Each year, members of our Society gather for an annual meeting. This is often done at a location in North America or Canada, but on occasion we partner with colleagues elsewhere to take part in an international event.
Below is a list of previous Society meetings, with links to conference websites (and/or to the Program and Abstract volume) where available.
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Date and Location |
Theme/title |
Annual meeting & organising institution(s) |
CMS Annual Meeting No. |
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| July 25–29, 2022 Istanbul, Turkey | New Interfaces: Bridging Continents and Cultures with Clays | CMS-Turkish Clay Society: International Clay Conference | 59th |
| October 14–15, 2021 (Virtual) |
International Workshop (CMS) |
58th | |
| October 18–23, 2020 PNNL, Richland, Wa (virtual) |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting |
57th | |
| July 1-5, 2019 Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France |
International conference of clay science and technology | Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting with Euro Clay and the 6th Mediterranean Clay Meeting Dennis Eberl: The Marylin and Sturges W. Bailey Distinguished Member Award 2019 Memoir of an Illitist Colleen Hansel: Marion L. and Chrystie M. Jackson Mid-Career Clay Scientist Award How microbes break the cryptic manganese cycle to form manganese oxides Laurent Michot: Pioneer in Clay Science Lecturer Crystalline and osmotic swelling of clay minerals. Recent advances Bruno Lanson: George W. Brindley Clay Science Lecture Crystal structure of defective lamellar minerals and their X-ray identification: implications for reactivity |
56th |
| June 11-14, 2018 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting |
55th | |
| June 2-7, 2017 Centre for Oil Sands Sustainability, Edmonton, Canada | Living clays from nano-scale interactions to incorporation in everyday life |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting |
54th |
| June 5-8, 2016 GA State University, Atlanta, GA |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting |
53rd | |
| July 5-10, 2015 Edinburgh, Scotland | Euroclay
| Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting with Euroclay James Kirkpatrick: The Marylin and Sturges W. Bailey Distinguished Member Award 2015 NMR spectroscopy and computational molecular modeling of clay minerals Balwant Singh: Marion L. and Chrystie M. Jackson Mid-Career Clay Scientist Award Imperfect minerals can control soil fertility and geochemistry Reinhard Kleeberg: Pioneer in Clay Science Lecturer |
52nd |
| May 17-21, 2014 Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting |
51st | |
| October 6-10, 2013 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting |
50th | |
| July 7-11, 2012 Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado |
Shales and Imposters |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting |
49th |
| Sept 24-29, 2011 University of California (CA)/ Middlebury College |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting |
48th | |
| June 6-11, 2010 Seville, Spain |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting with the Clay Science Society of Japan and the Spanish Clay Society |
47th | |
| June 5-11, 2009 Billings, Montana |
Clays of the Big Sky |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting |
46th |
| April 6-10, 2008 New Orleans, Louisiana | Programme |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting with American Chemical Society |
45th |
| June 2-7, 2007 Santa Fe, New Mexico |
Enchanted Clays |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting |
44th |
| June 3-7, 2007 Oléron, France |
Bridging Clays |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting with French Clay Group |
43rd |
| 2005 Burlington, Vermont |
Green Mountain Clays |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting |
42nd |
| June 19-24, 2004 Richland, WA |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting |
41st | |
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2003 Athens, Georgia |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting |
40th | |
| June 8-13, 2002 Boulder, Colorado |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting |
39th | |
| 2001 Madison, Wisconsin
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Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting |
38th |
| 2000 Chicago, Illinois |
Clays in the Past and Future Millennia |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting |
37th |
| 1999 Purdue University, West Lafayette |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting |
36th | |
| June 6-11, 1998 Cleveland, Ohio |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting |
35th | |
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1997 Ottawa, Canada |
CMS-AIPEA joint meeting |
34th | |
| 1996 Gatlinburg, TN |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting |
33rd | |
| 1995 Baltimore, MD |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting |
32nd | |
| 1994 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting |
31st | |
| 1993 San Diego, California |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting |
30th | |
