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Dear colleagues, You are cordially invited to join paleogeoarthropoda (PGA), a website for researchers interested in the evolution and geologic history of non-marine arthropods, at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/paleogeoarthropoda/ Paleogeoarthropoda is a members-only website that invites researchers from diverse disciplines (e.g., biology, geology, chemistry, paleontology, botany, genetics, ichnology, biomechanics) to discuss their interests and research with the vast fossil database of non-marine arthropods. The main purpose of the website is to encourage collaboration for publications and presentations. PGA features a calender of events, message board, photo-sharing, file-sharing, databases, polls, and hundreds of PGA-related weblinks. Members are encouraged to peruse, update, and participate! PGA currently has 43 members, including leading specialists with insects, arachnids, and myriapods. Recent events at PGA include: * review of the Fossils X3 conference (3rd INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF PALAEOENTOMOLOGY with 2nd INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON PALAEOARTHROPODOLOGY and 2nd WORLD CONGRESS ON AMBER AND ITS INCLUSIONS, Pretoria, South Africa 7 th to 11th February 2005). * advanced notice of Megarachne paper (released last week) by Paul Selden. * Geological Society of America (GSA) accepted our PGA-themed topical session proposal for the 2005 GSA Annual Meeting. The PGA topical session is co-sponsored and funded by the Paleontological Society. Other co-sponsors are the GSA Limnogeology Division and the GSA Geobiology and Geomicrobiology Division. The session will include four invited speakers and at least 8 volunteer speakers. See http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2005AM/topglance.cgi * notice of the 9th Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota, to be held in Manchester (UK) in 2006. PGA also sponsors a sister website on fossil arthropods, FossilBugz, which provides and introduction and web resource for teachers, students (grades K-12, undergraduate), and the general public. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me anytime. Cary R. Easterday PhD student, Geology, Paleobiology, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Geoarthropods, Biostatistics Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences University of Illinois at Chicago 845 West Taylor Street, Room 2440 Chicago, IL 60607 ceaste2@uic.edu phone: 708.707.1030 fax: 312.413.2279 Geological Society of America, Geobiology & Geomicrobiology Division, Limnogeology Division Entomological Society of America Paleontological Society Moderator, Paleogeoarthropoda and FossilBugz http://groups.yahoo.com/group/paleogeoarthropoda http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FossilBugz
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