... Updates ... Updates ... Updates ... 24th IMOG Bremen, 6-11 September 2009 The 24th IMOG, will be held in the dynamic city of Bremen. The facilities are excellent and we are all looking forward to the usual high quality Meeting. There will be great science as well as socialising! Reduced IMOG Registration Fee for EAOG Student Members To make EAOG membership more appealing for students we have agreed with the organisers of the 24th IMOG in Bremen this September to offer a significantly discounted registration fee for EAOG student members (student members will pay 80€ less than non-members). Part of this discount has been realised through sponsorship from EAOG (40€ per student). This EAOG sponsorship is a trial, which will be evaluated after IMOG 2009. We encourage all students to consider joining the EAOG before registering for IMOG 2009. Please do so early, as it may take some time to get the application processed and you will be asked for membership details (Elsevier "Customer Reference" number) on the IMOG 2009 registration page. Supervisors - If you think that this is an interesting offer, please tell your students! If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact the Membership Secretary, Anthony Lewis. Call for Candidates for EAOG Board Membership In September 2009, the second term of two of the EAOG Board members (Lewis and González-Vila) will end and, as they are not eligible for re-election, new members have to be elected. The Board is nominating two candidates – Ian D. Bull and José A. González-Pérez (biographies attached) – for the open positions, but in accord with the Articles of EAOG, other candidates can also stand for election, providing their nomination is supported by seven EAOG members and include a declaration by the candidate that she or he is prepared to serve as a member of the Board. The candidate should also supply a short biography and, optionally, a short election address, both together not exceeding one page. In case of nominations in addition to those from the Board, the established procedure requires that election to the Board be by ballot of the EAOG membership. Ballot forms will be sent by e-mail during July 2009 and will also be available on the website. Members not receiving a ballot form should contact the Secretary. The results will be made public at the EAOG General Assembly in Bremen in September 2009. The term of new Board members will be for four years, with re-election being possible once. If there are no additional nominations to those of the Board, there will be no ballot and the Board’s nominees will be elected during the General Assembly. Nominations must be received by the EAOG secretary not later than 30th June 2009 at the following address (preferably by e-mail): Dr Philippe Schaeffer Laboratoire de Biogéochimie Moléculaire, UMR 7177 du CNRS Institut de Chimie de Strasbourg E.C.P.M., 25 rue Becquerel 67200 Strasbourg, France e-mail: pschaeffer@chimie.u-strasbg.fr Newsletters EAOG Newsletter 26 (Spring 2009) is now available. If you have anything you would like to contribute to the next Newsletter, please send it to our editor, Francisco González-Vila. The most recent Newsletters are also available on-line. Membership Renewal for 2009 EAOG Members should have received a renewal notice from Elsevier. If you have not received the renewal notice or have any other queries, please do not hsitate to contact the Membership Secretary, Anthony Lewis. Keep up-to-date with the Literature! For a while now literature references relevant to our field have been published in Organic Geochemistry and now we are making the database files available on a monthly basis. So keep yourself abreast with the literature and update your personal database regularly! The Board of the EAOG would like to thank Dr Clifford Walters for his hard work compiling the monthly updates and for making them available to us. The Pieter Schenck Award The Pieter Schenck Award is given by the European Association of Organic Geochemists (EAOG) every second year to a scientist normally under 35 years of age who has made a major contribution in any specific area of organic geochemistry or a related field. During the closing ceremony of the 23rd IMOG in Torquay, the 2007 Pieter Schenck Award was confered on Marcel Kuypers. The previous awardees are Jaap Sinninghe Damsté (1993); Mark McCaffrey (1995); Kate Freeman (1997), Stefan Schouten (1999), Kliti Grice (2001) and Richard Pancost (2005). EAOG Travel Awards Increased in Value The Board of EAOG is pleased to announce that the maximum value of a Travel Award is now €5,000 (increased from €3,500). EAOG is able to do this thanks to the generous sponsorship of the following companies:      Chevron      Geoservices      Schlumberger      Shell The new travel awards will be known by the name of the sponsoring company. We hope that this will encourage more students to apply for the awards, terms and conditions for which can be found on our Awards Page On-Line Access to Organic Geochemistry Current, paid-up members of the Association have full electronic access to current articles published in Organic Geochemistry as well as those going back to 1995. The Board and Elsevier are currently discussing the possibility of members having access to the entire archive of Organic Geochemistry back to volume 1. Watch this space! To obtain access, follow the registration instructions and in a few minutes you'll be reading your favourite Journal on-line! If you have any difficulties, contact the Membership Secretary, Anthony Lewis. EAOG General Meeting 2008 The 2008 General Meeting of the EAOG was held at 12:00 on Tuesday 16th December 2008 in Room 603, Davy Building, University of Plymouth, Plymouth PL4 8AA, U.K. The Financial Report for 2007 was the sole item for discussion and this was ratified by the members present. Please contact Anthony Lewis for further details. 23rd IMOG Torquay, 9-14 September 2007 The 23rd IMOG, was held in the English Riviera town of Torquay, situated in the beautiful south-west peninsula of England. By all accounts, the Meeting was a great success both scientifically and socially! History An historical tour of Organic Geochemistry is available. Many of the details have been published in the Journal [Organic Geochemistry 33, 517-521 (2002)]. Articles The Articles of the European Association of Organic Geochemists are available in both English and Dutch. The Dutch text of the Articles is binding.
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