Meeting Assistance Program
The Meeting Assistance Program was established in 2002 to support geochemistry sessions/symposia at any scientific conference of geochemical relevance. Deadlines for applications are March 31 and September 30 every year. Two sponsorships of $2,000 each will be awarded following both deadlines, for a total of four per year. Applications will be reviewed by the Program Committee and funds distributed to selected applicants in the month following the deadlines.
Applications should be submitted to map@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 MAP funds will be used
- 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.
| Amount | 2018 MAP Sponsorships | Applicant |
|---|---|---|
| $2000 | Gordon Research Seminar and Conference on Geobiology 20-21 January 2018; Galveston, TX, USA |
Leslie Robbins |
| $2000 | Gordon Research Conference: Deep Carbon Science in the Context of Geologic Time 17-22 June 2018; Bryant University, RI, USA |
Craig Manning |
| $2000 | RiMG Short Course: High Temperature Gas – Solid Reactions in Earth and Planetary Processes 9-11 August 2018; Boston, MA, USA |
Penelope King |
| $2000 | Mineral-Hosted Melt Inclusions: How Do We Read The Stories They Have To Tell? 11-12 August 2018; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA, USA |
Glenn Gaetani |
| Amount | 2017 MAP Sponsorships | Applicant |
| $2000 | Petrochronology: Methods and applications (RiMG) 22-23 April, 2017; Vienna, Austria |
Pierre Lanari |
| $2000 | Meeting of Ethiopian geochemistry professionals to organize an inventory of geochemical analytical instruments in Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Dereje Ayalew |
| $2000 | Gordon Research Conference: Chemical and Dynamical Evolution of Earth's Deep Interior 4-9 June, 2017; South Hadley, MA, USA |
Ed Garnero |
| $2000 | Gordon Research Conference: Chemical Oceanography 23-28 July, 2017; New London, NH, USA |
Karen Casciotti |
| $2000 | Petrochronology: Methods and applications (RiMG) 20-21 October, 2017; Seattle, WA, USA |
Matthew Kohn |
| Amount | 2016 MAP Sponsorships | Applicant |
| $2000 | 4th International Workshop on Highly Siderophile Element Geochemistry 11-15 July, 2016; Durham, UK |
Amy Riches |
| $2000 | Pan American Current Research on Fluid Inclusions (PACROFI) XIII Conference 24-26 May, 2016; Columbia, MO, USA |
Martin Appold |
| $2000 | Meeting of Ethiopian geochemistry professionals to establish a national association November 2016, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
Dereje Ayalew |
| $2000 | RiMG: Measurements, Theories and Applications of non-Traditional Stable Isotopes 11-12 December, 2016; San Francisco, CA, USA |
Fang-Zhen Teng |
| Amount | 2015 MAP Sponsorships | Applicant |
| $2000 | Gordon Research Seminar and Conference on the Interior of the Earth: Surface Connections 7-12 June, 2015; South Hadley, MA, USA |
Marc Hirschmann |
| $2000 | Gordon Research Seminar and Conference on Chemical Oceanography 26-31 July 2015; Holderness, NH, USA |
Angelos Hannides |
| $2000 | RIMG Short Course: Pore Scale Geochemical Processes 15-16 August 2015; Prague, Czech Republic |
Carl Steefel |
| Amount | 2014 MAP Sponsorships | Applicant |
| $2000 | Interfacial Phenomena in Environmental Biogeochemistry: Fundamentals, Methos, and Significance 15-22 November 2014, Cancun, Mexico |
Grant Ferris |
| $2000 | The geological consequences of measuring mantle radiogenic heating: Future directions for neutrino geosciences 30 June - July 1 2014, Santa Barbara, CA, USA |
Bill McDonough |
| Amount | 2013 MAP Sponsorships | Applicant |
| $2000 | Isotopes 2013 - Isotope effects across diciplines 16-21 June 2013, Sopot, Poland |
Martin Elsner [Report] |
| $2000 | EnvironMetal Isotopes 2013 (EMI 2013) 18-23 August 2013, Ascona, Switzerland |
Jan Wiederhold [Report] |
| $2000 | Gordon Research Seminar and Conference on the Interior of the Earth 2-7 June 2013, South Hadley, MA, USA |
Barbara Romanowicz [Report] |
| Amount | 2012 MAP Sponsorships | Applicant |
| $1000 | Gordon Research Seminar and Conference on Isotopes in the Biological and Chemical Sciences 5-10 February 2012, Galveston, TX, USA |
Vernon Anderson [Report] |
| $2000 | DIPPI-C Workshop 8-10 August 2012, Durham, UK |
Chris Brodie |
| Amount | 2010 MAP Sponsorships | Applicant |
| $2000 | Thermo2010 - 12th International Conference on Thermochronology 16-20 August 2010, Glasgow, Scotland, UK |
Kate Dobson |
| $2000 | 2010 Fall AGU Session - Application of Isotope and Genetic Platforms to Develop Spatial and Temporal Perspectives in Ecosystem Ecology 13 December 2010, San Francisco, CA, USA |
Peggy Ostrom |
| Amount | 2009 MAP Sponsorships | Applicant |
| $2000 | RIMG short course: The Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Water-Rock Interaction 19-21 June 2009, Davos, Switzerland |
Eric Oelkers |
| $2000 | Unknown Knowns and Known Unknowns: Chemical Oceanography in a Changing World 23-26 February 2009, Savannah, GA, USA |
William Savidge |
| Amount | 2008 MAP Sponsorships | Applicant |
| $2000 | Penrose conference: Plumes and Their Role in Whole Mantle Convection and Recycling 17-21 September 2008, Pico, The Azores |
Simon Turner |
| $1000 | Goldschmidt 2008: Symposium Highlighting Recent Advances in Fundamental Research of Biogeochemical Processes in Subsurface Environment 13-18 July 2008, Vancouver, BC, Canada |
Daniel Giammar |
| Amount | 2007 MAP Sponsorships | Applicant |
| $2000 | International Conference on Evolution, Transfer and Release of Magmas and Volcanic Gases (MAG2007) 22-27 April 2007, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC |
Georg Zellmer |
| Amount | 2003 MAP Sponsorships | Applicant |
| $2000 | Symposium on New Approaches in Marine Organic Biogeochemistry: a Tribute to the Life and Science of John I. Hedges 28-30 August 2003, Friday Harbor, WA, USA |
Cindy Lee |
| $1500 | 226th ACS Fall Meeting: Arsenic Research Symposium 7-11 September 2003, New York, NY, USA |
Peggy O'Day |
| $500 | Pardee Keynote Symposium. Modeling Metamorphism: Petrology, Geochemistry and Tectonics 2-5 November 2003, Seattle, WA, USA |
Michael Brown |
| $2000 | (WRI-11) Water-Rock Interaction Symposia Saratoga Springs, NY, USA |
Susan Brantley |