PAGES 3rd Open Science Meeting and PAGES 1st Young Scientists Meeting: Retrospective Views on our Planet's Future
6-7 and 8-11 July 2009, Corvallis, Oregon
The Young Scientists Meeting is being held from 6-7
July 2009 at Oregon State University in Corvallis, USA. The aim is to support
the development of young paleoscientists by providing the opportunity to advance
their scientific skills and to build international networks among colleagues
at a similar career level, as well as with leading senior scientists and program
representatives.
ELIGIBILITY The YSM is open on a competitive basis to approx.
70 outstanding early-career researchers who meet the following criteria: Age – usually
under 35 Career status – PhD students - usually in the latter stages of their
degree – Post-PhD - usually within 5 years of completing their degree - Scientific
scope – paleoscientists (data-based or modelers) or global change scientists
with a strong, proven interest in paleoscience. Some travel support will be available.
PAGES 3rd Open Science Meetings is being held directly afterwards, from 8-11
July, also at Oregon State University. The theme for PAGES 3rd Open Science Meeting
(OSM) is “Retrospective views on our planet's future.”
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7th International Conference on Geomorphology (ANZIAG) “ancient landscapes – modern perspectives”
Melbourne, Australia, July 6-11, 2009
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21st Biennial Meeting of AMQUA
Laramie, Wyoming, August 13-15, 2010
The University of Wyoming in Laramie is pleased to host the 21st Biennial Meeting
of the American Quaternary Association (AMQUA) in early August 2010. Plenary
sessions will take place Friday 13 August through Sunday 15 August, with a half-day
interlude on Saturday for entertainment and short hikes in the Veedauwoo Recreation
Area of the Medicine Bow National Forest, a 20-minute drive from campus.
A 1-day pre-meeting field trip is planned for Thursday, 12 August, which will
feature geology, ecology, and archeology of the Laramie Basin (ca. 2200 m elevation)
and adjacent Snowy Mountains (summit 3300 m). The field trip will focus on a
variety of paleoenvironmental archives and proxies, including geomorphic (permafrost
features, mima mounds, dunefields, cirques, moraines), sedimentary (lakes, playas,
and peatlands), and biological (tree-rings, fire scars, middens). A 2-day post-meeting
field trip (16-17 August) will tour North Park, Middle Park, and the Front Range,
with emphasis on geomorphology, paleoecology, and archeology.
Laramie has modest regional air service (3-4 flights/day to and from Denver,
all planes small (19-seaters). Cheyenne (50 miles east) also has regular air
service to Denver. Denver International Airport (DIA) is a 2-hour drive from
Laramie. Car rentals are available at all three airports, and shuttle service
will be available from the Laramie airport.
Local sponsors for the meeting include the Departments of Anthropology, Botany,
Geography, and Geology & Geophysics, the George C. Frison Institute of Anthropology
and Archeology, the Program in Ecology, the Robert and Carol Berry Biodiversity
and Conservation Center, the Roy J. Shlemon Center for Quaternary Studies, the
Wyoming State Climate Office, and the Wyoming Water Resources Data System.
We hope you'll be able to join us next summer for an exciting meeting. There
is no better place to be than Wyoming during August!
Local Planning Committee:
2009 Friends of the Pleistocene Initial Announcement – Great Basin, Nevada
Title: Earthquake Geology and Alluvial Fan Stratigraphy along US Highway 50, Great Basin, Nevada: A Late Pleistocene Regional Extension Rate
Date: Although a firm date has not been set, a late September early October time frame is anticipated.
Further details will be disseminated through the FOP email list as they develop and eventually posted on a web site that is expected to be up and running later this spring. At the present time, please direct questions to Rich Koehler through email: Koehler@seismo.unr.edu.
International Conference “Soil Geography: New Horizons”
Huatulco Santa Cruz, Oaxaca, Mexico, 16-20 of November 2009
Micromorphology for paleopedological and geoarchaeological research
November 25-29, Institute of Geology, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
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