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Conference Announcements Mechanisms of Millennial-Scale Global Climate Change June 14-18, 1998 This conference will provide an international forum for discussion of possible mechanisms that may account for millennial-scale climate change. Unlike orbital-scale climate change, which has a well-defined forcing mechanism in changes in solar insolation, the cause(s) of millennial-scale climate variation remain(s) unknown. The growing global paleoclimate database relevant to this issue is now of significant breadth to provide the critical information required to address these issues. The central themes of this conference will address two key questions that arise from evidence of millennial-scale climate change: What is the sensitivity of various components of the Earth's climate system to millennial-scale climate change? What are the mechanisms, linkages, and feedbacks which produce millennial-scale climate change? Conveners: Peter U. Clark, Department of Geosciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331; clarkp@ucs.orst.edu and Robert S. Webb, NOAA-NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80303; 303-497-6967; fax: -6513; rwebb@ngdc.noaa.gov Fifth Circumpolar Remote Sensing Symposium June 22-25, 1998 The research areas covered include the atmosphere,
geology, hydrology, frozen ground and permafrost, vegetation and the biology of the
tundra, glaciology, snow, sea ice, ecology, pollution on land and in sea ice, natural
resources, instruments and technology, mankind in the polar regions, indeed any aspect of
polar science that might be served by remote sensing/Earth observation techniques. The
scope of the conference is not limited to the northern hemisphere but includes the
Antarctic as well. Contact: S.K. Newcombe, Fifth Circumpolar Remote Sensing Symposium,
Dundee Centre for Coastal Zones Research, Department of Applied Physics and Electronic and
Mechanical Engineering, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN, Scotland, UK; 44 - (0)1382 -
344933; fax: -345415; s.k.newcombe@ dundee.ac.uk; http://www.dundee.ac.uk then look under
"Department of APEME" or "Remote Sensing Group" International Conference on Permafrost June 23-27, 1998 Contact: J.A. Heginbottom, Geological Survey of Canada,
601 Booth Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0E8. Circular: www.nrcan.gc.ca/gsc/permafe.
html Southern African Association of Geomorphologists Grahamstown, South Africa Contact: SAAG Conference Secretary, Department of
Geography, Rhodes University, P.O. Box 94, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa; +27-46-6038320;
fax: -6225049; saag98@warthog.ru.ac.za PEP-II Workshop July 2-7, 1998 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 International Symposium and Field Workshop on Paleosols and Climatic Change July 27 - August 7, 1998 The symposium will have two main themes: (1) Quantitative
pedogenetic indicators of climate change and improving the precision of dating paleosols;
these are required to obtain high resolution paleoclimatic records from paleosol
sequences. Recent multidisciplinary field and laboratory work, such as the application of
rock magnetism to paleosols, has created new growth areas and promises considerable
progress in quantifying past climatic change. (2) Response of the soil system to
large-amplitude, rapid (millennial scale) climatic change; the potential role of
paleopedology in determining high-resolution climate change raises the need to rethink
many traditional soil concepts. This topic forms the core of the INQUA Paleopedology
Commission project on "Response of soil formation to short warm episodes of summer
Asian monsoon". The symposium will bring together paleopedologists of many different
backgrounds, to share knowledge and results from many parts of the world, to plan future
paleopedological contributions to determining past climatic change and to see the
high-resolution loess-paleosol sequences in China. Contact: Fang Xiaomin, JSPS Visiting
Professorship, Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University,
Sapporo, 060, Japan; +81-11-716-2111 x2223; fax: -747-9780 Methods of Mass Balance Measurements and Modeling August 10-12, 1998 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 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 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 Glaciation and Reorganization of Asia's Network of Drainage August 20-31, 1998 The first annual meeting of IGCP415 will be held in Manali and the Lahul Himalaya, India in August 1998. The meeting will comprise three days of seminars on the glaciation and reorganization of Asia's network of drainage followed by a week long field excursion into the Lahul Himalaya to examine evidence for Quaternary paleoenvironmental change and landscape evolution. The meeting will concentrate on the work and activities of Working Group 2 (Glaciation in the Tibetan Plateau and bordering mountains) and Working Group 7 (Drainage off the Tibetan Plateau). An open session for all the working groups to report their activities will also be convened. Contact: Lewis A. Owen, University of California, Riverside, Department of Earth Sciences, Riverside, CA 92521-0423; 909-787-3106; fax: -4324; Lewis.Owen@ucr.edu Further information: IGCP415: http://mercury.eas.ualberta.ca/ igcp/IGCP415.html
