Second International Trilobite Conference

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Second International Trilobite Conference
August 22nd-25th, 1997
First Circular

Four days of technical sessions will be held at Brock University, St. 
Catharines, Ont., Canada, and will include a special session/workshop on 
phylogenetic systematics and high level classification of trilobites. We 
invite papers on all aspects of trilobite research: systematics, 
biostratigraphy, paleoecology and evolution. If there is sufficient 
interest, we hope to produce a proceedings volume along the lines of the 
volume generated from the 1973 meeting in Oslo (Fossil and Strata v. 4).

Registration for the conference is expected to be approximately $180.00 
(All costs are in Canadian dollars; current exchange rate: 1 
CAN$=0.75US$). Residence accomidations will be available and is likely to 
be around $40.00 per night (single occupancy). Located near the U.S. 
border in southern Ontario, St. Catharines is readly accessible by air 
via Toronto or Buffalo.

Three field trips are offered as part of the conference. Pre-meeting 
trips will deal with the Cambrian sequence of the Canadian Rockies 
(Leaders: Brian Chatterton and Brian Pratt) and the Cambrian of Maritime 
Canada (Leaders: Ed Landing and Steve Westrop). Rockies trip will begin 
at Edmonton, Alberta, on August 15th, with an estimated cost (excluding 
air travel and food) of $700.00. The trip to Maritime Canada will double 
as the Third Field Conference of the Lower Cambrian Stage Subdivision 
Working Group. Participants will travel to Saint John, New Brunswick, on 
August 12th and the trip will end in St. John's Newfoundland, on August 
29th. The cost including air travel from St. John to St. John's and back 
to Toronto but excluding food, is estimated at $1700. A post-meeting trip 
(August 26th-29th) led by Kevin Brett and David Rudkin will examine the 
Ordovician and Silurian sequence of southern Ontario. Estimated cost is 
$400.00 (excluding food).

The final circular, including details of the format for abstracts, will 
be sent at the end of 1996 to those who return the following form or 
reply by e-mail to:

Steve Westrop, Second International Trilobite Conference, Department of 
Earth Sciences, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1, 
Canada; e-mail: swestrop@spartan.ac.brocku.ca
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____ I will be attending the Second International Trilobite Conference.

____ I am interested in residence accomodation.

____ I intend to present a paper.

____ I am interested in contributing to a proceedings volume.

I am interested in the following field trips:

____ Southern Ontario

____ Canadian Rocky Mountains

____ Maritime Canada


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