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Council RecognizesContributions With Awards,Fellowship, and Scholarships

At its two November meetings in Denver,MSA Council approved recommendationsthat Helen D. Megaw of Cambridge (retired)be awarded the 1989 Roebling Medal andMichael A. Carpenter (Cambridge) receivethe 1989 MSA award. The Roebling Medal,MSA's highest award for eminence asrepresented by outstanding original research,will be presented to Dr. Megaw at the St.Louis GSA meeting for her numerouscontributions to feldspar crystallography andcrystal chemistry. Topics of Dr. Megaw'sresearch have included feldspars, ferro-electrics such as barium titanite andperovskite, interpretations of physicalproperties based on structure, andelucidation of order/disorder and exsolutionbehavior in minerals using variousexperimental and theoretical approachescombined with TEM observations ofmicrostructures.

Council voted to accept therecommendations of the Research GrantCommittee and make twoMineralogy/Petrology Research GrantAwards for 1989. Recipients are Nancy

Elizabeth Brown of Princeton University andJillian Fiona Banfield of Johns Hopkins. Ms.Brown's proposed research involvesmeasurement of thermodynamic mixingproperties of the solid solution hematite-ilmenite as a function of structural state andchemical composition. Ms. Banfield'sproposed research addresses the effects ofexsolution, oxidation, and crystal defects innatural oxide minerals on the magneticsusceptibility and coercivity of rocks.

Council also approved Fellowship statusfor the following Members of the Society: W.L. Brown,]. B. Gill, A. M. Kudo, W. P.Leeman, R. C. Liebermann,]. Longhi, M. H.Manghnani, M. T. Naney,]. D. Pasteris, D.W. Rankin, C. M. Scarfe (posthumous), E. B.Watson, E. F. Westrum, Jr., and W. E.Wilson.

FROM THE PASTPRESIDENT

One of the pleasures of completing a termas President is acknowledging the efforts ofthe many people who take on bigresponsibilities for this Society and performthem with such distinction. We could notfunction without them! Many have nowserved their terms or otherwise finished thetask they set out to do, and on behalf of theSociety I thank all of them for their goodwork. Professor Bull Bailey for his secondexcellent short course "HydrousPhyllosilicates Exclusive of Micas," Jo Lairdfor her service in the demanding work asMSA Representative to the Joint TechnicalProgram Committee of GSA, and HenryO.A. Meyer for organizing the very well-attended symposium "Mineralogy of theMantle" deserve special thanks for makingthe Denver meeting a success. Thankseveryone!

The Council adopted the proposal of theFutures Committee to implement the MSALecture Program during 1989. Peter R.Buseck of Arizona State University hasagreed to chair the Lecture Committee. Hehas had experience with the Society ofEconomic Geology's lecture program andknows how to make our program work. Hewould especially appreciate suggestions fromyou as to possible lecturers, and would like tohear from institutions that would like toparticipate in our programs. It is planned thatMSA would pay travel expenses and hostinstitutions would pay only local expenses.Lectures would be aimed at upper-levelundergraduate students and beginninggraduate students, with the intent to fosterwider awareness of current research inmineralogy, petrology, and crystallography.Please help make this new program a success!

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Volunteers are needed to prepare abstractsfor Mineralogical Abstracts for GeologicalSociety of America Bulletin, Geology,Journal of Geophysical Research, Rocks andMinerals, Southeastern Geology, TheCompass of Sigma Gamma Epsilon, TulsaGeological Society Digest, and thepublications of the state Surveys and othermineralogical and geological societies ofIllinois, Kentucky, New York, Tennessee,Virginia, and West Virginia. If interested,please contact Prof. Karl Riggs, Dept. ofGeology and Geography, Mississippi StateUniversity, P.O. Drawer KR, MississippiState, MS 39762, or phone (601) 325-2910.

David B. Stewart1988 President

In MemoriamWe regret to announce the passing of the

following MSA members and fellows. TheSociety extends its condolences to the familyand friends of these scientists.

