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March 29 - April 2, 2005
Naracoorte, SA, Australia

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“The World of Elephants”
Hot Springs, South Dakota, USA September 22-25,  2005

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Conference Announcements

Australasian Archaeometry
February 10-13, 1997
Sydney, Australia
Contact: Conference Manager; ainse@ ansto. gov.au

Archaeometry Workshop
February 22-23, 1997
University of Buffalo
Contact: Phillip Mitchell, pcm@acsu. buffalo.edu

27th Arctic Workshop
February 27-March 2, 1997
University of Ottawa
The meeting will cover all aspects of the arctic environment, past and present, including climate, geomorphology, hydrology, glaciology, soils, ecology, oceanography and Quaternary history. There will also be an introductory-level hands-on workshop on the potential uses of GIS for Arctic research. Financial assistance is available for graduate student presenters from the National Science Foundation. Graduate students who give a presentation will receive support. Contact: John Andrews, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder CO; andrewsj@spot. Colorado.edu Information: Antoni Lewkowicz, Chair, Organizing Committee, 27th Arctic Workshop, Department of Geography, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5 Canada; 613-562-5704; fax:-5145; alewkowi@uottawa.ca; updates on: www.science.uottawa.ca/arctic97

Tidewater Glaciers
February 28-March 2, 1997
Columbus, Ohio
This workshop is designed to review the current state of knowledge, and to identify important questions and problems, relating to the flow and behavior of tidewater glaciers, and how these problems are best addressed. The three day workshop will be held at a conference facility close to Columbus. Contact: Kees van der Veen, Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210; 614-292-6704; fax: -4697; vanderveen.1@osu.edu

Commission on Paleoclimate, INTER INQUA colloquium
March 29-April 1, 1997
Ankara, Turkey
The INQUA working group of the Paleoclimate Commission is holding a two-day meeting on "Vegetation successions at the scale of the Milankovitch cycles in between 2.6 and 0.9 Ma", including one special training afternoon. It is preceded by a two-day field trip. The colloquium goals are to inform the community about new possibilities for the interpretation of Plio-Pleistocene sections using cyclostratigraphy and to instigate detailed palaeoenvironmental paleoclimatic reconstructions. Preference will be given to papers giving new high resolution data, revising old interpretations and reviewing the recent progresses made in cyclostratigraphy. It is not limited to palynology provided that detailed palaeoenvironmental data from continuous sections are presented. The "Milankovitch" meeting will overlap with the "Holocene" symposium organized by N. Roberts (c.n.roberts@ lboro.ac.uk) on April 1, 1997. Mostly archaeological papers will be presented. Contact: Suzanne Leroy, Centre for Palaeoecology, School of Geosciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, N. Ireland; +44-1232-335-143; fax:-321-280; s.leroy@qub.ac.uk

Holocene of the Mediterranean region
April 1-4, 1997, Ankara, Turkey
International Symposium organized on behalf of the INQUA Subcommission for the study of the Holocene, to discuss recent research on Palaeoenvironmental Change in the Eastern Mediterranean Region since the Last Glacial Maximum.
Contact: Neil Roberts, Department of Geography, Loughborough University, LE11 3TU, U.K. fax +44-1509-223-930; C.N.Roberts@lboro.ac.uk; info.lboro.ac.uk/departments/gy/INQUA symposium

Association of American Geographers
April 1-5, 1997
Fort Worth, Texas
Sessions include historical channel and hillslope erosion and sedimentation, sediment transport in fluvial systems, soils in cultural contexts, cosmogenic nuclides, and drylands. Abstract deadline was August 22, 1996. Contact: Jon Harbor, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1397; 317-494-9610; jharbor@geo.purdue.edu

Society for
American Archaeology
April 2-6, 1997; Nashville, TN
Annual Meeting. Contact: SAA, 900 Second Street NE, Suite 12, Washington, D.C. 20002; 202-789- 8200.

Computer Applications & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology
April 10-13, 1997
The University of Birmingham
25th Anniversary Conference. Information: www.bufau.bham.ac.uk/caa97/ caa97.html

Geochemistry
and Archaeology
April 13-17, 1997; San Francisco
A symposium on Geochemistry and Archaeology at the American Chemical Society Spring Symposium. Contact: Richard Evershed; r.p.evershed@ bristol.ac.uk

Conference on Paleoglaciology
April 30-May 6,1997
University of Wisconsin-Madison
The North-Central Section Meeting of the Geological Society of America (GSA), the Midwest Glaciology Meeting (MGM) and an INQUA Commission on Glaciation meeting will be hosted by the Department of Geology and Geophysics and the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey. The focus of a GSA symposium, two field trips, and a half- to one-day session of MGM will be paleoglaciology. Papers should focus either on applications of modern glacier studies to reconstruction of Pleistocene glaciers or reconstruction of past glaciological conditions as deduced from the glacial geologic record. Contact: Dave Mickelson, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Weeks Hall, 1215 West Dayton St., Madison, WI 53706; 608 262-7863; fax:-0693;
mickelson@geology.wisc.edu

