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The Quaternary Times
Newsletter of the American Quaternary Association
Volume 29 Number 1 May 1999

Conference Announcements

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. Contact: 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

Continental Shelves in the Quaternary
July 28 - August 2, 1999
Cape Town, South Africa
UNESCO and the International Union of Geological Sciences are pleased to announce the 4th annual conference of IGCP 396 at the University of Cape Town in Cape Town, South Africa. It will consist of oral and poster paper sessions, two full-day field excursions, various business meetings and a half-day workshop. The timing will allow delegates to proceed immediately after closure to attend the 15th INQUA Congress in Durban. IGCP 396 is a 5-year project currently in its third year.

Topics Include:
€ Geochemistry of sediments
€ Global and regional perspectives
€ Palaeoceanography
€ Dating shelf sequences and land-sea correlation
€ Record of coral reefs
€ Record of continental palaeohydrology
€ Migration of flora and fauna
Contacts: Mike Meadows, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa; 27 21 650 2873; fax: -3791; meadows@enviro.uct.ac.za
http://www2.env.uea.ac.uk/gmmc/
Wyss Yim, Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong SAR, China; fax: 852 251 76912; wwsyim@hkucc.hku.hk
Peter Davies, Department of Geology and Geophysics, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia; fax: 61 2 935 10184; pjd@beryl.es.su.oz.au

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

CANQUA-CGRG 1999
August 20-29, 1999
Calgary, Alberta
Details at: http://www. ucalgary.ca/UofC/faculties/SS/GEOG/CANQUA/canquaindex.html
The conference program will consist of a symposium in honour of Nat Rutter (retiring from University of Alberta and past-INQUA president), general and special theme sessions. The meeting includes a total of 10 pre-, post- and mid-conference field trips.

Special Theme Sessions:
(1) Geomorphic response to climate variability and extreme climatic events: Steve Wolfe and Christian Begin
(2) Paleolimnology of the Great Plains and Mountains: Dana Naldrett
(3) Shallow geophysics method applications in geomorphology: Brian Moorman and Harry Jol
(4) Subglacial processes, review of past and recent findings: John Clague and James Teller
(5) Holocene climate and glacier fluctuations: Brian Luckman and Dan Smith
(6) Rivers: a stream of new ideas: Ted Hicken and Derald Smith
(7) Geo-archaeology research on coast and inland routes of earth peopling: Gerry Oetelaar and Darryl Fedje
(8) Geochronology methods, applications and limitations: Terry Swanson and Glenn Berger

Pre-Conference Trips:

• Columbia Icefield, Glacial and Periglacial Features: Derald Smith, 403-220-6191; fax: -6561; dgsmit@ucalgary.ca
  
• Canadian Plains Landscape, Environments, and People in the Holocene: Don Lemmen, 403-292-7184; fax: -7034; dlemmen@NRCan.gc.ca
  
• Late Wisconsinan Glacial and Fluvial Landforms and Vertebrate Fossils of the Hand Hills Region: Rob Young, 403-492-0356; fax: -7598; robert.young@ ualberta.ca

Mid-Conference Trips:

• Glacial Lakes Calgary and Kananaskis: Derald Smith, U of Calgary, and Timothy Fisher, U of Indiana.
  
• Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology and Badlands: Robert Young, U of Alberta.
  
• Head-Smashed-In-Buffalo Jump: Gerry Oetelaar, U of Calgary.
  
• Glaciers, Climatic Warming and Geologic Hazards Kicking Horse Pass, B.C.: L.E. Jackson Jr., Geological Survey of Canada.
  
• Alpine Geomorphology of the Mount Rae Area: Dan Smith, U of Victoria.

Post-Conference Trips:

• Quaternary Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and geochronology of the Foothills, Calgary to Montana: Lionel Jackson, 604-666 3409; fax: -1124; lijackso@mcan.gc.ca
  
• Fluvial Sedimentary Environments, Upper Columbia Valley, B.C.: Derald Smith, 403-220-6191; fax: -6561; dgsmit@ucalgary.ca

Special Session:
As part of CANQUA 1999 the Canadian Geomorphological Research Group and the Geological Survey of Canada is sponsoring a special session entitled: "Geomorphic Response to Climate Variability and Extreme Climate Events: Records, Processes and Models from the Late Quaternary to the 21st Century."
The session will examine linkages between geomorphic processes and climate, drawing upon examples from the deglacial and postglacial geologic record, as well as from predictive models identifying geomorphic impacts related to climate and climate change. Impacts of extreme climatic events in the historic record, including flooding, storm surges and landsliding, will also be highlighted. Organized by Stephen Wolfe and Christian Begin, the session will include both oral and poster presentations. Contact: Stephen Wolfe, swolfe@gsc. nrcan.gc.ca.

