Report of the Executive Director
The Canadian Geoscience Council continued to be housed in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Waterloo during 1995. The Executive Director was responsible for all mailings that went out to Council members, and handling letters, faxes, e-mail and phone calls of inquiry from Council members and the public. Sandra Fogarty, CGC part-time secretary, continues to keep the CGC office running smoothly, handling most of the correspondence, assisting with information gathering, and maintaining up-to-date lists of members and committees. Contact with the American Geological Institute (CGC's counterpart in the United States) continues. As with the previous years, conflicting schedules did not allow the AGI's Executive Director to attend any of CGC's meetings and similar conflicts prevented the Executive Director of the CGC from attending any of the AGI meetings.
Council met on three occasions during 1995; in Ottawa on January 15 (87th meeting), a meeting which closed with the Annual Business Meeting of Council; in Victoria on May 16 (88th meeting), held in conjunction with the GAC and MAC Joint Annual Meeting; and in Saskatoon on September 10 (89th meeting). Members of the Executive were able to continue their tradition of holding a joint discussion session with the senior administrators of the Geological Survey of Canada at the Ottawa meeting.
Representatives of the various societies kept Council informed of their own Society developments during the various meetings. Their reports are presented later in this booklet. Council members were also kept informed of developments in Canadian geoscience activities by members of the Geological Survey of Canada, Committee of Provincial Geologists, Council of Chairmen of Canadian Earth Science Departments, Canadian Geoscience Education Network, Professional Registration Committee, LITHOPROBE, Ocean Drilling Project, Continental Drilling Program, CNC - International Union of Geological Sciences, Global Sedimentary Geology Program, Committee on Future Trends in Geosciences and the American Geological Institute.
Mario Coniglio
Structure and Members of the 1995 Canadian Geoscience Council (In Preparation)