Paleonet: geoevents 2010 Caravaca

Wed Sep 16 10:37:44 UTC 2009

Geoevents, Geological Heritage, and the Role of the IGCP
Caravaca de la Cruz (Spain), September 15-18, 2010
http://www.ugr.es/~mlamolda/congresos/geoevents

We are pleased to invite you to attend the International Conference on
Geoevents, Geological Heritage, and the Role of the IGCP to be held in
Caravaca de la Cruz, southeastern Spain, from Wednesday 15th to Saturday
18th of September 2010.

The year 2010 marks the 35th anniversary of the Spanish National
Committee, and for this occasion the Municipal Council of Caravaca
graciously offered to sponsor the commemorative Conference, as it did in
June 2003 for the international conference on Bioevents, their
stratigraphic records, patterns and causes, which included several topics
related to IGCP projects. Thus, the present International Conference on
Geoevents, Geological Heritage, and the Role of the IGCP is a joint effort
between the IGCP Spanish National Committee and the Caravaca Municipal
Council.

European Regional Meetings of the IGCP have been organized at variable
intervals under the sponsorship of a host nation volunteering to patronize
an event of this kind, and the last one was held in the Czech Republic in
1999. Since Spain has never been the venue of such a meeting, we took the
opportunity to submit a proposal for such conference to the 37th Session
of the IGCP Scientific Board in Paris on February 20th, 2009, which
approved it unanimously. The 2010 meeting thus invites delegates of the
IGCP National Committees to present the main activities and
accomplishments of their respective committees, and further discuss topics
of common interest.

In this first decade of the 21st Century interests continue to focus on
global phenomena which produced relevant changes in the Earth's Natural
History: evolution of life, extreme changes in climate such as Ice House
Earth and Green House Earth, global balance of the carbon cycle,
biosphere-geosphere feedback, plate tectonics and orogenies,
extraterrestrial phenomena, etc. For more than 25 years numerous IGCP
projects(*) have addressed these issues, and the results of their
inquiries brought considerable improvement to our understanding of the
long history of our planet, as far back as the late Proterozoic to the
more recent Quaternary Ice House. IGCP projects have been a successful
arena for interdisciplinary research, especially since the 1980's, e.g.,
IGCP project nº 216 Biological events in Earth History, when geochemists,
paleontologists, stratigraphers, sedimentologists, etc., successfully
collaborated to make the geological record more understandable.
(*) Such as projects no. 476, 478, 481, 490, 491, 493, 495, 497, 499, 500,
503, 506, 507, 509, 511, 512, 521, 524, 526, 546, 555, 559, 567, 571, 572,
581, 582, whose topics are elegible for the symposium Geoevents.

So far, the results of IGCP Projects have allowed to recognize and set
aside numerous localities worldwide, which show uniqueness in their fossil
record, stratigraphic significance, etc. that are of global importance.
These findings prompted geological institutions to propose conservation
programs such as Geosites and, especially Geoparks, to the IGCP. They will
allow preservation of these localities as natural educational topical
sites, thereby building mutually beneficial relationships between
geoscientists, sites owners and/or local and regional authorities. The
geologic heritage in Europe is under the advocacy of the European
Association for the Conservation of the Geological Heritage "ProGEO". Its
representative in Spain, the Commission on Geological Heritage of the
Sociedad Geológica de España, in collaboration with the IGCP Spanish
Committee, will organize a symposium focused on the SW European countries:
France, Italy, Portugal and Spain.

Student Grant Awards
    * A certain number of free registration awards will be available for
Graduate students, and young PhDs (no more than 35 years old) who have
contribution(s) accepted for presentation at the meeting. These awards
will be offered on a first come first served basis.

Additional information may be found at the conference website

http://www.ugr.es/~mlamolda/congresos/geoevents

Important deadlines

      Pre-registration: November 30th, 2009
      2nd Circular: middle January 2010
      Abstract submission: late April 2010
      Registration: middle June 2010

Best whishes,

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"35º Aniversario del Comite Español del PICG-año 2010"
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Prof. Marcos A. Lamolda
Presidente del Comité Español, PICG
Depto. de Estratigrafía y Paleontología
Facultad de Ciencias
Avda. de Fuentenueva s/n
E-18002 Granada

c/e: <mlamolda at ugr.es>
Tel. nº 958 243 347; Fax nº 958 248 528
 http://www.ugr.es/~mlamolda/PICG
http://www.ugr.es/~mlamolda/congresos/geoevents