The October 2016 (v101n10) American Mineralogist issue is online. The Sept-Oct double print issue will be in the mails shortly. Among the articles is the invited Centennial article on temporal histories of Cordilleran continental arcs. Access to online MSA publications, including American Mineralogist, at www.msapub.org. Select the appropriate link based on your member or institution's subscription. If your institution subscribes to GeoScienceWorld (GSW), we ask that you preferentially use the GSW link. Likewise, DeGruyter subscribers should use the DeGruyter link . The twelve (12) issues of the 2016 American Mineralogist will publish monthly online. The print version will publish six times a year, each containing two numbers. Members have access to the journal included as part of their membership! Preprints of American Mineralogist Papers in Press are now available to everyone. Book reviewers wanted: information Award Announcements MSA Council decided on the 2017 award recipients at its 2016 Council Meeting in Denver, CO, USA. The Roebling Medal is awarded to Edward M. Stolper of California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA; the Dana Medal to Thomas W. Sisson of the U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, USA; the MSA Award to Dustin Trail, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA; and the Distinguished Public Service Award to David W. Mogk, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA. Fellows newly elected for 2017 are Jay J. Ague, Bernardo Cesare, Elizabeth Anna Cottrell, Glenn A. Gaetani, Tomoo Katsura, Yan Liang, Wendy R. Panero, James Kelley Russell, Sean R. Shieh, and Michael J. Walter. The 2017 recipients for the research grants in mineralogy and petrology from MSA's Mineralogy/Petrology Research Fund are: Allan Lerner, University of Oregon, Eugene OR, USA for his study Developing a Volcanic Degassing Model for Mount St. Helens Volcano and Jessica Hamilton, Monash University, Melbourne VIC, Australia for her study Enhancing mineralogical trapping of CO2 within ultramafic mine tailings material. The 2017 recipient for the research grant in crystallography from the Edward H. Kraus Crystallographic Research Fund is Gabriela Aylin Farfan, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole MA, USA for Probing coral aragonite crystallography under changing ocean conditions using synchrotron-based Ca-EXAFS. New Publications Rocks & Minerals September/October 2016 is online including articles on mimetite and vanadinite from Central Iran, exceptional volkovskite crystals, and crystal faces on etched crystals. Meetings 2016 Mineralogical Society of America and Geochemical Society Short Course: Measurements, Theories and applications of non-traditional stable isotopes, 10-11 December 2016, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA, USA. Organizers Fang-Zhen Teng, James Watkins, and Nicolas Dauphas. Description, Online Registration, Print Registration. 2017 GSA Annual Meeting & Exposition, Seattle, WA, USA, 22-25 October. Deadlines for field trip proposals (1 December 2016), technical sessions and short courses (1 February 2017), and abstracts (1 August 2017). 2016 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA December 12-16, 2016. The 2016 Dana Medal will be presented to Sumit Chakraborty of Ruhr Universitaet Bochum during the VGP-MSA-GS Joint Reception. Mineralogical Society of America 3635 Concorde Pkwy Ste 500 - Chantilly VA 20151-1110 - USA Tel: +1 (703) 652-9950 - Fax: +1 (703) 652-9951 e-mail: business@minsocam.org - Internet: www.minsocam.org