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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. 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). The 15th AMQUA Meeting will provide a public scientific forum for discussion of these interdisciplinary problems. 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 participate 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. A full slate of eight field trips are being offered. 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. For more information, contact: AMQUA 98, Socorro Lozane Garcia, Instituto de Geologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma Mexico, Ciudad Universitaria, Apartado Postal 70-296, 04510, Mexico D.F.; fax: 52-5-550 6644; amquamex@ servidor.unam.mx |