Gottardi, GlaucoHonorary Fellow, 1959

Scarfe, ChristopherMember, 1980

The Lattice is published quarterly(February, May, August, November) bythe Mineralogical Society of America.This newsletter is distributed to MSAmembers as a service. Articles and lettersfrom readers are welcome.

The Mineralogical Society of Americais composed of individuals interested inmineralogy, crystallography, andpetrology. Founded in 1919, the Societypromotes, through education andresearch, the understanding andapplication of mineralogy by industry,universities, government and the public.

Membership benefits include: theAmerican Mineralogist, publishedbi-monthly; 30% discount on volumes inthe Reviews in Mineralogy series; TheLattice; Membership Directory; specialsubscription rates for MineralogicalAbstracts, Physics and Chemistry ofMinerals, Journal of Petrology, andJournal of Metamorphic Geology;reduced registration fees at MSA shortcourses; member rates for theMSNGeological Society of Americaannual meeting and for MSA's springmeeting with the American GeophysicalUnion; participation in a Society thatsupports the many facets of mineralogy.

Dues for 1989 are $40 for professionalmembers; $20 for students. Membershipis on a calendar year basis. Individualswho join after January 1, 1989 will be sentall back issues of the journal for volume74, 1989.

For additional membership informationand an application, and/or to receive aprice list of the Society's publications,contact the Business Office.

Institutions may subscribe to the 1989volume of the American Mineralogist forthe annual rate of $150. The subscriptionprice includes any new volumes of the

Reviews in Mineralogy series publishedduring the calendar year of thesubscription. Payment must be receivedin full before a subscription will bestarted.1989 President: C.W. Burnham,

Harvard UniversityPast-President: D.B. Stewart,

U.S. Geological SurveySecretary: Maryellen Cameron, Miami

University of OhioTreasurer: James A. Whitney, University

of GeorgiaOffice Manager/Accountant: Susan L.

Myers

Mineralogical Society of America1625 I Street N.W., Suite 414Washington, D.C. 20006(202) 775-4344

November, 1988

Assessment of Prestige and Price of ProfessionalPublications: A Discussion

By David M. ShermanU.S. Geological SurveyMail Stop 964Box 25046 Denver Federal CenterDenver CO 80225

The recent Presidential Address andaccompanying article by Ribbe (1988) statedthat papers written by employees of thefederal government were more likely to bepublished in the less prestigious (lowerimpact) journals. Since the U.S. GeologicalSurvey is the largest government Earthscience institution, one might get themistaken impression that Ribbe's remarksalso apply to papers published by the U. S.Geological Survey. In fact, mineralogy andpetrology papers published by USGSscientists are much more likely to bepublished in high-impact journals than arepapers published by the mineralogy-petrology community as a whole. If onecompares USGS papers with those produced'y scientists affiliated with American

universities only, it is still found, usingRibbe's criteria, that Survey papers have agreater likelihood of being published in thejournals with the highest impact.

To illustrate, I undertook a computerizedliterature search for all papers authored byUSGS scientists from 1980 to the presentand considered only those journals used inRibbe's study. The breakdown is shown inTable l. The numbers in parentheses are the"impact factors" given by Science CitationIndex and used by Ribbe in his study. Forpurposes of this discussion, a mineralogypaper is defined as one published in one ofthe five mineralogy journals; a petrologypaper is one published in the six petrologyjournals. Among mineralogy papers, it isclear that USGS papers are most likely to bepublished in the highest-impact AmericanMineralogist. In fact, 70% of USGS paperson mineralogy are published in that journal.

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By contrast, only 33% of mineralogypapers produced by the scientific communityas a whole are published there. If we consideronly papers produced by American scientists,67% are published in AmericanMineralogist; close, but still less, than theproportion of USGS papers. At the otherextreme, the fraction of USGS mineralogypapers published in the lowest-impactjournals is only 7%. Using Ribbe's data, thefraction of all mineralogy papers published inthose journals is 23% (it drops to 11% if onlyAmerican scientists are considered).

