The Bienniel Palaeo Symposium is being held at the University of Alberta at Edmonton on January 30th. Here's some info shamelessly stolen off of facebook:The 3rd Biennial Symposium takes place Saturday, January 30, 2010, in the Earth Sciences Building room 3-27.
8:30: registration table opens
9 – 9:30 Alison Murray, “Late Cretaceous actinopterygian fishes from Morocco”
9:30 – 10 Lindsey Leighton, “The influence of predation on community composition and evenness: A case-study from Eocene molluscan communities”
10 – 10:30 coffee break and posters
10:30 – 11:00 Clive Coy, “What species is that faeces?”
11:00 – 11:30 Kevin Aulenback, “What’s really out there? The conifers (gymnosperms) of the Horseshoe Canyon Formation (Cretaceous) of Drumheller, Alberta.”
11:30 – noon Duane Froese, “Alaska’s last mammoth - no bones about it.”
Noon – 1:30 pm lunch and posters
1:30 – 2:00 Pierre Lemelin, “Functional morphology of the wrist joints in strepsirrhine primates: Importance of laboratory-based experiments to infer behaviour in extinct species.”
2:00 – 2:30: Sally Leys, “Evolution of multicellular animals: lessons from sponges.”
2:30 – 3:30 – coffee break and posters
3:30 - 4 Takuya Konishi, “Evolution of Plioplatecarpinae (Squamata: Mosasauridae)—new insights into their pelagic adaptations”
4 – 4:45 keynote: George Pemberton, “Assessing permeability/porosity trends in bioturbated media”
There will also be more than 20 posters covering dinosaurs, champsosaurs, fish, mammals, turtles, pterosaurs, and arthropods.
Following the symposium (January 30), there will be a wine and cheese reception at Leva Cappucino Bar, located close to campus at 11053 86 Ave, beginning at 7pm. Tickets are $10 each and can be reserved by emailing uofaps@ualberta.ca. Tickets will be available for purchase and pick-up at the symposium registration desk, and include entrance to Leva, one free glass of wine, and refreshments. Attire is business casual/semi-formal.
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