Bjørn Thorleif Gunnar WandåsJust two weeks after returning home to Norway from Athens where he guided the assembly of the conference’s excellent technical programme, Bjørn Wandås died while on a ski trip on 3 March. He will be profoundly missed by colleagues not only on the Organising and Steering Committees but throughout the geoscience community. He will be remembered for his creative thinking (which helped lead to the discovery of the Goliath Field offshore Norway), his keen interest in making older geological data available and accessible and his tireless volunteering that led to the immense impact he made on the programme you will enjoy and learn from this November.
Bruce Lemmon