Soil, Human, and Environment Interactions
May 4-14, 1997; Nanjing, China
Sponsored by International Soil Science Society and Chinese Academy of Sciences. Themes include soil resource conservation and sustainable development; soil degradation; land use and environment changes; and soil restoration. Contact: Yongguan Zhu; zhaoqg@ njnet.ihep.ihep.ac.cn

Geological
Association of Canada
May 19-21, 1997; Ottawa
Annual Meeting

CANQUA 97
May 22-24,1997
Montreal, Quebec
The Canadian Quaternary Association is holding its 8th Biennial Meeting in Montreal. A post-meeting field trip through the Eastern Townships and the Quebec Appalachians will be offered May 25-26. In addition to general oral and poster sessions on Quaternary Research, the meeting will host five special sessions:

Archeology, Environment and Native Knowledge. Convener: Daniel Gendron, Avataq Institute; avataq@infobahnos. com

Remote Sensing applied to Paleogeomorphology. Convener: James Gray, Universite de Montreal; grayj@ ere.umontreal.ca

Dating the Last Million Years. Convener: Michel Lamothe, UQAM; lamothe. michel@uqam.ca

Deglaciation of the Appalachians and the St-Lawrence Lowlands: from Pineo Ridge to St-Narcisse. Convener: Gilbert Prichonnet, UQAM; prichonnet.gilbert@ uqam.ca

Timing of the North American Glaciations. Conveners: Michel A. Bouchard, Universite de Montreal and Serge Occhietti, UQAM; bouchami@ ere.umontreal.ca, occhietti.serge.uqam.ca
The abstract deadline is February 15, 1997. Contact: Michel A. Bouchard, Chairman of the Organizing Committee, CANQUA 97; 514-343-6821; fax: -5782, bouchami@ere.umontreal.ca

Soils, Geomorphology, and Archaeology
May 22-24, 1997; Luray, Virginia
Abstracts are due Feb 15, 1997. Contact: Joan Walker, Thunderbird Archeological Assoc. Inc, 26 Wolfe St. #2, Winchester, VA 22601; 540-667-9708; fax: -9709.

Changing Water
Regimes in Drylands
June 9 - 13, 1997
Granlibakken Conference Center, Lake Tahoe, California
Contact: Nicholas Lancaster, Desert Research Institute, Reno NV 89512; 702 673-7304; nick@maxey.dri.edu; or www.dri.edu

Late Quaternary
Coastal Tectonics
June 18-19, 1997
Geological Society of London, Burlington House, London, UK
This international conference will focus on the application of high-resolution coastal chronologies to the testing and refining of crustal models at local, regional and global scales. Both oral and poster presentations are welcome, and a conference volume is planned. The abstract deadline is January 1, 1997. The conference will be followed by a 3-day field trip examining Late Quaternary coastal tectonics in Scotland. Contact: Iain Stewart, Brunel University, Borough Road, Isleworth TW7 5DU, UK; 44-181 891-0121; fax: -8237; iain.stewart@ brunel.ac.uk Contact: Prof. Claudio Vita-Finzi, University College London, Gower Street, London W1E 6BT, UK; 44-171-387-7050 x2383; fax: -388-7614; ucfbcvf@ ucl.ac.uk

Micromorphology of Glacigenic Sediments
June 22-27, 1997
Ontario, Canada
A Technical Workshop to examine the making, description and interpretation of thin sections of glacigenic sediments will be held at Brock University. Request information by March 17th from: Prof. J. Menzies, Department of Geography & Earth Sciences, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1, Canada; fax: 905-688-6369; jmenzies@ spartan.ac.brocku.ca

Southern Hemi-
sphere Glaciers
July 1-2, 1997
Melbourne, Australia
The International Snow and Ice Commission. Abstract deadline: December 2, 1996. Contact: IAMAS/IAPSO Secretariat; mscarlett@peg.apc.org; www.dar. csiro.au/pub/events/assemblies

SASQUA
July 1997
Rhodes University
The 1997 SASQUA conference will be held at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, probably in July. Contact: Colin Lewis, Geography Department, Rhodes University, PO Box 94, Grahamstown 6140; GGCL@worthog.ru.ac.za

