paleonet Secondary Adaptation Conference, Dunedin NZ, December 2002 (fwd)

[Mark Purnell <map2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Forwarded on behalf of Ewan Fordyce

Please address any queries to him (addresses at the end of this email)


Dear Paleontologists:


The final circular for the third meeting, Secondary Adaptation of Tetrapods
to Life in Water, is now on the web at
http://www.otago.ac.nz/Geology/secad/secadmain.html


The meeting will be held Monday 9 to Friday 13 December 2002, at the
University of Otago, in Dunedin, New Zealand.  Discount registration closes
1 November, but registration will be possible up to the start of the
meeting.


The conference will provide a venue to document and discuss pattern and
process in secondary adaptation to water.  As for past meetings,
interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged; contributions may consider
fossils and living taxa, and such diverse topics as phylogeny, functional/
constructional morphology, biogeography, stratigraphy, behaviour,
ecology/paleoecology, and paleoclimatology.


For urgent queries 5-20 October (when I'm in USA, at SVP):
ewan_fordyce@hotmail.com  For all queries after 20 October:
ewan.fordyce@stonebow.otago.ac.nz

R. Ewan Fordyce
Department of Geology
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
and Chair, Conference on Secondary Adaptation of Tetrapods to Life in Water