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Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers
January 5-8, 1998
University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
Hosted by School of Geography, Kingston University, the theme is "Environmental Change in the Tropics and Subtropics". Chairpersons: J. Holmes and M. Waller. Contact: Jane Entwistle, Environmental Change Session Convener, School of Geography, Kingston University, Penrhyn Road, Kingston-Upon-Thames, Surrey, KT1 2EE; 0181-547-2000 x2552; fax: 7497; j.entwistle@kingston.ac.uk; information at: www.king.ac.uk/geog/ home

Second Workshop on Global Paleoenvironmental Data
February 9-12, 1998
Boulder, Colorado
Contact: Robin Webb or Dave Anderson; 303-497-6160; fax: -6513; danderson@ ngdc.noaa.gov; rwebb@ngdc.noaa.gov.

Pittsburgh Conference
March 1-6, 1998
New Orleans
A half-day symposium, "Archaeology and Art: Diverse Applications of Analytical Chemistry", will be part of  the 1998 Pittsburgh Conference. PITTCON is the largest meeting of analytical chemists with some 30,000 attendees, 115 contributed sessions, 40 invited symposia, and over 3,000 industry showcase booths.
Although the conference has become the premier meeting for analytical lectures, archaeological chemistry is only just now making an appearance. This symposium is only the second to deal with art and archaeology in PITTCON's history.

The symposium will feature five plenary lectures. The slate of speakers, techniques used, and general application will include: J. Lambert: Introduction/atomic spectroscopy/glasses; R. Tykot: Microprobe, ICP-MS/patterns of trade, technology, and subsistence; A. Merriwether: PCR, Ancient DNA, ancient immigration theory; W. McCrone: Microscopy/art forgeries, the Turin Shroud; R. Clark: Raman microspectroscopy/manuscript pigments

The symposium is designed to broadly cover the field of art and archaeological chemistry in order to attract a wide audience and hopefully spur more interest in making these fields an annual focus of PITTCON.

Contact: The Pittsburgh Conference, Department CFP, 300 Penn Center Blvd., Pittsburgh, PA 15235 5503;
412-825-3220; fax:-3224; pittconinfo@pittcon.org

Texas Academy of Sciences
March 5-7, 1998
The University of Texas at Tyler
The Texas Academy of Sciences, Academy Board Members have added an Anthropology section to the annual meeting as well as a symposium entitled Frontiers in Archaeometry. Archaeometry is the application of the techniques, instruments, or methodologies of science to archaeological problems. By bridging the divide between the physical sciences and archaeology, archaeometric techniques enable researchers to realize the full potential of data sets and sites, while exploring questions unattainable with traditional archaeological methods. This symposium presents a variety of recent archaeometric techniques and associated case studies.
Contact: Jeff Leach, Centro de Investigaciones Arqueologicas, 130 N. Stevens, Suite E, El Paso, TX 79905;915-533-7977; jleach1532@aol.com or Nicholas Pingitore, Jr., Department of Geological Sciences,The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968; 915-747-5754; nick@geo.utep.edu

TER-QUA Symposium
March 9-10, 1998
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Papers are being solicited for the Tertiary Quaternary (TER-QUA) Symposium. Archaeological and geoarchaeological papers are welcome. The papers will be published in the symposium series. Contact: Wakefield Dort, Jr., Department of Geology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045; 913-864-2729; fax: -4517.
 
