.Web page: http://www. lam.mus.ca.us/~smmp/meetings. htm.

27–30 Geological Society ofAmerica Annual meeting. Den-ver, CO, USA. Details: GSAMeetings, Box 9140, Boulder,

Colo. 80301-9140. Phone: +1-303-447-2020, ext. 164. Fax: +1-303-447-1133. E-mail: [email protected]. Web page: http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/index.htm.

NOVEMBER

26–30 Materials ResearchSociety Fall Meeting. Boston,MA USA Details: Materials Re-search Society, 506 KeystoneDrive, PA 15086-7573, USA. Tel:724-779-3003. Fax: 724-779-8313. E-mail [email protected]. Webpage: http://www.mrs.org/meet-ings/fall2001/

DECEMBER

6–10 AGU 2002 Fall Meet-ing. San Francisco, CA, USA.Details: AGU Meetings Depart-ment, 2000 Florida Avenue, NW,Washington, DC 20009. Phone:+1-202-462-6900 (in D.C. or out-side North America) or 1-800-966-2481 (toll-free in NorthAmerica). Fax: +1-202-328-0566. E-mail: [email protected]. Web page: http://www.agu.org/meetings.

2003

APRIL

7–11 2003 EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly. Nice,FRANCE. Details: AGU

Meetings Department, 2000Florida Avenue, NW, Wash-ington, DC 20009 USA.Phone: +1-202-462-6900;Fax: +1-202-328-0566. E-mail: [email protected];http://www.agu.org/meetings/

21–25 Materials ResearchSociety Spring Meeting. SanFrancisco, CA, USA. Details:Materials Research Society, 506Keystone Drive, PA 15086-7573,USA. Tel: 724-779-3003. Fax:724-779-8313. E-mail [email protected]. Web page: http://w w w. m r s . o r g / m e e t i n g s /future_meetings.html

JUNE

4–15 High Pressure Crys-tallography. Erice, Italy. Details:Andrzej Katrusiak, Dept of Crys-tal Chemistry, Adam MickiewiczUniversity, ul. Grunwaldzka 6,60780 Poznan, Poland. Phone:+48 61 86 99 181 Fax: +48 6186 58 008. E-mail: [email protected]. Web page: http://www.geomin.unibo.it/orgv/erice/highpres.htm.

7–11 40th meeting of theClay Minerals Society. Athens,Georgia USA. Details: Paul A.Schroeder, University of Geor-gia, Department of Geology, Ath-ens, GA 30602-2501, USA.Phone: (706) 542-2384. Email:[email protected]. Web page:http://www.gly.uga.edu/CMS2003.

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GRANT FOR RESEARCH IN CRYSTALLOGRAPHYFrom the Edward H. Kraus Crystallographic Research Fund with contributions from MSA membership and friends

and the 2003

MSA GRANT FOR STUDENT RESEARCH INMINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

from an endowment created by contributions from the MSA membership

The Grant for Research in Crystallography is a US$5000 grant. There are no restrictions on how thegrant funds may be spent, as long as they are used in support of research. The only restrictions on eligibility for thegrant are that the applicant must have reached his or her 25th birthday but not yet have reached his or her 36thbirthday on the date the grant is given, and that the person is not a MSA Counselor.

MSA Grants for Student Research in Mineralogy and Petrology comprise two US$5000 grants.Students, including graduate and undergraduate students, are encouraged to apply. There are no restrictions on how thegrant funds may be spent, as long as they are used in support of research.

Selection will be based on the qualifications of the applicant, the quality,innovativeness, and scientific significance of the research, and the likelihood of successof the project. Grants will be made in January 2003. There are no restrictions on howthe grant funds may be spent, as long as they are used in support of research. Applicationinstructions and forms for the grants may be obtained from the MSA home page,http://www.minsocam.org or Dr. J. Alex Speer, MSA Business Office, 1015 EighteenthSt NW Ste 601, Washington, DC 20036-5212, USA (ph: 202-775-4344, fax: 202-775-0018, e-mail: [email protected]). Completed applications must be received byJune 1, 2002.

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Details may be obtained from the MSA Business Of-fice: J. Alex Speer, Mineralogical Society of America,1015 Eighteenth Street, N. W., Suite 601,WashingtonD. C. 20036, Telephone: 202-775-4344, Fax: 202-775-0018, E-mail: business@ minsocam.org. Electronic ad-vertisements in tiff or eps formats, or Word (text only),can be accepted, and should be sent directly to the MSABusiness Office.

der, CO. Convenors: Paul Fenter, Mark L. Rivers, Neil C.Sturchio, Stephen Sutton. Sponsor: The Geochemical Society.

