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8-12 July 1995. MEETING (Montreal, Quebec) Annual meeting of the Society of Systematic Biologists, Society for the Study of Evolution, and American Society of Naturalists. Held in conjunction with the 27th International Numerical Taxonomy Conference. Contact EVOL Secretariat, Conference Office, McGill University, 550 Sherbrooke St. West, West Tower, Suite 490, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1B9. 9-23 July 1995. DIG (Hot Springs, South Dakota) Mammoth Graveyard. Searching for mammoths with Larry Agenbroad and Jim Mead of Northern Arizona University. Also held 25 June-9 July. $1395. Contact Earthwatch [tel 800-776-0188, info@earthwatch.org]. 10-14 July 1995. MEETING (Sydney, Australia) Reefs and Carbonate Platforms in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Contact D. D. Bergersen, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Sydney [fax 61-2-692-0184]. 10-14 July 1995. MEETING (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Second International Conference on Pelagic Biogeography (IcoPB). Emphasis on recent developments with planktonic and nektonic organisms. Contact S. van der Spoel, Institute of Taxonomic Zoology, Amsterdam [fax 31-20- 5255402]. 10-14 July 1995. FIELD CAMP/DIG (Price, Utah) Dinosauring Camp for ages 12-18 headquartered at the College of Eastern Utah. Sponsored by the Dinamation International Society. Also held 5-9 June, 12-16 June, 17-21 June, 24-28 June, 3-7 July, 15-19 July, 22-26 July, 29 July-2 August, 5-9 August, 14-18 August, and 19-23 August. $525. Contact Dinosauring Camp, 4304 Windsor Drive, Provo, UT 84604 [tel 801- 221-1824, fax 801-221-0618]. 11-16 July 1995. FIELD STUDY (Medicine Bow, Wyoming) Field work, lectures, museum visits, and prospecting in the company of Robert Bakker. Emphasis is on the Jurassic Morrison Formation in the vicinity of Como Bluff. Also held 1-6 July 1995, 5-10 August 1995, 19-24 August 1995, and 21-26 July 1996. $1050 (1995)/$1100 (1996). Contact Dinamation International Society, 550 Crossroads Court, Fruita, CO 81521 [tel 800-DIG-DINO]. 11-22 July 1995. FIELD COURSE (northeast Wyoming) Field Collection and Laboratory Methods in Vertebrate Paleontology, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. This 4-sem-hr credit course (CT-9538-495) is sponsored by the Colorado School of Mines and the U.S. Geological Survey and is aimed primarily at K-12 teachers. The focus is on Eocene continental sediments and fossils but includes Paleozoic and Mesozoic invertebrate fossils, dinosaurs, plant megafossils, and trace fossils. $450. Contact CSM Teacher Enhancement Program, Office of Special Programs and Continuing Education, Golden, CO 80401 [tel 303-273-3303] or Elisabeth Brouwers [tel 303-236-5667, brouwers@greenwood.cr.usgs.gov] 14-24 July 1995. DIG (near Hartsel, Colorado) Excavating and collecting Pleistocene mammals in and around Porcupine Cave. This ongoing research program is sponsored partly by the Western Interior Paleontological Society. Contact Lou Taylor, Standard Geological Services Inc., 6920 Jordan Road, Suite M, Englewood, CO 80112 [tel 303- 680-4816 or 303-972-8955]. 15-19 July 1995. DIG (western Colorado) Searching for Jurassic Morrison Formation dinosaurs in the Mygatt-Moore Quarry near Grand Junction. Also held 27-31 May 1995, 3-7 June 1995, 24- 28 June 1995, 8-12 July 1995, 22-26 July 1995, 29 July-2 August 1995, 5- 9 August 1995, 19-23 August 1995, 2-6 September 1995, 16-20 September 1995, 25-29 May 1996, 1-5 June 1996, 22-26 June 1996, 29 June-3 July 1996, 6-10 July 1996, 13-17 July 1996, 20-24 July 1996, 27-31 July 1996, 3-7 August 1996, 10-14 August 1996, and 24-28 August 1996. $775 (1995)/$850 (1996). Contact Dinamation International Society, 550 Crossroads Court, Fruita, CO 81521 [tel 800-DIG-DINO]. 