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European Mineral Sciences Initiative (EuroMinScI)The European Science Foundation is launching a first Call for Proposals for research projects to beexecuted under the EUROCORES Programme European Mineral Sciences Initiative (EuroMinScI).Funding initiative for Research in MineralSciencesFollowing agreement with fundingagencies from Austria, Belgium, CzechRepublic, Estonia, France, Germany,Hungary, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, andthe United Kingdom, the European ScienceFoundation is launching a first Callfor Proposals for research projects tobe executed under the EUROCORESProgramme European Mineral SciencesInitiative (EuroMinScI). The EuroMinScIProgramme is expected to run for fiveyears and includes national researchfunding and a European networkingcomponent.Scientific scope of the European MineralSciences InitiativeMajor advances in the use of physics-basedexperimental techniques (nuclearmagnetic resonance spectroscopy,synchrotron radiation, neutron scattering,phonon spectroscopy, laser-ablationbased techniques, etc.) and atomisticcomputer simulation make it possibleto study mineral properties and behaviour.At the same time, measurementsof many minerals properties in situ atextreme conditions of temperature andpressure corresponding to those existingin the earth’s interior are now feasible(e.g., the recent, experimental andtheoretical determination of the temperatureat the inner core – outer coreboundary and the study of the Earth’score chemistry).The EUROCORES Programme EuroMinScIdraws together the experimentaland computational activities, and thedifferent experimental techniques, intointegrated research projects. Sometimesit calls for separate ‘computerexperiments’ while at other times computersimulation is needed even to interpretthe experimental data uniquely.It also addresses the need for youngresearchers with an academic backgroundin earth sciences to be trainedmore in the physics-based techniques,where the methods are very differentfrom traditional earth sciences. A “bottom-up”approach is envisaged, in whichparticipating scientists will propose theirown research projects within the broadcontext of EuroMinScI Programme.Specific directions of researchThe scientific content of the EuroMinScIProgramme derives from thefact that the physical and chemicalproperties of the earth and terrestrialplanets depend on the properties oftheir constituent minerals. Interactionsbetween the lithosphere and the atmosphere,biosphere or hydrosphere occuracross mineral surfaces. The chemistryof the crust/mantle/core depends onelements partitioning between minerals,and phenomena such as superplasticityor super-elasticity in mineralscould have a direct impact on largerscale geological processes, etc. TheEuroMinScI Programme will thereforefocus on the atomistic understandingof structures, properties and processesof minerals. Specific areas of researchthat can be supported include: Behaviourof minerals at high pressures andtemperatures; Structures and propertiesof amorphous and disordered materials;Defects and microstructures; Transportmechanisms at the atomic length scale;Trace elements and isotope partitioning;Structure, properties and reactivities ofmineral surfaces; Spectroscopy of mineralsand the quantitative interpretationof spectra.BackgroundThe physics and chemistry of mineralswith their behaviour studied by integratingexperimental and computationalmethodsThis intitial suggestion for a EURO-CORES programme related to the physicsand chemistry of minerals with theirbehaviour studied by integrating experimentaland computational methods canbe traced back to discussions at an ESFworkshop held in Rome in September2001, attended by the chairs of a numberof ESF networking activities in materialsciences.A document has been drafted after ameeting of interested scientists from 10countries in Frankfurt am Main, Germanyon 28th October 2003. This meetingmandated a provisional executive committeeto formulate the following scientificcase for a EUROCORES programme.This provisional executive committeeconsists of the following members, representingboth experimental and computationalmineralogy:- Professor Michael Allan Carpenter,Dept. Earth Sciences, University ofCambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom- Professor Francesco Mauri, Laboratoirede Minéralogie-Cristallographiede Paris, Université Pierre et Marie Curie,Paris, France- Professor Bjoern Winkler, AbteilungKristallographie, Institut fuer Mineralogie,Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet,Frankfurt a.M., Germany- Dr. Sandro Scandolo, The AbdusSalam ICTP, Trieste, ItalyMore Info can be found at the ESFwebsite, at:http://www.esf.org/eurominsciMs. Chantal DurantEuropean Science FoundationPhysical and Engineering Sciences(PESC)THE EGGS 6
<strong>Report</strong> on the JointAOGS Meeting & APHW ConferenceThe newly founded Asia Oceanic Geosciences Society (AOGS) held its first Annual Meeting jointly with theAsia Pacific Association of Hydrology and Water Resources (APHW) having their second conference- Peter Fabian reports.July 14, 2004.- The newly founded Asia Oceanic GeosciencesSociety (AOGS) held its first Annual Meeting jointlywith the Asia Pacific Association of Hydrology and Water Resources(APHW) having their second conference. The meetingand Conference took place in Singapore, 5-9 July 2004.As Wing-Huen Ip, the AOGS President, made it clear in hisopening speech, the former Euro-pean Geophysical Society(EGS) was viewed as a suitable model for AOGS, since it alsohad to be developed from a standing start without funds or anykind of existing framework. Ip pointed out: “The success fo theEGS is well known, and we make no apologies for borrow-ingheavily from its example. In particular we have endeavouredto organize a bottom up so-ciety devoted to the interest of scienceand scientists, from a start, without the contraints thatmight hamper the development of a politically based organizationrepresenting national inter-ests.”During four days (Tuesday-Friday, Monday July 5 was devotedto registration and Opening Ceremony only) sessionson Solid Earth (SE), Oceans and Atmospheres (OA), SolarTerres-trials (ST), Plenatary Science (PS) and InterdisciplinaryWorking Groups wre held. Hydro-logical Science (HS) was essentiallyprovided by APHW. The scientific spectrum was similarto that of EGU, with ST and PS dominating while OA beingcomparable weak.About 1000 scientists attended, with China, India, Koreaand Japan dominating and astonish-ing many participants fromEurope and the US as well. The mix was just right to set thescene for many highly exciting sessions. A perfect organizationand a very convenient Convention Center made a smooth andefficient conference possible. Overall, the First AOGS AnnualMeeting was a great success to which the organizers can becongratulated.Given the large potential of the Asia-Oceanic region andthe positive impression of this first meeting, the newly foundedAOGS is bound to grow and successfully develop. The nextAOGS Annual Meeting will take place June 20-24, 2005 in Singapore.Peter FabianEGU PresidentRosetta: Self-portrait and view of homeESA’s Rosetta comet-chaser has photographed itself in space at a distanceof 35 million kilometres from Earth. Continuing its journey, it delivered recently an imageof the home planet with moon from a distance of 70 million kilometresESA Rosetta’s self-portrait inspace.Copyright 2000 - 2004 ©European Space Agency.On a press release of 18 June 2004, ESA releaseda self-portrait of Rosetta spacecraft in space at a distance of 35 millionkilometres from Earth. The CIVA imaging camera system on the Philaelander returned this image as part of its testing in May 2004.The image shows the back of a solar panel, with contours on thepanel illuminated by sunlight and surfaces of the spacecraft mainbody recognisable at lower right.The CIVA imaging system consists of six identical micro-cameraswhich will take pictures of the comet’s surface, when Rosetta arrivesat its target in ten years’ time. The Rosetta spacecraft, launched 2March 2004, will undertake the long-term exploration of a comet. Itcomprises a large orbiter, which is designed to operate for a decadeat large distances from the Sun, and a small lander. Each of thesecarries a suite of experiments designed to complete a detailed studyof a comet.After entering orbit around Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenkoin 2014, the spacecraft will release the small lander onto the icynucleus, then spend the next two years orbiting the comet as it headstowards the Sun.On another press release on 3 August, 2004, ESA released anTHE EGGS 7
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