Wengen-99 Workshop on Global Change Research
September 27-30, 1999
Wengen, Switzerland
The workshop theme is Bridging the Gap Between Dendrochronological Analyses and Climate Reconstruction and Prediction. Joint organizers: Martin Beniston, University of Fribourg, Switzerland and Fritz H. Schweingruber, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland. Updated information is at: http://www.unifr.ch/iguf/EVENTS/events.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

International Conference on Modelling of Global Climate Change and Variability
September 13-17, 1999
Hamburg, Germany
Contact: Lydia Dümenil, Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Bundesstrasse 55, 20146 Hamburg, Germany; 49-40-41173-310; fax: -366; mpi-conference@ dkrz.de; http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/ ~mpi-conference/

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-Marnésia, 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/
Symposia and theme sessions of interest to Quaternary Scientists include:

• Human Transformation of the Physical Landscape
  
• Dates of Faults and Rates of Deformation
  
• Crossing the Greatest Divide: The Earth Sciences, the Humanities, and the Needs of Society
  
• Preserving Data in the Public Trust: Stewardship of the Record of Past Climates
  
• Monsoons, Tectonics, and Climate Change
  
• The Tropics Compared: Icehouse and Greenhouse States
  
• Geomorphic and Ecological Responses to Natural and Anthropogenic Disturbances
  
• Integrated Landscapes: The Colorado Front Range
  
• Glaciation and Reorganization of Asia's Network of Drainage: The Effects on Late Quaternary Global Change
  
• North Atlantic Crossroads: Terrestrial and Marine Environmental Records of Iceland
  
• Landscape Erosion and Sedimentation Modeling
  
• Geologic and Biologic Evidence for Late Cenozoic Drainage Rearrangements in North America: Implications for Aquatic Biogeography
  
• Shallow Subsurface Mapping: Using Geophysics for Geological, Groundwater Resource, and Contamination Studies
  
• Subglacial Processes and the Behavior of Ice Sheets
  

Clovis and Beyond
October 28-November 1, 1999
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Sponsors: Center for the Study of the First Americans, Museum of Fine Arts, Laboratory of Anthropology of the Museum of New Mexico, and the Smithsonian Institution. Contact: Center for the Study of the First Americans, 355 Weniger Hall, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331; csfa@orst.edu

Fifth Annual Graduate Student Conference
November 6, 1999
Boston, Massachusetts
"The Two Cultures: Humanities and Science in Archaeology" conference is to examine, in relation to archaeology, the problem first posed by C.P. Snow (1959) about the disjunction between the humanistic and scientific cultures. How do the methods, approaches, and traditions of the sciences or the humanities affect the way archaeologists interpret the past? Is archaeology a humanity, a science, or a unique combination of the two? Contact: Graduate Student Conference Committee, Department of Archaeology, Boston University, 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215; Christa Beranek: cberanek@ bu.edu; Marni Blake: marn@bu.edu; Ilean Isaza: iisaza@bu.edu