15-19 July 1995. FIELD CAMP (near Grand Junction, Colorado) Family Dino Camp at the Mygatt-Moore Quarry in the Jurassic Morrison Formation. Also held 17-21 June 1995, 1-5 July 1995, 29 July-2 August 1995, 5-9 August 1995, 15-19 June 1996, 6-10 July 1996, 13-17 July 1996, 25-29 July 1996, 27-31 July 1996, 1-5 August 1996, 3-7 August 1996. $775 adult and $550 child (1995)/$800 adult and $575 child (1996). Contact Dinamation International Society, 550 Crossroads Court, Fruita, CO 81521 [tel 800-DIG-DINO]. 15-19 July 1995. FIELD CAMP/DIG (Price, Utah) Dinosauring Camp for ages 12-18 headquartered at the College of Eastern Utah. Sponsored by the Dinamation International Society. Also held 5-9 June, 12-16 June, 17-21 June, 24-28 June, 3-7 July, 10-14 July, 22-26 July, 29 July-2 August, 5-9 August, 14-18 August, and 19-23 August. $525. Contact Dinosauring Camp, 4304 Windsor Drive, Provo, UT 84604 [tel 801- 221-1824, fax 801-221-0618]. 16-25 July 1995. DIG (South Australia) Fossil Rain Forests of the Outback. Searching for Tertiary plant fossils at Stuart Creek, with Neville Alley and Andrew Rowett, South Australia Department of Mines and Energy. Also held 3-12 July and 28 July-6 August. $1895. Contact Earthwatch [tel 800-776-0188, info@earthwatch.org]. 16-28 July 1995. DIG (Montana) End of the Dinosaurs. Searching for evidence of climate change and extinction in McCone County, Montana, with Keith Rigby of the University of Notre Dame. Also held 2-14 July and 30 July-11 August. $1395. Contact Earthwatch [tel 800-776-0188, info@earthwatch.org]. 17-21 July 1995. MEETING (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Second International Conference on Pelagic Biogeography. Contact S. Vander Spoel, Institute of Taxonomic Zoology, P.O. Box 94766, 1090 GT Amsterdam, Netherlands [tel 31-20-525-5402]. 17-21 July 1995. MEETING (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Sixth International conference on coelenterate biology (ICCB). Paleontology is among the wide range of topics. Contact S. van der Spoel, Institute of Taxonomic Zoology, Amsterdam [fax 31-20-5255402]. 17-28 July 1995. DIG (northeast Wyoming) Searching for Upper Jurassic dinosaurs and other vertebrates in the Morrison Formation near Sundance, Wyoming. $450 ($250 children). Sponsored by the University of Illinois Museum of Natural History in association with the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Contact Russ Jacobson [jacobson@geoserv.isgs.uiuc.edu]. 18-21 July 1995. MEETING (North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia) First Australian Conodont Symposium and Boucot Symposium (honouring A. J. Boucot). Contact Ruth Mawson, Centre for Ecostratigraphy and Palaeobiology, School of Earth Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde [rmawson@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au]. 20-23 July 1995. CELEBRATION (Grand Junction, Colorado) Dinosaur Days will include a parade, the first birthday celebration of Dinamation's Devil's Canyon Learning Center, quarry observation at Rabbit Valley Research Natural Area, a children's Quarry Day, Riggs Hill lecture and tour (Elmer Riggs discovered the first Brachiosaurus here), and other activities. For a free program, contact the Chamber of Commerce, 360 Grand Ave., Grand Junction, CO 81501. Contact Lolita Moyer [lmoyer@tripath.colosys.net]. 22-23 July 1995. FIELD TRIP (north of Grand Junction, Colorado) Collecting Eocene insect and plant fossils from the Green River Formation at Douglas Pass. Contact Western Interior Paleontological Society, P.O. Box 200011, Denver, CO 80220-0011; or Michael Graham [tel 303-973-7829]. 