... Updates ... Updates ... Updates ... EAOG Board Nominations The EAOG board hereby announces a call for membership of the EAOG board, full details are outlined in the official call. Position Available The Indiana Geological Survey (IGS), a research institute of Indiana University, seeks applications for a position in Coal Geology to generate new data and analyze scientific information on coal and coke properties in order to formulate a coke quality prediction model for a new generation of coke plants. More details are available here. Newsletters EAOG Newsletter 28 (Autumn 2010) is available. If you have anything you would like to contribute to the next Newsletter, please send it to our editor, José González-Pérez . The most recent Newsletters are also available on-line. 25th IMOG Interlaken 2011 The first circular for 25th IMOG Interlaken, September 2011 may now be downloaded from here. Newsletters EAOG Newsletter 27 (Winter 2010) is available. If you have anything you would like to contribute to the next Newsletter, please send it to our editor, José González-Pérez . It is hoped that the next newsletter will be available in late Summer 2010. The most recent Newsletters are also available on-line. 2009 EAOG Membership Survey Results The 2009 survey of the EAOG membership is now available as a summary and a more detailed Excel spreadsheet. 24th IMOG Bremen, 6-11 September 2009 The 24th IMOG, was held in the dynamic city of Bremen. The organisation, facilities, socialising and science were excellent. A record of the meeting will be published in Organic Geochemistry in 2010. The next meeting in September 2011 will be held in Interlaken, Switzerland. New EAOG Board Membership In September 2009, the second term of two of the EAOG Board members (Lewis and González-Vila) ended and new members had to be elected. The Board nominated two candidates – Ian D. Bull and José A. González-Pérez – for the open positions and, as no other candidates were put forward by our Membership, both were unanimously elected during the General Assembly held on Thursday 10 September 2009 during the 24th IMOG in Bremen. 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 hesitate to contact the Membership Secretary, Ian Bull. 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 24th IMOG in Bremen, the 2009 Pieter Schenck Award was confered on Helen Talbot. The previous awardees are Jaap Sinninghe Damsté (1993); Mark McCaffrey (1995); Kate Freeman (1997), Stefan Schouten (1999), Kliti Grice (2001), Richard Pancost (2005) and Marcel Kuypers (2007). 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, Ian Bull. EAOG General Meeting 2008 The 2009 General Meeting of the EAOG was held at 18:00 on Thursday 10 September 2009 in Hanse Saal, Congress Centre Bremen. Amongst the business discussed was the election of two new Board Members (Ian D. Bull and José A. González-Pérez). A full report of the General Meeting will appear in the next newsletter. 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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