Colleagues – The 5th biennial North American Workshop on Laser Ablation (NAWLA) (https://www.nawlaworkshop.com/) will be held at The University of Tennessee in Knoxville TN (USA) from Tuesday June 3rd to Thursday June 5th, 2025. Contributed abstracts for oral and poster presentations are welcome on topics related to Geo- & Bio-Analysis including Geo- & Bio-imaging, Advances in Geochronology and Isotope Geochemistry, Calibration Strategies and Reference Materials, New Instruments/Methods, and Applications of LA Methods to Geology, Biology, Environmental Science, Archeology, Anthropology, Forensics, Material Science Abstracts must be submitted from the NAWLA website (https://www.nawlaworkshop.com/abstract-and-poster-submission) by 11:59pm on April 11, 2025 The Early-Bird registration deadline is April 30, 2025. Pre- and post-workshop activities will be held in conjunction with NAWLA: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, located nearby, will hold a separate ORNL facilities tour and workshop (https://www.nawlaworkshop.com/) on Monday June 2nd. On Friday June 6th, a separate workshop on Reference Material Development for Common-Pb-Mineral U-Th-Pb Geochronology (https://www.nawlaworkshop.com/geochron-friday) will be held at The University of Tennessee. It will be hosted by Paul Sylvester (Texas Tech Univ) and Kate Souders (USGS/Denver) and sponsored by an award from the AGeS3-TRaCE program supported by the National Science Foundation. Contributed oral and poster presentations documenting promising reference materials are encouraged. The convenors will contact potential presenters to discuss follow-up details to build the workshop program beginning April 21st. Hope to see you in Knoxville! Paul Sylvester Professor and Endowed Pevehouse Chair Department of Geosciences Texas Tech University 125 Science Building Lubbock TX 79409-1053 USA E-mail: paul.sylvester@ttu.edu phone: 806-834-5091