22-26 July 1995. DIG (western Colorado) Searching for Jurassic Morrison Formation dinosaurs in the Mygatt-Moore Quarry near Grand Junction. Also held 27-31 May 1995, 3-7 June 1995, 24- 28 June 1995, 8-12 July 1995, 15-19 July 1995, 29 July-2 August 1995, 5- 9 August 1995, 19-23 August 1995, 2-6 September 1995, 16-20 September 1995, 25-29 May 1996, 1-5 June 1996, 22-26 June 1996, 29 June-3 July 1996, 6-10 July 1996, 13-17 July 1996, 20-24 July 1996, 27-31 July 1996, 3-7 August 1996, 10-14 August 1996, and 24-28 August 1996. $775 (1995)/$850 (1996). Contact Dinamation International Society, 550 Crossroads Court, Fruita, CO 81521 [tel 800-DIG-DINO]. 22-26 July 1995. FIELD CAMP/DIG (Price, Utah) Dinosauring Camp for ages 12-18 headquartered at the College of Eastern Utah. Sponsored by the Dinamation International Society. Also held 5-9 June, 12-16 June, 17-21 June, 24-28 June, 3-7 July, 10-14 July, 15-19 July, 29 July-2 August, 5-9 August, 14-18 August, and 19-23 August. $525. Contact Dinosauring Camp, 4304 Windsor Drive, Provo, UT 84604 [tel 801- 221-1824, fax 801-221-0618]. 23-29 July 1995. MEETING (Uberaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil) XIV Brazilian Congress of Paleontology. Contact Academia Brasileira de Ciencias [fax 55-021-240-4695]. 28-30 July 1995. DIG (eastern Montana) Dinosaur dig in the Upper Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation. Family oriented. $20. Contact North Dakota Paleontological Society, P.O. Box 1921, Bismarck, ND 58502-1921 or Johnathan M. Campbell [jcampbel@badlands.NoDak.edu]. 28 July-6 August 1995. DIG (South Australia) Fossil Rain Forests of the Outback. Searching for Tertiary plant fossils at Stuart Creek, with Neville Alley and Andrew Rowett, South Australia Department of Mines and Energy. Also held 3-12 July and 16-25 July. $1895. Contact Earthwatch [tel 800-776-0188, info@earthwatch.org]. 29-30 July 1995. DIG (Medicine Bow, Wyoming) Assisting in the removal of dinosaur bones and microvertebrates from the Jurassic Morrison Formation. Also held 10-11 June. Contact Western Interior Paleontological Society, P.O. Box 200011, Denver, CO 80220-0011; or Chris Weege [tel 303-450-3585]. 29 July-2 August 1995. FIELD CAMP (near Grand Junction, Colorado) Family Dino Camp at the Mygatt-Moore Quarry in the Jurassic Morrison Formation. Also held 17-21 June 1995, 1-5 July 1995, 15-19 July 1995, 5-9 August 1995, 15-19 June 1996, 6-10 July 1996, 13-17 July 1996, 25-29 July 1996, 27-31 July 1996, 1-5 August 1996, 3-7 August 1996. $775 adult and $550 child (1995)/$800 adult and $575 child (1996). Contact Dinamation International Society, 550 Crossroads Court, Fruita, CO 81521 [tel 800- DIG-DINO]. 29 July-2 August 1995. FIELD CAMP/DIG (Price, Utah) Dinosauring Camp for ages 12-18 headquartered at the College of Eastern Utah. Sponsored by the Dinamation International Society. Also held 5-9 June, 12-16 June, 17-21 June, 24-28 June, 3-7 July, 10-14 July, 15-19 July, 22-26 July, 5-9 August, 14-18 August, and 19-23 August. $525. Contact Dinosauring Camp, 4304 Windsor Drive, Provo, UT 84604 [tel 801- 221-1824, fax 801-221-0618]. 30 July-5 August 1995. DIG (northeast Montana) Searching for Late Cretaceous dinosaurs. $500 members/$600 nonmembers. Contact C. DeFord, Cranbrook Institute of Science, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan [tel 810-645-3214]. 30 July-11 August 1995. DIG (Montana) End of the Dinosaurs. Searching for evidence of climate change and extinction in McCone County, Montana, with Keith Rigby of the University of Notre Dame. Also held 2-14 July and 16-28 July. $1395. Contact Earthwatch [tel 800-776-0188, info@earthwatch.org]. 