Dear Colleagues:
Participate in Paleo Parks:
A new Topical Symposium (T23) on the conservation of outstanding fossil
sites ("Paleo Parks") was added recently to the program of the
Second International Paleontological Congress in Beijing, China, from
June 17 to 21, 2006 (see
http://www.ipc2006.ac.cn/index.asp). This 'symposium', sponsored by
the International Paleontological Association, is based on the successful
sessions at the IGC in Florence in 2004 on the preservation of our
paleontological and geologic heritage. Considerable interest was
expressed there to continue exploration of this pressing topic on a
world-wide basis by sharing successes and failures, and determining what
needs to be done in the future, as an international effort sponsored by
the IPA. This 'symposium' T23 is designed to function more as
a workshop where ideas can be shared and discussed with the aim of
developing the international effort.
The session will consist of three parts: Oral presentations (few)
on general aspects, poster sessions on specific successes or failures,
and discussions leading to resolutions for IPA. We now
solicit general oral contributions and specific topical posters that will
inform the discussions. We also ask that those interested in
participating in the workshop notify the organizers with their names,
email addresses, and ideas or topics for discussion (a few sentences
please). From all of this, a program for this "Topical
Symposium/Workshop" (T23) will be developed. Anyone who
has ever been involved in conservation or preservation of fossil
sites, who has tried to do it, or who has been involved in
promoting legislation for the protection of fossil sites is encouraged to
attend and to share their ideas.
Abstracts for the meeting are due March 1, 2006.
Thanks,
Jere
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Session Description from the IPA meeting web site
(
http://www.ipc2006.ac.cn/t23.htm):
T23. Palaeontological Parks: The World-wide Conservation of Outstanding
Fossil Sites
Conveners:
Jere H. Lipps ( University of California, Berkeley, USA).
E-mail: jlipps@berkeley.edu
Javier Gaitán-Morán (Universidad Autonoma de Baja California Sur, La
Paz, Mexico). E-mail: jgaitan@uabcs.mx
Outline: 1). Many valuable sites are being lost to science and
humanity by destruction through development, lack of attention or
indiscriminate collecting. However, many models for the
protection of sites exist, for thousands of paleontological field
resources have been preserved at the national, state, local, and personal
level. 2). What conserved sites exist world wide now? 3). What makes a
Site outstanding? 4). How can new sites be identified? 5). How can sites
be protected? 6). Who are stakeholders that should be involved in
preservation and protection? 7). How do we communicate and organize a
preservation and protection effort? 8). Bringing order to chaos
throughout the world, and 9). A Plan for the Future.