| Description | Present: Dr P A Sabine (Chairman); Professor S H U Bowie; Dr W M Edmunds (excluding items 1-6); Professor D G Murchison; Professor K O'Nions; Dr Jane Plant; Dr I Thornton; Professor G Eglinton
In attendance : Mr C R Argent
Unable to attend: Professor C D Curtis; Dr H Elderfiedld; Dr R J Howarth
Matters discussed;
1. Minutes
The minutes [NGL/21 (83)] of the meeting on 16 February 1983 were confirmed
2. Membershp
3. IAGC Commissions and Working Groups
4. IAGC Coucil and General Assembly
5. IAGC Finances
6. IAGC Publications
7. Environmental Geochemistry and Health
8. IGCP Geochemistry Projects
9. Research Topic Surveys
10. Forthcoming Meetings
The following meeings were noted:
a. Meeting in Diagenesis and metamorphism, Bristol, 12-13 April 1984
b. Workshop on Application of groundwater geochemistry, Banff, 23-26 June 1984
c. Royal Society Discussion meeting on Geochemistry of buried sediments, 27-28 June 1984
d. Geochemistry and cosmochemistry sessions at the International Geological Congress, Moscow, 4-14 August 1984
e. Symposium on Geochemistry and health, at teh Royal Society 16-16 April 1985, being organized by Dr Thornton (and others) for the IAGC, and for which Dr Thornton was advised he could apply to the Royal Society's Travelling Expenses Committee for financial assistance for overseas speakers and British postgraduate students.
f. Symposium on Geochemical exploration, Toronto, 28 April -1 May 1985
g. Symposium on Potassic volcanism in different tectonic settings, Catania, 16-21 September 1985 (IAGC jopintly with IAVCEI)
h. Symposium on Water-Rock Interaction, Iceland or England 1986, referred to in IAGC NEwsletter no. 16 (p.3)
11. Next meeting
Agreed to hold the next meeting in late September/early October 1984 |