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Quaternary Research Association: Annual Meeting Appropriately for the year 2000, the Annual Discussion Meeting has the theme "Millennial Scale Changes," highlighting recent advances in all aspects of Quaternary Science that show changes at or around the millennial scale. The venue is the recently refurbished Geography Department of Southampton University and the posters will be on high-profile display throughout the meeting, in areas adjacent to the lecture theatre. The complete programme of papers is available at: http://www.qra.org.uk/ Contact: Jane Hart; jhart@soton.ac.uk
The Environmental Earth Science Division of the Geological Association of Canada is sponsoring the conference "Current Environmental Research And Foci For The Next Century," in conjunction with the Atlantic Geoscience Society Annual Meeting. The conference will include environmental problems and solutions, policy, riparian rights and jurisprudence, hazard identification and public awareness, methods of investigation, sustainable development of natural resources and the interaction of man and environment. Details: http://is.dal.ca/ ~walla/ags/agsc2000.htm Contact: Bruce Broster, Department of Geology, PO 4400, Fredericton, NB, Canada, E3B 5A3; 506-447-3188; Fax: 506-453-5055; broster@unb.ca The symposia for this conference at the Universidad De Sonora will be: Stratigraphy, paleogeography and tectonics of the southwest margin of cratonic North America; Magmatism and Tertiary Tectonics; Mineral Deposits; Neotectonics; Geology of the Gulf of California; Hydrogeology; Quaternary Geology; Mesozoic Volcanic Arcs; Paleontology; General Sessions. Contact: Beatriz Ortega, UNAM, Instituto de Geofisica; bortega@tonatiuh.igeofcu.unam.mx or Cristina Penalba, UNAM, Instituto de Ecologia; penalba@servidor.unam.mx or Gloria Rozo, UNISON, DICTUS; grozo@guaymas.uson.mx The conference will be hosted by the Department of Dendrochronology and Environmental History. Information 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 The meeting will be held at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, and will consist of oral and poster presentations covering all aspects of high-latitude environments, past and present. Please stay tuned to the Web Site: http://instaar.colorado.edu/ AW2000/ for information on registration, program, abstract submission, and student support. Contact: Anne Jennings; jenninga@spot.colorado.edu
Environmental changes in Holocene sequences: methods, processes, and correlation. Contact: Dominik Faust, 49-0-8421-93-1391, -1302; dominik.faust@ku-eichstaett.de
The 65th Annual Meeting of the SAA. Contact: SAA Headquarters, 900 Second St. NE #12, Washington, DC 20002; 202-789-8200; meetings@saa.org; www.saa.org
This five-day conference is for scholars in the fields of archaeology, anthropology, art history, conservation, materials science, and other interested scientists 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 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
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; updated information at the AMQUA website: http:// vishnu.glg.nau.edu/amqua/
Palynology and Micropaleontology in Canadian Geoscience As part of the GeoCanada meeting, the Canadian Association of Palynologists (CAP) will sponsor a symposium on "Palynology and Micropaleontology in Canadian Geoscience: New Frontiers and Applications". Contact: Alwynne Beaudoin; abeaudoi@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca or Martin J. Head; head@quartz.geology. utoronto.ca. See the CAP website at: http://www.ualberta.ca/~abeaudoi/cap/cap.htm Natural Hazards: Progress towards Characterization and Mitigation A second thematic session of interest to Quaternary scientists is sponsored by the Geological Association of Canada, Canadian Geophysical Union, and Canadian Geomorphology Research Group, and is being organized by Stephen Evans and John Clague. The session will mark the end of the International Decade for Natural Hazard Reduction and will focus on landslide, volcanic, seismic, and flood hazards. Primary themes of the session include characterization of natural hazards, risk assessment, and hazard mitigation. The emphasis will be on North American examples and research, although contributions from other regions are also welcome. The objective is to provide a forum for a review and discussion of recent advances in improving our understanding of hazardous physical processes and mitigating future impacts of these processes on people and property. Contact Steve Evans; evans@ nrcan.gc.ca; information at: http://www.geocanada2000.com This conference on the reconstruction and modelling of past grass-dominated biomes is sponsored by NSF: Earth System History and PAGES Past Global Changes - IGBP. Contact: K.R.M. Beuning, Dept. of Earth and Env. Sciences, 265 Church Street, Middletown, CT 06459-6067; kbuening@wesleyan.edu or M.J. Wooller, Department of Geography, University of Wales Swansea, Singelton Park, Swansea, South Wales, UK SA2 8PP; m.wooller@swansea.ac.uk
CAPE 2000: Sea Ice in the Climate System; The Record of the North Atlantic Arctic. CAPE is as an organization within IGBP-PAGES Focus 2: Paleoclimate and Environmental Variability in Polar Regions. The primary emphasis of CAPE is to facilitate integration and synthesis of paleoenvironmental research spanning the last 250,000 years of Earth history, particularly those tasks that cannot easily be achieved by individual investigators, or even regionally focused research programs. The CAPE 2000 meeting will address the role of sea ice in the climate system, focusing on the evidence for changes in sea ice extent across the North Atlantic Arctic during the Late Quaternary. The North Atlantic Arctic includes the land masses influenced by Atlantic currents, the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans, and the adjacent marginal seas. Information at: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/cape/cape.html
