Future Meetings

This workshop aims to develop an IODP mission-specific platform (MSP) proposal to study two separate but complementary topics in a single expedition: (1) the early diagenetic redistribution of carbon via the microbially driven oxidation of organic carbon, the dissolution of aragonite and the precipitation of calcite, and (2) the palaeoclimatic and palaeoceanographic impacts of Quaternary Monsoon and Indonesian Throughflow variability in the Timor Sea. We encourage both experienced and early career researchers to join us.

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Since its foundation in 1986 the National Congress of the Mexican Society of Paleontology brings together students and academics from different universities and other institutions to learn, present and discuss a wide variety of topics on vertebrate and invertebrate paleontology, paleobotany, ichnology, palinology, actualistic studies and all kinds of fossils. This academic forum is open to everyone interested in paleontology and it is a good place to promote academic collaboration and interchange for young students and experienced professionals.

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Decapod crustaceans are an important component in modern ecosystems with an important fossil record. Following the last well attended meeting in Slovenia “7th Symposium on Mesozoic and Cenozoic Decapod Crustaceans” we would like to present the 8th Symposium on Fossil Decapod Crustaceans. Our idea is to organize a face-to-face meeting that will include a two-day symposium and a three-day field excursion.

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The Geologists' Association is hosting an online, posthumous, meeting in honour of Joe S. H. Collins on the 25th of November this year.

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Conference on all aspects of Mesozoic terrestrial paleontology, paleoecology, paleoclimatology, and paleogeography. Generally held every 4 years, the pandemic caused the meeting to be delayed by one year. First time in the United States, Utah has been a major center for new discoveries in its nearly complete Mesozoic terrestrial section over the past 25 years. MTE14 includes premeeting field trips to local museums and a 4 day trip up and down through Mesozoic across Utah and a post meeting trip to the region around Dinosaur National Monument.

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Conference on all aspects of Mesozoic terrestrial paleontology, paleoecology, paleoclimatology, and paleogeography. Generally held every 4 years, the pandemic caused the meeting to be delayed by one year. First time in the United States, Utah has been a major center for new discoveries in its nearly complete Mesozoic terrestrial section over the past 25 years. MTE14 includes premeeting field trips to local museums and a 4 day trip up and down through Mesozoic across Utah and a post meeting trip to the region around Dinosaur National Monument.

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The increasing use of virtual platforms to communicate science encouraged us to create the 1st Palaeontological Virtual Congress in December 2018, followed by the second edition in May 2020. The two firsts editions were a success, so we are glad to present the third edition of the Palaeontological Virtual Congress. Our purpose is to spread, worldwide, the most recent scientific advances in palaeontology in a fast, easy and economical way.

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We are pleased to host the 92nd annual conference of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft (PalGes). The meeting, like the previous ones, is designed as an international meeting to present cutting-edge research from palaeobiology, palaeontology, geobiology and related subjects. The Paläontologische Gesellschaft is one of the oldest and largest palaeontological societies in the world and we "Viennese" are now hosting the annual meeting for the fifth time after 1923, 1954, 1963 and 2011.

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#SPPC2021 will be held online as part of the virtual meeting of the SVPCA (Symposium on Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy). SPPC2021 will be a 'posters only' meeting, with no ‘platform presentation’ talks, but there will be an opportunity for informal Q&A sessions with authors of poster.

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Determining the patterns and processes that governed the early evolution of animals is one of the foremost areas of current palaeobiological research. After more than two billion years of exclusively microbial life, the rise of animals to ecological dominance following the Cambrian Explosion fundamentally changed the trajectory of the evolution of the biosphere. The Ediacaran Period encompasses this transition, and records the first evidence of complex macroscopic life, including remains of some of the earliest animals the fossil record gives up.

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