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The Hydrology Section Executive Committee met on May 27,1998, at the AGU Spring Meeting in Boston, Mass., to report on the section's activities and provide a forum for the discussion of issues related to the development of hydrologic science.Among the most visible Section activities are the Spring and Fall Meetings. Participation of Hydrology Section members continues to grow at the Spring Meeting. At this year's Spring Meeting, over 700 hydrology abstracts were presented, approximately double the participation of only 2 years ago.

The 1992 Spring Meeting was held in Montreal May 12–16 as a joint meeting of AGU, the Canadian Geophysical Union, and the Mineralogical Society of America. This was the largest AGU Spring Meeting ever held with just over 2,900 members in attendance. The increased size of the program was partly a result of a conscious effort by the program committee to build up the Spring Meeting and provide a better balance between the Spring and Fall meetings. The venue of Montreal and activity of the CGU were also factors that helped make this meeting a success.

Modern interest in liposuction began with the introduction of the blunt cannula and wet technique in 1977 by Yves Illouz of France. The initial skepticism of some surgeons has lessened, and there is more enthusiasm for liposuction, particularly as an adjunct to facelift surgery. Workshops at both the 1987 spring and fall meetings of the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery presented current views of the technique including its indications and limitations. At the spring meeting, Michael Churukian (Beverly Hills, Calif), Russell W. H. Kridel (Houston), and Devinder S. Mangat (Cincinnati) made the following recommendations on patient selection: individuals under 40 years of age with good skin elasticity are ideal, especially for neck contouring without facelift surgery because thin skin is preferable to thick; and women are usually better candidates than men. Local contour deformities are appropriately treated with the technique, generalized obesity is not; good facial bone

WE ARE all creatures of habit, even members of the American chemical profession. Year after year chemists and chemical engineers present the results of their research work at the spring and fall meetings of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, and year after year authors plan for the spring meeting after the fall meeting, and for the fall meeting after the spring meeting. This year, however, authors must change their established habits if they wish to present papers in September. The program of the fall meeting—the 75th anniversary or Diamond Jubilee meeting of the Society—will consist only of symposia and therefore only of invited papers. Nevertheless, contributed papers can be presented at the XIIth International Congress of Pure and Applied Chemistry which meets the week following the ACS Diamond Jubilee, that is Sept. 10—13. Titles and abstracts of papers are already being received and it is confidently expected that American chemists and chemical engineers will give papers ...

To better meet the needs of AGU members, a program has been started to increase the effectiveness of the Job Center activity at the Spring and Fall Meetings. As a result, participation in the Job Center at the 1988 AGU Spring Meeting in Baltimore increased substantially compared to previous Spring Meetings. The number of employers, applicants, and interviews scheduled more than doubled compared to the 1987 Spring Job Center.In order to make the meeting Job Centers even better, a survey is being conducted of employers and applicants who participated in the 1988 Spring Job Center. Evaluation of this survey will be useful in continuing increased participation in and the effectiveness of the Job Center at the 1988 Fall Meeting. Past participants and those interested in the future of the Job Center are encouraged to forward comments and suggestions to AGU, Member Programs Division, 2000 Florida Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20009.

A Report was prepared for presentation at the Spring Meeting but on account of not having a quorum of voting members present when the report was called for, it was deferred until the Fall Meeting. The following is a report for the Spring and Fall Meeting

Two special events of interest to Union and VGP section members will take place on Tuesday afternoon, May 25, during AGU's Spring Meeting in Baltimore.R. A. Daly Lecture: Every section of AGU has an established “Bowie Lecture” named after a distinguished scientist associated with the work of the section. These lectures are delivered by special invitation during the annual AGU Spring or Fall meetings and are highlighted in the program. The VGP lecture is named for Reginald A. Daly, but it has never been given. Its inauguration at this year's Spring Meeting celebrates the distinguished career of this famous Harvard professor and author of the seminal Igneous Rocks and the Depths of the Earth (1914, 1933). Most fittingly, the inaugural lecture will be given by David Walker of Columbia University's Lamont‐Doherty Earth Observatory after a day‐long Union session on discontinuities in the mantle. Dave's lecture, “Errors in Earth Evolution,” will start at 4:45 P.M. We can expect to hear an original and provocative talk that features exciting, new data.

