Fall AGU 1997 Session Announcement
On the Geochemical Earth Reference Model

We would like to encourage you to contribute to the Geochemical Earth Reference Model session we are organizing at Fall AGU in San Francisco. Please note that abstracts are due September 3 and remember that it is easy to submit an Abstract through the Web using http://www.agu.org. Please send us, preferably FAX, a copy of your abstract.

V11 Geochemical Earth Reference Model (GERM)

The Geochemical Earth Reference Model (GERM) initiative has the goal of establishing a community consensus on a chemical characterization of the Earth, its major reservoirs, their geochemical history, and the fluxes between them. GERM is developed on line and information may be obtained from the GERM home page at http://EarthRef.org/GERM/. The GERM special session at the AGU Fall Meeting invites scientific contributions to the understanding the earth as a global geochemical system, including reservoir characterizations, global fluxes, isotopic evolution, and chemical cycles. GERM specifically includes all major geochemical reservoirs, from the atmosphere to the core, and it is particularly encouraged to include constraints from physical and from chemical observations or modeling approaches.

Conveners

Francis Albarede
Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon
46 Allee d'Italie
69364 Lyon Cedex 7
France
Phone: 33 72 72 84 14
Fax: 33 72 72 86 77

William McDonough
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Harvard University
20 Oxford St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA
Phone: 1 617 496 0434
Fax: 1 617 496 2010

Henry Shaw
Geosciences and Environmental Technolgies Div.
L-201
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, CA 94550
USA
Phone: 1 510 423 4645
Fax: 1 510 423 1057

Hubert Staudigel
Scripps Insitiution of Oceanography
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
UCSD
La Jolla, CA 92117-0225
USA
Phone: 1 619 534 8764
Fax: 1 619 534 8090

William White
Department of Geological Sciences
2122 Snee Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
USA
Phone: 1 607 255 5267
Fax: 1 607 254 4780