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SOCIETY NEWSSOCIETY BURSARY REPORTSThe <strong>Society</strong> <strong>of</strong>fers £6000 per annum in student <strong>and</strong> senior bursaries to beused for field work, travel to conferences, etc. Below are extracts fromreports received from three recent awardees. Their full reports are availableat the <strong>Society</strong>’s website www.minersoc.org/pages/awards/bursary.html.Ping LuoPing Luo <strong>of</strong> Nottingham University (UK)attended the 3 rd International Conference onEnvironmental Science <strong>and</strong> Technology 2007,which was organized by the American Academy<strong>of</strong> Sciences. This four-day conference was packedwith 15 major platform sessions, two poster sessions<strong>and</strong> four registration exhibitions. Ping’stalk on permeable reactive barriers was wellreceived, <strong>and</strong> she has forged links with colleaguesin a number <strong>of</strong> other institutes as a result<strong>of</strong> attending the meeting.In June 2007, Robert M. Hough (CSIRO) travelledto Europe from Australia for the Frontiers inMineral Sciences meeting in Cambridge, UK,<strong>and</strong> the International Applied GeochemistrySymposium in Oviedo, Spain. The bursary contributedtowards his flight from Australia <strong>and</strong>provided assistance for his attendance at bothmeetings. He gave two oral presentations at each<strong>of</strong> these meetings <strong>and</strong>, in addition, two posterpresentations at the Frontiers meeting. The talksRobert Hough<strong>and</strong> posters were based on detailed studies <strong>of</strong>gold, both primary <strong>and</strong> secondary. In particular,he detailed a new occurrence <strong>of</strong> colloidal, nanoparticulate gold, attractingwidespread attention <strong>and</strong> acclaim at both meetings. While in theUK, Robert also visited London, where he gave an invited talk at theEarth Sciences Department <strong>of</strong> Imperial College on new developments ingold research in Australia.Victoria VryVictoria Vry (Imperial College, London) used her bursary to attend theSGA (<strong>Society</strong> for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits) meeting inDublin where she presented her poster ‘Microanalysis <strong>of</strong> Ore-FormingFluids at El Teniente, Chile’. Victoria welcomed the opportunity to meetwith many industry representatives present at the meeting.ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERSAt the end <strong>of</strong> 2007, Ben Harte (President), Neil Fortey (Treasurer), AndyRankin (Custodian Trustee), <strong>and</strong> Andrew Kerr <strong>and</strong> Jim MacDonald(Council members) will complete their terms <strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong>fice (which varyfrom two to six years in length). We are hugely indebted to them allfor the time <strong>and</strong> energy they put into the <strong>Society</strong>. Progress in the manyfacets <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Society</strong>’s activities would not be possible without theefforts <strong>of</strong> these people.Michael Carpenter (President), Chris Stanley (Treasurer), Adrian Jones(Council), Norman Moles (Council), <strong>and</strong> Tony Law (Council) will fillthe vacancies from the beginning <strong>of</strong> 2008, though some have alreadybecome involved in the workings <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Society</strong>.In September 2007, two new staff members joined the <strong>Society</strong>. We welcomeMartin Hughes (Administrative Assistant, admin@minersoc.org)<strong>and</strong> David Mole (Production Editor, david@minersoc.org), who joinRussell Rajendra (Finance Manager, russell@minersoc.org) <strong>and</strong> KevinMurphy (Executive Director, kevin@minersoc.org).GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE EARTH’S SURFACE 8 (GES8)Updated information on this meeting is provided elsewhere in thisissue <strong>of</strong> <strong>Elements</strong> (see ad on page 427) <strong>and</strong> also at the conference website(www.ges8.com) where online registration will be available beginningon 1 January 2008.MINERALOGICAL SOCIETYDISTINGUISHED LECTURER PROGRAMMEThe 2007/2008 DistinguishedLecturer programme is wellunderway. Pr<strong>of</strong>essor DavidVaughan <strong>of</strong> the University <strong>of</strong>Manchester completed his tour<strong>of</strong> four UK <strong>and</strong> Irish universities(Brighton, Cambridge, Liverpool<strong>and</strong> Galway) in November, wherehe delivered a lecture entitled‘Minerals, Metals, Molecules <strong>and</strong>Microbes: EnvironmentalMineralogy <strong>and</strong> Sustainability’.Pr<strong>of</strong>. Jon Blundy will commence hisprogramme early in the New Yearwith a lecture entitled ‘TheSubterranean Machinations <strong>of</strong>Explosive Volcanoes’. His scheduleis as follows:7 January 2008University College Dublin4 February 2008University <strong>of</strong> East Anglia13 March 2008Lancaster University14 March 2008Glasgow UniversityFull details are available atthe <strong>Society</strong>’s website:www.minersoc.org/pages/announce/announce.htmlE LEMENTS 425DECEMBER 2007