 
 

International Symposium: Mammoth Site Studies in Eurasia and North America
March 11-13, 1998
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Contact: Dixie West, Department of Anthropology, 620 Fraser Hall, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045; 913-864-4245; rrwest@ksu.edu

28th Annual Arctic Workshop
March 12-14, 1998
University of Colorado, Boulder
Graduate students are eligible for support to cover registration costs, per diem meals for 4 days, and shared motel room for 4 nights. For information see: http://instaar.colorado.edu/aw28
We anticipate that most attendees will use the web site for registration and submission of the abstract. Otherwise, contact: John Andrews, INSTAAR, Box 450, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309; 303-492-5183; fax: -6388; andrewsj@spot.colorado.edu

Interhemispheric Paleoclimates of the Americas
March 16-20, 1998
Merida, Venezuela
PEP-I Meeting. The goal of this first meeting is to promote the understanding of interhemispheric linkages of present and past climate change and climate variability in the Americas. The following topics, to be organized by coordinators, will be discussed: Modern Climate Variability, H.F. Diaz and H. Fuenzalida; El Nino/Southern Oscillation, R. Dunbar; Last 2000 Years of Climate Variability, T. Baumgartner, M. Hughes, L. Thompson; Human Dimensions of Climate Change, D. Liverman; Mid Holocene Climate Variability, J. Betancourt and W. Volkheimer; Late Glacial Climate Variability, H. Hooghiemstra, Vera Markgraf, and C. Whitlock; Full glacial Climates, M.A. Gonzalez, M. Servant, T. Pederson Contact: Vera Markgraf, INSTAAR, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 0450; markgraf@spot.colorado.edu; http://instaar.colorado.edu/misc/pep.html

Society for American Archaeology
March 25-29, 1998
Seattle, Washington
A session of the 63rd annual meeting entitled "Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Population Movements in the Americas: The Peopling of a Continent", will address important questions related to the initial dispersal and settling of humans across North, Central and South America.
Possible topics include:

1. Technological diffusion versus human migrations.
2. Coastal and/or terrestrial entry and dispersal routes.
3. Late Paleoindian origins and expansions.
4. Rates of dispersal and ecological boundaries.
5. Periglacial refugia and "backwash" movements
6. Culture historicalunilineal evolution and multi-cultural models.
7. Migration waves revisited: Recent genetic, linguistic and archaeological evidence.
8. Origins and interactions between South American and North American Paleo indian groups.
9. Geographical and environmental obstacles, bottlenecks and zones of rapid radiation: natural highways and corridors.
10. Environmental adaptations and technocultural divergence.
11. Paleoindian response to Holocene biogeographical re-organization.
Contact: George Pearson, Department of Anthropology, University of Kansas, 622 Fraser Hall, Lawrence, KS 66046; 913-864-4103; fax: 5224; ftgap@eagle. cc.ukans.edu

Association of American Geographers
March 25-29, 1998
Boston, Massachusetts
Annual Meeting. Special sessions include Drylands Geomorphology (Jeff Lee: j.lee@ttu.edu), Human Impacts in Geomorphology (Jon Harbor: jharbor@uval.eas.purdue.edu), and Sediment Transport in Fluvial Systems (Mike Slattery: slattery@mail.ecu.edu). Contact: AAG, 1710 Sixteenth Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20009; 202-234-1450; http://www.aag.org

14C and Archaeology
April 6-10, 1998
Lyons, France
The themes for the Third International Symposium on 14C 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

Society for California Archaeology GPS/GIS Symposium
April 8-11, 1998
San Diego, California
This symposium, entitled "Integration of the Global Positioning System and Geographic Information Systems in Archaeological Inquiry", will provide an overview of the Global Positioning System (GPS) and its integration with geographic information systems (GIS) as these technologies relate to archaeological inquiry.
Symposium attendees will have the opportunity to listen to papers given by individuals that use GPS/GIS integration daily in archaeological inquiry, as well as participate in field demonstrations using sub-meter and centimeter level accuracy GPS/GIS data population tools. The symposium will also focus on methods by
which GPS/GIS can speed field data collection, laboratory analysis, cultural resource management, and research objectives. See http://www.scanet.org/meetings.html for more information. Deadline for paper abstracts: December 31, 1997. Contact: Jeff Hamilton, PO Box 509, Redwood Valley, CA 95470; 707-485-7211, ext. 12; fax:-8962; hamilton@ncrm.com

