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Hot Springs, South Dakota, USA September 22-25,  2005

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INQUA XV International Congress
August 3-11, 1999
Durban, South Africa
For up-to-date information on the INQUA Congress, refer to: http:// inqua.nlh.no/congress/

Information on travel grants can be found in the Announcements Section of this newsletter.

Permafrost and Periglacial Research and Quaternary Environmental Change
Southern Hemisphere Permafrost and Periglacial Research Workshop
Organized by the SA Permafrost group, this forms the inaugural meeting of the IPA Southern Hemisphere Working Group. The workshop aims to bring together cold regions researchers working in the Southern Hemisphere. Poster papers on any aspect of permafrost and periglacial research in the SH are invited. Invited papers will review permafrost and periglacial research in different sectors of the SH. Contact: Jan Boelhouwers; janboel@uwc.ac.za or Kevin Hall; hall@unbc.za

Periglacial Research and Quaternary Environmental Change Workshop
Organized by the SAPG under auspices of the IGU Commission on Climate Change and Periglacial Environments. Contributions on any aspect of periglacial research, but specifically those pertaining to paleoenvironmental reconstruction and environmental change in cold regions, are invited. For further information contact the convenors: Ian Meiklejohn; kim@nsnper1.up.ac.za or Stefan Grab; 017grab@cosmos.wits.ac.za

Contributions to these two workshop will be published in a special issue of Permafrost and Periglacial Processes.

Post-Conference ExcursionQuaternary Periglacial Environments of the Lesotho Highlands and Drakensberg
Organized by the SAPG, under the auspices of the IGU Commission on Climate Change and Periglacial Environments and the IPA Southern Hemisphere Working Group. This 4-day excursion visits the highest area south of Kilimanjaro in the mountain kingdom of Lesotho. A variety of sites with Quaternary periglacial records will be visited, including blockstreams, patterned ground, valley asymmetry and debates on possible Quaternary glaciation. Contact: Jan Boelhouwers, janboel@uwc.ac.za; Stefan Grab, 017grab@cosmos.wits. ac.za; Ian Meiklejohn, kim@scientia.up. ac.za

Eemian Interglacial: A Global Perspective
One of the topics discussed within the INQUA-Commission on Stratigraphy is the definition of the Quaternary stratigraphic boundaries (the Plio/Pleistocene as well as the Early/Middle and Middle/ Late Pleistocene). The Commission was of the opinion that, in order to define the lower boundary of the Late Pleistocene, detailed information from the type area of the Eemian is essential and contacted the National Geological Survey of the Netherlands. During the INQUA-Congress in Berlin (1995), it was discussed in more detail. The Netherlands Institute of Applied Geosciences TNO - National Geological Survey (NITG-TNO) started a multidisciplinary `Eemian-Project'.
The preliminary results of this project were presented and discussed during the 1998 annual meeting of the Subcommission on European Quaternary Stratigraphy (SEQS) (September 6-11 , 1998) which took place in Kerkrade (The Netherlands). The theme of the meeting was: "The Eemian - local sequences, global perspectives". The meeting focused mainly on the European set of data (marine as well as continental); the proceedings of the 1998 SEQS Symposium, issued by NITG-TNO will be available at the XV INQUA Congress in South Africa.
In order to put the new data in a global perspective the INQUA-Commission on Stratigraphy organizes a symposium and a workshop on the Eemian at the 1999 INQUA Congress. Summarizing information from all over the globe will be presented during the symposium and together with data presented during the poster-sessions, will form the base for a thorough debate on the interregional correlation and on the climatic and environmental history of the Last Interglacial. The workshop will be devoted to a discussion on the Eemian as stratotype and the need there exists for stratotype(s). Contact: Th. van Kolfschoten, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands; 3171-527-2640; fax: -2928; T.van.Kolfschoten@ arch. LeidenUniv.nl

Peribaltic Group, INQUA Commission on Glaciation
The Peribaltic Group intends to publish a special issue of Geological Quarterly devoted to Quaternary research in the Peribaltic area. Manuscripts concerning the last (Weichselian) glaciation are especially welcome. Contact: Leszek Marks, PG President; lmar@pgi.waw.pl or Jan Piotrowski, PG Secretary, Institute of Geophysics and Geology, University of Leipzig, Talstr. 35, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany; 49-341-97- 32886; fax: 32809; jpiotrow@rz.uni-leipzig.de

Quaternary Geology, Paleoseismology and Seismic Hazard
The purpose is to discuss new perspectives in the use of geological data for earthquake hazard characterization. The increasing number of paleoseismic analyses available in various tectonic settings provides a global database to verify whether the seismicity level derived from historical and instrumental observations is in agreement with the geological evidence. Contact: Alessandro M. Michetti, CNR-GNDT c/o ANPA, Via V. Brancati, 48, 00144 Roma, Italy; 39 6-500-72221; fax: -72143; michetti@ dns.anpa.it