International Geomorphology Conference
August 28-31, 1997
Bologna, Italy
The program of the Conference is structured as follows: Main Lectures: 3-4 invited lectures on some topical themes; Sessions: 1) Fluvial, 2) Littoral and Submarine, 3) Glacial, 4) Periglacial, 5) Arid and Subarid, 6) Tropical, 7) Tectonic, 8) Volcanic, 9) Applied 10) Weathering and Soils, 11) Karst, 12) Theoretical Geomorphology.
Symposia: up to six symposia will be organized on the themes proposed below or suggested in the preliminary form: a) Geomorphology and Global Change, b) Landslide management, c) Antarctic Geomorphology, d) Man landscape interactions, e) Geomorphology and Environmental Impact Assessment, f) Holocene and sea level changes, g) Magnitude and frequency in Geomorphology, h) New methods and tools in Geomorphology, i) Geomorphology and Global Tectonics, l) G.I.S. in Geomorphology, m) Volcanoes and Geomorphology
Meetings with field trips: pre Conference, strictly thematic and related to Commissions, Working Groups, etc., belonging to International Associations; Excursions: they are both pre- and post Conference and will be polythematic. A day during the Conference will be dedicated to local excursions (Venice, Florence, Ravenna, Bologna and its surroundings).

Baltic Sea Coast
Glacial Geology
September 7-12, 1997
University of Kiel, Germany
The Peribaltic Group of the INQUA Commission on Glaciation organizes a Field Symposium on glacial geology, sedimentology, geomorphology and stratigraphy of the coastal zone between Kiel and the Isle of Rugen. The Symposium will include one day of paper and poster sessions, and five full days of excursion. We will examine exposures in glacial, primarily Weichselian, deposits along the Baltic Sea coast and discuss sedimentary environments and glaciodynamic processes there. The emphasis will be on subglacial processes and reconstruction of the ice sheet behavior from a whole range of sediment facies and landforms including drumlins, eskers and end moraines. Among others, spectacular glaciotectonic deformations on Rugen, waterlaid and subglacial diamictons at Danischer Wohld, shelly Eemian marine clays at Stohl, outwash-cored drumlins at Schonhorst and Wandelwitz, boulder pavement at Heiligenhafen will be shown. Register no later than 15 January, 1997. Contact: Jan A. Piotrowski, Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, University of Kiel, Olshausenstr. 40-60, D-24118 Kiel, Germany; +49-0-431-880- 2878; fax: 4376; noe57@rz.uni-kiel.d400.de

African Palynology
September 7-13, 1997
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Third symposium of African Palynology to be held under the auspices of the International Association for African Palynology. Contact: Ann Cadman; fax: +27-11-403-1423; 106caa@cosmos.wits. ac.za.

Biotic Recoveries
from Mass Extinctions
September 12-14, 1997
Prague, Czech Republic
Final meeting of the UNESCO IGCP Project 335 "Biotic Recoveries from Mass Extinctions". In the history of the Earth (including the recent), numerous events of ecosystem collapses occurred that were followed by recoveries and origination of new ecosystems. The project aims to be a platform for the study of survival and recovery of the biosphere, and restructuring of global environments, following mass extinctions. The meeting should bring together palaeobiologists, palaeontologists, biologists, ecologists, systems theorists, and other persons. Contact: Petr Cejchan and Jindrich Hladil, Geological Institute, Academy of Sciences, Rozvojova 135, CZ 165 02 Praha 6 Lysolaje, Czech Republic.

National Archaeo-
metry Congress
September 16-19, 1997
Zaragoza,Spain
This conference aims to bring together scientists involved in archaeometrical investigation. An update on different aspects of research concerning the archaeometry in Spain will be presented. Symposium topics will include prospection, dating of organic and inorganic materials, prospection and material characterization. Contact: Josefina Perez Arantegui, Dpto. Quimica Analitica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Zaragoza, Pl.San Francisco, s/n, 50009 - ZARAGOZA; +34-76-76-1000; fax: 1292; jperez@msf.unizar.es

Rocky Mountain Anthropological Conference
Sept. 18-21,1997
Bozeman, Montanna
Contact: Ken Cannon, National Park Service, Midwest Archaeological Center, Federal Bldg., Room 474, 100 Centennial Mall, Licoln, NE 68508 3873; 402-437-5392, ext. 139; fax:-5098

Geological Society
of America
October 20-23, 1997
Salt Lake City, Utah
Annual Meeting. Contact: GSA, 3300 Penrose Place, Boulder, CO 80301; 303 447-2020; fax:-1133

International Symposium on 14C Archaeology
April 6-10, 1998; Lyon, France
The themes for the Third International Symposium on C-14 and Archaeology will be dating series and chronologies of transitional periods and applications of radiocarbon to historical studies from various parts of the world. Contact: Jacques Evin, CDRC, 43 Bld de 11 Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France; fax: +33-7243-1317; cdrc14@cismsun.univ-lyon1.fr

XV INQUA Congress
August 4-12, 1999;
Durban, South Africa
"Africa, Cradle of Humankind During the Quaternary". Contact: T.C. Partridge, Climatology Research Center, University of the Witwatersrand, 13 Cluny Road, Forest Town, Johannesburg 2193, South Africa; +27-11-646-3324; fax: -486 1689; 141tcp@cosmos.wits.ac.za