Future Meetings

The 4th Crossing the Paleontological-Ecological Gap meeting and 3rd Conservation Paleobiology symposium will be held jointly, from July 27 to August 1, 2025, at the University of Zurich. The CPEG meeting aims to bring palaeontologists and ecologists together to share ideas, data and methods in research areas that are studied by both, but typically independently (e.g., community and population ecology, food web dynamics, extinction mechanisms and conservation).

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By working together and sharing knowledge, we benefit from collective experience. The conference will focus on building, maintaining, and benefitting from relationships between individuals, institutions and across networks.

We have a great line up of inspiring talks covering collections use from scientific research to public engagement, which will be complemented by poster presentations and workshops.

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Taphos 2025 represents the 10th International Meeting on Taphonomy and continues the tradition of taphonomic meetings that have been regularly held in Spain since 1990 (Madrid 1990, Zaragoza 1995, Valencia 2002, Barcelona 2005, Granada 2008), and then in Tübingen (2011), Ferrara (2014), Vienna (2017), and Madrid (2022).

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International Congress on Palaeontological Heritage IX [ICPH-9] is an event dedicated to the palaeontological and palaeoarchaeological heritage to communicate and exchange of novelties in the topics linked with the preservation and enhancement of palaeontological and archaeological heritage. It will be a meeting place between national and international researchers, socio-economic operators and activists, as well as activists in the legislation of the palaeontological heritage. It is also an opportunity for MSc. and PhD.

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The 70th Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy (SVPCA) and the 29th meeting of the Symposium of Palaeontological Preparation and Conservation (SPPC) will take place from the 11th to 14th of September 2024 at the University of Southampton.

The event will feature a keynote address by the esteemed Professor Mike Benton from the University of Bristol, setting the stage for a memorable conference.

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We are very pleased to invite you all to Geomuseum Faxe in Denmark for the 9th Symposium on Fossil Decapod Crustaceans. This conference is co-organized by the Geomuseum Faxe and the University of Alabama (Department of Museum Research and Collections & Alabama Museum of Natural History). Although the conference is focused on decapod crustaceans, research on other crustaceans is also welcome. The conference consists of an icebreaker followed by 2 conference days full of talks and posters and 2 field trip days.

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Joint Meeting of the Polish Paleobiologists and Paläontologische Gesellschaft - PalGes 2024 - is being held in Warsaw, the Capital and largest city of Poland. The University of Warsaw will mainly organise the meeting, and co-organise with Paläontologische Gesellschaft (PalGes) and the Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences (IP PAS), the Palaeontological Section of the Polish Geological Society (PS-PGS), and the Polish Geological Institute – National Research Institute (PGI-NRI).

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The 13th International Symposium on Fossil algae of the IFAA (International Fossil Algae Association) will be held in Le Castella (Calabria, southern Italy). The scientific topics will cover any aspects of calcareous algae and microbialites, including evolution, present-day and past biogeography, stratigraphic significance, paleoecology, and sedimentogenic role.

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February 20th 2024 is the bicentenary of a very notable meeting of the Geological Society of London, where the first scientific accounts of Plesiosaurus and Megalosaurus, were given in papers read by William Daniel Conybeare and William Buckland respectively, at which Buckland claimed his bones revealed an 'enormous fossil animal' and Conybeare his specimen 'an almost perfect skeleton'.

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Euromal is the most important meeting for the European malacological community, taking place once every three years. The motto of the 10th Euromal is “The slow side of life on a rapidly changing planet”. The aim of the conference, among other things, is to highlight the importance of molluscs in our efforts to understand and address anthropogenic impacts on the environment.

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