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CAVEPS 2003
Heber A Longman Symposium
JULY 7-11TH
CALL FOR PAPERS AND CHAIR SESSIONS
NINTH CONFERENCE ON AUSTRALIASIAN VERTEBRATE EVOLUTION, PALAEONTOLOGY AND SYSTEMATICS
The Heber Longman Memorial Symposium
KEY DATES:
JULY 7TH -11TH 2003 Conference Sessions and End Conference Activities
JUNE 26TH - JULY 6TH Preconference Field Trip to Central Queensland
JULY 12TH - 17TH JULY Postconference Field Trip through SE Queensland
Abstracts Due 28th March
Registration & Payment Due: Early Bird 2nd June
LOCATION:
Queensland Museum, Brisbane Australia
The Queensland Museum is host to the 9th CAVEPS. We invite you to be part of a unique palaeontological experience combining technical and scientific excellence in vertebrate palaeontology at a time of growth and heightened public interest in the discipline. The conference will be held in and around the Queensland Museum southbank campus, allowing you to experience the best of Queensland's captial city and also provide access to one of Australia's largest collections of vertebrate fossils spanning the Palaeozoic to Present!
Papers are invited on any area within the general categories listed below. We encourage as many students as possible to participate in the conference, with the attraction of several student prizes for presentations, posters and communication. We are also looking for participation of vertebrate palaeontology technicians in a special workshop concerning the many facets of their work.
GENERAL THEMES
The 9th CAVEPS conference is in honour of Heber Albert Longman. Heber Longman was born in Wiltshire, England 24th June 1880, and moved to Australia in 1902 for medical reasons. He lived in Toowoomba for a period where he met and married Irene, a local Reverend's daughter. His fascination and pioneering work in Australian natural history won him the Mueller Medal in 1952, two years before his death. Throughout his years in Queensland Heber published over seventy papers, mostly in the Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. Among others, Heber described: Rhoetosaurus brownei, Austrosaurus mckillopi, Kronosaurus queenslandicus and Euryzygoma. Heber also began initial work on many of the cave faunas that are currently the focus of our Cainozoic research at the QM. Heber died on 16th February 1954. We shall honour his magnificent contribution to our science in Australia.
PHYLOGENETICS, SYSTEMATICS & TAXONOMY
Papers are invited on the latest research in phylogenetic analyses of key vertebrate groups. Allocation of talk times will not follow generalised taxonomic order, therefore, we intend to spread the phylogenetics, systematics and taxonomic talks throughout the program.
FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY
Functional morphology papers that examine the palaeobiological aspects of fossil research and their modern biological and structural analogies.
EVOLUTION
We call for papers that synthesise information based on phylogenetic reconstruction, including evolution of anatomical structures in vertebrates through to developmental systems and heterochrony.
INTERACTIONS
Behaviours, interactions with the environment and inter and intraspecific interactions inferred from the fossil record
EXTINCTIONS
Papers discussing the causes, expressions, complexities and palaeontological evidence for extinction events, and recoveries.
PALAEOECOLOGY AND PALAEOBIOLOGY
Specific papers on the palaeoecological setting of significant vertebrate faunas and the autecology
PALAEOBIOGEOGRAPHY
The global and regional distribution of faunas and their implications for climatic and tectonic factors, provincialism and international correlation.
FOSSIL SITE PRESERVATION AND MANAGEMENT
The maintenance, sustainable management and on-going issues related to in situ deposits and the implications of such for research
PALAEOTOURISM, EDUCATION & AMATEUR COLLECTING
The growth and effects of global niche tourism in palaeontology, its future directions and implications for local communities and research scientists. The impacts on amateur collectors and their role in the future of palaeontology. The use of palaeontologists as educators for the environment. How to express the practical values of and need for palaeontologists in a resource-free science World.
NEW TECHNIQUES IN PALAEONTOLOGICAL PREPARATION
A session specifically designed for the presentation of new techniques in the preparation, preservation, maintenance and presentation of fossil material. This program will consist of informal workshops with some 'hands on' sessions. The aim is to present new technical information relating to the preparation and storage of vertebrate fossils. Preparators are so far apart that exchange of ideas is essential for growth. A full session at the end of the conference has been scheduled for technician interaction and communication...so let's fill it up!
AN OPEN FORUM
The above themes are by no way set in concrete, so we invite anyone to offer a theme that they wish to chair and bring together speakers on. These forums will have a restricted timeframe, therefore, we look for dynamic ideas that encompass a variety of topics of specific VP interest.
PAPERS, ORAL PRESENTATIONS AND POSTERS
Oral presentations
Invited Key note speakers will be allocated 25 minutes plus five minutes for questions
General oral presentations of papers will be of 15 minutes duration plus 5 minutes question time.
Poster presentations
Size up to 2 *2 m
Informal sessions will be arranged for question times addressing poster presentation
Alternative presentations
Negotiated Video, CD, DVD and other presentation media can be arranged, please contact the organising committee.
Abstracts
Abstracts are to be submitted electronically by April 1st 2003 in the following format.