Non-Steady State of the Inner Shelf and Shoreline
November 9-12, 1999
Honolulu, Hawaii
The University of Hawaii, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, IGCP #437 "Coastal Environmental Change During Sea-Level Highstands," and conference sponsors, are pleased to announce a research conference on Coastal Change on the scale of decades to millennia.
Research presentations are invited on aspects of: changes in sea level over the late Quaternary; processes of coastal sediment production, exchange, storage and bypassing; coastal evolution; patterns and records of reef accretion and change; coastal environmental geochemical and geophysical processes and records; coastal atmospheric, oceanographic, and tectonic events and histories; coastal change and human interaction.
Keynote presentations by Richard Fairbanks - Transitions between states of global change; Larry Edwards - Geochronology of interglacial shorelines; Kelvin Berryman - Tectonic imprints on coastal records; Richard Peltier - Global Glacial Isostasy and Coastal Evolution; Colin Woodroffe - Morphodynamic response of shorelines to interglacials; Paul Hearty - The Antarctic "Wild Card" during late Quaternary sea-level highstands
The nature of coastal change over the time frame of decades to millennia, a period that is highly relevant to human concerns, is poorly understood. What is the repeatability of states of change on the inter-decadal scale? What are the temporal and spatial characteristics of processes that link the shoreline to the inner shelf on the century to millennial scale? Which of these nested time scales is responsible for the fate of coastal sediments, and the character of the shoreline at any moment? An improved ability to answer these, and other questions, is critically valuable to resource managers, coastal planners, and the science community seeking to develop predictive models of shoreline morphodynamics and hazardous processes. Additionally, the coastal record of global change events is particularly well-preserved and is a necessary component for testing global circulation models and separating natural change from anthropogenic influences.
Contact: Charles Fletcher, University of Hawaii, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), Department of Geology and Geophysics, POST 721, 1680 East-West Rd, Honolulu HI 96822; 808-956-2582; fax: -5512; fletcher@soest.hawaii.edu; http://www.iugs.org/iugs/news/igcp437-0.htm For a first circular, reply to: coastal@ soest.hawaii.edu.

Multifaceted Aspects of Tree Ring Analysis
November 15-19, 1999
Lucknow, India
Contact: Amalava Bhattacharyya, Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotony, 53 University Road, Lucknow 226 007, India; 91-522-381 948; bsip@bsip. sirnetd.ernet.in

International Tree Ring Conference
March 5-10, 2000
Mendoza, Argentina
The conference will be hosted by the Department of Dendrochronology and Environmental History. General information is available at: http//www. cricyt.edu.ar/congresos/dendro/index.html
Contact: Ricardo Villalba, Departamento de Dendrocronologia e Historia Ambiental, IANIGLA - CRICYT, C.C. 330, (5500) Mendoza, Argentina; 54-61-287029 x33; fax: -287370; ricardo@ lab.cricyt.edu.ar

Geological Meeting on NW Mexico and Adjacent Areas
March 6-8, 2000
Hermosillo, Sonora
Several institutions are co-organizing this event to bring together specialists in the geology, geophysics and paleontology of northwestern Mexico and adjacent regions. Several field trips to areas of interest for the symposia are also planned. Symposia include:
Neotectonics: Francisco Suárez and John Fletcher, Centro de Investigación Científica y Estudios Superiores de Ensenada (CICESE)
Geology of the Quaternary: Beatriz Ortega, Instituto de Geologia, ERNO, UNAM Gloria Rozo, Depto. Geologia, Universidad de Sonora Cristina Peñalba, Instituto de Ecología, UNAM
Paleontology: George D. Stanley, Jr. University of Montana Olivia Pérez, Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Sonora
Contact: Beatriz Ortega Guerrero, UNAM Instituto de Geofísica, Estación Regional del Noroeste Apartado Postal 1039, Hermosillo, Sonora 83000, México; (62)17.50.19; fax (62)17.53.40, conmutador UNAM ext. 26150; bortego@tonatiuh.igeofcu.unam.mx

Commission of the Holocene
March 27-30, 2000
Seville, Spain
Environmental changes in Holocene sequences: methods, processes, and correlation. Contact: Dominik Faust, 49-0-8421-93-1391, 1302; dominik.faust@ku-eichstaett.de

Archaeometry Symposium
May 15-19, 2000
Mexico City, Mexico
This five-day conference is for scholars in the fields of archaeology, anthropology, art history, conservation, museology, materials science, chemistry, biochemistry, physics, geology, etc., from around the world. In its broadest sense, archaeometry represents the interface between archaeology and the natural and physical sciences. This interdisciplinary field involves close collaboration between archaeologists, art historians, curators, conservators, and scientists who utilize modern instrumental techniques to extract technological, cultural, and historical information from objects and archaeological/historical contexts. Applications range from archaeological fieldwork to conservation of museum objects and historic monuments, including such topics as bone chemistry, technological and provenance studies, prospection and geoarchaeology, advanced dating techniques, and art forgery.
Contact: Archaeometry 2000, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropologicas, UNAM Circuito Exterior s/n, Ciudad Universitaria, Del. Coyoacan Mexico City, D.F. 04510, Mexico; fax: 52-5-622-9651; archaeom@servidor. unam.mx Online registration: http://www.archaeometry. unam.mx