High Resolution Faunas at the Pleistocene/Holocene Boundary August 23-29, 1998 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.) Polar Aspects of Global Change August 24-28, 1998 International symposium and field trip to Svalbard Troms, Norway. The intent of the symposium is to provide a current assessment of the role of the polar regions in global change and to bring together researchers engaged in any aspect of the physical, biological or social sciences, including field measurements, remote sensing, numerical modelling or data and information processing, and analysis, in either polar region. Contact: International Symposium on Polar Aspects of Global Change c/o Norsk Polarinstitutt, N - 9005 Troms, Norway; + 47 77 60 67 00; fax: -01; jaklin@ tromso.npolar.no; http://www.tromso. npolar.no/polaraspects/ Second International Phytolith Research Meeting August 27-29, 1998 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. 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 Gibraltar Neanderthal Conference August 28-30, 1998 Celebrating the discovery of the Forbes' Quarry skull. Contact: Clive Finlayson, Director, The Gibraltar Museum, P.O. Box 939, Gilbraltar; 350-74289; fax: -79158; jcfinlay@gibnet.gi; http:// www.gibraltar.gi/neanderthals GLOCOPH '98 September 4-11, 1998 Third International Meeting on Global Continental Palaeohydrology. Theme: Palaeohydrology with an Emphasis on Humid, Temperate, and Tectonically Active Zones. Contact: Dr. Hitoshi Fukusawa, Dept. of Geography, Graduate School of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Minami-Ohsawa1-1, Hachioji 192-0397 JAPAN; +81-458-39-1642; fax: -426-77-2589; fukusawa@comp. metro-u.ac.jp 15th Biennial AMQUA Meeting September 5-7, 1998 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 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 congress centre 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 home page 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 Climate and History Climate and History: Past and Present Variability -- A Context for the Future. Contact: Susan Boland, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NRA 7TJ; +44 1603 456161; fax: -507784; s.boland@uea.ac.uk; http:// www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/conf/ Rapid Coastal Changes in the Late Quaternary September 10-19, 1998 IGCP Project 367 final meeting. Contact: Stathis Stiros; stiros@ prometheus.hol.gr Karst Processes and the Global Carbon Cycle Sept 23-24, 1998 Friends of Karst and The International Geological Correlation Program Project 379. Contact: Joe Meiman, Division of Science and Resource Management, Mammoth Cave National Park, Mammoth Cave, KY 42259; 502- 749-2508; www2.wku.edu/~grovecg INQUA Commission on Glaciation Work Group on Geospatial Analysis of Glaciated Environments (GAGE) September 25-28, 1998 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 web page 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 Dust Aerosols, Loess and Global Change October 11-13, 1998 An Interdisciplinary Conference and Field Tour on Dust in Ancient Environments and Contemporary Environmental Management. A three-day pre-conference excursion (October 8-11) will traverse the dryland farming region of the Columbia Plateau in eastern Washington; explore the Palouse loess deposits and cross the famous Channeled Scabland, site of the largest glacial outburst floods in earth history. Dual themes will be: 1) intensively instrumented wind erosion research sites, and 2) classic exposures of the Palouse loess, paleosols, cycles of dust deposition. Winery tour and tasting. This conference is for Quaternary geologists, soil scientists, agricultural engineers, agronomists, air quality specialists, environmental scientists, climatologists and paleoclimatologists, and land managers as well as students in agriculture, environmental sciences, and geology. Proposed conference topics include: Climatic events and other drivers of loess depositional cycles during the Quaternary Period; Comparisons of modern and ancient dust transport and deposition in mid-latitude areas; Dustfall magnitude into ice-age oceans and wind trajectories; Sub-Milankovitch millennial- and century-scale dust events and their linkages and causes; Possible role of dust aerosols as a feedback in last-glacial climate change; Natural and anthropogenic sources, transport mechanisms, and deposition of dust aerosols today and impacts on urban air quality, human health, and the global environment; and Measurement, prediction, transport modeling, and control of wind erosion from agricultural and natural areas. Contact: Alan Busacca, Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-6420; 509-335-1859; fax: -8674; busacca@ wsu.edu; or visit http://www. eus.wsu.edu/c&i/programs/dust.htm 56th Annual Meeting of the Plains Anthropological Conference October 14-17, 1998 Contact: Fern Swenson, State Historical Society of North Dakota, 612 E. Blvd., Bismarck, ND 58505; 701-328-3675; ccmail.fswenson@ranch.state.nd.us 49th Arctic Division Science Conference Fairbanks, Alaska Theme: International Cooperation in Arctic Research - Detecting Global Change and its Impacts in the Western Arctic. Session Themes: (1) International Collaboration in Global Change Research in the Arctic; (2) Ocean-Atmosphere-Ice Interactions; (3) Land-Atmosphere-Ice Interactions; (4) Paleoclimates; (5) Regional Impacts of Climate Change; (6) Global Implications of a Changing Arctic Contact: Syun-Ichi Akasofu, Conference Chair, 907-474-7282; Ted DeLaca, Program Chair, -7314; Jan Dalrymple, Coordinator, -6742 or Mary Farrell, Coordinator, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-7320; fax: -5882; fnmrf@uaf.edu or visit us at http://www. gi.alaska.edu/ GSA Annual Meeting October 26-29, 1998 The Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division of GSA
