GIA’s 68th Gemstone Gathering

“News & Research and Gem Encyclopedia: The New GIA Website”
 
By

Duncan Pay

Director of Course Development, Gemological Institute of America

Venue:    The Crowned Room 1-3, 21st Floor, Crowne Plaza Bangkok Lumpini Park
Date:       Wednesday, 24 April 2013
Time:       6.00 pm. – 9.00 pm.
Contact:  GIA Laboratory Bangkok 662 632 4090 or GIA Thailand Campus 662 632 4590
Website:  www.giathai.net

About Duncan Pay

Duncan Pay is Editor in Chief of GIA’s Gemological Journal, Gems & Gemology. He is also responsible for overall planning and strategy for GIA’s gemological education courses and programs. Duncan has a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from the University of Wales, Great Britain. He is a Fellow (FGA), of the Gemological Association of Great Britain (Gem-A) and won that association’s award—the Tully Medal—for outstanding distance education student of 1987. He also holds GIA’s Graduate Gemologist Diploma (GG). He has more than 13 years’ experience in the jewelry industry, from retail sales of jewelry and gemological instruments, to jewelry manufacturing and colored stone buying and wholesaling. He was previously developed education courses for the Asian Institute of Gemological Sciences in Bangkok, Thailand. Duncan joined GIA in 1998. In 2000, he became director of Course Development, where he supervised development of course materials for GIA’s gemology programs, before becoming Editor in Chief of G & G in 2013.

Content

The News & Research and gem encyclopedia sections of GIA’s new website www.gia.edu launch. The online version of our journal, Gems & Gemology, will be at the center of the News & Research section. Users will have unrestricted access to every G&G issue back to the journal’s inception in January 1934—full articles, Gem News International, Lab Notes-all the regular features.  That’s easy access to almost 80 years of ground-breaking gemological knowledge. In addition, we’re adding many new article types, like short columns, and field reports to enable more rapid updates. We are adding a gem encyclopedia, which we aim to build into the leading online resource for gemstone information for all users.  This is an exciting time as GIA has the largest cadre of talented research scientists and most extensive network of labs and research centers in its history. The topics of their investigations have never been wider—or more challenging. The new website will document their discoveries in more exciting and engaging ways than ever before, so join Duncan Pay as he outlines all the new website’s rich content and explains the Institute’s aims and objectives in this exciting new endeavor.