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CONFERENCE REPORTS
Karst Processes
and Carbon Cycle
April 26-30, 1997
Lipu, Guangxi, China
The symposium took place in the Fengyu Karst Resort in Lipu county, 120
km south of Guilin, Guangxi Province. The site is characterized by picturesque tower karst
developed on Upper Devonian limestone, which is backed by allogenic water from Yaoshan
Mt., a Lower Paleozoic non-carbonate basement of Caledonian Orogeny. A 5-km-long
underground stream cave system is developed under the stone peaks. Seventy-nine people
from Japan, Russia, USA, Vietnam and China attended the meeting. The 5-day symposium
included two days of paper presentation, half day of general discussion, and two and half
days of field excursion. In the opening ceremony, April 26, Mo Yanping, the Governor of
Lipu County made a warm welcome speech. Yuan Daoxian, the IGCP 379 project leader,
summarized the new development of the Project in the later part of 1996 and early 1997. Hu
Haitao, member of the Chinese Engineering Academy, gave a lecture on the modern trend of
environmental geology. The 125 page IGCP 379 Newsletter 1997 was given to every
participant.
Fire and the Paleoenvironment
April 12-13, 1997
University of Sheffield, UK
This conference emphasized the multi disciplinary nature of research
into fire in the paleoenvironment. Our intention was to have the first day devoted to
paper and poster presentations and the second day to workshops, dealing with specific
issues. We invited speakers from disciplines such as geology, geography, archaeology and
ethnographic. From our initial invitations, we were overwhelmed with offers of papers and
posters, all of extremely high quality, to the extent it was necessary to continue
presentations into the second day. Our workshops became thematic lunches. The program was
arranged around four discrete sessions: pre-Quaternary fire, charcoal taphonomy and
methodology, case studies and anthropogenic fire activity. There were a number of
international delegates, and there would have been far more, were it not for travel
funding constraints worldwide. The general feeling was that such a conference was long
overdue. The diverse fields of research led to friendly and informative discussions. Much
of the work presented was effectively "work in progress" with speakers actively
inviting comments. Significantly, the thematic lunchtime discussions were attended by most
of the delegates. We intend to publish contributions to the conference, and additional
papers. To contribute to the forthcoming publication, contact either Jenny Moore
(J.Moore@Sheffield.ac.uk) or Neil Rhodes (A.N.Rhodes@ Sheffield.ac.uk).
IXth International Palynological Congress
The Ninth International Palynological Congress (IPC) took place at the
J.W. Marriott Hotel in Houston, Texas, 23-28 June 1996. About 450 delegates convened from
all over the world and, for the first time officially, these included members of the
International Association of Aerobiologists‹this group having joined the
International Federation of Palynological Societies (IFPS), the IPC's sponsoring body,
only last year. The scientific sessions offered a rich menu, with topics ranging from the
geologically recent (e.g., "forensic palynology" and "aerobiology") to
the old (e.g., "cryptospores and the origins of terrestrial floras").
CANQUA '97
May 22-25, 1997
Montreal, Québec
The 8th biennial meeting of the Canadian Quaternary Association
(CANQUA) attracted 100 registrants from across Canada and the United States, and from
France, Finland, Sweden and the UK. In addition to General Quaternary Studies sessions,
the meeting featured four special sessions comprising: 1) The timing of the North American
glaciation; 2) remote sensing applied to paleogeomorphology; 3) deglaciation of the
Appalachians, from Pineo Ridge to St-Narcisse, and 4) dating the last million years, with
an invited presentation by H. Schwarcz, entitled "Dating Human Evolution, How and
Why?". Altogether 73 papers were presented, including 20 papers by students. The
Annual Banquet featured a keynote address on "Glacial and Quaternary Studies, Future
Challenges" delivered by William W. Shilts, Chief, Illinois State Geological Survey.
The W.A. Johnston Award, the highest recognition by CANQUA, was awarded to Nat W. Rutter
from the University of Alberta. Finally, student prizes for oral or poster presentation
went, respectively, to Duane Froese of the University of Calgary, and Andrew S. Stumpf of
the University of New Brunswick. The Field Trip was attended by 45 participants. Classical
localities of the St. Lawrence Lowlands' Pleistocene stratigraphy were visited, as well as
sites on deglacial features of the Appalachians and the Montreal area.
The meeting produced two publications, the "Programme and Abstracts", and the "Field guidebook", both available through Université de Montréal c/o Michel A. Bouchard, Département de géologie, P.O. Box 6128, Station Centre ville, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3J7. The Program is on a web page temporarily hosted at Université du Québec à Montréal at www.unites. uqam.ca/ ~sct/canqua97. We may post the Abstract Volume in the near future.
CANQUA held its Council Meeting and General Assembly. Gail Chmura of
McGill University was elected President of CANQUA for 1997-1999. The next Biennial meeting
of CANQUA will be held from August 22-25, 1999, in Calgary, Alberta.