Future Meetings

The Symposium on Toarcian Palaeobiology is an opportunity to platform the diversity of global Toarcian palaeontological research by spotlighting underrepresented fields such as the marine benthos, the terrestrial realm, and the ecological impacts of the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event, alongside popular fields including ammonites and marine reptiles, as well as curatoration and prepartion of Toarcian material.

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The Virtual Conference for Women Archaeologists and Paleontologists (VCWAP) is an international and inclusive online scientific exchange during which young international women researchers, at the forefront of current knowledge and methodologies in Archaeology and Paleontology, present their most recent work.

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Following the success of a pump-priming event in 2022 (Ecological uniformitarianism 1), this online meeting will reunite a diverse community of earth and life scientists to discuss the stability of ecological niches. Earth scientists have long taken the (pseudo-)uniformitarian view that niches are stable and hence that the environments of fossil organisms can be interpreted from the ecology of modern counterparts. Niche change is, however, demonstrated by many invasive speakers.

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The goal of the Turtle Evolution Symposium is to present, promote, communicate and discuss the latest advances and original results on the evolutionary history of turtles, from their origin and early evolution until the present. This is an international meeting that brings together turtle researchers and students from around the world working on specific topics such as anatomy, evolution, nomenclature, taxonomy, phylogenetic relationships, the fossil record of extinct turtles, conservation and more.

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The 12th NAPC will bring together professionals, graduate and undergraduate students, amateur palaeontologists and interested members of the public from all over the world. The meeting covers all branches of palaeontology, including vertebrate, invertebrate, palaeobotany, micropalaeontology, palaeo-related organic and inorganic geochemistry, palaeoecology, palaeoclimatology and astrobiology. The meeting provides a forum for exchanging research findings, defining future directions and fostering relaxed interactions within the palaeontological community at large.

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More than 60 thematic sessions will bring together international researchers, practitioners and policy makers of a variety of disciplines. During this edition of the forum there will be a special session on palaeontology: BEF_1.5 ‘Insights from the past for a better future’. Species are going extinct at an accelerated rate and despite some success stories, current conservation efforts have not been sufficient to halt extinctions, with more species threatened every year.

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This congress celebrating 200 years of modern palaeobotany, originally scheduled for September 2020, was postponed until May 2021; however, due to the ongoing pandemic the organizers made the decision to move the event to 2024. This date has also been chosen to reflect the decisions of the parent organizations (IFPS and IOP), and the fact that the online European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference in Stockholm took place in 2022. These conferences are held biannually and usually alternate between European and world events.

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Early career researchers are invited to join this next edition of the EJIP (meeting of young researchers in palaeontology) in Spain. This meeting has traditionally been held in various locations on the Iberian Peninsula; last year it was held in Lourinhã, Portugal but now it returns to Spain, to Igea in La Rioja. Igea is known for its valuable palaeontological heritage, which includes outstanding dinosaur track sites, considered among the best in Europe.

• Read more about XXII EJIP (Encuentro de Jóvenes Investigadores en Paleontología)

To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the naming of the first dinosaur, the Natural History Museum, London will host an international conference showcasing the state-of-the-art in dinosaur palaeobiology. The event will include two days of talks, with eight invited keynote speakers whose work sits at the cutting-edge of the discipline and who also represent the breadth and depth of work done internationally and at a variety of career stages. The remainder of the talks will be chosen through application via abstract submission.

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CAVEPS is the biennial conference for vertebrate palaeontologists, Earth scientists, evolutionary biologists and fossil enthusiasts from Australasia and around the world. The conference will be co-hosted by Monash University and Museums Victoria, and held at Melbourne Museum, Victoria. CAVEPS 2023 will be a multidisciplinary forum that showcases the latest research on vertebrate morphology, phylogeny, systematics, evolution, development, zooarchaeology and palaeoecology.

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