EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONODONT

SYMPOSIUM HELD IN EUROPE

ECOS VIII

TOULOUSE - ALBI

June 22 - 25, 2002

 

Click to download Full Circular as pdf
Click to download Registration form (pdf)

Please note that funds to support participants registration and accommodation costs have now been exhausted

Deadlines:

Submission of Abstracts January 31, 2002
Return of second circular registration form: March 31, 2002 (third circular, with scientific program, will be sent in May 2002 to those people who reply to the second circular)
Registration fee: March 31, 2002 After this date, fee increases by 10%
Deposit for field excursion(s): January 31, 2002
University residence in Toulouse
Booking and deposit		 January 31, 2002
Field excursion(s) full payment: March 31, 2002
University Residence in Toulouse
Full payment:		 March 31, 2002
Submission of manuscripts: December 1, 2002

GENERAL INFORMATION

ECOS VIII will take place in Spain and France in 2002. The scientific sessions will be held in Toulouse and Albi, June 22-25.
The site of the meeting on June 22nd, 23rd and in the morning of June 24th is the Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse III which was originally founded in the 13th Century. Situated within the historic city centre, the campus is surrounded by gardens and is not far from 10th to 17th Century churches, monasteries, and town houses, all within walking distance of hotels, restaurants outdoor cafés and shopping. Toulouse is the second largest university centre in France. For additional information, consult the web Page maintained by the City of Toulouse: http://www.mairie-toulouse.fr
In the afternoon of June 24th the meeting will move to Albi, 75 km from Toulouse, and will remain there for June 25th. The old historic town of Albi was the capital of Cathars, referred as 'Albigensians'. Albi is famous for its Gothic Basilica consecrated to Sainte Cécile (5th Century), the Toulouse Lautrec Museum, the Berbie Palace, and the ancient heart of the city. For additional information: http://www.tourisme.fr/albi

Summer weather in Toulouse, Albi and in the areas of the excursions is particularly pleasant and sunny, with daytime temperatures ranging from 75°F/24°C to 85°F/30°C, but cooler conditions, including rain showers, are also possible.

The third circular, with the final program, will be distributed in April 2002 to participants who reply to the 2nd circular and who pay the conference fees in March 2002. Please find links to all forthcoming information via the University Paul Sabatier homepage at: http://www.ups-tlse.fr/ACTUALITES/Sciences/ (follow the links to ECOS VIII 2002).

PROVISIONAL SCHEDULE

June 13th (Thu)-June 21st (Fri)
Pre-symposium field trip North Spain

June 21st (Fri)
Afternoon: Registration
Evening: Ice breaking party

June 22th (Sat)
Morning: Registration
Opening ceremony
Oral presentations
Afternoon: Oral and Poster presentations

June 23rd (Sun)
Oral and poster presentations
Symposium on 'Bias and Completeness in the Conodont Fossil Record'
Evening: Pander Society Dinner

24th (Mon) June
Morning: Oral and Poster presentations
SDS meeting
Afternoon : Departure to Albi by bus and guided tour in the city

June 25th (Tue)
Morning: Oral and Poster presentations
PGC 421 meeting
Afternoon: Oral and Poster presentations
Closing ceremony
Departure to Toulouse by bus

June 25th (Tue), evening - July 1st (Mon)
Post-symposium field trip (Southern France)

INSTRUCTION TO PRESENTERS

Conferences languages

English, Spanish and French languages are accepted for abstracts. Talks and Posters must be presented in English

Oral presentation

Each oral presentation will be allocated 25 minutes, including up to 10 minutes for discussion. Speakers are asked to prepare their presentations so as to allow time for discussion.
Video-projectors, 35 mm slide projectors, and overhead projectors will be available in the conference rooms. Speakers may use their own portable computers with the video-projectors, but computers with PowerPoint software will be available in the rooms. Please specify your exact requirements when completing your registration form.
The scientific committee may decide that some communications may fit into the programme as posters rather than oral papers.

Poster presentation

Posters will be displayed throughout the symposium. Posters should be prepared to fit within a space of 120 cm height x 100 cm width. Author's names and the poster title should be written in 35 mm high font.

Preparation of abstracts

All participants proposing to give oral or poster presentations must submit an abstract. This will be published in an Abstract Booklet, to be made available on registration. Please follow the instructions given below. Abstracts will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee and must be submitted before January 31st 2002. Only MS Word 6 or RTF file formats are acceptable. Abstracts should be no more than one page (A4 format), and the layout should follow the example given. The font used is Times Roman 14-pt bold for title, 12-pt bold for authorship, 10-pt Italics for the affiliation, 12-pt Roman for the main text. One blank line should be left to separate each of the title, authorship, affiliation, and main text entries.

Format of the abstract:

Oral or Poster presentation

Title of the paper or poster to be presented in ECOS VIII


Presenter A.1, Presenter B.²

1 Address of presenter A. including city, country and E-mail address
² Address of presenter B. including, city, country and E-mail address

The main text should give a brief summary of what the presentation is about, with context, approaches, outline results and tentative conclusions. The text of the abstract must be in Times Roman 12-pt.
It is permissible to cite published work in the abstract. The reference should be numbered thus (1) in the text, and cited at the end of the text as shown below:

(1). Brosse et al.-1993. Geobios, 27,6: 659-675

Reminder : the whole abstract (last line) must not exceed one A4 Format page

Submission of abstracts:

Completed abstracts should be sent to Dr. Marie-France PERRET MIROUSE by e-mail:(mfperret@cict.fr) or on a PC formatted floppy disk.
The deadline for receipt of abstract is 31st January 2002. Notification of acceptance will be given as soon as possible.