Among the petrology journals considered,it is again clear that USGS papers arepublished in the higher-impact journals.Although a smaller fraction of USGS papersare published in the highest-impact Journal ofPetrology (7% vs. 12% of all petrologypapers), a very high (61%) proportion ofUSGS petrology papers are published in thehighest-impact petrology journal in the U.S.,namely Amerian Journal of Science. Bycomparison, only 30% of petrology papersoriginating out of American universities arepublished in that journal. At the otherextreme, only 1% of USGS petrology papersended up in the bottom three journals. Bycomparison, 24% of all petrology papers arepublished there.

Among both mineralogy and petrologyjournals, therefore, Ribbe's statement thatpapers produced by government scientistsare more likely to be published in the lower-impact journals clearly cannot be applied tothe USGS; indeed, the very opposite is true.

Acknowledgments

I wish to thank Elaine Watson of the USGSlibrary staff for her assistance.

•Reference Cited

Ribbe, P.H. (1988) Assessment of prestigeand price of professional publications.American Mineralogist, 73,449-469.

•TABLE 1.BREAKDOWN OF USGSMINERALOGY-PETROLOGYPAPERS BY JOURNAL

Journal (Impact Factor) No. of USGSPapers

Petrology Journals

Journal of Petrology (3.508) 6American Journal of Science (2.862) 54Contributions to Mineralogy 27

and Petrology (2.225)Lithos (.988)Journal of Metamorphic Geology (0.955) 0Mineralogy and Petrology (0.426) 0

Mineralogy Journals

American Mineralogist (l.954) 81Physics and Chemistry of

Minerals (l.374) 5Canadian Mineralogist 0.174) 20Bulletin de Mineralogie (0.797) 1Mineralogical Magazine (.628) 8

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MEETING CALENDAR1989

February

12 The Tenth Symposium sponsored by the Friends of Mineralogy, the Tucson Gemand Mineral Society, and MSA, Tucson, AZ. Details: Henry Truebe, FM-TGMS-MSA Symposium, c/o Dallhold Resources, 2002 N. Forbes Blvd, Tucson, AZ85745.

April

24-29 The annual spring meeting of the Materials Research Society will be held in SanDiego, California. A call for papers is expected to be issued July 22, 1988. Details:Merry Geil, of Meeting Activities, 9800 McKnight Road, Suite 327, Pittsburgh,PA 15237(412)367 -3003.

May

MAC Short Course: Diagenesis; Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Details: MAC, RoyalOntario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2C6.

15-17 Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.Details: GACIMAC Montreal 89, Room 238, 3450 University Street, Montreal,Quebec, Canada H3A 2A7 (514)398-4082.

July

9-19 28th International Geological Congress, Washington, D.C Details: Dr. Bruce B.Hanshaw, Secretary General, P.O. Box 1001, Herndon, VA 22070-1001; (703)648-6053.

19 Abstract deadline for 1989 GSA meeting.

November

4-5 MSA 1989 Fall Short Course on Advanced Powder Diffraction Techniques,St. Louis, MO.

December

MSA 1989 Short Course on Rare Earth Elements, prior to AGU annual meetingin San Francisco, CA.

The Gibbs Symposium

Foreign CornerTwo items of interest to readers of The

Lattice are the new European Journal ofMineralogy and Australian Mineralogist.

The European Journal of Mineralogy is amerger of the former Bull. de Mineralogie(France), Forsch. der Mineralogie (W.Germany) and Rend. della Soc. Italiana diMineralogia e Petrologia (Italy). The newjournal will be published jointly by theDeutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft,Societa Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologiaand the Societe Francaise de Mineralogie etde Cristallographie, in cooperation with theEuropean Mineralogical Union. The journalwill start in 1989 and most of the papers willbe in English. The Managing Editor isChristian Willaime, Universite Paris VI -Tour 16, Lab. de Mineralogie -Cristallographie,4 Place Jussieu - F75252Paris Cedex 05 (France).

