61st Annual Symposium May 2 – 4, 2025
2025 SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM – click here
2025 SYMPOSIUM REGISTRATION
FOR THE 2025 SYMPOSIUM, REGISTRATION IS CLOSED. If you wish to attend, we will try our best but we may not be able to book accommodations or all meals. Please email CMMAFrank @ gmail dot com (remove spaces and replace “dot” with “.” ) and we will do our best to include you in the Symposium.
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SATURDAY AFTERNOON
Topic: CMMA 2025 Symposium: Ron Gibbs “Something New, Glycolate Minerals”
Time: May 3, 2025 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Meeting ID: 479 847 2459
Passcode 1212321
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4798472459?pwd=Z5hhSb0ByDO2hnKYehbXUo5pweMm9C.1&omn=89348268752
SATURDAY EVENING
Topic: CMMA 2025 Symposium: Dr. Robert M Hazen “Mineral evolution: the search for life’s origins and time’s second arrow”
Description Minerals tell the story of Earth. The 6000 known mineral species reveal dramatic increases in diversity and complexity through more than 4.5 billion years of our planet’s evolution. Minerals are now understood to have played key roles in the origins of Iife. The resulting co-evolution of life and minerals points to a surprising new law of nature and a second arrow of time.
Time: May 3, 2025 08:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Meeting ID: 479 847 2459
Passcode: 1212321
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4798472459?pwd=c64myXibxmVLMovAbLJfHJoEv0Tzqu.1&omn=88071723037
SUNDAY MORNING
Topic: CMMA 2025 Symposium: Dr. Robert M. Hazen “Mineral AI: Visualizing the amazing mineral kingdom”
Description Every mineral specimen holds remarkable amounts of physical and chemical information – each mineral is a time capsule waiting to be opened to reveal its history. New methods of artificial intelligence, coupled with large and growing mineral data resources, allow us detail Earth’s mineral evolution and predict the locations of new minerals for collectors and mining companies, alike.
Time: May 4, 2025 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Meeting ID: 479 847 2459
Passcode: 1212321
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4798472459?pwd=CzrbOg6RDeUjlZ5mI45RtfXNG57aZ6.1&omn=88115241244
MEET OUR FEATURED SPEAKERS:
Dr. Robert Hazen click here for full biography
Robert M. Hazen is Senior Staff Scientist at the Carnegie Institution’s Geophysical Laboratory and Clarence Robinson Professor of Earth Sciences at George Mason University. Hazen is author of more than 400 articles and 25 books on science, history, and music. His most recent book is The Story of Earth (Viking-Penguin), …
Ronald B. Gibbs click here for full biography
Ronald Gibbs has been collecting, identifying, preserving, photographing and sharing information and micromineral specimens with the mineral community for the last 50 years. During that period he has authored and co-authored …
Information on past symposia can be found here