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___________________________________________________________________________ PALEONTOLOGY DIVISION GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA THIRTEENTH CANADIAN PALEONTOLOGY CONFERENCE (CPC-2003) September 19th - 21st, 2003 UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA, EDMONTON, ALBERTA FIRST CIRCULAR Welcome to Edmonton! The 13th annual Canadian Paleontology Conference (CPC-2003) will be held in Edmonton, Alberta, on September 19th-21st, 2003. The University of Alberta's departments of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Biological Sciences are pleased to host this years meeting and to showcase their long, vibrant, and ongoing tradition of paleontological research. The University of Alberta currently has six academic paleontologists on staff, two active professors emeriti, nearly twenty graduate students, and an Honours Paleontology undergraduate degree program boasting twenty-three registered students! The City of Edmonton is firmly anchored to the Upper Cretaceous bedrock of the Edmonton Formation which is beautifully exposed along the scenic banks and ravines of the North Saskatchewan River. Edmonton and its Cretaceous rocks are also the source name for the dinosaur genera Edmontosaurus and Edmontonia - a hadrosaur and ankylosaur respectively. No other Canadian city can claim to be the namesake of two dinosaur genera! On behalf of the CPC 2003 we invite you to come experience a bit our paleontological history and to glimpse a bit of our future. The Program On the evening of Friday, September 19th, delegates may attend a social event. Platform presentations and a poster session are scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 20 to be followed by a banquet that evening. Field trips will commence early Sunday morning for registered field trip participants. Two separate field trips are being organized and are provisionally intended to run from September 21st-24th. Both field trips will involve a visit to the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology with one excursion proceeding to Dinosaur Provincial Park and the other to the Burgess Shale. Detailed itineraries and costs for each trip will be given in the second circular. If anyone is interested in viewing particular specimens from the collections at the University of Alberta Laboratory for Vertebrate Paleontology, or the Paleontology Museum, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, please make advance arrangements with the relevant Curators and Collections Managers so the material will be available on that Monday. CPC-2003 EXTENDED ABSTRACT/SHORT PAPERS VOLUME Participants of CPC-2003 have the option of submitting either a short paper or an extended abstract for their presentations. Students are particularly encouraged to submit short papers for publication in the volume (short papers will not be refereed). SUBMISSION DEADLINE The submission deadline for both short papers and conventional abstracts is provisionally set for July 15, 2003. We encourage all contributors to start preparation early. Contributions may be submitted electronically any time after June 1st, 2003. SECOND CIRCULAR Details on registrations fees, registration forms, accommodation, and meeting schedule will be given in the Second Circular, which will be sent out in June, 2003. In order to receive the second circular, please indicate your intention to participate in the brief questionnaire below: We are currently building a website to accept on-line registration and to encourage the submission of QUESTIONNAIRE ______ I will attend CPC-2003 ______ I will (will not) give an oral presentation. ______ I will (will not) present a poster. ______ I will (will not) contribute a short paper to the CPC-2002 conference volume. Please send to: Dr. Brian D.E. Chatterton, Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Science 1-26 Earth Sciences Building, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2E9 e-mail: brian.chatterton@ualberta.ca ___________________________________________________________________________ -- Mr. W. Douglas Boyce, M.Sc., P.Geo., Provincial Paleontologist, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Mines and Energy, Geological Survey Division, Regional Geology Section, P.O. Box 8700, St. John's, NL, Canada A1B 4J6 Phone: (709) 729-2163 Fax: (709) 729-4270 WWW: http://www.geosurv.gov.nf.ca/mapping/boyce.html http://www.geosurv.gov.nf.ca/education/fossils/index.html http://www.canadianrockhound.com/summer97/cr9701301_nfld.html http://www.spnhc.org/documents/fossilprotection.htm ___________________________________________________________________________
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