The Australian Mineralogist is now beingpublished four times a year as anindependent journal. The content willconcentrate mainly on Australian mineralsand localities and will include new minerals,topographical mineralogy, reviews andhistorical papers. The Editors are Dr. W. D.Birch, Dr. E. R. Segnit and Mr. C Kovac.The journal is published by Gemcraft Pty.Ltd., 293 Wattle tree Road, East Malvern,Victoria 3145, Australia. The subscription isUS$20 by Sea (US$32.00 by Air) for fourcopies per year (1 volume).

For those members who have libraryprivileges you may wish to consider askingyour library to take out subscriptions to bothjournals.

Yale University, May 15-17, 1989

The year 1989 will have a specialsignificance for science: it marks thesesquicentennial of the birth of JosiahWillard Gibbs. To commemorate thisoccasion, we are planning a two-and-a-half-day symposium to be held at Yale, beginningon the morning of Monday, May 15 andlasting until noon on Wednesday, May 17. Atthis symposium, sixteen leading scientists willpresent papers dealing with Gibbsian themes.The core of the symposium will be inmathematical physics, physical chemistry,and mathematics, but there will becontributions from areas of biology, geologyand economics as well.

This symposium is being sponsored byYale University, Gibb's lifelong home, by

several national scientific organizations,including the National Academy of Sciences,the American Mathematical Society and theAmerican Physical Society (History ofPhysics Division), and by the ConnecticutAcademy of Arts and Sciences, in whoseTransactions Gibbs published many of hismost important works. The Yale Center forTheoretical Physics is serving as the hostorganization for the Symposium.

Anyone desiring to obtain furtherinformation or to be placed on our mailinglist can write to us at:

The Gibbs SymposiumSloane Physics LaboratoryP.O. Box 6666Yale UniversityNew Haven, CT 06511

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or telephone us at (203) 432- 5042 Mondaythrough Thursday, 9 am to 1:30 pm.

About the first of the year we shall sendout a second mailing, containing a moredetailed program and information aboutregistration, accommodations, etc.

We hope to see you at the Symposiumnext May.

The Gibbs SymposiumOrganizing Committee

Alan Chodos Martin]. KleinDonald M. Crothers G. D. MostowFeza Gursey R. Shankar

H. Catherine W. Skinner

November, 1988

Welcome!The following new members and students have joined MSA effective January 1, 1988. Welcome! Applications for membership may

be obtained from the Business Office, 1625 I Street N.W., Suite 414, Washington, D.C 20006; (202) 775-4344. Membership applicationsreceived October 1 through December 31, 1988 will be made effective January 1, 1989 unless otherwise requested.