is sponsoring the following theme sessions and symposia: Terrestrial Records of Late-Glacial and Holocene Climate Change in the Americas This all-day session will be split into papers discussing North America in the morning, and South America in the afternoon. We feel that the large volume of paleoclimatic data that has emerged from the Americas during recent years warrants a thorough discussion. We hope this meeting will help to discern regional patterns of climate change and reconcile sometimes seemingly contradictory results. We would like to invite all who have recent results from this area to contribute a paper to this session. Conveners: Donald Rodbell, Geoffrey Seltzer (South America), Mel Reasoner, Jan Heine (North America). Contact: Jan Heine, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Washington; heine@geology.washington.edu Power of Paleolimnology: State of the Art and Future Directions Paleolimnology is amongst the most rapidly advancing scientific fields, crossing traditional disciplinary boundaries of geology, biology, chemistry, hydrology and statistical applications. Increased concerns about global change have fueled its development. These developments are placed into perspective and insight offered into future progress. Key papers featuring advances and integrative paleolimnological techniques via case and/or regional studies should identify these trends. We invite papers on advances, regional studies, and integrative paleolimnological techniques which cross traditional boundaries of geology, biology, chemistry, and/or hydrology to provide insight into future progress. Contact: Marianne Douglas, Department of Geology, University of Toronto, 22 Russell St, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3B1, Canada; 416-978-3709; fax: -3938; msvd@opal.geology.utoronto.ca or William Last, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2, Canada; 204-474-8361; fax: -7623; mlast@ms.umanitoba.ca Continental Glaciation A theme session on continental glaciations is organized by Steve Forman and Julie Brigham-Grette. This session is scheduled on Tuesday morning, October 27th. The theme session entitled "Continental Glaciations: Continuing Debates" highlights ongoing controversy on the nature, timing and controls on Quaternary and older glaciations. Focus is on defining ice sheet position, deglacial dynamics and history, and testing theories on the intrinsic instability of ice sheets and climate response. This session will provide a forum to couple geologic observations with new understanding of glacier bed dynamics, and higher resolution ice sheet modeling. Contact: slf@uic. edu or brigham-grette@geo. umass.edu Great Plains Holocene Climate Change Stephen Wolfe (GSC), Dan Muhs (USGS) and Don Lemmen (GSC) have organized a theme session and symposium on the topic of Holocene Climate Change on the Great Plains. The theme session, will present Holocene paleoecologic and morphostratigraphic records of the Great Plains of North America. Focus is on the role of both climatic and non-climatic controls, based upon regional and site specific studies, and placed in the context of relevance to contemporary issues of climate change, land-use management, water resources and regional sustainability. The theme session will follow the symposium entitled Response to Holocene Climate Change on the Great Plains, which will provide an overview of the Holocene paleoenvironmental record of the North American Great Plains focussing on climatic controls of ecosystem dynamics, including geomorphic, limnologic, pedologic, biologic, and archaeologic records with emphasis on integrative, multidisciplinary studies. These sessions will be of interest to those working on the problem of Holocene climate reconstruction and landscape response on the Great Plains (from the southern Great Plains of the US to the Interior Plains of Canada) and we encourage you to attend the Toronto meeting this fall. Contact: Stephen Wolfe, Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth St., Ottawa, ON, K1A 0E8; 613-992-7670; fax: 613-992-2468; swolfe@gsc.ncan.gc.ca Continental shelves in the Quaternary October 26-30, 1998 This is the third annual conference of IGCP-396 following
the inaugural meeting in Sydney and the second annual meeting in Durham. The five day
Conference will consist of oral and poster sessions, a one-day workshop aimed at training,
business meetings and excursions. Topics to be covered include Regional Perspectives,
Palaeoceanography, Dating of shelf sequences, Seismic stratigraphy, Shelf processes,
Geochemistry of sediments, Marine geotechnics, Non-living resources, and Modeling.