AMQUA Biennial Meeting: Landscape and Biotic Responses to Climate Variability: Future Impacts and Past Lessons
May 21-24, 2000
Fayetteville, Arkansas
The 16th Biennial Meeting will be held at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas. See page 1 of this newsletter for more information. Contact meeting Chairperson, Peggy Guccione; 501-575-3354; guccione@comp.uark.edu For information on the program and invited speakers, contact Robert Webb, 303-497-6967; Robert.S.Webb@noaa.gov

Radiocarbon Conference
June 18-23, 2000
Jerusalem, Israel
The first 14C Conference at the dawn of a new millennium will undoubtedly include exciting new scientific developments. Keeping the tradition of past Radiocarbon conferences, the scientific program will include a wide variety of topics. Sessions,will be devoted to: Archaeology (including a special session on 14C data of Historical Periods in the Near East), Calibration of the 14C Time Scale, Geophysics and Geochemistry of 14C, Cosmogenic Radionuclides, Environment past and present, Global Change, Glaciology, Hydrology, Oceanography, Geology, Soils
Contact: 17th International Radiocarbon Conference, PO Box 29041, Tel Aviv 61290, Israel; +972-3-517-5150; fax: -5155; trgt@netvision. net.il http://www.radiocarbon.co.il/

Landslide Symposium
June 26-30, 2000
Cardiff, Wales
Contact: Cherrie Summers, Cardiff School of Engineering, PO Box 917, Newport Road, Cardiff CF2 1XH, Wales, UK; 44-0-1222 874421; SummersC@Cardiff.ac.uk

IUFRO World Congress
August 7-12, 2000
Sumava Mountains, Czech Republic
The IUFRO Tree Ring Analysis 5.09 group is planning sessions for this meeting covering all areas of tree ring analysis. Download the information package from: http://iufro.boku.ac.at/ iufro/congress/cip-98.pdf. Homepage: http://iufro.boku.ac.at/iufronet/d5/wu50900/ev50900.htm

Global Continental Palaeohydrology
August 20-28, 2000
Moscow and Central Russian Plain
The 4th International Meeting is entitled "Hydrological Consequences of Global Climate Changes: Geologic and Historic Analogs of Future Conditions" and is sponsored by the Commission on Global Continental Palaeohydrology (GLOCOPH), the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA), the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Russian Geographical Society, the Russian Fund on Basic Research, and the Institute of Geography RAS.
The conference will be held at the Hotel of Russian Academy of Sciences, Uzkoe, Moscow and in the central part of forest-steppe zone of the Russian Plain (Seim river basin, 500 km south of Moscow). The meeting is open to scientists interested in environmental changes and palaeohydrology in the last 20,000 years. The official language is English.
The main objective is to provide a forum for presentations and discussions on recent developments in the world with emphasis on hydrological consequences of global climate changes in geological and historical periods as analogs of future conditions.
The general themes are: main features of global climate changes and environmental changes during last 20,000 years; global, continental and regional hydrological response to global climate changes; palaeohydrological changes in temperate zones; palaeohydrological changes in glacial and periglacial regions; palaeohydrology of the late Pleistocene drainage system of northern Asia; palaeohydrological changes in arid and semi-arid regions; flood reconstruction based on natural proxy and historic data; hydrogeomorphological response to climate change in relation to human activity
Contact: Alexander Georgiadi and Andrey Chepalyga, Laboratory of Hydrology, Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, GLOCOPH 2000, Staromonetny per., 29, 109017 Moscow, Russia; fax: 095-959-00-33; geography@glasnet.ru, georg@ipcom.ru

Paleolimnology Symposium
August 20-24, 2000
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
Contact: John P. Smol & Brian Cumming (Co-Organizers) Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Lab (PEARL) Dept. of Biology, Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada; SmolJ@Biology.QueensU.Ca; CummingB@Biology.QueensU.Ca