Meetings

Geological Society of America Joint Annual Meeting: Celebrating the International Year of Planet Earth

5-9 October 2008. Houston, Texas, George R. Brown Convention Center

The 2008 Joint Meeting of The Geological Society of America, American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies with the Gulf Coast Section of SEPM. Hosted by the Houston Geological Society

Registration deadlines: Early Bird: 14 July 2008. Standard: 15 July – 2 September 2008. Abstracts: 3 June 2008.

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CANQUA/CGRG Conference Announcement

The Canadian Quaternary Association (CANQUA) 2009 organizing committee would like to invite you all to Simon Fraser University from May 3 to May 8th for the biennial conference. This will be a joint meeting with the Canadian Geomorphology Research Group (CGRG). We are planning a number of exciting field trips including a CGRG sponsored pre-conference trip to the interior of British Columbia to explore glacial history and paleo-ice sheet dynamics, a post conference trip to the Channeled Scabland in northwestern United States, and a number of 1-day mid-conference trips. We are also planning a 1 day short course to be given by Dr. John Gosse on the application of terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides to Quaternary research. Please mark May 3–8, 2009 on your calendar as we plan on having an informative and exciting meeting.

Brent Ward and John Clague co-chairs. Core Organizing committee: Tracy Brennand, Gwenn Flowers, Lionel Jackson, Olav Lian, Dan Shugar, Jeremy Venditti

Climate of the Past

"Climate of the Past" (CP) is open access, on-line journal of the European Geosciences Union, affiliated with the Climate division. This journal is free, and you can download anything you want. Page charges are very low. CP was launched in June 2005 and will receive its fist impact factor this coming summer. -- Denis-Didier Rousseau, co-editor in chief

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PAGES 3rd Open Science Meeting and PAGES 1st Young Scientists Meeting: Retrospective Views on our Planet's Future

8-11 July 2009, Corvallis, Oregon

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