Bartch, Joel A., P.O. Box 1192,Mariposa, CA 95338.0:(209)742-7625.H:(209)742-6240. (M-88) Sponsors: J.White, Jr. and P. Dunn.Bokreta, M'Hamed, 3940 Locust Walk,Box 46, University of Pennsylvania,Philadelphia, PA 19104.0:(215)898-2844 or (215)898-5125. H:(215)243-8426. (ST-88)CC Sponsor: MSA.Brown, Thomas H., Dept. of GeologicalSciences, University of BritishColumbia, 6339 Stores Road,Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 2B4.0:(604)228-4653. H:(604)261-7431.(M-88)PE Sponsors: R. Berman and E.Meagher.Burbank, James A., Western OklahomaState College, Altus, OK 73521.0:( 405)477 -2000. H:( 405 )482-4654.(M-88)EG Sponsors: J. Redden and T.Campbell.Busa, Mark 0., 320 Gravel Street,Meriden, CT 06450.0:(203)265-6741.H:(203)2 37-3953. (ST -88)MPSponsors: R. Joesten and P. Asher.Cboi, Yun Seung, 2676 Dept. of Earthand Planetary Sciences, Los Angeles, CA90024.0:(213)825-3580. H:(213)208-8334. (ST-88)MI Sponsors: W.Ernst andM. Cho.Czyzewska, Margaret, 5 Ronald Drive,#121, Colonia, NJ 07066. H:(201)381-6522. (M-88)MI Sponsor: MSA.Domanik, Kenneth, 2001 GreenwayCross Road, Apt.7, Madison, WI 53713.0:(608)273-2930. (ST-88)PE Sponsors:S.W. Bailey and J. Valley.Drevenik, William, Box 5001 Station A,Wilkes-Barre, PA 18710. (M-88)EGSponsor: MSA.Dumas, Thomas J., 615 Pontiac Street,Oxford, MI 48051. H:(313 )628-4238.(ST-88)EG Sponsor: MSA.Eby, Ray, 2112 Moon Street, #124,Albuquerque, NM 87112. 0:(505)298-5613. (ST-88)MI Sponsors: C.Klein andR.Ewing.Friedrich, Guenther, Wuellnerstr. 2,Mineralogy/Techn. Univ., 5100 Aachen,West Germany. (M-88) Sponsor: MSA.

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Hatterman, Martin, 726 Sunny Lane,Duncan, OK 73533. 0:(405)252-7565.(M-88)SP Sponsor: MSA.Jones, Melvyn T., 25 Kedumba Cres.,Turramurra North, NSW Australia,2074.0:(02)231-1022. H:(02)449-9389. (M-88)EG Sponsors: M. Dugganand J. McAndrew.Lander, R.B., Dept. of Geology,University of Illinois, 245 NHB,Urbana, IL 61801. 0:(217)333-3540.(ST-88)CM Sponsors: C. Weiss and S.Altaner.Lllm, Clinton c., Dept. of Geology, RiceUniversity, P.O. Box 1892, Houston,TX 77251. 0:(713)527-8101 ext. 3337H:(713)528-0762. (ST-88)IP Sponsors:M. Pierson and R. Tacker.Manchester, Janet, University of Texas,Dept. of Geological Sciences, Austin,TX 78713-7909.0:(512)471-5763.(ST-88)PE Sponsors: D. Smith and W.Carlson.Menard, Thomas, Dept. of Geology,Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy,NY 12180.0:(518)266-6475. (ST-88)Sponsor: MSA.

Montri, Wimonrat, P.O. Box 414,Geology Dept., South Dakota School ofMines and Technology, Rapid City, SD57709.0:(605)394-2461. H:(605)348-9745. (ST-88)EG Sponsor: MSA.Nguyen, Chinh, 5735 S. Ellis Avenue,Chicago, IL 60637.0:(312)702-7253.H:(312)268-4619. (ST-88)CC Sponsors:J. Smith and P. Moore.Sanjines, Orlando, B., Cas ilia No. 20046,Avenue 20 de Octubre, La Paz, Bolivia.0:793392. H:327429. (M-88) Sponsor:K. Onuma and A. Kirakaze.Spearing, Dane R., Dept. of Geology,Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305. (ST-88)IP Sponsor: MSA.Tuccillo, Ricardo A., 1404 MountainView Est., ATES, Blacksburg, VA24060. H:(703)953-0204. (ST-88)MISponsors: P. Ribbe and M. Gunter.Yuan, Wenbin, Dept. of Earth Sciences,Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011.H:(515)294-9672. (ST-88)MI Sponsors:K. Windom and S. Tanner.Ziegler, Richard, Browns Ridge Road,Ossipee, NH 03864. H:(603)539-6896.(ST-88)IP Sponsors: M. Dyar and T.Grover.

MSALECTUREPROGRAM

At the third meeting of the 1988 council,held in Denver, the MSA council voted toapprove a MSA lecture program. This lectureprogram will support scientific lectures bysele<:ted members of the Society on topics ofcurrent research in mineralogy, petrology,crys-.:allography, and related subjects ofinteIest to the membership of the Society,given at colleges, universities, and certainothc=r educational institutions.

