The year 2004-05 was a great year for Logan Club. Several lectures on issues of current interest (e.g., the December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami) attracted audiences that were "standing room only", drawing attention from across the department of Natural Resources Canada as well as allied government agencies in the national capital. This resulted in articles on Logan Club, its history, and its current role in highlighting great scientific stories in the Earth sciences in ESS Staff News and the departmental newspaper The Source.

Logan Club was chaired by Drs. Wouter Bleeker and Andrée Blais-Stevens, with expert help of John A. Grant in maintaining the Logan Club internet site. The Web site , abstracts, and Logan Club announcements are now fully bilingual in both official languages. In addition, the following people volunteered their time, often on short notice, for translation of abstracts: Marc St-Onge, Benoît Dubé, Gilles Bellefleur, Simon Hanmer, Jean Bédard, Natasha Wodicka and David Corrigan.

We had ten speakers on a wide variety of subjects:

1. Katja Viventsova, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, on the environmental consequences of industrial development in northwest Russia.

2. Tim Patterson, Carleton University, on possible solar influence on climate and marine productivity

3. Nick Eyles, University of Toronto, on the causes of Neoproterozoic glaciations

4. Roy Hyndman, GSC Pacific, on the hot and weak tectonics of back-arc regions

5. John Clague, Simon Fraser University, on the effects and implications of the December 26 Indian Ocean tsunami
   (The Great Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster: Can It Happen Here?)

6. Randell Stephenson, Free University of Amsterdam, on tectonics of the eastern Mediterranean region

7. Herb Dragert, another colleague from the west coast, on the fascinating episodic tremor and slip on the Cascadia subduction zone
   (The Logan Club: Keeping the Spirit Alive)

8. Kevin Heather, a former GSC colleague now working in Chile, on the application of "GSC style systematic mapping" in mineral exploration in the high Andes

9. Jean Bédard, from the Québec office of the GSC, on formation of Archean crust by processes other than arc construction and accretion

10. And finally, Robert van der Hilst, MIT, one of the world's leading experts in seismic tomography, will speak in May on the spectacular advances this field has made in imaging our planet's deep interior, and the implications for our understanding of global tectonics.

All talks were well received, but those by Clague and Dragert, discussing active tectonic processes and their consequences on Canada's western margin, were definitely among the year's highlights. Plans are underway to reinstate an annual Logan Club dinner, perhaps with a great speaker on the spectacular results of the Mars rover missions and our rapidly evolving understanding of this close planetary neighbour. Finally, Dr. Don White and Barbara Medioli have agreed to take on the task of chairing Logan Club next year.

Wouter Bleeker & Andrée Blais-Stevens
May 2005