Earth Sciences History Group (A Specialist Group of the Geological Society of Australia Inc.) Email Bulletin No. 53 23 August 2017
INHIGEO News The 42nd Annual Symposium of the International Commission on the History of the Geological Sciences (INHIGEO) to be held in Yerevan (Armenia) - 12-18 September 2017 will celebrate the 50th anniversary of INHIGEO. This anniversary will be marked by the launch of a special volume, edited mainly by Wolf Mayer and Salome Teresa Mota and Renee M. Clary. The title of the volume is “History of Geoscience: Celebrating 50 years of INHIGEO” is published by the Geological Society of London. INHIGEO SYMPOSIA 2018-2021 INHIGEO Annual Conferences for this period are scheduled as follows. 2018 – 43rd INHIGEO Symposium, 12-22 November, Mexico City 2019 – 44th INHIGEO Symposium Como/Varese, Italy 2020 – 45th INHIGEO Symposium New Delhi, India (in association with the 36 th International Geological Congress) . It will be held early in the year as the Congress is scheduled for 2-8 March 2020. 2021 – 46th INHIGEO Symposium, Poland Congratulations to Barry Cooper, being appointed as President of the INHIGEO Board for 2016-2020. His position, along with other Board members was considered by the IUGS Executive and ratified by the INHIGEO Business Meeting held in conjunction with the 35th International Geological. In addition, in the INHIGEO Membership Ballot in 2017, Bill Birch (Australia) was elected as a member of INHIGEO.
History of Earth Sciences Society Members might consider joining, the History of Earth Sciences Society (HESS). To learn more about HESS please visit their website at http://historyearthscience.org. Membership includes two issues per year of the journal Earth Sciences History. It is an ISI/Web of Science listed international journal and is the only one in the world devoted exclusively to history of the earth sciences. HESS is affiliated with the International Commission on the History of the Geological Sciences (INHIGEO). Online subscriptions provide access to the full run of the journal dating back to Volume 1 in 1982.
Surplus Newsletters The former Perth-based committee of the ESHG found that it needed to print around 120 copies of our Newsletters to meet the requirements of Member and libraries with a few to spare for people who had provided material in the way of photographs or assistance. However, the editors found that it cost very little more to order 150 copies, so they did this in the hope of being able to sell some to raise funds for the Group. The result is that there were quite a few surplus copies stacked in John Blockley’s study. As further sales were considered unlikely, with Sue Fletcher’s agreement, the copies have been placed in the GSWA library to be made available as "freebies" to publicise the Group.
ESHG Web Pages Due to the upgrade and overall redesign of the GSA web pages, Divisional and Specialist Group web pages have been incorporated into the main web pages, and as a result the web address has changed for the ESHG Division web pages. After some initial angst from some ESHG members, when it was discovered that the old address no
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