Geosciences '98
April 14-18, 1998
Keele University
Ultra-Rapid Climatic Change and its Signature in the Geological Record. Convenors: G.S. Boulton and J.J. Lowe. The main focus of this symposium will be evidence for climatic and environment events which recur at sub-Milankovitch frequencies, particularly where there is evidence of causes. Of particular interest to the convenors, therefore, will be contributions that present the results of high-resolution studies of recurrent climatic shifts operating at decadal to millennial frequencies and discussions of possible causal mechanisms. A wide spectrum of methods and geographical perspectives will be considered, and it is anticipated that
evidence from ice-core, marine, and terrestrial records will be represented in the proceedings. The intention is to address such important issues as 1) the quantification of palaeoclimatic interpretations, ii) closing the gap between the resolution of geological studies and that of the instrumental record, and iii) developing a predictive capability from geological reconstructions. Contributions to: G.S. Boulton, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Edinburgh, Grant
Institute, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JW; 44-0-131-650-4844; fax: -4761; Geoff. Boulton@ed.ac.uk; or: J.J. Lowe, Centre for Quaternary Research, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX; 44-0-178-444-3565; fax: 447-2836; j.lowe@rhbnc.ac.uk
 

Applications of Stable Isotope Techniques to Ecological Studies
April 20-22, 1998
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
The measurement of naturally occurring stable isotopes of C, N, S and to a lesser extent O and H have become an invaluable tool for the investigation of individual and community ecology as well as ecosystem function. In particular, the stable isotope approach is well suited to understanding trophic relationships, sources of nutrients, and the behavior of contaminants within complex foodwebs. More recently, stable isotope research in ecology has expanded to include studies of nutritional pathways and the tracking of migratory wildlife. With the advent of continuous flow isotope ratio mass spectrometry (CF IRMS) and
technological refinements using compound specific isotopic analyses, stable isotope research in ecology has seen tremendous growth and is much more accessible to researchers investigating aspects of terrestrial, marine and freshwater ecosystems.
The objective of this conference is to bring together a broad spectrum of researchers engaged in ecological studies that use stable isotope techniques, and to consolidate and disseminate state-of-the science to the broader research community. This will be achieved through oral and poster presentations together with
informal discussions. The meeting will also identify where knowledge in isotope ecology remains deficient and where research efforts and resources could be most profitably applied. The conference is sponsored by Environment Canada and organized by Keith Hobson and Leonard Wassenaar. Submit an intention form at: http:// ecsask65.innovplace.saskatoon.sk.ca /isotope/page11.html
Contact: Keith Hobson, Canadian Wildlife Service, 115 Perimeter Road, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, S7N 0X4; 306 975-4102; fax:-4089;
Keith.Hobson@ EC.GC.CA

Past Global Changes and their Significance for the Future
April 20-23, 1998
London, UK
IGBP PAGES Open Science Meeting. The record of past global change provides many of the insights needed to understand how the global climate system operates: past, present and future. The goal of the IGBP PAGES First Open Science Meeting is to present state-of-the-art paleoenvironmental research results that help to narrow uncertainties regarding future climate and global change. The meeting will also serve to highlight the international science and data activities of the PAGES program. The meeting will be organized around invited plenary presentations and high-profile poster sessions. The poster sessions will be focused on the recent scientific results of PAGES activities, and the plenary presentations will focus on: The full range of climate system variability; Climatic forcing; Climate system processes; Modeling the climate system; Biotic responses to climate change; Human consequences of climate change
Contact: Frank Oldfield, PAGES CPO Switzerland; 41-31-312-3133; fax: -3168; oldfield@pageigbp.unibe.ch

Research Symposium for Yellowstone Anniversary
May 11-24, 1998
Montana State University, Bozeman
Yellowstone National Park has long been an outdoor laboratory for researchers, and now scientists are planning to take part in the park's 125th anniversary celebration. A two-week symposium will be held to commemorate the park's influence on scholarly research and creative activities. The symposium will consist of four scientific conferences and three workshops as well as the Greater Yellowstone Film Series, an art show, a photographic exhibit, concerts and dances. Dignitaries who have been invited to speak include Vice President Al Gore, Montana Gov. Marc Racicot, MSU President Mike Malone and Park Superintendent Michael V. Finley. The symposium is designed to attract international researchers as well as the general public. The overall goal of the symposium is to highlight the interplay between universities, natural areas such as Yellowstone and benefits to humankind.

