>Dear Everyone,
>        Ed Young and myself will be convening a symposium on new
>developments in stable isotope geochemistry at the upcoming 11th annual
>Goldschmidt conference ("Topical Symposium 35: Recent Advances in Stable
>Isotope Analysis and Interpretation").  We are attempting to bring together
>scientists working on innovative new analytical and theoretical approaches
>to the study of stable isotopes in natural materials.  Our scheduled
>keynote speakers span a wide spectrum of interests, from hydrogen isotopes
>in environmental samples to the theory of Fe isotope fractionation to O
>isotopes in meteorites - the common theme being that all are pushing the
>frontiers of how we define and apply stable isotope geochemistry.  I would
>like to encourage those of you with something appropriate to offer to
>submit an abstract to these sessions, and everyone else attending the
>meeting to come see the talks.

John:   I will be at the meeting, giving a paper in Symposium 17
(extraterrestrial water). I wonder whether you are interested in having a
paper in your symposium on RIMS techniques and results on pre-solar grains.
Strictly speaking, this is a new technique, measuring stable isotopes, but
it is obviously not what you had in mind in creating the symposium. It also
has no known terrestrial application, since we sometimes have 100 permil
error bars (which is tolerable in measuring 900 permil nucleosynthetic
effects). Please tell me frankly how you feel about this.
                                                Bob Clayton