Next Applied Isotope Geochemistry Conference

[Barry Batts]

Hello all:
I am sending this message to all 317 persons who attended AIG-3 
in Orleans, France and/or AIG-4 in Monterey, California and/or the 
Seventh Australasian Conference on Isotopes in the Environment in 
Robertson, NSW, Australia.  I have also included the addresses of 
some people who have expressed interest in previous conferences 
but were were unable to attend.  

As those who were fortunate enough to attend AIG-4 in Monterey 
will know, Blair Hostetler, Andrew Herczeg, Judith Batts  and I 
were "volunteered" to organise the next meeting.  Since then we 
have enlarged our organising committee and planning is now well 
under way.  

The purpose of this brief message is to let you know that the next 
meeting will be held on Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia 
from Monday 26 May to Friday 30 May, 2003.  

We aim to keep the registration and accommodation costs to less 
than about US$750.   Blair Hostetler has taken on the role of 
organising a field trip after the conference which will take in some 
of the more interesting parts of Australia.  The costs of this optional 
field trip will clearly be additional to that for registration and 
accommodation. We felt that this brief announcement might be 
beneficial in planning and budgeting for travel, which always seems 
to have to be done so far in advance.  

We are in the process of putting together a Home Page which will 
contain lots of necessary information.  In my next general message 
I will give you its address.  In the mean time, if you know of 
anybody who would like to be put on the mailing list could you 
please let me know.  An E-mail address, if possible, is clearly the 
most convenient for me.

Thank you


Barry Batts