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               High Latitude Southern Ocean Palaeontology Workshop.
                                                                            
                      Expressions of Interest


Where: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

When:May 1996.

Duration: Three days.


Aims

The primary aim of the workshop is to increase our practical understanding
of the southern high latitude biotas and in particular the biostratigraphic
relations between them. The major output of the workshop will be a
compilation of the biostratigraphic zonations for as many fossil groups as
possible. It is recognised that in the time available for the workshop such
a document would have to be considered to be very tentative. However,
documentation of areas of agreement and disagreement between the various
fossil groups should provide a guide for future research. This document
should be published.

The end of 1996 marks the beginning of the Cape Roberts Antarctic Drilling
project which makes this workshop extremely timely. The document to be
produced at this meeting should provide a firm foundation for the Cape
Roberts Palaeontology.


Accomplishing the Aims

The workshop is entirely open and it is hoped that as wide a cross section
of workers as possible (foraminifera, nannofossils, diatoms, radiolaria,
dinoflagellates, spores and pollen) will attend. Participants will be
encouraged to bring slides, photographs and samples for group discussion. 

The workshop will open with a plenary session which will outline the aims of
the workshop. The participants will then break up into separate disciplines
to review material and discuss zonations. Microscopes will be available for
each group to use in its review. A "reporter" will deliver the reviews to a
plenary session on the final day. This session should work towards the
production of the final workshop document. The reporters from each group
together with the workshop conveners will be responsible for the final form
of the document and its eventual publication.


Interested?

Please send expressions of interest to the co- ordinators:

Dr Mike Hannah,
Antarctic Research Centre/Research School of Earth Sciences
Victoria University of Wellington
E-Mail: michael.hannah@vuw.ac.nz
Fax: 64-4-495 5186
Post: PO Box 600, 
Wellington
New Zealand

Dr I Raine,
Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences
E-Mail: i.raine@gns.cri.nz
Post: PO Box 30-368
Lower Hutt
New Zealand

We are aware that there may be problems in getting to New Zealand, and we
would be interested in hearing from people that would be interested in
attending the workshop if it were held in another (?Northern Hemisphere?)
location.