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/ Contact: Secretary of the Organizing Committee for the 10th IPC, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Academia Sinica, 39 East Beijing road, Nanjing, 210008, PR China. Electronic version of first circular at: http://members.spree.com/sip/spore/index.htm; information on the International Palynological Congresses at: http://geo.arizona.edu/ palynology/ifps.html
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
Contact: Lujun Liu, Secretary General of IOPC - VI Organizing Committee, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Academia Sinica, 39 East Beijing road, Nanjing, 210008, PR China; 86-25-6637-208; Fax: 86-25-3357-026; paleobot@public1.ptt.js.cn
Theme: "Geology and Sustainable Development: Challenges for the Third Millennium". The Congress will include a special symposium on Global Changes and Future Environments. Within this, there will be two sessions entitled "Quaternary Climates" and "Past Climatic Changes and the Geological Record." Contact: Secretariat Bureau, Av. Pasteur, 404 - Casa Brazil 2000 - Urca, Rio di Janeiro - RJ - Brazil, CEP 22.290-240; 55-21-295-5847; Fax: -8094; 3ligc@3ligc.org; http://www.3ligc.org The INQUA Carbon Commission and last IGCP-404 meeting (Terrestrial Carbon in the past 125 ka) will be held during the International Geological Congress in Rio. We are also convening a General Symposium entitled: "20. Quaternary Geology - 20.1 - Carbon Cycle Changes". Participants are invited to present their contributions related to the Environmental modifications that result (or not) in Carbon Cycle Changes. The time intervals considered include not only the glacial-interglacial period, but also shorter (century to millennium) or longer (geological) timescales. Contributions on all aspects of the carbon cycle and associated processes are appreciated (CO2 or CH4 fluxes, sedimentary sinks, terrestrial ecosystems, fires, soil, rock weathering, fluvial fluxes, etc). Contributions to modelling or evaluation of present-day processes are welcome. The Scientific Program, including colloquia, special and general symposia, workshops and short courses, field trips and call for abstracts at: http://www.31igc.org
The IUFRO Tree Ring Analysis 5.09 group is planning sessions for this meeting covering all areas of tree ring analysis. Information at: http://iufro. boku.ac.at/iufro/congress/cip-98.pdf
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 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 All paleolimnologists are invited to come to Queen’s University to participate in the next international symposium. The symposium will be open to presentations on any aspect of paleolimnology, using poster sessions, as well as contributed lectures. There will also be workshop and meeting opportunities during the symposium. Please contact the co-organizers if you have suggestions for these workshops and meetings, or comments on any aspect of the conference. Details at: http://biology. queensu.ca/~pearl/ Contact: John Smol and Brian Cumming (Co-Chairs), Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Lab (PEARL), Department of Biology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada; Fax: 613-533-6617; SmolJ@Biology.QueensU.Ca; CummingB@Biology.QueensU.Ca The next meeting of the Association Québécoise pour l'étude du Quaternaire (AQQUA) will be held at Université du Québec à Montréal. The Canadian Geomorphology Research Group (CGRG) will join AQQUA members for their annual meeting. Participants to this joint meeting are invited to take a critical look at the Québec and canadian contribution over the last thirty years to the knowledge of the Quaternary, as well as to evaluate the impact of new technologies on solving the problems we face today. A special session on the Holocene and general presentations will complete the programme. Contact: Michel Lamothe, Département des sciences de la Terre, Université du Québec à Montréal; lamothe.michel@uqam.ca Theme: Indicators of a Changing World Contact: hmls2000@uibk.ac.at; http://zoology.uibk.ac.at/congress
International Symposium on Placer and Weathered Rock September 25-29, 2000 Moscow, Russia Themes for this conference on "Natural and Technogenic Placer and Weathered Rock Deposits at the Turn of the Millennium" are: (1) Mineralogy and geochemistry of PWR - use of high-resolution methods. (2) RWR deposits of fine gold - mechanisms of formation, technologies for prospecting, estimation and enrichment. (3) New technologies for forecasting, prospecting, exploration and development of PWR deposits. (4) Economical estimation of PWR mineral deposits; licensing. (5) Information technologies for studies, prospecting and exploration of PWR deposits; GIS. (6) Recent ore formation in technogenic deposits. (7) PWR deposits - economic outlooks into XXI century. (8) Development of scientific ideas, outstanding persons in PWR geology. Scientific schools and educational programmes. Information at: http://www.igem.ru/symp/rkv2000/
The IGCP 413 Meeting: Relations amongst Aeolian, Fluvial, and Lacustrine Geomorphic and Sedimentary Systems, will take place at the Desert Studies Center. The primary theme of the meeting will be the linkages between fluvial, lacustrine, and aeolian systems. We will examine (1) the ways in which climate change has impacted sediment supply, availability and mobility i aeolian systems; and (2) the effects of changes in climate on desert soils and ecosystems. The meeting will be conducted in an informal atmosphere in a remote desert setting, with two full-day field trips to local sites that illustrate the above themes. Total cost of the meeting will be about $500, to include registration, accommodation (dormitory style), all meals, field trips, and transportation to and from Las Vegas. Early registration is advised. Contact: Nicholas Lancaster, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV; Nick@dri.edu
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