[Aqualist] Australian Earth Science Conference, July 2006, Melbourne

[Roland Maas]

Dear all

We would like to draw your attention to a session on Quaternary 
Geology/Climate Change etc. at the Australian Earth Science 
Convention, to be held in July 2006 in Melbourne. This meeting is the 
normal triennial Australian Geological Convention (AGC) organized by 
Geol Soc Aust, but has been renamed for next year.

Although the meeting is traditionally about geology, Quaternary 
themes are an important part of it. For example CRC-LEME have 
sponsored a session at the last few meetings. Based on papers 
presented at previous AGC's, we have set up the following session:

session C in the Environmental & Engineering Geosciences Symposium

Quaternary climate change
Conveners: Roland Maas, John Hellstrom and Peter Kershaw

A sound knowledge of Quaternary environmental change in and around 
Australia is critical to understanding our climate as it functions 
today, and enhances our ability to constrain possible future change. 
This symposium aims to bring together researchers working on all 
aspects of palaeoenvironmental change in the Australasian region, 
over time-scales from the late Neogene to the recent past.  

We invite submissions on a wide range of topics that fit within the 
session theme. Deadline for submission of abstracts is mid-December 
2005 (yes, I know, that hurts). Details of abstract submission and 
registration, plus all other info, can be obtained on the AESC2006 
website,

www.earth2006.org.au

note that abstracts should be submitted through the website, not sent 
to the conveners

Hope to see you there

Roland Maas, John Hellstrom

-- 
Dr. Roland Maas
Manager, Isotope Geochemistry Laboratory
School of Earth Sciences, room 340
University of Melbourne
Parkville, Vic 3010, Australia
email: maasr at unimelb.edu.au
phone: 03-8344 0317, or try x9661 or x6584
fax: 03-8344 7761
website:www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au