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2 GRANTS AND ANDAWARD AWARDS SOLICITATIONS Garry Jones and Brian O’Neill Memorial Fund Jones & O’Neill Award Solicitation Application Deadline: February 1, 2009 The North American Micropaleontology Section (NAMS) of SEPM is pleased to solicit applications for the 2009 Garry Jones and Brian O’Neill Memorial Fund for NAMS student research. The Jones & O’Neill grant is a $1,500 award available to one NAMS student member to support research with a substantial micropaleontological component. The student’s research must involve one or more micropaleontology disciplines, including foraminifers, nannofossils, diatoms, radiolarians, pollen, spores, dinoflagellates or conodonts. Projects may apply micropaleontology to traditional fields such as biostratigraphy, paleoecology, and paleoceanography or to rapidly expanding fields like biogeochemistry and geomicrobiology. The NAMS Council of Officers will rank the proposal based on scientific merit, faculty recommendation, and financial need. The grant will partially support a M.Sc. or Ph.D. research project that is not funded through other major grants. Applicants must be student members of NAMS. The 2008 Garry Jones Memorial Fund grant was awarded to Julie B. Retrum, doctoral student at the University of Kansas. Her winning abstract was entitled “A Paleoclimatic and Paleohydrologic Reconstruc- Mobil Foundation Student Participation Grant Mobil Foundation Student Participation Grants Solicitation Application Deadline - October 14, 2008 Once again, NAMS (the North American Micropaleontology Section of SEPM) is pleased to have the opportunity to send a student to the SEPM/AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, thanks to the generosity of the SEPM/Mobil Foundation Student Participation Grant Program. We encourage all NAMS student members to consider applying. Each year at the annual SEPM/AAPG meeting, SEPM sponsors a “Student Awards Poster Session” that includes poster presentations as nominated by SEPM’s Sections. A Section’s awardee is not only provided this venue to present his/her work, but also receives up to $1,500 for travel to the national meeting from SEPM via the Mobil Foundation’s Student Travel Fund. NAMS NEWS Fall 2008 tion of Pleistocene Fossil Lake, Oregon, using Faunal Assemblages”. Julie’s research affords a better understanding of late Pleistocene microbiota diversity and climates of the Pacific Northwest, including the onset of glacial and interglacial cycles. To apply, interested students should submit the required award applications forms along with a two- to three- page summary of his/her research, a Curriculum Vitae, and a budget. A supporting letter of reference from the applicant’s faculty advisor must be provided separately to the address below. Application forms may be requested from the address below. Proposals should be submitted by February 1, 2009 and directed to the same address. The awardee will be notified by March 15, 2009. Address for application and submittals: Ron F. Waszczak ConocoPhillips 600 N. Dairy Ashford, Room PR-3044 Houston, TX 77079-1175 Office: 281-293-3088 Fax: 281-293-3833 E-mail: Ron.F.Waszczak@conocophillips.com ATTN: Jones & O’Neill Award Solicitation David Mans of Carleton University - Ottawa represented NAMS at the 2008 Annual Meeting (see Mobil Foundation Travel Grant on page 10). NAMS will sponsor one of its student members at the upcoming SEPM/AAPG annual meeting in Denver, June 7-10, 2009. Information on the meeting and the abstract guidelines are available at http://www.aapg.org/denver. Students interested in presenting a poster and who would like to apply for the travel grant should first prepare an abstract following the guidelines outlined at the AAPG website, and then e-mail the abstract to NAMS President Ron Martin (Geological Sciences, University of Delaware, daddy@udel.edu) by October 14, 2008. To be considered for this award, abstracts must be sent to NAMS before they are submitted to AAPG. After the NAMS committee has chosen an awardee, the awardee will then need to submit the abstract see Mobil Foundation (cont.) on page 11
Table of Contents President’s Letter 1 Grants and Awards 2 Treasurer‘s Report 3 Meeting Calendar 4 Meeting Activities and Requests for Abstracts 4 Reports on Past Meetings 6 Candidates for NAMS President 8 NAMS News 9 Education and Training 11 Memorials 14 NAMS Membership /Renewal Form 15 NAMS Election Ballot 15 Treasurer’s Report This is a 12-month report from September 2007 to September 2008. As of September 15, 2008, the NAMS treasury has $12,249.68 on account. Since my last report, NAMS received $2,181 in member dues and interest. Expenditures totaling $1,612 have included Cosponsorship of the NAMS/Cushman reception at GSA for 2007 and 2008, service awards, lanyards for meeting handouts, and other minor items. Expenses associated with the newsletter have been generously subsidized by BP, and now with this newsletter issue, the Energy & Geoscience Institute. If your membership is not paid through 2008, we would appreciate your payment to bring your membership up to date. I wish to remind those NAMS members that already have subscriptions to Micropaleontology that their subscription includes membership to NAMS. This is another good reason to subscribe to Micropaleontology. Please see www.micropress.org for further information. You may also send a copy of your subscription to us to have your dues credited in this manor. Over the past year, with the assistance of Martin Farley, we have relocated our account from a bank in Denver to one that has branches in Houston and most of the cities in which other council members live. It was inconvenient to continue banking out-of-state. Consequently, we have also acquired necessary tax identification with non-profit status in the wake of additional 9/11 banking rules. It has been a privilege to serve you as Treasurer since April of 2007 and I have accepted another two-year term at AAPG in April, 2008. I look forward to seeing you at future NAMS meetings. Don Van Nieuwenhuise, NAMS Treasurer September 22, 2008 NAMS/SEPM OFFICERS President Ron Martin University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716 (302) 831-6755 d a d d y @ U D e l . e d u President-Elect Martin Farley Geology, Old Main 213 UNC - Pembroke Pembroke, NC 28372 (910) 521-6478 mbfarley@hal-pc.org Secretary Robert Campbell Shell International Exploration & Production, Inc. HOU-WCK Rm 2171 200 North Dairy Ashford Houston, TX, 77079-1197 (281) 544-5223 R o b e r t . C a m p b e l l @ s h e l l . c o m Treasurer Donald S. Van Nieuwenhuise Department of Geosciences University of Houston Houston, Texas 77204-5007 Voice: 713-743-3423 Fax: 713-748-7906 d o n v a n n @ u h . e d u Newsletter Editor Anthony C. Gary Energy & Geoscience Institute University of Utah 423 Wakara Way, Suite 300 Salt Lake City, UT 84108 (801) 585-9768 t g a r y @ e g i . u t a h . e d u Past-President Ron F. Waszczak ConocoPhillips 600 N. Dairy Ashford, Room PR-3044 Houston, TX 77090-1175 (281) 293-3088 R o n . F . W a s z c z a k @ c o n o c o p h i l l i p s . c o m Please visit NAMS online at: http://www.sepm.org/nams/index.htm NAMS NEWS is published by NAMS two times a year, just before the GSA meeting in the fall and the AAPG meeting in the spring. Submissions are always appreciated. Copyright 2008. NAMS NEWS Fall 2008 3
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