30 July-12 August 1995. DIG (northwest China) China's Ancient Elephants. Searching for Tertiary mammals at Dragon Bone Hill, Ningxia Hui, with Jian Guan of the Beijing Natural History Museum. $1695. Contact Earthwatch [tel 800-776-0188, info@earthwatch.org]. 30 July-13 August 1995. DIG (Oxford, England) Oxford Mammoths. Searching for late Tertiary vertebrate fossils with Katharine Scott of Oxford University. Also held 18 June-2 July and 10-24 September. $1595. Contact Earthwatch [tel 800-776-0188, info@earthwatch.org]. AUGUST 1995 2-7 August 1995. FIELD TRIP (Arizona, Utah, and Colorado) Tracks Through Time. Looking at fossil tracksites with Martin Lockley in the Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous. Travel to Flagstaff, Arizona, Moab and Price, Utah, Grand Junction, Colorado, and Dinosaur National Monument. $925. Contact Dinamation International Society, 550 Crossroads Court, Fruita, CO 81521 [tel 800-DIG-DINO]. 3-10 August 1995. MEETING (Berlin, Germany) 14th International Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA). Contact Margot Böse, Institut für Geographische Wissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin [30-838-6532]. 5 August 1995. FIELD TRIP and DIG (Florissant, Colorado) Touring Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument and collecting fossil plants and insects from a private quarry in the Oligocene Florissant Formation at the Claire Ranch just outside the monument. Small hourly fee. Contact Western Interior Paleontological Society, P.O. Box 200011, Denver, CO 80220-0011; or Linda Soar [tel 303-986-2103]. 5-9 August 1995. DIG (western Colorado) Searching for Jurassic Morrison Formation dinosaurs in the Mygatt-Moore Quarry near Grand Junction. Also held 27-31 May 1995, 3-7 June 1995, 24- 28 June 1995, 8-12 July 1995, 15-19 July 1995, 22-26 July 1995, 29 July- 2 August 1995, 19-23 August 1995, 2-6 September 1995, 16-20 September 1995, 25-29 May 1996, 1-5 June 1996, 22-26 June 1996, 29 June-3 July 1996, 6-10 July 1996, 13-17 July 1996, 20-24 July 1996, 27-31 July 1996, 3-7 August 1996, 10-14 August 1996, and 24-28 August 1996. $775 (1995)/$850 (1996). Contact Dinamation International Society, 550 Crossroads Court, Fruita, CO 81521 [tel 800-DIG-DINO]. 5-9 August 1995. FIELD CAMP/DIG (Price, Utah) Dinosauring Camp for ages 12-18 headquartered at the College of Eastern Utah. Sponsored by the Dinamation International Society. Also held 5-9 June, 12-16 June, 17-21 June, 24-28 June, 3-7 July, 10-14 July, 15-19 July, 22-26 July, 29 July-2 August, 14-18 August, and 19-23 August. $525. Contact Dinosauring Camp, 4304 Windsor Drive, Provo, UT 84604 [tel 801- 221-1824, fax 801-221-0618]. 5-9 August 1995. FIELD CAMP (near Grand Junction, Colorado) Family Dino Camp at the Mygatt-Moore Quarry in the Jurassic Morrison Formation. Also held 17-21 June 1995, 1-5 July 1995, 15-19 July 1995, 29 July-2 August 1995, 15-19 June 1996, 6-10 July 1996, 13-17 July 1996, 25- 29 July 1996, 27-31 July 1996, 1-5 August 1996, 3-7 August 1996. $775 adult and $550 child (1995)/$800 adult and $575 child (1996). Contact Dinamation International Society, 550 Crossroads Court, Fruita, CO 81521 [tel 800-DIG-DINO]. 5-10 August 1995. FIELD STUDY (Medicine Bow, Wyoming) Field work, lectures, museum visits, and prospecting in the company of Robert Bakker. Emphasis is on the Jurassic Morrison Formation in the vicinity of Como Bluff. Also held 1-6 July 1995, 11-16 July 1995, 19-24 August 1995, and 21-26 July 1996. $1050 (1995)/$1100 (1996). Contact Dinamation International Society, 550 Crossroads Court, Fruita, CO 81521 [tel 800-DIG-DINO]. 