Excursions: (1) one-day field excursion to the coast of Goa on October 28. The cost of
this excursion is included in the registration fees. (2) one-day optional excursion to
archaeological sites including the Basilica of St. Francis Xavier on October 31. The
charges for this excursion will be $15 for foreign delegates and Rs. 250 for Indian
delegates. Co-convenors: M. Veerayya and K.H. Vora, IGCP 396 3rd Annual
Conference, National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa, India; 91 (0) 0832 221322
/ 226253; fax: 223340 / 239102; veerayya@darya. nio.org or vora@darya.nio.org; http://
www2.env.uea.ac.uk/gmmc/index.html AASP Annual Meeting November, 1998 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 November, 1998 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. Information at http:// archaeology.la.asu.edu/uispp. Contact: George Cowgill, Department of Anthropology, Box 872402, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-2402; fax: 602-965-7671; cowgill@ asu.edu 31st Annual Chacmool Conference November 12-15, 1998 Titled: On Being First: Cultural Innovation and
Environmental Consequences of First Peoplings. The conference will bring together
researchers from a variety of areas including North and South America, the Caribbean, and
the Pacific to discuss the consequences of peopling places that until recently
(geologically) were uninhabited by humans. It is our hope that these researchers will
recognize common themes that can be used to better address the problems of archaeological
investigation of the peopling process. Two field trips are proposed: one, a full day trip
on November 12th, will examine the glacial and postglacial geomorphology of Alberta and
the other, a half-day trip at some point during the conference, will visit early sites in
Calgary, followed by discussion. Contact: 1998 Conference Committee, Department of
Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary AB T2N 1N4 Canada; fax: 403-282-9567;
nicholls@acs.ucalgary.ca The Bea Loveseth Prize of $200 is awarded to the writer of the best paper presented at the Chacmool Conference by an undergraduate or Masters student. Royal Geographical Society Conference January 4-7, 1999 Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British
Geographers) Conference and British Ecological Society Conference will host a joint
session: Extending the Ecological Timescale. An appreciation of the importance of temporal
scale is crucial to resolving many ecological problems. However, potential scientific
benefits of closer integration between palaeoecology and ecology have not been fully
exploited. The aim of this symposium is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas between
palaeoecologists and ecologists and to explore avenues of closer interdisciplinary
collaboration. Papers addressing any aspect of this theme are welcomed. Please send a
title and abstract by July 1st, 1998 to: Francis Mayle, Geography Department, University
of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK; 0116 252 3831; fax: -3854; fem1@leicester.ac.uk
Recent Advances in Quaternary Biostratigraphy January 5-6, 1999 Papers are invited for a two-day discussion meeting highlighting recent advances in Quaternary biostratigraphy. The primary emphasis will be on the record from the British Isles, although evidence from further afield is also welcomed. It is envisaged that a wide range of taxonomic groups will be discussed, including vertebrates, pollen, plant macrofossils, molluscs, ostracods, beetles, chironomids and foraminifera. Provision will be made for a poster session, particularly to encourage postgraduate presentations. Deadline for abstracts is October 15, 1998; Contact: Danielle Schreve, Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD; 0044-0171-938-9258; fax: -9277; D.Schreve@nhm.ac.uk or Gill Thomas; 0044-0124-254-3311; fax: -253-2997; gthomas@chelt.ac.uk 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 XV INQUA Congress August 4-12, 1999 "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 Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Dating September 6-10, 1999 The 9th International Conference on Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Dating will be held in Rome at the Complesso Monumentale del San Michele a Ripa. LED99 continues the series started in 1978 in Oxford, with the First Specialist Seminar on Thermo-luminescence Dating, and follows LED96 (Canberra). LED99 will gather experts from around the world in the fields of Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Dating. The topics range from fundamental studies of the basic physical phenomena to dosimetry, advances in equipment technology and applications of the dating techniques in Quaternary research, accident dosimetry, archaeology and history of art. A few invited lectures will introduce the main topics. Both oral and poster presentations are planned. Poster presentation will be briefly introduced by their authors at the beginning of the poster sessions. The great importance of the Italian National Cultural Heritage should elicite the interest of scientists in archaeology and history of art. Contributions regarding dating applications in these fields will be particularly welcome. Contact: Emanuela Sibilia, Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali, Via Emanueli, 15, 20126 Milano; +39266174-165 or -.167; fax: +66174400; sibilia@ mater.unimi.it |