The scientific conferences will run two or three days each and deal with ecological dynamics such as fire ecology, life in extreme environments, the human role in the park's ecosystem, and the interplay of geology and ecology in the park. The workshops will discuss the greening of Yellowstone, future biological research and the information resources such as computerized data clearinghouses and linkages between federal and local government.
Contact: Carolyn Manley, Mountain Research Center, P.O. Box 173490, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717-3490; 406-994-5145; fax: -5122; carolyn@peak.mrc.montana.edu

Geological Association of Canada (AQQUA)
May 18-20, 1998
Quebec City, Quebec
The Association Quebecoise Pour L'etude du Quaternaire (AQQUA) will hold its annual meeting during the GAC conference, and will co-sponsor, with the Canadian Geomorphology Research Group (CGRG), a symposium on "Relative sea-level variations and isostatic recovery across Canada, from Late-Wisconsin to Present day" J.C. Dionne (Université Laval) and Y.Michaud (Geological Survey of Canada, Québec). This session proposes to make a review of the knowledge on postglacial sea levels and isostatic rebound for the various regions of Canada, and to present the results of recent investigations and field work in progress. It is proposed to group together all workers interested by or involved in this field in order to discuss problems related to sea-level increase or to land recovery. Theoretical models and those based on field data are welcome. There will be two field trips, one on "Relative sea-level variations during the Holocene, St. Lawrence estuary", and the other, "Quaternary geology of the Charlevoix area". Conference announcements will be updated at www.ggl.ulaval.ca/quebec1998 as they become available. Contact: Jean Claude Dionne, Department Geographie, CP 2208, Université Laval, Québec, G1K 7P4

International Conference on Ground-Penetrating Radar
May 27-30, 1998
Lawrence, Kansas
Contact: Richard Plumb; 913-864-7735; gpr98@rsl.ukans.edu

Canadian Association of Geographers
June 2-6, 1998
Ottawa, Ontario
Abstracts are being solicited for a one-day special session entitled "Impacts of Global Climate Change in Southwest Yukon" from both an historical perspective and potential environmental impacts in the next century. Abstracts of not more than 250 words stating author(s), affiliation(s) and preference for either oral or poster presentation should be sent to Peter Johnson at peter@aix1. uottawa.ca by January 31, 1998. Contact: K. Gajewski, Department of Geography, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada; gajewski@aix1.uottawa.ca

PEP-II Workshop
July 2-7, 1998
Perth, Australia
"Variability of Southern Hemisphere Climate Systems and Linkages with Northern Hemisphere Systems, on Time Scales covering the last two Glacial Cycles". University of Notre Dame, Fremantle. Contact: John Dodson; johnd@sunny.gis.uwa.edu.au

Recognition of Abrupt Climate Change in Clastic Sedimentary Environment: Methods, Limitations and Potential
June 8-10, 1998
Stockholm, Sweden
We have 5 keynote speakers from USA, Canada and The Netherlands and estimate having 300 participants from all over the world. Contact: Amir Mokhtari Fard, Department of Quaternary Research, Stockholm University, Sweden; 46-8-164 886; fax: -674-7895; amfard@geo.su.se

International Conference on Permafrost
June 23-27, 1998
Yellowknife, NWT, Canada
Contact: J.A. Heginbottom, Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0E8. Circular: www.nrcan.gc.ca/ gsc/permaf_e. html

Methods of Mass Balance Measurements and Modeling
August 10-12, 1998
Tarfala, Sweden
Glacier mass balance data has gained increased attention because of its importance in detecting global climate change and its influence on global sea levels, in addition to its importance to regional water supplies and power generation. This resurgence in interest coincides with declining funds for national programs to monitor glacier mass balance. In light of the renewed interest in mass balance data, and fiscal pressures on mass balance programs, the International Commission on Snow and Ice is convening a workshop to address techniques of measuring glacier mass balance and methods to model mass balance.

