[Aqualist] Fwd: CRC Regolith Symposia 2003

[Tim Barrows]

From: Ian Roach <Ian.Roach at anu.edu.au>

ADVANCES IN REGOLITH 2003

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce that the Cooperative Research Centre for Landscape 
Environments and Mineral Exploration is hosting three regional regolith 
symposia in Australia in late 2003:

Central Symposium-Adelaide University, 13-14 November 2003
Eastern Symposium-Australian National University, 19-21 November 2003
Western Symposium-Curtin University of Technology, 24-25 November 2003

Each symposium will address the strategic themes of CRC LEME, which include:
· Improving our understanding of regolith processes and landscape evolution;
· Making exploration geochemistry work through cover;
· Developing geophysical techniques to interpret regolith architecture;
· Using regolith knowledge to enhance prospectivity in geological regions;
· Developing methods to map and predict salinity with outcomes linked to 
mitigation and remediation.

Additional special themes will also be addressed at each different node 
including:
· Biological Factors in Regolith Formation (ANU);
· Acid Sulphate and Saline Regolith (Adelaide University)
· Geophysical Imaging and Dating of the Regolith (Curtin University of 
Technology).

This invitation extends to all regolith or regolith-related discipline 
researchers in Australasia. Invitees include Honours and postgraduate 
research students and also professionals working in regolith research 
within universities, state and federal research institutions, retirees and 
the general regolith geoscience community. Presenters do not necessarily 
have to be affiliates of CRC LEME.

Registrants are invited, in the first instance, to attend the closest 
symposium unless they wish to present in one of the special themes (above). 
Abstracts for all three symposia will be published as a single, fully 
refereed CRC LEME Report, "Advances in Regolith 2003". Abstract submissions 
close 31 August, registration closes 31 October.

Further information and registration forms are available in the First 
Circular on the CRC LEME WWW site at http://crcleme.org.au/.

So please, tell your colleagues, tell your students, tell your friends, and 
come along to one of the symposia! I am sure that each of the symposia will 
be even more successful than the first regional regolith conference held in 
Canberra last year.

With best wishes,

Ian Roach
Supervising Editor


Dr Ian Roach

CRC LEME/MTEC-Minerals Education Australia Lecturer in Regolith Geology

CRC LEME
Department of Geology
Australian National University
CANBERRA ACT 0200
AUSTRALIA

Phone: (02) 6125 0030 (International: +61 2 6125 0030)
Fax: (02) 6125 5544 (International: +61 2 6125 5544)
Email: Ian.Roach at anu.edu.au