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Meeting Assistance Program

The Meeting Assistance Program was established in 2002 to allocate up to five (5) sponsorships of up to $2,000 (US$) each ($10,000 annually) for support of geochemistry sessions/symposia at any scientific conference of geochemical relevance.

Applications should be submitted to Seth Davis at seth.davis@geochemsoc.org and should include at a minimum:

  • The name, institution and contact information of the symposium organizer(s)
  • Symposium description
  • Symposium budget
  • Description of how the symposium will acknowledge the MAP sponsorship

Applications are reviewed and approved by the Program Committee. Awards are distributed in United States dollars and must be distributed to an organization (not an individual). The applicant of a funded program should also expect to write up a post-symposium report for publication in Elements Magazine and/or Geochemical News.

Amount2009 MAP SponsorshipsApplicant
$2000 Penrose conference: Plumes and Their Role in Whole Mantle Convection and Recycling Simon Turner
$2000 RIMG short course: The Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Water-Rock Interaction Eric Oelkers
Amount2008 MAP SponsorshipsApplicant
$2000 Symposium: Unknown Knowns and Known Unknowns: Chemical Oceanography in a Changing World William Savidge
$1000 Symposium Highlighting Recent Advances in Fundamental Research of Biogeochemical Processes in Subsurface Environment (Goldschmidt2008) Daniel Giammar
Amount2007 MAP SponsorshipsApplicant
$2000 International Conference on Evolution, Transfer and Release of Magmas and Volcanic Gases (MAG2007) Georg Zellmer
Amount2003 MAP SponsorshipsApplicant
$2000 Symposium in honor of John Hedges Cindy Lee
$1500 ACS meeting: Arsenic Research Symposium Peggy O'Day
$500 Modeling Metamorphism Symposium Mike Brown
$2000 2004 Water-Rock Interaction Conference Susan Brantley