PALEOLIM-10 SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT

 

The conference webpage at
<http://talc.geo.umn.edu/paleolim10/index.htm>
http://talc.geo.umn.edu/paleolim10/index.html now includes
full details on registration and hotel reservations.

 

The 10th International Paleolimnology Symposium will be held
June 25-29, 2006, in Duluth Minnesota.  Held every 3-4 years
since 1967, this is the first time the conference will be
hosted in the United States. The local organizing committee
is preparing what should be an exceptional meeting.

 

The symposium theme, "Past Ecosystem Processes and
Human-Environment Interactions" emphasizes the importance of
paleo records in understanding global environmental impacts
and their intersection with climate change.  This topic is
also a major focus of the IGBP-PAGES program (International
Geosphere Biosphere Program - Past Global Changes). 

 

Papers dealing with all aspects of lacustrine sedimentary
records are welcome. The conference will run over four full
days (with a half-day set aside for a field trip).  Each
half-day will have a lead-off plenary lecture emphasizing
the symposium theme and key topic areas, followed by
concurrent (two parallel) sessions of contributed papers.

 

The meeting venue is the recently-built Harbor-Side
convention center which faces directly onto the
Duluth-Superior Harbor. Numerous social events and local
field trips will be part of the week-long technical program,
and optional pre- and post-conference excursions to Lake
Superior's famed North Shore and the prairie/forest border
region near Lake Itasca are planned. 

 

Conference co-chairs
Emi Ito   [log in to unmask]
Limnological Research Center, and
Department of Geology and Geophysics
University of Minnesota

Daniel Engstrom   [log in to unmask]
St. Croix Watershed Research Station
Science Museum of Minnesota