Clay Minerals Society
organization
The Clay Minerals Society (CMS) is an international non-profit organization devoted to the study of clays and clay minerals.
History
The Clay Minerals Society began as the Clay Minerals Committee of the National Academy of Sciences—National Research Council in 1952, in response to the need for a formal way to hold national clay conferences. By 1962, the Clay Minerals Committee had become strong enough to stand on its own, and The Clay Minerals Society was incorporated. From 1952 to 1964, Proceedings of the annual conferences were published. The journal Clays and Clay Minerals was first published in 1964.
Position Statement
The primary purpose of The Clay Minerals Society is to stimulate research and to disseminate information relating to all aspects of clay science and technology. Through its conferences and publications, the Society offers individuals a means of following the many-sided growth of the clay sciences and of meeting fellow scientists with widely different backgrounds and interests.
Publications and Activities
The primary activities of The Clay Minerals Society consist of publication of the bi-monthly journal Clays and Clay Minerals (publishing both subscription and open access articles, it is a hybrid open-access journal), organization of the annual conference, workshop, and field trip, student research grants, publication of a workshop lecture series, slide sets, and special publications, the providing of clays for research purposes through the Source Clays Repository, and publication of the society newsletter in the bimonthly Elements. Various committees within the Society deal also with such matters as regulatory issues, liaisons with other countries, and nomenclature.
Awards
Awards given by the Society include Distinguished Member, the George W. Brindley Lecture, the Pioneers in Clay Science Lecture, and the Marion L. and Chrystie M. Jackson Mid-Career Clay Scientist Award.
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