'r"be Society supportS a Lecture Program inordc=r to reinforce the notion that research inscie:l[]tific areas of concern to the MSA isirnP"<lrtant to the vitality of research generallyin tbe earth and planetary sciences. TheproBram will also inform students ofpro£essional research opportunities in areasof it::::lterest to MSA and encourage promisingstudents by providing opportunities towin:ness the excitement of current research.

Travel of MSA lecturers to and from hostinstitutions will be financed by MSA, whileon-site costs are to be born by the hostinstitutions. The council would like the firstlectures to begin in the Fall of 1989. PeterBuseck, Arizona State University, heads theMSA Lecture Committee, which willrecommend lecturers, topics andparticipating institutions to the Council. Hewould appreciate hearing from anyone withsuggestions for lecture topics or lecturers. Hewould also like to hear from institutionswilling to participate in the program. He canbe contacted at Arizona State Univ., GeologyDepartment, Tempe, AZ 85287, (602)965-3945.

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1989 FALLSHORT COURSEThe Mineralogical Society of America

is sponsoring a short course on advancedpowder diffraction techniques to be heldNovember 4 and 5, the weekend prior, tothe annual MSNGSA meeting in St.Louis, MO. This course is being organizedby Dr. David Bish of the Los AlamosNational Laboratory and Dr. Jeffrey Postof the Smithsonian Institution. Specifictopics and speakers include:

Principles of Powder Diffraction,R. Reynolds

Instrumentation,R. Jenkins

Experimental Procedures,R.Jenkins

Sample Preparation,R. Reynolds and D. Bish

Quantitative Analysis,R. Snyder and D. Bish

Determinative Techniques: Compositionand Ordering,]. Post and D. Bish

Diffraction Applied to Clays and Glasses:Non-Bragg Diffraction,

R. ReynoldsPowder Diffraction Software,

D. SmithStructure Refinement and Analysis,

D. Bish and]. PostSynchrotrJm Powder Diffraction,

L. FingerNeutron Powder Diffraction,

R. VonDreeleand Other Techniques and Methods,

H. King.

A registration form will be included inthe next issue of this newsletter.

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Joint Spring MeetingWithAGU

The Society will hold a joint meeting withthe American Geophysical Union inBaltimore, MD May 8-12, 1989 as an AGUCooperating Society. The purpose of thejoint meeting is to strengthen technicalsessions on mineralogical aspects ofgeophysical problems and to encourageinteractions and collaboration between AGUand MSA members and cooperation betweenthe societies. MSA will function as an AGUsection in all matters related to programdevelopment. There will be a singleregistration fee (at standard AGU rates). Thecall for papers with AGU standard abstractformat will be mailed separately to all MSAmembers. Program chairman for MSAsection of the meeting is Joseph R. Smyth,Department of Geological Sciences,University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0250; (303) 492-5521; BITNET:JOESMYTH@COLORADO.

Special Sessions:MSA will jointly sponsor with the

Planetary section of AGU a special sessionon Planetary Mineralogy. The session willfocus on the mineralogy of planetary interiorsand surfaces. Discussion will includecomposition and phase changes in planetaryinteriors, remote sensing and in-situ analysisof planetary surfaces, and chemicalweathering of surface minerals.

MSA will jointly sponsor with theVolcanology, Petrology, and GeochemistrySection (VGP) a special session on highpressure research in honor of Christopher M.Scarfe of the University of Alberta who was amember of both MSA and AGU and a leaderin High Pressure Mineralogic And PetrologicResearch. He passed away in a tragic accidentin August, 1988.

MSA will sponsor a special session onComputer Modeling Of Crystal StructuresThe emphasis will be on prediction ofmineral crystal structures and physical,chemical, and spectroscopic properties basedon computational models of inter-atomicforces.

