paleonet Booking deadline for meeting in Leicester: Earth, Life andClimate - 3 billion years of interaction

[Mark Purnell <map2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you are thinking of coming to the meeting below, get your tickets soon;
booking will close in the next day or two.

Earth, Life and Climate: 3 billion years of interaction

Each year, the Geology Section of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical
Society organises a one day meeting that brings together expert speakers to
address subjects of broad interest in a way that is accessible to the
general public and students. This year's subject is Earth, Life and Climate:
3 billion years of interaction. While not a palaeontological research
meeting as such, the subject is clearly something that may be of interest to
members of paleonet. If you wish to attend, see details below. Please feel
free to forward this to any other people (or students) who you think might
be interested.

Cheers,

Mark

Dr Mark A. Purnell
Department of Geology
University of Leicester
University Road
Leicester LE1 7RH
UK
Tel +44 116 252 3645 Fax +44 116 252 3918
www.le.ac.uk/gl/map2/


Earth, Life and Climate: 3 billion years of interaction

Speakers:
Earth-like planets mostly arenšt like this
Dr Nick Butterfield, University of Cambridge

The middle age of Life the carbon juggler: marine organisms and the Mesozoic
carbon cycle
Dr Peter Skelton, Open University

Vegetation feedbacks and environmental change in the Palaeozoic; the making
of the modern world
Prof. Bob Spicer, Open University

End-Permian mass extinction: new evidence from Russia
Prof. Mike Benton, University of Bristol

The mountains of the Pacific Northwest: a wind break that caused northern
hemisphere glaciation?
Dr. Gavin Foster, University of Bristol

The climate of the future, clues from the past
Dr Mark Williams & Dr Alan Haywood, British Antarctic Survey

Organised by
Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society Section C (Geology)
5 March 2005
9.30 am ­ 5. 00 pm
Ken Edwards Building, University of Leicester

Since life first appeared here, Earth, life and climate have been in a state
of dynamic interaction. Life has fundamentally changed the nature of our
planet and its atmosphere, and geological processes have had a major impact
on climate and life. This day-long symposium will consider how the Earth of
the past, present and future is a product of its interactions with the
organisms it hosts.
Talks will address the first three billion years of earth - life
interactions, the evolution of carbonate skeletons and the effects on global
climate, the emergence of the terrestrial flora, and the effects on
weathering and geochemical cycles, new evidence of catastrophic
environmental change during the end Permian Mass Extinction, geological
processes, mountain building and climate change, and the past, present and
future of global climate change.

For more details and a booking form see the website:
www.le.ac.uk/gl/map2/ELC/

Tickets: 15.50 pounds (with buffet lunch) or 8.50 pounds (without)