ABSTRACTIn May 2013, the Laboratory of Food Chemistry and Biochemistry, KU Leuven, organized the 4th Cereals & Europe Spring Meeting in the university's hometown Leuven, Belgium. The C&E Spring Meeting was endorsed by AACC International and its European Section, Cereals & Europe, and partially sponsored by key companies such as platinum‐level sponsor Puratos, gold‐level sponsors Chopin Technologies, CSM, DSM, DuPont, Kellogg, and Perten Instruments, and silver‐level sponsors Bühler, Cargill, Megazyme, Nestlé, and Novozymes. It was attended by more than 200 cereal scientists and technologists from 24 countries representing both academia and industry.The C&E Spring Meeting's theme was “Unlocking the Full Potential of Cereals: Challenges for Science Based Innovation.” The program, hence, focused on different aspects of cereals related to corporate challenges and new technologies, which were explored during 55 oral presentations and 56 poster presentations and reflected in six major session topics: cereal biotechnology; cereal constituents and ingredients; cereal‐based food production and processing; structure–function relationships; analytical aspects; and nutritional aspects of cereal‐based foods, food processing, and ingredients.There is obviously great potential in exploiting cereals as a tool to address the challenges of science‐based innovation. One of these challenges is reflected in the interest of today's consumers in the relationship between food and health. Here, genetic and molecular approaches can be used to improve both the content and composition of health‐promoting constituents in cereals.Other challenges the industry faces include increased incidence and/or diagnosis of celiac disease, wheat allergies, and gluten sensitivity. Not surprisingly, the quest for alternative cereals, ingredients, and products that meet the needs of consumers facing these intolerances, allergies, or sensitivities is ongoing and becomes more and more important. Alternatively, thoroughly understanding the changes in cereal constituents and ingredients during food production and processing as well as their structure–function relationships will allow cereal scientists to alter their properties. This, in turn, will provide a means of meeting new nutritional, structural, and textural criteria. Examples include the challenges associated with increasing the amount of dietary fiber in a formulation, replacing gluten with other proteins, and improving the eating characteristics of both fresh and stored (as a result of improved shelf life) products. Understanding the structural and textural properties and relating them to (often biopolymer) constituent and ingredient properties present some interesting challenges. However, there is more to the story than this. Modern cereal research ends neither at the moment at which food products are produced nor at the moment at which their properties have been analyzed. It also digs further into and focuses increasingly on what happens to foods and their constituents within the gastrointestinal tract. By doing so, cereal research increasingly aims at catching sight of the direct relationship between food, food digestion, and human health.Despite advances in each of the aforementioned topics, significant challenges in cereal research still need to be addressed. In doing so, cereal researchers in both academia and industry should keep in mind that consumer demands are constantly changing.We here have selected six peer‐reviewed papers from the 2013 C&E Spring Meeting:Effects of Genotype and Environment on Phenolic Acids Content and Total Antioxidant Capacity in Durum Wheat. D. Martini, F. Taddei, I. Nicoletti, R. Ciccoritti, D. Corradini, and M. G. D'EgidioEffect of High‐Pressure Processing on the Features of Wheat Milling By‐products. A. Marti, A. Barbiroli, F. Bonomi, A. Brutti, S. Iametti, M. Marengo, M. Miriani, and M. A. PaganiEffect of Wheat Grain Steaming and Washing on Lipase Activity in Whole Grain Flour. J. L. De Almeida, B. Pareyt, L. R. Gerits, and J. A. DelcourUltrasonic Characterization of Unyeasted Bread Dough of Different Sodium Chloride Concentrations. F. Koksel, A. Strybulevych, J. H. Page, and M. G. ScanlonCorrelation of Quality Parameters with the Baking Performance of Wheat Flours. S. M. Thanhaeuser, H. Wieser, and P. KoehlerStudy of the Chemical Changes and Evolution of Microbiota During Sourdoughlike Fermentation of Wheat Bran. F. Manini, M. Brasca, C. Plumed‐Ferrer, S. Morandi, D. Erba, and M. C. CasiraghiThe papers included in this focus issue demonstrate that the 2013 C&E Spring Meeting brought together multidisciplinary perspectives. We hope that they can serve as a basis for further discussions between cereal researchers from both academia and industry and help them to fully unlock the potential of cereals to address the present corporate challenges to science‐based innovation.We thank all of the speakers, attendees, session chairs, sponsors, participants, and team members of the Laboratory of Food Chemistry and Biochemistry.Click on Current Issues on left and then July/August 2014 to view the six articles noted above. (From the Mobile site, go to the July/August 2014 issue.)

