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Dear Colleagues and members of the BGA: I am writing to you to let you know some significant developments for future BGA sponsored meetings. Other aspects of BGA activities will be covered in the AGM Minutes to be posted at the BGA website shortly. However, I wanted to draw attention to some significant developments. The biannual Geoscience meeting of the Geol. Soc. has folded, leaving the BGA with no vehicle to present current research and major advances in Geophysics in the UK. The UKGA had linked to Geoscience and so we are suggesting a NEW FUTURE. The BGA committee have proposed the following annual meeting programme and this was accepted at the AGM in Edinburgh (28/6/01) The BGA will organize a three tiered presentation of UK geophysics research as follows: 1. Bullerwell Lecture to be given each year by an outstanding young British geophysicist. This will be a major lecture at the EGS meeting at Nice, immediately after the RAS / BGA reception at the EGS. The BGA are most appreciative of the funding for this reception which enables a short presentation by the President of the BGA to European colleagues, about both UK Geophysics and the RAS and GJI. . 2. A two day thematic meeting to be organised each year as the RAS February "G" meeting. The title of the meeting is not yet resolved but is expected to be "Advances in Geophysics". The first meeting would be in 2003 and would probably be on the topic of "Satellite Geophysics". The February 2002 meeting at the RAS will be a joint RAS/BGA special meeting (details to follow). 3. A one or two day post-graduate meeting to be held at one of the universities represented by the BGA committee members, the local committee member being the director of the meeting, the local postgraduates and postdocs, being the organisers. The BGA committee would attend and the presentations would be seriously assessed with feedback being given to all the students. There would be prizes for academic innovation and the best presentation. The meeting will take place in September / October (exact dates to be decided), the first such meeting taking place in 2002, almost certainly in Southampton. We have Industry financial support for this. The BGA will soon be the trustees of the Gray-Milne fund which is worth some £2.5k/year. This will be used to fund our new "Advances in Geophysics Meeting" and our "Postgraduate Meeting". This is a new future for us brought about by the collapse of the Geoscience meeting. Your committee and the membership at the AGM in Edinburgh were extremely enthusiastic and felt that this may even be a better solution for the replacement for UKGA. I hope you can support this. Paul Professor R. Paul Young President of the British Geophysical Association www.geophysics.org.uk Chair of Earth Sciences Department of Earth Sciences University of Liverpool www.liv.ac.uk/seismic