[NHCOLL-L:1947] 13th Canadian Paleontology Conference (CPC-2003) - First Circular

[William Douglas Boyce]

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PALEONTOLOGY DIVISION

GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA

THIRTEENTH CANADIAN PALEONTOLOGY CONFERENCE (CPC-2003)

September 19th - 21st, 2003

UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA, EDMONTON, ALBERTA


FIRST CIRCULAR



  Welcome to Edmonton!


The 13th annual Canadian Paleontology Conference (CPC-2003) will be 
held in Edmonton, Alberta, on September 19th-21st, 2003.  The 
University of Alberta's departments of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences 
and Biological Sciences are pleased to host this years meeting and to 
showcase their long, vibrant, and ongoing tradition of 
paleontological research.  The University of Alberta currently has 
six academic paleontologists on staff, two active professors emeriti, 
nearly twenty graduate students, and an Honours Paleontology 
undergraduate degree program boasting twenty-three registered 
students!

The City of Edmonton is firmly anchored to the Upper Cretaceous 
bedrock of the Edmonton Formation which is beautifully exposed along 
the scenic banks and ravines of the North Saskatchewan River. 
Edmonton and its Cretaceous rocks are also the source name for the 
dinosaur genera Edmontosaurus and Edmontonia - a hadrosaur and 
ankylosaur respectively.  No other Canadian city can claim to be the 
namesake of two dinosaur genera!

On behalf of the CPC 2003 we invite you to come experience a bit our 
paleontological history and to glimpse a bit of our future.



  The Program

On the evening of Friday, September 19th, delegates may attend a 
social event.  Platform presentations and a poster session are 
scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 20 to be followed by a banquet that 
evening.

Field trips will commence early Sunday morning for registered field 
trip participants.  Two separate field trips are being organized and 
are provisionally intended to run from September 21st-24th.  Both 
field trips will involve a visit to the Royal Tyrrell Museum of 
Paleontology with one excursion proceeding to Dinosaur Provincial 
Park and the other to the Burgess Shale.  Detailed itineraries and 
costs for each trip will be given in the second circular.

If anyone is interested in viewing particular specimens from the 
collections at the University of Alberta Laboratory for Vertebrate 
Paleontology, or the Paleontology Museum, Department of Earth and 
Atmospheric Sciences, please make advance arrangements with the 
relevant Curators and Collections Managers so the material will be 
available on that Monday.


CPC-2003 EXTENDED ABSTRACT/SHORT PAPERS VOLUME

Participants of CPC-2003 have the option of submitting either a short 
paper or an extended abstract for their presentations.  Students are 
particularly encouraged to submit short papers for publication in the 
volume (short papers will not be refereed).


  SUBMISSION DEADLINE

The submission deadline for both short papers and conventional 
abstracts is provisionally set for July 15, 2003.  We encourage all 
contributors to start preparation early.  Contributions may be 
submitted electronically any time after June 1st, 2003.




SECOND CIRCULAR

Details on registrations fees, registration forms, accommodation, and 
meeting schedule will be given in the Second Circular, which will be 
sent out in June, 2003.  In order to receive the second circular, 
please indicate your intention to participate in the brief 
questionnaire below:

We are currently building a website to accept on-line registration 
and to encourage the submission of

  QUESTIONNAIRE

______ I will attend CPC-2003

______ I will (will not) give an oral presentation.

______ I will (will not) present a poster.

______ I will (will not) contribute a short paper to the CPC-2002 
conference volume.


Please send to:

Dr. Brian D.E. Chatterton,
Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Science
1-26 Earth Sciences Building,
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2E9

e-mail: brian.chatterton at ualberta.ca
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-- 
Mr. W. Douglas Boyce, M.Sc., P.Geo., Provincial Paleontologist,
Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Mines and Energy,
Geological Survey Division, Regional Geology Section,
P.O. Box 8700, St. John's, NL, Canada A1B 4J6

Phone:	(709) 729-2163		Fax: (709) 729-4270
WWW:	http://www.geosurv.gov.nf.ca/mapping/boyce.html
	http://www.geosurv.gov.nf.ca/education/fossils/index.html
	http://www.canadianrockhound.com/summer97/cr9701301_nfld.html
	http://www.spnhc.org/documents/fossilprotection.htm
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