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10th CAVEPS and Quaternary Extinction Symposium
March 29 - April 2, 2005
Naracoorte, SA, Australia

CANQUA June 5-8, 2005
NOTICE: The server to the Winnipeg CANQUA abstract submission site has been periodically down for the past day or so. Please try again if you've been rebuffed; the format and address can be found on the meeting web site <http:www.umanitoba.ca/canqua>. We are extending the deadline until next week.

2nd International Congress
“The World of Elephants”
Hot Springs, South Dakota, USA September 22-25,  2005


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Letter to the editor

Poor Vision
My dear friends, were you asleep assembling this newsletter? I just read "A vision for Geomorphology and Quaternary Science" in the AMQUA newsletter. It sure is techno-babble fluff. If I were the editor I would have rejected it because it is poorly written and is unacceptable in style, even the tenor is wrong. When I saw the grammatical inference that Quaternary Science is "ongoing human experiment" in the first paragraph, I sensed a serious problem. Any proof reader should have recognized this as nonsense and rejected it. Overall, this is very hard to read. It is full of complicated expressions and jargon. Who do you expect to read this and be attracted to Quaternary Science?
Leon R. Follmer
Illinois State Geological Survey