At Low Temperature is the theme of this Special Issue on solution route approaches to oxide functional nanoscale materials This Editorial looks at the scope of, and background to the topic.

The meetings of Hydrology Section Executive Committee report on the details of the processes of the Section's activities and provide a forum for discussion of issues in the development of the hydrologic sciences.The most visible Section activities occur at the Fall and Spring Meetings. The Hydrology Section continues to grow in participation at the Fall Meeting. At the 1996 Fall Meeting, approximately 800 Hydrology Section abstracts were presented. As the Fall Meeting continues to grow overall for the Union, members can anticipate a growing percentage of posters. The Spring Meeting is a well‐attended activity of the Section. Unfortunately, participation in the Spring Meeting by certain sections of the AGU is quite low. The Union's Meetings Committee is actively seeking to maintain the ail‐Union character of the Spring Meeting.

Attendance of oceanographers at the spring meeting was noticeably down from previous years, with only about 75 papers presented in eight oral sessions. In part, the poor attendance is attributable to the biannual AGU‐ASLO (American Society of Limnology and Oceanography) meeting, which was well attended in New Orleans, La., this January. In spite of the short time interval between the AGU‐ASLO meeting and the popular AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, Calif., many of our members evidently prefer the AGU‐ASLO joint format to the larger, Union‐scale format of the Spring Meeting. Alternate year dips in Ocean Section attendance at the Spring Meeting support this conjecture.

Restricted accessAbstractFirst published online July 1, 2016Society for Pediatric Pathology Spring Meeting, Spring Meeting, Seattle, Washington, March 11–13, 2016Volume 19, Issue 4https://doi.org/10.2350/16-03-1793-MISC.1

To keep abreast of current issues and plan future activities, Hydrology Section President Steve Burges brought a full agenda to the Executive Committee meeting held in Baltimore last May. The following highlights of that meeting are offered to keep you informed about what's new in the Hydrology Section.To communicate scientific results more effectively to the press at the Fall and Spring Meetings, section Press Officer Harry Lins is organizing a media‐interest session that can highlight both science and policy aspects of a subject. Such a session will also help communicate scientific results to a more general audience. Special session convenors are also encouraged to open their session with a 5–10‐minute introduction that highlights important issues to be presented in subsequent papers. These introductions are intended mainly for press representatives and nonspecialists in the audience. In general, the press is not well versed on water issues, and there is often less press interest in hydrology than in other areas of geophysics.

As a means of encouraging student participation, AGU sections may select Best Student Papers at AGU meetings. Three AGU sections chose to award Best Student Papers at the 1988 AGU Spring Meeting in Baltimore.The Best Student Paper Award for the Geodesy Section was given to Spiros D. Pagiatakis for his paper entitled “Displacements Due to Ocean Tide Loading: An Improved Model Incorporating Anisotrophy, Rotation and Viscoelasticity.” Pagiatakis received his B.Sc.E. from the National Technical University of Athens in 1979 and his M.Sc.E. from the University of New Brunswick in 1983. Since the Spring Meeting, he completed his Ph.D. at the University of New Brunswick, where the title of his thesis was “Ocean Tide Loading on a Self‐Gravitating, Compressible, Layered, Anisotropic, Viscoelastic and Rotating Earth With Solid Inner Core and Fluid Outer Core.” Pagiatakis is currently a Research Fellow with the Geophysics Division of Energy, Mines and Resources in Ottawa.

Dr. Jaffé is senior associate dean, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York. This commentary is based on his chairman's address to the AAMC Council of Academic Societies' Spring Meeting, Orlando, Florida, March 1989.