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March 29 - April 2, 2005
Naracoorte, SA, Australia

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“The World of Elephants”
Hot Springs, South Dakota, USA September 22-25,  2005

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Royal Geographical Society
January 4-7, 1999
Leicester University, UK
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. Contact: 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 University of Cambridge
This two-day discussion meeting will highlight 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. 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. 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

Quaternary Sea Level, Climate Change, an Crustal Dynamics
February 13-18, 1999
Albufeira, Portugal
Contact: Dr. Josip Hendekovic, European Science Foundation, 1 quai Lezay MarnÈsia, 67080 Strasbourg Cedex, France; 333-88-76-7135; Fax: -36-6987; euresco@esf.org; http://www.esf.org/ euresco/Lc99087a.htm

Western Division, Canadian Association of Geographers
March 11-13, 1999
Kelowna, B.C.
This annual meeting will include a symposium entitled "Late-Quaternary Palaeoecology and Palaeoclimatology" which will focus principally on palaeoecological evidence of climatic changes in two broad areas: 1) western Canada and the northwestern U.S., and/or 2) arctic and alpine treelines. Details are being posted at: http:// www.geog.ouc. bc.ca/wcag/info.html Contact: Ian Walker, Department of Biology, North Kelowna Campus, Okanagan University College, 3333 College Way, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada V1V 1V7; 250-762-5445 local 7559; fax: 470-6004; iwalker@okanagan.bc.ca; additional instructions at: http://www.ouc.bc.ca/ fwsc/iwalker/#CONTACT

Rockshelter Sediment Record and Environmental Change in the Mediterranean Region
March 22-23, 1999
Boston, MA
This is an international meeting convened by Jamie Woodward, Paul Goldberg, and Ofer Bar-Yosef. Contact: Jamie Woodward, School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK; 113-233-6838; fax: -3308; jamie@ geog.leeds.ac.uk

Association of American Geographers
March 23-27, 1999
Honolulu, Hawaii
Annual Meeting. Includes several sessions of interest including Human Impacts in Geomorphology (contact: Jon Harbor), Sediment Transport in Fluvial Systems (contact: Michael Slattery), Wetland Restoration/Creation (contact: Christopher Woltemade), and Soils in Archeological and Cultural Context (contact: Tim Beach).

Society for American Archaeology 64th Annual Meeting
March 24-28, 1999
Chicago, IL
Contact: SAA, 900 Second St. NE 12, Washington, D.C. 20002; 202-799-8200; meetings@saa.org

Loessfest 99
March 26 - April 1, 1999
Bonn and Heidelberg, Germany
Loess: Characterization, Stratigraphy, Climate and Societal Significance. Contact: Ludwig Zoeller, Geogr. Inst. , University of Bonn, Meckenheimer Allee 166 , D-53115 Bonn, Germany; 49-228 735398; fax: -735393; zoeller@slide. giub.uni-bonn.de; http://www.gg.rhbnc. ac.uk/loessfest

European Union of Geosiences
March 28 - April 1, 1999
Strasbourg, France
By individual symposia, see http://eost.u strasbg.fr/EUG/symposia.html
Some of the planned sessions in climate - past and present:
Holocene and Pleistocene decadal to millenial scale climate variability: the terrestrial record
Holocene and Pleistocene decadal to millenial scale climate variability: the marine record
Linkages and feedbacks between marine and terrestrial systems
Glacial carbon cycle changes
Lake Drilling Projects - monitoring climate change

Canadian Archaeological Association
April 28 - May 1, 1999
Whitehorse, Yukon
The 1999 Canadian Archaeological Association Conference will be hosted by the Government of Yukon, Heritage Branch. Paper and session titles due January 31, 1999. Abstracts due February 15, 1999. The conference web page address will be posted on the Canadian Archaeological Association web page: www.canadianarchaeology.com; contact Ruth Gotthardt, Programme Coordinator; 867-667-5983; fax:-5377; Ruth. Gotthardt@gov.yk.ca.

International Geosphere Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Congress
May 6-14, 1999
Yokahama, Japan
IGBP Contact: IGBP Secretariat, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Lilla Frescativ‰gen 4, Box 50005, S-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden; 46-816-6448; fax: -6405; sec@igbp.kva.se

2nd International Mammoth Conference
May 16-20, 1999
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
"200 Years of Mammoth Research" is the theme of this IMC. Requests for registration forms, information about fees, accommodations, and guidelines for oral and poster presentations as well as contributions to the conference publication (a special issue of DEINSEA titled "Advances in Mammoth Research.") must be made off-line and include a postal address. Contact: J. J. Saunders, Chair, Geology Section, Illinois State Museum, Research and Collections Center, 1011 East Ash, Springfield, IL 62703; 217-524-7909; fax: 785-2857; http://www.museum. state.il.us/

Palaeoclimate Modelling and Analysis
May 21-27, 1999
Albufeira, Portugal
Quaternary Earth System Interactions and Modelling Contact: Josip Hendekovic, European Science Foundation, 1 quai Lezay-MarnÈsia, 67080; 333-8876-7135; fax: -8836-6987; euresco@esf.org

The Peribaltic Group
May 25-31, 1999
Estonia
The Peribaltic Group, INQUA Commission on Glaciation, will organize its next field symposium in Estonia. Local organizer is Volli Kalm from the University of Taru. More details are available at: http://www.ut.ee/BGGL/ Peribalt99