| 1992 Minneapolis |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting with Soil Science Society of America |
29th | |
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October 5-10, 1991 Houston, TX |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting |
28th | |
| October 6-11, 1990 Columbia, Missouri |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting with 39th Annual Clay Minerals Conference |
27th | |
| 1989 Sacramento, CA |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting with 38th Annual Clay Minerals Conference |
26th | |
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1988 Grand Rapids, Michigan |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting with 37th Annual Clay Minerals Conference |
25th | |
| 1987 Soccoro, New Mexico |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting with 36th Annual Clay Minerals Conference |
24th | |
| 1986 Jackson, Mississippi |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting with 35th Annual Clay Minerals Conference |
23rd | |
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1985 Denver, Colorado |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting with 34th Annual Clay Minerals Conference |
22nd | |
| 1984 Barton Rouge, LA |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting with 33rd Annual Clay Minerals Conference |
21st | |
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1983 Buffalo, NY |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting with 32nd Annual Clay Minerals Conference |
20th | |
| Aug 8-14, 1982 Hilo, Hawaii |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting with 31st Annual Clay Minerals Conference |
19th | |
| 1981 Champaign, IL |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting with 30th Annual Clay Minerals Conference |
18th | |
| 1980 Waco, TX |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting with 29th Annual Clay Minerals Conference |
17th | |
| 1979 Macon, GA |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting with 28th Annual Clay Minerals Conference |
16th | |
| 1978 University of Indiana, IN |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting with 27th Annual Clay Minerals Conference |
15th | |
| 1977 Kingston, Jamaica |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting with 26th Annual Clay Minerals Conference |
14th | |
| 1976 Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting with 25th Annual Clay Minerals Conference |
13th | |
| 1975 Mexico City, Mexico |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting with 24th Annual Clay Minerals Conference |
12th | |
| 1974 Case Western University, Cleveland, Ohio |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting with 23rd Annual Clay Minerals Conference |
11th | |
| 1973 Banff, Alberta, Canada |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting with 22nd Annual Clay Minerals Conference |
10th | |
| 1972 Falmouth, Massachusetts |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting with 21st Annual Clay Minerals Conference |
9th | |
| Aug 8-12, 1971 Rapid city, South Dakota
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Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting with 20th Annual Clay Minerals Conference |
8th | |
| 1970 Miami Beach, FL |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting with 19th Annual Clay Minerals Conference |
7th | |
| 1969 Dallas, Texas |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting with 18th Annual Clay Minerals Conference |
6th | |
| 1968 Bloomington, Indiana |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting with 17th Annual Clay Minerals Conference |
5th | |
| 1967 Denver, Colorado |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting with 16th Annual Clay Minerals Conference |
4th | |
| 1966 Melon Institute |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting with 15th Annual Clay Minerals Conference |
3rd | |
| 1965 Berkley, CA |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting with 14th Annual Clay Minerals Conference |
2nd | |
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1964 Madison, WS |
Annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting with 13th Annual Clay Minerals Conference |
1st | |
| 1963 Atlanta, GA |
12th National Conference of Clays and Clay Minerals | ||
| 1961 University of Texas, Austin, TX |
10th National Conference of Clays and Clay Minerals | ||
| October 5-8, 1960 Purdue University, Lafayette, IN |
9th National Conference of Clays and Clay Minerals | ||
| 1959 University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
8th National Conference of Clays and Clay Minerals | ||
| 1958 Washington, D.C. |
7th National Conference of Clays and Clay Minerals | ||
| 1957 University of California at Berkley, CA |
6th National Conference of Clays and Clay Minerals | ||
| 1956 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL |
5th National Conference of Clays and Clay Minerals | ||
| 1955 Penn State University, PA |
4th National Conference of Clays and Clay Minerals | ||
| 1954 Rice Institute |
3rd National Conference of Clays and Clay Minerals | ||
| 1953 University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri |
2nd National Conference of Clays and Clay Minerals | ||
| 1952 University of California at Berkley |
1st National Conference of Clays and Clay Minerals |