Future Meetings

A conference to bring together ecologists and palaeoecologists to discuss our shared research interests such as mass extinctions, biogeography, evolutionary ecology and environmental changes.

*Abstract submission and early-bird registration closed on the 1st of June 2018.*

CPEG has a great set of plenary speakers lined up including

Andrew Beckerman University of Sheffield
Jennifer Dunne Santa Fe Institute
Thomas Halliday University of Birmingham
Andrew Clarke British Antarctic Survey

• Read more about Crossing the Palaeontology - Ecology Gap

This session invites contributions that investigate geochemical patterns and processes associated with the origin, evolution and preservation of the biosphere throughout Earth history.

• Read more about Geochemical-Palaeobiological Interactions Throughout Earth History - Session SSP4.4 at EGU

We welcome papers investigating the impacts of our changing world on foraminifera. We seek contributions ranging from foraminiferal biology, evolutionary and population dynamics to molecular works on single-cell genomics and environmental genomics. We also invite papers discussing the impacts of our changing world on forams geochemical and biomineralisation responses to multi-stressor events and biogeographical perturbation. We encourage papers incorporating all aspects of applied micropaleontology, for biomonitoring and industry.

• Read more about FORAMS 2018

To mark Prof Jennifer Clack’s formal retirement from the University of Cambridge and celebrate her 70th birthday, this one day conference hosted by the Department of Zoology and the University Museum of Zoology, will present new research by Jenny’s colleagues, collaborators and former students on many of the topics that she has explored during her remarkable career.

The conference is free, but please register by 17 November 2017.

Conference conveners: Per Ahlberg (University of Uppsala), Marcello Ruta (University of Lincoln) and Tim Smithson (University of Cambridge).

• Read more about The Early Tetrapod World: laying the foundations of the modern vertebrate fauna

Following a highly-successful 1st meeting held in Lisbon (Portugal) in 2013 and a 2nd held in Graz (Austria) in 2015, the 3rd International Congress on Stratigraphy will be held in Italy, from 2 to 5 July 2019. The congress venue is Milano, in the historical building of the Università degli Studi di Milano, but the pre- and post- congress field trips will be organized in the Alps, Appennines and on the Italian islands.

• Read more about STRATI 2019

The 50th annual meeting of AASP – The Palynological Society will be held at the British Geological Survey between the 3rd and 7th of September 2017. The meeting will cover all aspects of palynology and traverse the entire chronostratigraphical column. This conference is held jointly with CIMP and The Micropalaeontological Society (TMS) Palynology Group. We hope to welcome you to Keyworth for the Golden Anniversary meeting in 2017!

• Read more about The 50th Annual Meeting of AASP with CIMP and The Micropalaeontological Society

The study of mass extinctions is one of the most interdisciplinary research areas within Earth and environmental sciences. Recent, major advances have come from a broad spectrum of fields, including atmospheric modelling, high-precision age dating, volcanology, geochemistry, stratigraphy and palaeontology.

The 2018 Lyell Meeting aims to highlight these achievements and showcases the improved understanding we now have of the great environmental catastrophes of the past. The Meeting aims to encompass the full spectrum of crises seen in the Phanerozoic fossil record.

• Read more about Lyell Meeting 2018: Mass extinctions – understanding the world’s worst crises

This is a joint meeting of the Ediacaran and Cambrian subcommissions and will feature three days of topical sessions focusing on Neoproterozoic-Cambrian life and environments. Pre- and post-conference field excursions will be arranged. Registration and abstract submission is open until 30 June 2018 at http://www.icecs2018.org/.

See the circular for more information: http://www.icecs2018.org/uploadfile/2018/0108/20180108041255836.pdf.

• Read more about International Conference on Ediacaran and Cambrian Sciences

The Friends of Hugh Miller are organising a ‘legacy’ conference aimed at geologists and palaeontologists internationally, and all who have a general interest in Hugh Miller, fossils and the natural world. A keynote speaker will be John Long, Strategic Professor in Palaeontology, from Flinders University, Australia. In addition to the conference there will be a three day fieldtrip to the north of Scotland Jurassic beds, which includes special permissions to explore the famous fish fossil locality in Caithness. Numbers are limited so please book early.

• Read more about The Old Red: Hugh Miller’s Geological Legacy

This workshop will bring together the best scientists working on Konservat-Lagerstätten and, in particular, fossil deposits preserving soft tissues of animals and plants.

Konservat-Lagerstätten, fossil deposits that include exceptionally preserved soft tissues of plants and animals, are widely recognised as essential archives of palaeobiological information. Research in the field is accelerating rapidly and is becoming increasingly multidisciplinary, with the integration of new methodological approaches, new fossil discoveries, and refinement of current methods.

• Read more about 2017 International Workshop on Konservat-Lagerstätten