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Beringian Paleoenvironments Workshop

September 20-23, 1997 Florissant, Colorado

The Nature Place in Florissant was the site for an NSF-sponsored workshop to discuss and synthesize the status of knowledge concerning Beringian Paleoenvironments. Such a meeting had not been held in nearly 20 years and, despite intense ground fog delaying flights into Denver and Colorado Springs, enthusiasm for the gathering was high for pulling together what had been learned since publication of the landmark book "Paleoecology of Beringia" . One hundred
scientists, including American, Canadian, and Russian scientists, attended the workshop, which was framed around a series of nine multidisciplinary issues ranging from the nature and origin of early Beringia to the style and structure of environmental change across different temporal and spatial scales. Models of past change were as important as renewed debates of the "Productivity Paradox" and the definition of steppe tundra and Russian yedoma. One especially lively session focused on the merits of interior vs. coastal migration routes as dispersal paths for the earliest people in North America. Despite the shear volume of information presented, including 50 oral presentations and 25 posters, participants remained focused on the synergy of the meeting. The workshop also provided time to celebrate the accomplishments of the great synthesizer himself, Professor David Hopkins, as well as to outline where research should be focused in the future to answer critical science questions. Commitments have been made by workshop participants for about 50 manuscripts. Following normal peer review, these manuscripts and syntheses of discussions will be published as a special issue of Quaternary Science Reviews. We thank Jim Rose, Editor of QSR, for his commitment to this special volume.

A copy of the workshop program, a list of all attendees, along with some photos can be found at:
http://culter.colorado.edu:1030/~saelias/workshop.workshop.html.
Co-organizers
Julie Brigham-Grette
University of Massachusetts

Scott Elias
University of Colorado