Dear All,
British Geophysical Association members and others who attend Royal
Astronomical Society-sponsored meetings might wish to contribute to
the RAS' discussion on the timing and number of meetings, advertised
in its electronic newsletter. The BGA uses one RAS meeting slot,
usually in February but this year in March, for its two-day meeting
on "New Advances in Geophysics", which this year is 9th-10th March
(Thursday-Friday) and is entitled "Scale Invariance and Scale Dependence
in Earth Structure and Dynamics". The Bullerwell Lecture and BGA's
AGM will occur during this meeting: please see our website
www.geophysics.org.uk for details. If, as a result of this survey, the
RAS moves or revises its meeting programme, the BGA's future "New
Advances in Geophysics" meetings will be affected, so please let
the RAS have your views.
Regards,
Sheila Peacock
BGA Meetings Secretary.
Extract from RAS newsletter soliciting comments on RAS meetings follows:
RAS MEETINGS: WHAT DO _YOU_ THINK?
http://www.ras.org.uk//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=924&Itemid=86
The RAS supports meetings on a wide range of topics throughout the UK,
but monthly "RAS Fridays" at Burlington House lie at the core of the
programme: two parallel Specialist Discussion meetings, followed by a
broader A&G meeting. Would fewer, longer meetings be better? Should
more meetings be outside London? Is Friday the best day for this?
The RAS wants to know what YOU think!
There are two ways to contribute:
(i) Log on to the RAS website, and an on-line poll becomes available on
the home page; vote for the day of the week that would suit you best.
(ii) If you have time to make a more detailed input, then a very
simple questionnaire is available [MS Word MS Word (134.50 KB), pdf
pdf (45.68 KB)], or you can email your views to the Secretary, Ian
Howarth ([log in to unmask]).
(If you are a BGA member through the Geological Society rather than the
RAS, please identify yourself as such in any correspondence - SP.)
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