The 55th Annual Meeting of the Clay Minerals Society will be held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on June 11-14, 2018. This meeting includes a field trip to the Intensively Managed Landscapes (IML) Critical Zone Observatory. For more information on this meeting, please visit http://conferences.illinois.edu/cms/index.html. 

Paul Schroeder (University of Georgia) will be organizing a thematic session "Intensively Managed Clays in the Critical Zone." Find more thematic sessions here.

Important Dates

• February 1, 2018  Registration and Abstract Submission Open
• April 6, 2018  Deadline for Abstract Submission and Early Registration
• February 1 - June 10, 2018  Online Registration
   
• June 9, 2018  Workshop on Medicinal Applications of Clay Minerals by Professor Jin-ho Choy, Ewha Womans University
• June 10, 2018  Field Trip to Starved Rock State Park, Oglesby, Illinois
• June 11, 2018 Meeting Begins
• June 11 & June 13, 2018 Social Program: Abraham Lincoln Sites, Springfield, Illinois and Amish Tour, Arthur, Illinois
• June 12, 2018  Field Trip to Critical Zone Observatory
• June 14, 2018  Field Trip to the Fithian Illite, Fithian, Illinois
• June 14, 2018 Meeting Ends