The specific goals of the workshop include: 1) approaches to measuring and modeling "problem" glaciers, including large glaciers (greater than 50 km2), debris covered glaciers, calving glaciers, highly crevassed glaciers, and where ablation/ accumulation periods do not normally coincide with the summer and winter seasons; 2) alternative methods for measuring mass balance including remote sensing, flux divergence, volume change; 3) strategies for reduced field programs; and 4) analysis of errors in all methods.
Contact: Andrew Fountain, Department of Geology, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97207-0751; 503-725-3024; fax: -3025; fountaina@ pdx.edu or Peter Jansson, Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, S-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden; 46-8-16-4815; fax: -48-18; pete@natgeo.su.se

International Glaciological Society
August 17-20, 1998
Kiruna, Sweden
The IGS will hold an international symposium on Glaciers and the Glaciated Landscape. The following topics will be open for discussion: Ice-covered landscapes; Interpretation of glaciated landscapes; Creation, reshaping and survival of subglacial forms; Spatial and temporal variations in thermal regime; Controls of wet base/cold base flow regimes; Ice-substrate interaction.

Sessions will be held on three full days and one half-day. A half-day excursion will be arranged during the meeting. There will be ample opportunity for poster displays, which are encouraged. A three-day post symposium tour (August 21-23) by bus is planned from the Norwegian coast to the interior of Sweden. A one-day pre symposium excursion (August 16) will be available for a smaller number of participants. Symposium organization: S. Ommanney (Secretary General, International Glaciological Society). Local organizing committee: Per Holmlund, Peter Jansson, Johan Kleman; Contact: Secretary General, International Glaciological Society, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1ER, UK; 44-1223-355 974; fax: 336-543; 100751.1667@ compuserve.com

ICOG-9
August 20-26,1998
Beijing, China
The Ninth International Conference on Geochronology, Cosmochronology and Isotope Geology will be held in Beijing. Contact: ICOG-9 Secretariat, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Baiwanzhuang Road 26, Beijing 100037, China; 0086-10-68311545; 0086-10 68316456; fax:-68311545; liudunyi@ public.bta.net.cn

High Resolution Faunas at the Pleistocene/Holocene Boundary
August 23-29, 1998
Victoria, British Columbia
8th International Congress of The International Council For Archaeozoology (ICAZ) Two recent symposia (Society for American Archaeology, Anaheim 1992, and INQUA, Berlin 1995) have discussed human social and economic adaptation to environmental changes at the end of the last ice age, with an emphasis on regional studies. This symposium will examine human adaptation through the analysis of fauna from sites or regions where there is a well-dated record of the Pleistocene/Holocene transition (c.13,000 to 8,000 B.P.)
Papers are invited from any part of the world, and should meet the following criteria:
1. the paper may examine any aspect of human behavior revealed through zooarchaeological analysis of any type of fauna (vertebrate or invertebrate);
2. the faunal assemblages should span a period of significant environmental change associated with the transition from Pleistocene to Holocene environments;
3. the assemblages should be securely dated, preferably by radiocarbon, and preferably with multiple, sequential dates on stratified sites.
The deadline for submission of title and abstract is December 31, 1997. For more information:
http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/ conferce/archzool/ Contact: Jon Driver, Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, V5A 1S6; driver@sfu.ca

Second International Phytolith Research Meeting
August 27-29, 1998
Aix en Provence, France
The Second International Meeting on Phytolith Research is organized by the Centre Europeen de Recherche et d'Enseignement de Geosciences de l'Environnement in cooperation with the Society for Phytolith Research. The official languages will be English and French. Oral and poster presentations are welcome. The abstracts will undergo a refereeing procedure.