A MS word file or equivalent in rtf. Times new roman font, double-spaced, 10 point with no indents or use of tabs. Italics are only to be used for taxonomic names. Avoid use of jargon and ensure that your abstract is able to be understood by a general audience.
Maximum length 250 words including any references. Please restrict references to the bare minimum. No figures in abstracts.
Layout should be:
Title in capitals
Author(s) name(s)
Authors addresses and affiliation with email contact for principle author.
4 key words
Abstract body
References in the following format
BLOGGS, B.S., 2007. Dinosaurs in the Silurian of the Great Artesian Basin. Journal of Creative Palaeontology 45: 78-121.
NB. Submission of an abstract is subject to acceptance and refereeing as required.
Submission of research papers
Proceedings of the conference will be published in the Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. All papers are subject to rigorous peer and editorial review.
Papers for publication MUST be submitted by the last day of the conference.
Authors are advised to consult the Memoirs of the Queensland Museum Guide to authors at the following web address.
http://www.qmuseum.qld.gov.au/organisation/publications/
STUDENT PRIZES
Prizes will be awarded in the following categories.
1. Best Student oral presentation
2. Best Student poster presentation
3. Most Creative presentation
CONFERENCE FEES
The conference fees have been designed to keep costs to a minimum and allow maximum flexibility and affordability for students. Registration includes an abstract volume, programs and morning and afternoon teas.
REGISTRATION FEE:
Early Bird Registration before 2nd June
$88
$110 $88 (student/unemployed)
PROCEEDINGS VOLUME: $55
CONFERENCE DINNER $66
LAST DAY ACTIVITIES:
Travel to Collection $30
Clifton Field Trip $100
ACCOMODATION
We will advise on cheapest accommodation when it becomes available. We advise you make your own arrangements if booking from overseas as rates vary.
END CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES (for those who do not wish to attend the technicians sessions)
Clifton Pleistocene Fossil site
Located on the Eastern Darling Downs, only 1.5 hours from Brisbane this site contains the remains of Australia's megafauna and minifauna from fluviatile deposits of late Pleistocene age. A tour would encompass a site inspection and collection of material, visit to a local amateur palaeontologist's collection and overview of the southeast Queensland regional geology.
Queensland Museum Geology and Palaeontology Collections incorporating the University of Queensland Collections.
Over seven million items of geological heritage under the one roof. This activity is for those needing access to research materials and interested in the new laboratories and facilities at the recently acquired Hendra Complex. Requirements: The GeoSciences Staff will require information on specific specimens or local faunas needed so that we have them out and ready.
CONFERENCE DINNER AND ICE BREAKER
The conference Ice breaker/BBQ will be held on the Sunday night, 6th July in the Dinosaur Garden.
The Conference Dinner will be held in the Museum on the Thursday Evening. Fully catered and a "Field Trip Theme". Cost $66.00
PRECONFERENCE FIELD TRIP
Outback Palaeontology: The Great Artesian Basin
9 nights cost $2100, meals included on rail portion. Lunches provided.
Departing Brisbane on the majestic QR "Spirit-of-the-Outback", the trip will take in; 1. Central Queensland Geology, 2. Dinosaur Stampede Site at Lark Quarry, Winton; 3. The Merton Tablelands; 4. The "Elliot - the dinosaur site; 5. Hughenden; 6. Marine reptile and fish sites of the Richmond region; 7. Kronosaurus Korner; 8. Porcupine Gorge; 9. A brief interlude on the great fossil reef deposits of the Charters Towers area; 10. Townsville and the Museum of Tropical Queensland; 11. Coastal Queensland Geology on your way back to Brisbane travelling on the "Sunlander". In addition you will experience the outback hospitality unique to the region and a uniquely Queensland Rail experience!
POSTCONFERENCE FIELD TRIP
Central and Southern Queensland
5 nights $600, main meals not included. Lunches provided. You will need to provide your own caving light. (helmets are required, please let us know if you require the use of one).
The fossil sites of the Murgon, Gladstone, and Rockhampton regions give a diverse window into the early Tertiary, and Plio-Pleistocene of eastern Australia. As well as enjoying the diverse ecologies of the subtropical north, you will travel to some of the newest and most interesting sites in Queensland, including Mt Etna Caves National Park, Mt Etna Limestone Mine, Stuart Oil Shale Mine, Tarong Coal Mine and the famous Murgon Mud.
Please forward your Registration to
Scott Hocknull
CAVEPS 2003
Queensland Museum
PO Box 3300
South Brisbane 4101
or via EMAIL:
scotth@qm.qld.gov.au
CONTACT PERSONNEL
Scott Hocknull Dr. Alex Cook
Assistant Curator Senior Curator
scotth@qm.qld.gov.au alexc@qm.qld.gov.au
Int + 738407663 Int + 738407665 (w)
Int + 738461918 Int + 738461918 (fax)
Scientific Program Committee
Current
Scott Hocknull (Tertiary)
Dr. Alex Cook (Education / Interpretation)
Joanne Wilkinson (Technical)
Dr. S Turner (Palaeozoic / Mesozoic fishes)
Dr. R. A. Thulborn (Palaeozoic / Mesozoic tetrapods)
Dr. Bernard Cooke (Tertiary)
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