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	Latest Updates --------------------------------------------------------- July 7, 2011 – Press Release Barb Dutrow, Chair of Elements Executive Committee, and the editors are pleased to announce that John W. Valley has accepted the position of Principal Editor 2012–2014. His term of office will officially start in January 2012, when he will replace Principal Editor Hap McSween. He will be responsible for the petrology content of Elements, and he will join Principal Editors James I. (Tim) Drever (geochemistry) and Georges Calas (mineralogy). JOHN VALLEY is the Charles R. Van Hise Professor of Geology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He received an AB from Dartmouth and PhD from the University of Michigan. He is past-Chair of the Dept. of Geology & Geophysics and has taught a range of graduate and undergraduate courses including introductory geology, mineralogy, petrology, and isotope geochemistry. He has advised 25 MS and 12 PhD students, and 19 post-docs. Valley’s earliest research interests have concerned the conditions of high-grade metamorphism and Precambrian geology. More recently, he has investigated isotope geochemistry of magmas of known age from 4.4 billion years to Quaternary. His studies of zircon grains from the Earth’s earliest crust have shown that the surface cooled more quickly than many had thought and that “Hadean” conditions lasted less than 200 million years after the formation of the Earth and Moon. Other interests include mineralogy, paleoclimatology, and astrobiology. In 2005, he established the WiscSIMS Lab at UW, which is dedicated to novel applications of in situ microanalysis and stable isotope geochemistry. Valley is a Fellow of the MSA, GSA, AGU, and GS/EAG. ISI Web-of-Knowledge lists him as a highly cited researcher. He received the N.L. Bowen Award from AGU and is a past-President of MSA. He edited two RIMG volumes on stable isotopes and the “Early Earth” issue of Elements. John comments: “I look forward to continuing the tradition of Elements. The vibrant format is fun to read and informative with a mix of high-quality reviews on topics of scientific and societal interest. It unifies our interests as a professional community and makes it easy to explain to students, the Dean or the newspapers why they should care about these matters.” --------------------------------------------------------- Elements Principal Editors are responsible for the content of Elements. They each have a term of three years, and a new Principal Editor is appointed each year; They are selected so as to provide balance among the disciplines of mineralogy, geochemistry and petrology

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July 7, 2011 – Press Release

Barb Dutrow, Chair of Elements Executive Committee, and the editors are pleased to announce that John W. Valley has accepted the position of Principal Editor 2012–2014. His term of office will officially start in January 2012, when he will replace Principal Editor Hap McSween. He will be responsible for the petrology content of Elements, and he will join Principal Editors James I. (Tim) Drever (geochemistry) and Georges Calas (mineralogy).

JOHN VALLEY is the Charles R. Van Hise Professor of Geology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He received an AB from Dartmouth and PhD from the University of Michigan. He is past-Chair of the Dept. of Geology & Geophysics and has taught a range of graduate and undergraduate courses including introductory geology, mineralogy, petrology, and isotope geochemistry. He has advised 25 MS and 12 PhD students, and 19 post-docs. Valley’s earliest research interests have concerned the conditions of high-grade metamorphism and Precambrian geology. More recently, he has investigated isotope geochemistry of magmas of known age from 4.4 billion years to Quaternary. His studies of zircon grains from the Earth’s earliest crust have shown that the surface cooled more quickly than many had thought and that “Hadean” conditions lasted less than 200 million years after the formation of the Earth and Moon. Other interests include mineralogy, paleoclimatology, and astrobiology. In 2005, he established the WiscSIMS Lab at UW, which is dedicated to novel applications of in situ microanalysis and stable isotope geochemistry. Valley is a Fellow of the MSA, GSA, AGU, and GS/EAG. ISI Web-of-Knowledge lists him as a highly cited researcher. He received the N.L. Bowen Award from AGU and is a past-President of MSA. He edited two RIMG volumes on stable isotopes and the “Early Earth” issue of Elements.

John comments: “I look forward to continuing the tradition of Elements. The vibrant format is fun to read and informative with a mix of high-quality reviews on topics of scientific and societal interest. It unifies our interests as a professional community and makes it easy to explain to students, the Dean or the newspapers why they should care about these matters.”

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Elements Principal Editors are responsible for the content of Elements. They each have a term of three years, and a new Principal Editor is appointed each year; They are selected so as to provide balance among the disciplines of mineralogy, geochemistry and petrology