Phytoliths are fossil micrometric minerals (generally hydrated opal-A) formed in plants. The 1st International Meeting, held in Madrid in 1996, demonstrated that phytoliths are useful in many scientific disciplines such as soil science, anthropology, botany, archaeology, paleontology, geochemistry and paleoclimatology. Participants of this meeting are invited to present their recent results in all the topics where the environment or the paleoenvironment is concerned, to compare their methodology and to exchange their ideas in order to assess and promote this expanding science. Contact: 2nd IMPR, J.D. Meunier, CEREGE, BP 80, 13545 Aix en Provence, Cedex 4, FRANCE; 33-0-442- 971-526; fax: -971-540; phytomeeting@ cerege.fr; http: //www.cerege.fr

Global Continental Paleohydrology
September 4-11, 1998
Kumagaya, Japan
Third International Meeting. Contact: Hiroshi Shimazu, GLOCOPH '98, Department of Geography, Rissho University, 4-2-16 Osaki, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141, Japan

15th Biennial AMQUA Meeting
September 5-7, 1998
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
The 15th Biennial AMQUA Meeting will be hosted by Union Mexicana para Estudios del Cuaternario. Contact: Eric Grimm, 1011 East Ash Street, Springfield, IL 62703; 217-785-4846; grimm@museau.state.il.us; http://www. usu.edu/~amqua/

SEQS Symposium
September 6-11, 1998
Kerkrade (The Netherlands)
Titled "The Eemian‹local sequences, global perspectives", the 1998 SEQS meeting will present and discuss the first results of the NITG-Eemian Project as well as those of other marine and continental Eemian research projects. The meeting will take place in the congresscentre ROLDUC near Kerkrade, in the south of the Netherlands. The proceedings of the meeting with selected papers will be published by NITG-TNO (scientific editors of the volume: Th. van Kolfschoten and Ph. Gibbard). Further information on the homepage of EQMal: http://www.nitg. tno.nl/eqmal/eqmal.html

Contact: Th. van Kolfschoten, Institute of Prehistory, Leiden University P.O. Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands; 31- 71-527-2640/ 527-2390; fax: -2429; T.van.Kolfschoten@Rulpre. LeidenUniv.nl or: J.H.A. Bosch, Netherlands Institute of Applied Geoscience TNO, National Geological Survey, Department Geo-Mapping, North and East Netherlands, P.O. Box 511, 8000 AM Zwolle, The Netherlands; 31- 38-457 4588; fax: -4557; A.Bosch@nitg.tno.nl

Rapid Coastal Changes in the Late Quaternary
September 10-19, 1998
Corinth and Samos, Greece
IGCP Project 367 final meeting. Contact: Stathis Stiros; stiros@prometheus.hol.gr

INQUA Commission on Glaciation
Work Group on Geospatial Analysis of Glaciated Environments (GAGE)
September 25-28, 1998
Warsaw, Poland
Presentations are solicited on all aspects of remote sensing and GIS applied to investigations of modern
glaciers and/or ancient glaciation. Oral and poster sessions will be held along with computer demonstrations
at the Polish Geological Institute (PGI).

Reports will be given on GAGE projects to assemble GIS databases for glaciated regions. These include mapping of pre-Wisconsin glaciation in the central United States and glaciotectonic maps of central Europe. A new project will be started on chronology and extent of glaciation in the Carpathian Mountains. Other new projects are solicited for consideration at the meeting. For more information about the GAGE work group, see the webpage at: http://www.emporia. edu/earthsci/gage/gage.htm The Polish Geological Institute will sponsor the GAGE meeting and make local arrangements. Contact: Leszek Marks, Department of Quaternary Geology, Polish Geological Institute, 4 Rakowiecka, Warszawa, 00-975, Poland; 48-22-495-351; fax: -342; lmar@pgi.waw. pl

The GAGE meeting is scheduled to sequence with other INQUA work-group field conferences in Poland during the month of September. These include:

September 13-19: Peribaltic work group, from Szczecin to Gdansk on the Baltic coast. Contact: Urszula Jarosinska; jaros@albit.geo.uw.edu.pl

September 21-24: Work group on glacial tectonics, Poznan, western Poland. Travel from Poznan to Warsaw on September 25 with field stops in route. Contact: Leszek Kasprzak; kasprzak@man.poznan.pl
 

GSA Annual Meeting
October 26-29, 1998
Toronto, Canada
The Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division is actively seeking proposals for Symposia (invited speakers), Theme Sessions (volunteered talks), and Continuing Education/Short Courses for the 1998 Annual Meeting in Toronto. Proposals should be sent through normal GSA channels. For possible QG&G sponsorship, contact Les MacFadden Lmcfadnm@unm.edu or Ardith Hansel; hansel@geoserv.isgs. uiuc.edu

AASP Annual Meeting
November, 1998
Ensenada, Mexico
Symposia, Technical Sessions, Posters. Includes a one-day field trip in Baja California, through a vegetation and geology gradient between Pacific and Gulf coasts. Contact: Javier Helenes, CICESE, Departamento de Geologia, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico; jhelenes@cicese.mx, or Cristina Penalba, UNAM, Instituto de Ecologia, A.P. 1354, Hermosillo 83000, Sonora, Mexico; penalba@servidor.unam.mx.

Union Internationale Des Sciences Prehistoriques Et Protohistoriques
Commission 4: Data Management And Mathematical Methods in Archaeology
November, 1998
Arizona State University
The next inter-Congress meeting of Commission 4 is being organized by George Cowgill and Keith Kintigh, of Arizona State University. While the precise arrangements are not yet finalized, the meeting will be held over three or four days in November 1998. Papers are invited on any topics related to advances in archaeological computing and formal methods, but especially welcome are such topics as simulation, fuzzy logic/neural networks, exploratory multivariate analysis, Bayesian methods, typology/ classification, applications of new analytical techniques, teaching quantitative methods, and GIS papers that go beyond intriguing pictures and include a significant amount of analysis and/or interpretation.

Current information about the conference will be maintained on the web at http://archaeology.la.asu.edu/uispp. Contact: George Cowgill, Department of Anthropology, Box 872402, Arizona State Univ, Tempe, AZ 85287-2402; fax: 602-965-7671; cowgill@asu.edu

World Archaeology Congress
January 10-14th, 1999
Cape Town, South Africa
WAC conferences continue to develop the global dimension of archaeology and the social role that archaeologists play as interpreters of the past. We expect more than a 1000 delegates in Cape Town, and we are planning an exciting and stimulating program that will do justice to the turn of the millennium. It is appropriate that WAC4 should be in South Africa, and at the University of Cape Town. The World Archaeology Congress was formed in opposition to apartheid, highlighting the relationship between the study of the past and the politics of the present. South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994 ended a long, bitter era and archaeologists here are now free to be part of a world community of scholarship. It is testimony to the importance of archaeology in the reconstruction of our history and heritage that President Nelson Mandela has agreed to be Patron of WAC4 and the Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Town, Mamphela Ramphele, a physician, anthropologist and a leading activist, will be our WAC4 President. The University of Cape Town, one of Africa's oldest and most distinguished universities, has modern, well-equipped lecture halls and meeting rooms, and can provide a fully-residential congress. In addition, we will have a diverse range of congress tours that encompass all major aspects of the archaeology of southern Africa. Contact: Congress Secretariat, P.O. Box 44503, Claremont, 7735, South Africa; 27-21-762-8600; fax: -8606; wac4@globalconf.co.za; http:// www.uct.ac.za/depts/age/wac

Geological Association of Canada‹Mineralogical Association of Canada
May 26-28, 1999
Sudbury, Ontario
Joint Annual meeting. Contact: P. Cooper, Department of Earth Sciences, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6; 705-675-1151 ext. 2267; fax: 4898; gacmac99@nickel.laurentian.ca

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