5-19 August 1995. DIG (Spain) The Search for Neanderthals. Searching for fossil hominids in caves in Sima de las Palomas and Cueva Negra, Spain, with Michael Walker of Murcia University, Spain. Also held 10-24 June and 24 June-8 July. $1695. Contact Earthwatch [tel 800-776-0188, info@earthwatch.org]. 12 August 1995. TOUR (Morrison, Colorado) Tour of Dinosaur Ridge tracksite. Also held 22 April, 13 May, 10 June, 4 July, 23 September, and 14 October. Free. Contact Friends of Dinosaur Ridge, 16831 West Alameda Parkway, Golden, CO 80401 [tel 303-697-DINO]. 12-13 August 1995. DIG (near Worland, Wyoming) Assisting Kirk Johnson of the Denver Museum of Natural History in collecting Cretaceous fossil plants from a volcanic ash bed in the Meeteetse Formation. Contact Western Interior Paleontological Society, P.O. Box 200011, Denver, CO 80220-0011; or Kirk Johnson [tel 303-370- 6448]. 12-17 August 1995. DIG (near Grand Junction, Colorado) Intensive digging at the Mygatt-Moore Quarry in the Jurassic Morrison Formation. Also held 9-14 September 1995 and 17-22 August 1996. $995. Contact Dinamation International Society, 550 Crossroads Court, Fruita, CO 81521 [tel 800-DIG-DINO]. 13 August 1995. MEETING (St. Petersburg Beach, Florida) Premeeting workshop, Molecular Paleontology: New Techniques and Applications, held in association with the First SEPM Congress on Sedimentary Geology (see separate entry for 13-16 August). Topics will include topics using residual molecules of skeletal components for taxonomy and tracing decay pathways; detection and recovery of ancient DNA and its application to taxonomic problems; the use of antibodies for taxonomic studies; microstructural concerns (organic/inorganic interactions) and their potential use; biomarkers and their application to fields of paleoecology and geology. $125 ($50 students). Contact Lisa Robbins [tel 813-974-1597, robbins@chuma.cas.usf.edu]. 13-16 August 1995. MEETING (St. Petersburg Beach, Florida) First Congress on Sedimentary Geology of the Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM). Theme is Linked Earth Systems. Contact SEPM, P.O. Box 4756, Tulsa, OK 74159-0756. 14-18 August 1995. FIELD CAMP/DIG (Price, Utah) Dinosauring Camp for ages 12-18 headquartered at the College of Eastern Utah. Sponsored by the Dinamation International Society. Also held 5-9 June, 12-16 June, 17-21 June, 24-28 June, 3-7 July, 10-14 July, 15-19 July, 22-26 July, 29 July-2 August, 5-9 August, and 19-23 August. $525. Contact Dinosauring Camp, 4304 Windsor Drive, Provo, UT 84604 [tel 801- 221-1824, fax 801-221-0618]. 15-21 August 1995. WORKSHOP (Bornholm, Denmark) Third International Ichnofabric Workshop. Contact R. G. Bromley, Geological Institute, University of Copenhagen [fax 45-353-22499, Rullard@geol.geo.ku.dk]. 19-23 August 1995. DIG (western Colorado) Searching for Jurassic Morrison Formation dinosaurs in the Mygatt-Moore Quarry near Grand Junction. Also held 27-31 May 1995, 3-7 June 1995, 24- 28 June 1995, 8-12 July 1995, 15-19 July 1995, 22-26 July 1995, 29 July- 2 August 1995, 5-9 August 1995, 2-6 September 1995, 16-20 September 1995, 25-29 May 1996, 1-5 June 1996, 22-26 June 1996, 29 June-3 July 1996, 6-10 July 1996, 13-17 July 1996, 20-24 July 1996, 27-31 July 1996, 3-7 August 1996, 10-14 August 1996, and 24-28 August 1996. $775 (1995)/$850 (1996). Contact Dinamation International Society, 550 Crossroads Court, Fruita, CO 81521 [tel 800-DIG-DINO]. 19-23 August 1995. FIELD CAMP/DIG (Price, Utah) Dinosauring Camp for ages 12-18 headquartered at the College of Eastern Utah. Sponsored by the Dinamation International Society. Also held 5-9 June, 12-16 June, 17-21 June, 24-28 June, 3-7 July, 10-14 July, 15-19 July, 22-26 July, 29 July-2 August, 5-9 August, and 14-18 August. $525. Contact Dinosauring Camp, 4304 Windsor Drive, Provo, UT 84604 [tel 801- 221-1824, fax 801-221-0618]. 