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Fwd: North American Paleontological Convention
Hello everyone. Just got this off the Vertpaleo listserver.
Regards,
Thomas R. Lipka
Paleontological/Geological Studies
In a message dated 96-05-22 15:49:45 EDT, jclark@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu
(James M. Clark) writes:
>The North American Paleontological Convention, sponsored by the
>National Museum of Natural History Department of Paleobiology, will
>be held at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, June 9-12.
>To facilitate planning for the meeting by those who will attend, the
>tentative schedule is as follows:
>
>SATURDAY JUNE 8
>Field trips
>
>SUNDAY JUNE 9
>Registration 10AM-5PM
>Reception 530-7PM
>
>MONDAY MORNING JUNE 10
>Plenary session: "Precambrian evolution of the biosphere" J.W. Schopf
> and B. Runnegar
>Reef paleoecology
>Paleontological databases - applications and accessibility
>Morphospace concepts in paleontology I
>Precambrian-Cambrian paleontology
>Open sessions I and II
>
>MONDAY AFTERNOON JUNE 10
>
>Reconciling fossil and geochemical data and model results for
> periods of global warmth
>Understanding biodiversity patterns: Historical and biogeographic
> perspectives
>Morphospace concepts in paleontology II
>Quantitative stratigraphic paleontology
>Paleoecology
>Land access issues in fossil collecting
>
>MONDAY EVENING JUNE 10
>"Friends" gatherings 6-8 and 8-10PM
>
>TUESDAY MORNING JUNE 11
>Biological recoveries after mass extinctions I
>Recent advances in dinosaurian distribution and paleobiogeography/
> Preserved DNA and other biomolecules in fossils
>Applications of integrated, diverse chronostratigraphic data
>Cambrian topics and trilobites
>Pan-American paleontological perspectives
>The conodont animal
>
>TUESDAY AFTERNOON JUNE 11
>Biological recoveries after mass extinctions II
>Community unity?
>The origin and early evolution of whales I
>Origin and evolution of terrestrial herbivory
>Evolution/macroevolution/extinction
>Taphonomy
>
>TUESDAY EVENING JUNE 11
>
>Plenary session: "Human evolution and climate change" R. Potts and
>S. Stanley
>
>WEDNESDAY MORNING JUNE 12
>Dinosaurs in the public eye*
>Exceptional preservation
>Biological signatures of sequence stratigraphic units
>Paleoceanography/paleoclimate
>Calcareous microfossils
>Fossil mutualism: Implications for speciation and community
> organization
>
>WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON JUNE 12
>Origin and early evolution of whales II
>Ordovician radiations and extinction event
>Invertebrate paleoethology: The fossil record of animal behavior
>Functional morphology
>Phylogenetic studies
>The role of paleontology in geological and environmental problems/
> The History of American Paleontology
>
>*The cryptically titled symposium "Dinosaurs in the Public Eye" will
>consist of talks by eight leading dinosaur paleontologists
>(R. Bakker, D. Chure, C. Forster, J. Horner, L. Jacobs, M. Lockley,
>M. Norell, and P. Sereno), followed by a panel discussion of how
>the high public profile accorded to dinosaur research affects
>dinosaur paleontology. The panel will also include H. Gee (Nature),
>C. Zimmer (Discover) and W. Mitchell (U. Chicago).
>
>For further information on NAPC, please contact Dr. Marty Buzas
>(202) 357-1390, Dr. Ellis Yochelson (202) 343-4330, or Dr. Ken Towe
>(202) 357-2406.
>
>
>Also of interest to vertebrate paleontologists, the Society of Avian
>Paleontology and Evolution will meet at the NMNH June 3-7. A
>"Symposium and roundtable on the origin and early evolution of
>birds" will be held on Friday, June 7 and a "Workshop on early
>Nornithes" will be scheduled Tuesday June 4 or Wednesday June 5.
>For more information, please contact SAPE, NMNH Bird Division, via
>fax at (202) 786-2979.
>
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> James M. Clark
> NAPC Liaison, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
> Department of Biological Sciences
> George Washington University
> Washington, D.C. 20052
> (202) 994-7144 or 994-9210; fax - 994-6100