Clay Minerals Society Membership Information
PURPOSE
To stimulate research and to disseminate information relating to all aspects of clay science and technology.
MEMBERSHIP
To join, please fill out a membership form available from the Society office or as an MSWord or PDF file.
Send completed forms to:
The Clay Minerals Society
Leslie Shivers, Manager
P.O. Box 460130
Aurora, CO 80046-0130
Phone: (303) 680-9002
FAX: (303) 680-9003
For more information, e-mail cms@clays.org. Do not send credit card information over the
internet.
Membership Rates:
Subscribing Member* $70.00.
Subscribing Student Member** $15.00.
Nonsubscribing Member (receives no journal) $35.00.
*Dues will cover the calendar year indicated, beginning January 1.
**Student applications must be countersigned by student's advisor.
Please make checks payable to The Clay Minerals Society.
Checks must be in U.S. dollars and drawn on a U.S. bank.
Discover, Visa, Mastercard, or American Express may also be used. Please
include card number and expiration date, but do not send credit card
information over the internet.
SERVICES
- Sponsoring the annual Clay Minerals Conference where papers and specially invited reviews are presented in all areas of clay science.
- Organizing trips to laboratories, industrial plants, and field occurrences of clays.
- Supporting a Student Research Grant Program.
- Supporting a Clay Minerals Society List Server.
- Arranging joint meetings with other related societies.
- Publishing the CMS Workshop Lectures Series and occasional Special Publications.
- Offering selected books to its members from time to time at a discount over the publisher's posted price.
- Supporting a Source Clays Project which is designed to provide homogeneous clay samples for research purposes.
- Publishing the bimonthly journal Clays and Clay Minerals , and a newsletter containing information about Society activities, related conferences, and non-technical articles of interest to the clay science community.
- Online access to Clays and Clay Minerals.
BENEFITS
Through access to its conferences and publications, membership in the Society is the best way to follow the many-sided developments in the clay sciences and to meet fellow scientists and technologists having widely different backgrounds and interests.