19-24 August 1995. FIELD STUDY (Medicine Bow, Wyoming) Field work, lectures, museum visits, and prospecting in the company of Robert Bakker. Emphasis is on the Jurassic Morrison Formation in the vicinity of Como Bluff. Also held 1-6 July 1995, 11-16 July 1995, 5-10 August 1995, and 21-26 July 1996. $1050 (1995)/$1100 (1996). Contact Dinamation International Society, 550 Crossroads Court, Fruita, CO 81521 [tel 800-DIG-DINO]. 28 August-2 September 1995. MEETING (Krakow, Poland) XIII International Congress on the Carboniferous-Permian. Contact ICC-P Secretary-General S. Dybova-Jachowicz, Panstwowy Instytut Geologiczny, Sosnowiec, Poland [fax 48-32-66-55-22]. 29 July-2 August 1995. DIG (western Colorado) Searching for Jurassic Morrison Formation dinosaurs in the Mygatt-Moore Quarry near Grand Junction. Also held 27-31 May 1995, 3-7 June 1995, 24- 28 June 1995, 8-12 July 1995, 15-19 July 1995, 22-26 July 1995, 5-9 August 1995, 19-23 August 1995, 2-6 September 1995, 16-20 September 1995, 25-29 May 1996, 1-5 June 1996, 22-26 June 1996, 29 June-3 July 1996, 6-10 July 1996, 13-17 July 1996, 20-24 July 1996, 27-31 July 1996, 3-7 August 1996, 10-14 August 1996, and 24-28 August 1996. $775 (1995)/$850 (1996). Contact Dinamation International Society, 550 Crossroads Court, Fruita, CO 81521 [tel 800-DIG-DINO]. SEPTEMBER 1995 Fall 1995. MEETING (Albuquerque, New Mexico) I am completing a paper on polymeric substances used in the conservation, restoration and exhibition of fossils in museums Sally Shelton, San Diego Natural History Museum, P. O. Box 1390, San Diego, California 92112 [tel 619-232-3821, fax 619-232-0248, email LIBSDNHM@CLASS.ORG] 1 September 1995. MEETING (Sudbury, Ontario) International Congress on Living and Fossil Brachiopods. Contact M. Gayet or B. Courtinat, Université Claude-Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France [fax 72-44-84-36]. 1-14 September 1995. FIELD TRIP (England) Visiting historically important paleontology sites and museums. Itinerary includes London, Bristol, Oxford, Plymouth, Lyme Regis, Isle of Wight, Sussex, and Cambridge. $2800. Contact Dinamation International Society, 550 Crossroads Court, Fruita, CO 81521 [tel 800-DIG-DINO]. 2-5 September 1995. MEETING Third International Brachiopod Congress. Contact Secretariat, TIBC, Department of Geology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario [fax 705- 673-6532]. 2-6 September 1995. DIG (western Colorado) Searching for Jurassic Morrison Formation dinosaurs in the Mygatt-Moore Quarry near Grand Junction. Also held 27-31 May 1995, 3-7 June 1995, 24- 28 June 1995, 8-12 July 1995, 15-19 July 1995, 22-26 July 1995, 29 July- 2 August 1995, 5-9 August 1995, 19-23 August 1995, 16-20 September 1995, 25-29 May 1996, 1-5 June 1996, 22-26 June 1996, 29 June-3 July 1996, 6- 10 July 1996, 13-17 July 1996, 20-24 July 1996, 27-31 July 1996, 3-7 August 1996, 10-14 August 1996, and 24-28 August 1996. $775 (1995)/$850 (1996). Contact Dinamation International Society, 550 Crossroads Court, Fruita, CO 81521 [tel 800-DIG-DINO]. 4-9 September 1995. MEETING (St. Petersburg, Russia) Ninth meeting of the Association of European Geological Societies. Contact A. Kotov, Institute of Precambrian Geology and Geochronology, St. Petersburg [fax 812-218-48-01, spire@sovamsu.sovusa.com]. 4-9 September 1995. MEETING (Paris, France) Final meeting of International Geological Correlation Programme (IGCP) 328 on Devonian Microvertebrate Biochronology. The meeting will be held at the Muséum National d'Hisitoire Naturelle. Postmeeting field trip to Devonian and Carboniferous vertebrate localities and stratotypes in Belgium and northern France. Contact A. Blieck, University of Lille [fax 33-20-43-69-00], or S. Turner, Queensland Museum [fax 617-846-1918]. 