IUGG General Assembly
July 21-23, 1999
Birmingham, UK
Two 1.5-day symposia will be of interest to anyone interested in the interactions between ice sheets, oceans, sea level, and the geodetic effects of the associated mass shifts. The deadline for abstracts is January 15, 1999. Information at: http://www.bham.ac.uk/ IUGG99/

Sea-Level Changes and Vertical Ground Movements
Monitoring of sea-level changes and understanding the physical causes of them are key for revealing ongoing climate variabilities and, eventually, for mitigating the natural hazard due to sea-level increase. The issues touched upon in sea level studies represent a really interdisciplinary field where geodesy, solid Earth geophysics and oceanography provide the necessary tools to study the pattern of global ocean circulation and to discriminate sea-level changes due to climate variabilities or ocean dynamics from those due to vertical ground movements due to slow deformation processes within the Earth's mantle and active tectonics. All contributions from the different fields, at global and regional scales, that shed light onto this topic are welcome. Convenor: Roberto Sabadini, Univarsita degli Studi, Milano, Italy; 392-234-98407; bob@sabadini.geofisica. unimi.it

Ice Sheets, Oceans, and Earth's Shape: Modern Perspectives on Sea-Level Change
Throughout the last million years Earth history, the planet has experienced a regular cycle of glaciation and deglaciation. The redistribution of surface mass between cryosphere and oceans that characterizes this cycle has a profound impact upon relative-sea-level history, earth rotation, and the climate state itself. Understanding of the physical processes that have controlled the stability of the cryosphere in the past provides essential information that is required to appreciate how it may respond to future global warming. It is expected that ongoing climate change may lead to an important response in mean sea level, either through a direct affect on cryospheric volume, involving both small ice caps and glaciers and large continental ice sheets, or due to ocean thermal expansion (or both). This symposium seeks to attract papers on all aspects of sea-level change, past, present, and future. Papers on measurements, theoretical analyses, and numerical modeling are welcome. Convenor: Charles Bentley, Geophysical and Polar Research Center, University of Wisconsin, 1215 West Dayton Street, Madison, WI 53706; 608-262-1922; fax: -0693; bentley@ geology. wisc.edu; Co-convenors: W Richard Peltier; peltier@atmosp.physics. utoronto.ca and Atsumu Ohmura; ohmura@geo.umnw.ethz.ch

INQUA XV International Congress
August 3-11, 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; International address: http://inqua.nlh.no/ Local address: http://www.geoscience.org.za/ inqua/inqua.html

BSRG / BGRG Joint Field Meeting
September 2-9, 1999
Almeria Province, Spain
This multidisiplinary 3rd International Earth Science field conference will focus on the Almeria Province, and adjacent areas, which has become the focus of a wide range of research, particularly in the fields of sedimentology, biogeography, geomorphology, environmental issues, archaeology, tectonics, and remote sensing applications. The aim of the week is to draw together this research, exchange information and ideas and stimulate interdisciplinary discussion focused on the geographical region. The support of both the British Sedimentological Research Group (BSRG) and British Geomorphological Research Group (BGRG) for the meeting highlights the interdisciplinary nature of this event. Further details at: http:// www.science.plym.ac.uk /DEPARTMENTS/GEOGRAPHY/ urra99/urra99.htm Contact: Anne Mather, Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Plymouth, Drakes Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, UK; +44 (0) 1752 233113; fax: -233117; amather@plymouth.ac.uk or Martin Stokes, Department of Geological Sciences; m1stokes@ plymouth.ac.uk

Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Dating
September 6-10, 1999
Rome, Italy
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 Thermoluminescence 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 presentations will be briefly introduced by their authors at the beginning of the poster sessions. The great importance of the Italian National Cultural Heritage should elicit 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

Polar Regions and Quaternary Climate:
September 17-22, 1999
Giens, France
Towards High-Resolution Records of the Last Glacial Period in Antarctica
Contact: Josip Hendekovic, European Science Foundation, 1 quai Lezay MarnÈsia, 67080 Strasbourg Cedex, France; 333-8876-7135; Fax: -8836 6987; euresco@esf.org

Archaeometry Meeting
September 22-26, 1999
Vila Real, Portugal
This Archaeometry Meeting intends to encourage researchers to present new results about archaeometric research and the Iberian Peninsula: dating systems, pottery analysis, archaeozoology, archaeobotany, biomolecular archaeology, etc. Coordinators: Joao Peixoto Cabral, Inst.Tecnologico Nuclear, Sacavem and Jordi Juan-Tresserras, SERP/University of Barcelona. Contact: ADECAP, 3Ý Congreso de Arqueologia Peninsular, R.Anibal Cunha,39, 3Ý, sala 7. P-4050 Porto, Portugal

Geological Society of America Annual Meeting
October 25-28, 1999
Denver, Colorado
Information: http://www.geosociety.org/

Multifaceted Aspects of Tree Ring Analysis
November 15-19, 1999
Lucknow, India
Contact: Amalava Bhattacharyya, Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, 53 University Road, Lucknow 226, 007, India; 91-0522-333620; fax: -381948; bsip@bsip.sirnetd.ernet.in