–Phosphates: Geochemical, Isotopic, and Materials Impor-tance. October 26-27, 2002 - preceding the 2002 GSA DenverMeeting, Golden, CO. Convenors: John M. Hughes, MatthewKohn, and John Rakovan. Sponsor: The Mineralogical Soci-ety of America.

More information about these short courses will be avail-able in the May 2002 Lattice and from the MSA(www.minsocam.org) and GS (http://gs.wustl.edu) websites.

The 2001 short courses were Stable Isotope Geochemistryshort course (organized at GSA by John W. Valley and DavidR. Cole) with 80 participants and Nanoparticles in the Envi-ronment and Technology (organized by Jill Banfield and AlexNavrotsky before Fall AGU) with 89 participants as of mid-November. MSA’s third workshop on Practical Application ofXRF Techniques to the Analysis of Geological Materials (atGSA) had 24 participants. This was a sufficiently large turnoutso that an additional session had to be organized. Dave Coler(Philips) and James Willis (retired, University of Capetown)were the organizers. There will likely be a fourth Workshopsponsored by MSA’s Mineral Structures Interest Group at theSpring AGU meeting.

• MSA Council will have its Spring 2002 Council Meetingand the presentation of the 2002 Dana Medal to MichaelHochella at the 2002 Spring AGU Meeting in Washington, DC.Presently the technical sessions will run from Tuesday May28, 2002 through Saturday, June 1, 2002. You will be receivingmore information from AGU about this meeting in the imme-diate future.

• The Spring 2003 Council Meeting and Dana Medal pre-sentation will be at a joint meeting with The Clay MineralsSociety, June 7–11, 2003, in Athens, Georgia. If you interestedin organizing a technical session or other event for this meet-ing, please contact General Chair Paul A. Schroeder (706) 542-2384 or [email protected].

• MSA received the American Mineralogist collections ofClifford Frondel, Barbara Ransom, and W.J. Croft. These con-tained a fair number of unbound copies of the earliest issues.Unbound sets are easier to copy for MSA’s document deliveryservice, and, more importantly, unbound originals may beneeded to produce an electronic version of the entire run ofAmerican Mineralogist. MSA now has unbound copies of allissues starting with volume 7 (1922), though some show thetell-tale signs of chemical blowpipe analysis stains and a slightodor of immersion oils and need to be replaced if better copiessurface. We have only a scattering of issues in volumes 1–6. Ifyou have any of these earliest issues, even single issues, andwould like to find them a home, let us know.

• There are three new publications in the Mineralogical So-ciety of America and the Geochemical Society Reviews in Min-

eralogy and Geochemistry (RiMG) series: Volume 43: StableIsotope Geochemistry edited by J.W. Valley and D. Cole, Vol-ume 44: Nanoparticles in the Environment and Technologyedited by J.F. Banfield and A. Navrotsky, and Volume 45 Natu-ral Zeolites: occurrence, properties, application edited by D.Bish and D. Ming. The RIMG volume accompanied the Trans-formation Processes in Minerals short course in Cambridge,England was reviewed by Mark D. Welch in Canadian Miner-alogist 39, 215. If you have not yet bought your copies, use thepublication order form in this issue of The Lattice, or orderthem online.

• MSA is an Associated Society of GSA. Starting in 2000,GSA has attempted to strengthen its relationships with its as-sociated societies. The Associated Societies are an integral partof GSA’s overall scientific and disciplinary breadth and ac-tively participate in the Annual Meeting program or collabo-rate with GSA in other substantial ways such as in co-publishing.Associated Societies are entitled to equivalent participation,rights, and privileges as a GSA Division. MSA is representedon several GSA Working Groups of the Associated Societies(Publications, Global, Outreach) newly established to identifycommon concerns. More recently, GSA asked MSA to be partof a task force that is considering the possibility of a consor-tium of geoscience societies that would aggregate to electroni-cally publish and market their journals, books, etc.

• The Mineralogical Society of America Dana Medal wasnamed in honor of James Dwight Dana (1813–1895) and Ed-ward Salisbury Dana (1849–1935). E.S. Dana was HonoraryMSA President from 1926–1935, and MSA has a picture ofhim from the journal that we use in descriptions of the award.We do not have a picture of J.D. Dana and would appreciateinformation about a source of a non-copyrighted portrait ofhim. ■

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