8-14 September 1995. MEETING (Brussels, Belgium) Second International Symposium on Cretaceous Stage Boundaries. Contact A. Dhondt, Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Rue Vautier 29, B-1040 Brussels, Belgium; or P. F. Rawson, Department of Geological Sciences, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT. 9-14 September 1995. DIG (near Grand Junction, Colorado) Intensive digging at the Mygatt-Moore Quarry in the Jurassic Morrison Formation. Also held 12-17 August 1995 and 17-22 August 1996. $995. Contact Dinamation International Society, 550 Crossroads Court, Fruita, CO 81521 [tel 800-DIG-DINO]. 9-25 September 1995. FIELD MEETING (northern France and Belgium) Held in association with the final meeting of the International Geological Correlation Programme 328, Devonian Microvertebrate Biochronology (see separate entry for 4-9 September). Contact Alan Blieck [fax 33-2043-6900]. 10-24 September 1995. DIG (Oxford, England) Oxford Mammoths. Searching for late Tertiary vertebrate fossils with Katharine Scott of Oxford University. Also held 18 June-2 July and 30 July-13 August. $1595. Contact Earthwatch [tel 800-776-0188, info@earthwatch.org]. 15 September 1995. LECTURE (Golden, Colorado) The Real Jurassic Park, by Robert Bakker. Sponsored by the Western Interior Paleontological Society. Admission. Contact WIPS, P.O. Box 200011, Denver, CO 80220-0011; or Roger Crowe [tel 303-657-1579]. 16-20 September 1995. DIG (western Colorado) Searching for Jurassic Morrison Formation dinosaurs in the Mygatt-Moore Quarry near Grand Junction. Also held 27-31 May 1995, 3-7 June 1995, 24- 28 June 1995, 8-12 July 1995, 15-19 July 1995, 22-26 July 1995, 29 July- 2 August 1995, 5-9 August 1995, 19-23 August 1995, 2-6 September 1995, 25-29 May 1996, 1-5 June 1996, 22-26 June 1996, 29 June-3 July 1996, 6- 10 July 1996, 13-17 July 1996, 20-24 July 1996, 27-31 July 1996, 3-7 August 1996, 10-14 August 1996, and 24-28 August 1996. $775 (1995)/$850 (1996). Contact Dinamation International Society, 550 Crossroads Court, Fruita, CO 81521 [tel 800-DIG-DINO]. 23 September 1995. TOUR (Morrison, Colorado) Tour of Dinosaur Ridge tracksite. Also held 22 April, 13 May, 10 June, 4 July, 12 August, and 14 October. Free. Contact Friends of Dinosaur Ridge, 16831 West Alameda Parkway, Golden, CO 80401 [tel 303-697-DINO]. 23-28 September 1995. FIELD TRIP (eastern Utah and western Colorado) Visiting museums and Jurassic dinosaur quarries in the vicinity of Grand Junction, Colorado, and Moab, Price, and Vernal, Utah. Also held 21-26 September 1996. $850 (1995)/$925 (1996). Contact Dinamation International Society, 550 Crossroads Court, Fruita, CO 81521 [tel 800-DIG-DINO]. 26-30 September 1995. MEETING (Moscow, Russia) International Symposium of Ecosystem Evolution. Contact V. A. Krassilov, Paleontological Institute [fax 7-095-339-6022 or 7-095-339-0082, pbul@paleo.msk.su]. 29 September-2 October 1995. MEETING (Drumheller, Alberta) Joint meeting, Fifth Canadian Palaeontology Conference and International Symposium on Palaeobiology and Evolution of the Bivalvia. Contact Paul A. Johnston, Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Drumheller, Alberta [fax 403-823-7131]. OCTOBER 1995 October 1995. FIELD TRIP (northwest Colorado) 1995 geology field trip to Piceance Creek and eastern Uinta Basins sponsored by the Grand Junction Geological Society and Dinamation International Society. Contact Lolita Moyer [lmoyer@tripath.colosys.net]. 10-14 October 1995. MEETING (Ottawa, Ontario) Annual meeting of the American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists. Contact Susan A. Jarzen, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa [613-954-4724]. 