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7th International Symposium on Paleolimnology August 28 - September 2, 1997 Heiligkreuztal, Germany Over 200 participants recently congregated near the small town of Riedlingen, in southern Germany, to participate in the symposium. The conference was primarily organized by German and Swiss paleolimnologists. A central theme of the meeting was the use of high-resolution laminated lake sediment to reconstruct environmental change. In contrast to previous symposia, posters were the main form of communication with only a few introductory keynote talks. In addition to the formal presentations and posters, a pre-congress excursion to the crater lake of the Laacher See Volcano and the maar lakes of the West Eifel volcanic field, and a post-congress excursion to lakes in central Switzerland, were also offered. The first set of presentations focused on human impacts and natural variability. This was followed by a shorter session on the microstructure of varves and laminae. That evening, a workshop was convened on the paleolimnology of Lake Baikal. The morning of the second day was devoted to the paleolimnology of saline lakes. This was followed by presentations from studies conducted on most of the saline lake regions on the world. The third day began with a presentation on numerical tools and their applications to high-resolution studies. This was followed by a series of presentations on methods as well as other paleolimnological applications. The final day opened with a lecture on laminated archives of environmental change, followed by a series of diverse posters on primarily laminated sediments. The 8th International Symposium on Paleolimnology will be held at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, most likely in late summer, in the year 2000. The Journal of Paleolimnology will be publishing the proceedings of the symposium. John P. Smol |