Registration
Meeting Registration Fees
NOTE: If you are a student who is currently not a member of the CMS, please consider joining the Society for only $35 per year! By becoming a student member, you will save at least $100 towards your conference registration. If you are a non-member professional, joining the society will save you $175 in registration fees. A professional membership fee is only $95/yr. Click here for more information about becoming a member.
Early Registration Fees: On or Before April 6, 2018, extended to April 13, 2018
If you are not a US citizen and your visa application is pending, you may select "check" or "wire transfer" as your method of payment so you may complete your registration. Payment may be made after your visa has been approved. If you are not able to get a visa, your registration can be cancelled without a penalty.
Professional Registration
CMS Member: $400Non-Member: $575
One-Day: $250
Student Registration
CMS Member: $200Non-Member: $300
One-Day: $200
Registration Fees: After April 13, 2018
Professional Registration
CMS Member: $500Non-Member: $675
One-Day: $250
Student Registration
CMS Member: $300Non-Member: $400
One-Day: $200
Workshop Fees
Early Registration Fees: On or Before April 6, 2018 extended to April 13, 2018
Professional Workshop Registration
CMS Member: $195Non-member: $295
Student Workshop Registration
CMS Member: $145Non-member: $200
Registration Fees: After April 13, 2018
Professional Workshop Registration
CMS Member: $225Non-member: $325
Student Workshop Registration
CMS Member: $175Non-member: $230
Field Trip Fees
Sunday, June 10: Starved Rock and Matthiessen State Parks
On or beforeProfessional Registration: $100
Student Registration: $65
Guest Registration: $100
After April 13, 2018
Professional Registration: $125
Student Registration: $75
Guest Registration: $125
Sunday, June 10: Kaolinite in the Keokuk Geodes
Professional Registration: $125Student Registration: $125
Guest Registration: $125
The registration fee includes: roundtrip transportation; lunch, snacks, and drinks; a maximum of one 5 gallon bucket of geodes; field guide; safety gear and digging tools
If you want us to provide a special meal (vegetarian, gluten-free, kosher, etc), please contact the field trip organizer at freiburg@illinois.edu at least 3 weeks before the field trip event.
We will leave at 7am and return by 6pm. The bus ride is approximately 3 hours one way. The trip will occur rain or shine. Please bring insect repellant and sunscreen. There will a 300-500 ft hike from the tour bus to the collecting outcrop. Digging for geodes can be very laboring. For easier collecting, we will have some of the outcrop "loosened" before the dig. Be prepared to get dirty.
Tuesday, June 12: Critical Zone Observatory
On or beforeProfessional Registration: $45
Student Registration: $35
Guest Registration: $45
After April 13, 2018
Professional Registration: $65
Student Registration: $45
Guest Registration: $65
Thursday, June 14: Fithian Illite and Morrow Plots
On or beforeProfessional Registration: $40
Student Registration: $25
Guest Registration: $40
After April 13, 2018
Professional Registration: $60
Student Registration: $35
Guest Registration: $60
Social Program Fees
Monday, June 11 - Amish Tour: $60Wednesday, June 13 - Springfield Lincoln Sites: $60
Cancellations
If you register for the meeting and find you cannot attend, a refund less a 10% cancellation fee, will be made if you notify Scott Randall at svrandal@illinois.edu by May 18, 2018. No refunds will be issued after May 18, but you may send someone in your place.