14 October 1995. TOUR (Morrison, Colorado) Tour of Dinosaur Ridge tracksite. Also held 22 April, 13 May, 10 June, 4 July, 12 August, and 23 September. Free. Contact Friends of Dinosaur Ridge, 16831 West Alameda Parkway, Golden, CO 80401 [tel 303-697-DINO]. 18-20 October 1995. MEETING (Toulouse, France) Protection and Development of Paleontological Heritage. Contact F. Duranthon, Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Toulouse [fax 33-61-99-98-82]. 26 October 1995. CEREMONY (Haddonfield, New Jersey) Special ceremony sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Interior National Parks Service, the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, and the Borough of Haddonfield honoring the designation of a site near Haddonfield as a National Historic Landmark. At this location in 1858, the world's first dinosaur skeleton (currently designated Hadrosaurus foulkii) was uncovered. Contact Hoag Levins [levins@tigger.jvnc.net] or visit http://tigger.jvnc.net/~levins/hadrosaurus.html 28 October 1995. FIELD TRIP (near La Junta, Colorado) Viewing the extensive dinosaur trackways in Lower Cretaceous sandstone along the Purgatoire River. Contact Western Interior Paleontological Society, P.O. Box 200011, Denver, CO 80220-0011; or Lou Taylor [tel 303- 972-8955]. NOVEMBER 1995 1-4 November 1995. MEETING (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) Annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Contact Chris Beard [beardc@clp2.clpgh.org]. 5 November 1995. SHORT COURSE (New Orleans, Louisiana) Siliceous Microfossils. A premeeting short course associated with the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, Cushman Foundation, Paleontological Society, and Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (see separate entry for 6-9 November 1995). $15. Contact C. D. Blome [cblome@greenwood.cr.usgs.gov]. 6-9 November 1995. MEETING (New Orleans, Louisiana) The annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, and the Cushman Foundation, Paleontological Society, and Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Includes the following symposia with papers on paleontology: Recovery from Mass Extinctions; Variability of Isotope Compositions in Modern and Fossil Organic Matter; Taphonomy of Microfossils - Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction and Environmental Assessment; Gulf and Atlantic Coast Vertebrate Paleontology, Including Multidisciplinary Approaches to Vertebrate Localities; Experimental Taphonomy - Deep Sea to Terrestrial Realms; Impact in the Gulf - Chicxulub; Global Catastrophes - P-E and K-T Events Compared. Contact the Geological Society of America, P.O. Box 9140, Boulder, CO 80301 [tel 303-447-2020]. 9-12 November 1995. FIELD TRIP (western Alabama and eastern Mississippi) Paleogene Molluscan Biostratigraphy of the Eastern Gulf Coastal Plain. A postmeeting field trip associated with the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, Cushman Foundation, Paleontological Society, and Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (see separate entry for 6-9 November 1995). $220. Contact C. R. Givens, Department of Physical Sciences, Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, LA 70310 [tel 504-448- 4502]. =========================================================== end part 2 -- *--------------------------------------------- *Larry S. Bowlds lbowlds@geosociety.org *Geological Society of America *Bulletin Managing Editor *(303) 447-2020, ext. 147 *---------------------------------------------
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