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Next AMQUA Biennial Meeting Puerto Vallarta, Mexico September 5-7, 1998

Make your plans for Mexico in '98! The 1998 biennial AMQUA meeting features an exciting theme, a very attractive venue, an opportunity to visit world famous archeological, geological, and biological sites with expert scientific guides, and a chance to meet new North American colleagues. The 15th Biennial AMQUA Meeting will be held September 5-7, 1998 in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, hosted by Union Mexicana para Estudios del Cuaternario. The site of the meeting will be the Hotel Krystal Vallarta, which is offering very reasonable rates for meeting participants.

Highly appropriate to the venue, the theme of the meeting is Northern Hemisphere Southern Hemisphere Interconnections. A major source of uncertainty in global change research relates to the interconnections between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Consequently, much current research is focused on these interconnections. PANASH (Paleoclimates of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres) project and, more specifically for the Western Hemisphere, the PEP I (Pole Equator-Pole) project are directed towards these north-south interconnections. These efforts are part of a core program under the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) called Past Global Changes (PAGES). More information about PAGES and its activities is found on page 6 of this newsletter. The 15th AMQUA Meeting will provide a public scientific forum for discussion of these interdisciplinary problems.

Archaeological site of Palenque, State of Chapas As usual for AMQUA meetings, the format will consist of a single session with ample opportunity for discussion and interaction. Invited speakers will address important and timely subjects related to the theme. All meeting attendees are encouraged to (cont.) articipate in the poster session, which will have its own time slot. Posters do not have to be related to the meeting theme. In addition, AMQUA members may submit abstracts without a poster presentation.

Puerto Vallarta is a resort city of 250,000 on the Pacific coast of Mexico famous for beaches, shops, cobblestone streets, mariachis, and vendors. The city is located where tropical deciduous and thorn forests of the Sierra Madre Mountains meet the warm waters of the Pacific Ocean. Puerto Vallarta has excellent airline connections, with Gustavo Diaz Ordaz International Airport located 4 miles northeast of the city.

A full slate of eight field trips are being offered in conjunction with the meeting. The various trips will feature archeology, colonial architecture, paleontology, volcanology, limnology, plant communities, and rainforest ecology. Several trips will begin or end in Mexico City and will feature world famous archeological and geological sites on the Central Mexican Plateau. Watch for more information, including field trip and travel details, in the First Circular, which will be mailed to all AMQUA members soon.