MSA will sponsor a special session devotedto Mineral Spectroscopy. Emphasis will be onapplications ofIR, visible, Raman, X-ray, andgamma ray spectroscopy to mineralogicalproblems, particularly those of geophysicalinterest.

All MSA members are encouraged toparticipate. Abstracts should be submitteddirectly to the A. G. U. by the standarddeadline (usually late February). Contributedabstracts will be published in EOS.

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Editor's NoteJames Munoz

Some members may not be aware thatthere has been no manuscript backlog (i.e.,no stack of accepted manuscripts sittingforever in the Editorial Office awaitingpublication) for the past two years. As a resultof expediting the publication process, wecurrently have fewer manuscripts underreview or revision than the average over thepast three years. Therefore, this is a goodtime to submit your best manuscripts toAmerican Mineralogist. Also, we now havethe option of a "Letters" format with a 4-6month publication time for short and timelycontributions (see Am. Min. (1988) v. 73, P.940 for requirements). Although there hasbeen a nasty rumor floating around that wedon't like to publish papers in mineralphysics, this is emphatically untrue! Pleasecall me in Boulder (303-492-1461) if youhave any questions about the suitability of aparticular manuscript.

November, 1988

MSA Needs Nominations and CommitteeVolunteers

As MSA continues to grow, member participation becomes more essential to the continuation and formation of programs that meetmember needs. The best way to participate in Society activities is through committees. Please take a minute now to read the brief committee

description below and consider getting involved.Involvement can take several forms: nominate a candidate for office or an award, volunteer to serve on a committee next year, or offer

your name or that of a colleague as a possible candidate for office. It is through the involvement of individual members that the Society's programs

develop to meet the needs of its members.Nomination forms and additional information on all Society Committees are available from the MSA Business Office (1625 I Street N.W.,

Suite 414, Washington, D.C 20006; (202) 775-4344). Or, you may communicate with the appropriate committee chair.

Award/Office

Roebling Medal - The highest awardgiven for eminence as represented byoutstanding original research inmineralogy. [No form; contactcommittee chair with narners).]

Deadline

June 1

Committee Chair

David R. VeblenDept. of Earth &Planetary SciencesJohns Hopkins Univ.Baltimore, MD 21218(301) 338-8487

Mineralogical Society of America(MSA) Award - Outstandingcontribution prior to 35th birthdaywith 1990 awardee younger than 37on January 1, 1989. [No form; contactcommittee chair with narners).]

Mineralogy/Petrology Grant - $3500for research proposal in petrologyfrom a scientist between 20 and 30years of age. (Form required.)

June 1 Frank C HawthorneDept of Geol ScienceUniversity of ManitobaWinnepeg, ManitobaCanada R3T 2N2(206) 474-9833

July 1 Robert HazenGeophysical Laboratory2801 Upton Street, NWWashington, DC 20008(202) 966-0334

M.E. McCallumColorado State UniversityDept of Earth ResourcesFt. Collins, CO 80523(303) 491-6250

Fellowship - Society recognition of amember's significant scientificcontributions. Nominationundertaken by one member with twomembers acting as co-sponsors.(Forms required.)

Officers - Any member or fellow ofthe Society. One year terms forpresident and vice-president; two-yearterms for treasurer and secretary;three-year term for Councillors. [(Noform; contact committee chair withnarnets).]

Committees - Any member or fellowof the Society. Terms usually from oneto three years. In addition to abovecommittees, Society has Management,Financial Advisory, Publications,External Awards and Medals, ShortCourse, Tellers, and Committee onCommittees. [No forms; contactcommittee chair with name/s).}

June 1

June 1 J. Stephen HuebnerMS 959, National CenterU.S. Geological SurveyReston, VA 22092(703) 648-6777

May 1 Peter RobinsonDept of Geology & GeographyUniversity of MassachusettsAmherst, MA 01003(413) 545-2593

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