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Congratulations to 2011 Hess Medalist and VGP member Henry Dick

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Congratulations to new AGU Fellows in 2011:

Catherine Chauvel, Marc Hirschmann, Suzanne Kay, Craig Manning, William McDonough, William Seyfried, Takehiko Yagi

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Section Officers (July 1, 2010 - June 30, 2012)

President R. Stephen J. Sparks University of Bristol Department of Earth Science Wills Memorial Building Bristol, Great Britain Phone: +44 117 954 5419 Email: steve.sparks@bristol.ac.uk	Robert Stephen John Sparks. Member of AGU since 1987. Professor of geology at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. Major interests are volcanology, igneous petrology, geohazards and risk assessment, and applying fluid mechanics to understanding geological flows. B.S., honors, 1971, and Ph.D., 1974, at Imperial College, London University; research fellow at Lancaster University (1976–1978); NATO postdoctoral fellow at Graduate School of Oceanography, Rhode Island (1976–1978); lecturer at Cambridge University (1978–1989); professor at University of Bristol (1989 to present). Sherman Fairchild Fellow at California Institute of Technology (1987); Edward Bass Scholar at Yale University (2006–2007). President of the Geological Society of London (1994–1996); president of International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of Earth's Interior (1999–2003). Author of over 300 refereed publications with 35 in AGU publications. Key papers on ignimbrite facies; eruption column stability, magma chamber convection, and nonlinear dynamics of conduit flows. Fellow of the Royal Society (1988); AGU Fellow (1998); honorary member, Geological Society of America (2000); Wager Medal (IAVCEI, 1978); Bigsby and Murchison medals (Geological Society of London, 1985 and 1998); Arthur Day Medal (Geological Society of America, 2000); Arthur Holmes Medal (European Geosciences Union, 2004); ISI highly cited researcher; D.Sc. (Honoris Causa) at Université Blaise Pascal (1999), Lancaster University (2000), and Institute de Physique de Globe de Paris (2005). Past member of AGU Fellowships Committee (VGP section); current member of Bowen Medal Committee; Chair of Royal Society Hooke Committee; member of ICSU committee on natural hazards; chair of UK 2008 research assessment panel for Earth sciences.
President-Elect Catherine McCammon Universitat Bayreuth Bayerisches Geoinstitut D-95440 Bayreuth, Germany Phone: +49 (0)921 55 3709/3753 Email: catherine.mccammon@uni-bayreuth.de	Member of AGU since 1978. Staff scientist at Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth, Germany. Major interests are crystal chemistry of iron in high-pressure phases and effect on physical and chemical properties of the mantle, oxygen fugacity and implications for mantle processes, high-pressure high-temperature Mossbauer spectroscopy, nuclear resonance synchrotron methods, and development of new methods to measure oxidation state. B.S. in Physics (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, 1979), Ph.D. in Earth Science (Australian National University, Canberra, 1984). NSERC postdoctoral fellow at University of Manitoba (1984-85) and University of British Columbia (1985-86), NSERC assistant professor at University of British Columbia (1986-90), research scientist at Bayerisches Geoinstitut (1990-1996), promoted to permanent staff scientist (1996-present). Member of Mineralogical Society of America and German Mineralogical Society. Editor of Physics and Chemistry of Minerals (2004-present), Associate Editor of Canadian Mineralogist (1998-2000). Author of over 200 publications with 10 in AGU publications. Key papers on spin transitions in lower mantle minerals, mantle oxidation state and oxygen fugacity. NSERC University Research Fellowship (1986-90), MSA Distinguished Lecturer (2001-02), MSA Fellow (2002), AGU Fellow (2006), Geochemical Society and European Association of Geochemistry Fellow (2007). Chair (2008-present) and past member (2006-08) of AGU Fellows Committee (VGP section), MRP Focus Group Executive Committee (2006-present), convenor of many symposia in past AGU meetings.
Secretary - Volcanology/Petrology Anita L. Grunder Oregon State University Dept. of Geosciences 104 Wilkinson Hall Corvallis, OR 97331-5506 Phone: +1 541 737 1249 Email: grundera@geo.oregonstate.edu	AGU member since 1982. Professor at Oregon State University since 1986. Research interests on crustal magmatism, from volcanology to understanding the effect of crustal processes on magma and in turn how magma affects evolution of the crust. Bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley in Paleontology, 1977; and PhD from Stanford in Geology, 1986. Recipient of College and National teaching awards. Co-Vice President of IAVCEI and co-Secretary of VGP; Fellow of GSA. Married to John Dilles, parent of 3, Anita, Zoe and Leo.
Secretary - Geochemistry Matthew J. Kohn Boise State University Department of Geosciences 1910 University Drive Boise, ID 83725-1535 Phone: +1-208-426-1631 Email: mattkohn@boisestate.edu	AGU member since 1988. Associate Professor/Professor of Geology, Boise State University, since 2007. Major interests include metamorphic petrology with applications to tectonics and geodynamics, geochemistry of fossils with applications to paleoclimate and paleoecology, and geochemical and chronological microanalysis. B.S. Geology, 1986, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.S. and Ph.D., Metamorphic Petrology 1989, 1991, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Postdoctoral positions at University of Wisconsin (stable isotopes; 1991-1996), and at IGPP-Lawrence Livermore (tectonics; 1996-1998). Assistant/Associate Professor of Geology, University of South Carolina, 1998-2007. Author of 75+ refereed publications, 4 in AGU journals. VGP Bowen Award Committee, 2004-2006. AE JGR 1998-2001, AE GSA Bulletin 2001-2010. Fellow of GSA and MSA.

Past Section Officers

Year	President	President-Elect	Secretary(ies)
2008	Alex Halliday	Steve Sparks	Paul Wallace / Janne Blichert-Toft
2006	Bernard Wood	Alex Halliday	Terry Plank / Craig Manning
2004	Charlie Bacon	Bernard Wood	James Brenan
2002	Kathy Cashman	Charlie Bacon	Marc Hirshmann
2000	Frederick A. Frey	Kathy Cashman	Don Dingwell
1998	Timothy L. Grove	Frederick A. Frey	Mary Reid
1996	Jean-Guy E. Schilling	Timothy L. Grove	Joaquin Ruiz
1994	Gilbert N. Hanson	Jean-Guy E. Schilling	Frank J. Spera
1992	Stearns A. Morse	Gilbert N. Hanson	Katharine V. Cashman
1990	Bruce D. Marsh	Stearns A. Morse	William R. Van Schmus
1988	Robert R. Clayton	Bruce D. Marsh	Timothy L. Grove
1986	Robin Brett	Robert R. Clayton	Donald J. DePaolo
1984	G. Brent Dalrymple	Robin Brett	Bruce D. Marsh
1982	Joseph V. Smith	G. Brent Dalrymple	Peter W. Lipman
1980	Wallace S. Broecker	Joseph V. Smith	G. Brent Dalrymple
1978	Edwin Roedder	Wallace S. Broecker	Gilbert N. Hanson
1976	Dallas L. Peck	Erwin Roedder	M. Charles Gilbert
1974	W.G. Ernst	Dallas L. Peck	Richard L. Armstrong
1972	Paul Gast	W.G. Ernst	A.E. Bence

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