From January 2014, the EAG Council will welcome two new councillors, elected by the EAG members. Councillors serve for three years, participate in council discussions, decisions, initiatives and act as ambassadors of the society. Sitting in a council can seem somewhat obscure, and as you are about to elect councillors, we thought that asking the current members of the council to share their personal views on what it means to be a councillor would be helpful.
This year's slate of candidates includes: Karim Benzerara, Dominik Hezel, Hans Keppler and Ruben Kretzschmar. The EAG sincerely thanks them for agreeing to stand for election.
Online voting will be open from 21 October until 4 November. On 21 October, EAG members will receive an email ballot to cast their vote. We thank you in advance for your participation, which is crucial for the success of these elections.
Every year the EAG aims to support student attendance at short courses and small conferences in geochemistry. DINGUE3 – Developments in Noble Gas Understanding and Expertise – is one of the pre-Goldschmidt2013 workshops which received EAG sponsorship. During this two day meeting noble gas geo-and cosmo-chemists discussed aspects of new noble gas applications to terrestrial and extraterrestrial science. Students who received a grant were asked to write about their experience of the event. Read some excerpts.
Following the example above (DINGUE3), EAG members can request sponsorship for students attending short courses or small conferences in Europe. So if your institution would like to organize a short course focusing on special topics or techniques from the broad field of geochemistry, EAG could sponsor students attending the course, up to 200 Euros per student. For information, visit www.eag.eu.com/education/shortcourse/ or contact the EAG Office.