Publications

Referred and accepted papers will be published in one of several possible journals: a normal volume of Geobios or Societé Geologique de France, Revista Española de Micropaleontologia, Palaeontology or Special Papers in Palaeontology. The publication must be prepared in accordance to the instructions for authors, available at the conference office or from the different editors.

FIELD EXCURSION PROGRAM AND FEES

Pre- and post- symposium fieldtrips are planned in North Spain and South West France respectively. The cost of field trips is included in this circular. A deposit is required for each excursion and the full payment should be made before 31st March 2002.
The number of places available on these excursions is limited. If the number of registrations exceeds the number of places, participation will be decided on a "first-come, first-served" basis. Therefore, you should make sure to register as early as possible for the field trips. Generally it will be necessary to share a double room (if possible, please indicate a room-mate you would prefer to share with). If you require single room accommodation, the cost will be higher.

Field Excursion Northern Spain, ORGANIZED BY S. GARCIA-LOPEZ, J. SANZ-LOPEZ, J.L. VALENZUELA-RIOS

The arrival of participants will be at Oviedo on the morning of June 13th. In the afternoon, an introductory session will take place in the Faculty of Geology, followed by a visit to Pre-Roman sites, and an evening party. Arrival in Toulouse will be during the afternoon of June 21st.
The excursion will cross the Cantabrian zone, the Iberian Chain and the Pyrenees, and will include:
- Conodonts from Lower Silurian to Lower Tournaisian shallow platforms and Lower Carboniferous cosmopolitan conodonts along the coast in the Asturias Province.
- Devonian to Lower Carboniferous formations in the Léon Province. Visit to a coal quarry (Stephanian).
- Upper Carboniferous conodonts from Cantabrian foreland (visit to Covadonga lakes).
Silurian/Devonian boundary and Lower Devonian in deeper facies from the Cantabrian Zone. Visit to Roman sites.
- Journey with stops to visit historical sites and a wine cellar.
- Upper Ordovician and Lower Devonian rocks in the Iberian Chain.
- Silurian Ockerkalk facies and Lochovian to Pragian cosmopolitan conodonts in Pyrenees.
- Conglomerate from collapse of carbonate platform in rthe Lower Emsian and Upper Frasnian to Visean sequence in eastern Pyrenees.

Excursion costs: 850 €, including 8 nights in hotel (with transports, evening meal, breakfast and lunch packages), and stops to visit touristic sites. A deposit of 400 € (before January 31, 2002) or 450 € (after January 2002) is required, this deposit has to be to send to Spain (see registration form). For further information, please contact the leader: Susana Garcia Lopez, Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Oviedo, c/Arias de Velasco s/n, 33005 Oviedo, Spain. tel : +34 98510 28 84, fax : +34 98510 31 03 e-mail: sgarcia@asturias.geol.uniovi.es

Field Excursion Southern France, organized by M-F. Perret, R. Feist, C. Girard and C. Cygan

A six day post conference fied trip to the Montagne Noire and Pyrenees will take place from June 25th - July 1st.
Departing from Albi in the evening of June 25th, the excursion will cross the Montagne Noire (southwest of Massif Central) and the Pyrenees chain, east to west. The excursion will include:
- Stratotype selections and GSSPs of the Givetian/Frasnian, Frasnian/Famennian and Devonian/Carboniferous.
- Devonian and Lower Carboniferous of the Mont Peyroux.
- Late Ordovician/Silurian and Lower Devonian to Lower Carboniferous of the Cabrières klippen area.
- Cambrian and Lower Ordovician of the south western Montagne Noire. Visit to a middle age city: Cité de Carcassonne.
-Middle Devonian to Lower Carboniferous in the Arize Massif (Ariège), stop at Saint Bertrand de Comminges.
- Carboniferous outcrops (Visean, Serpukhovian and Bashkirian) in Gavarnie Nappe (Hautes Pyrénées). Touristic stops to Lourdes and Wine cellar.
- Famenian to Serpukhovian limestones (Aspe Valley, France, Spain)

Excursion costs: 500 €, including 6 nights in hotel (with Transports, evening meal, breakfast and lunch packages), and stops to visit touristic sites. A deposit of 300 € (before January 31, 2002) or 350 € (after this date) is required for this excursion.

Registration fees:
Fees have been kept as low as possible. The full registration fee is 220 € and the fee for bona fide students is 12O € (students must provide a note from their university confirming their status).
The cost of registration will cover the following:

HOW TO REGISTER

In order to participate in the ECOS VIII Toulouse meeting, it is essential that you register in advance by completing and returning the enclosed booking form and payment instructions.
Please register as soon as possible for the field trips. Do not forget: if the number of registrations exceeds the available places, participation will be decided on a first-come, first-served basis. If the number of registrations is below 25, the excursion will be cancelled.

Accompanying persons: Their registration fees will be 70 €. This will include the same as above except the Book of Abstracts and Symposium folder. Programs for accompanying persons may be arranged throughout the Symposium. Please contact Mme Yvette Tambareau:
yvette.tambareau@club-internet.fr
Tourist information concerning Toulouse and its region is available from:
http://www.mairie-toulouse.fr/accueil.htm

Registration desk: A registration desk will open at the Université Paul Sabatier of Toulouse at 4 p.m. on Friday 21st June and each day during the Symposium. The exact location of the registration desk in the University will be given on the ECOS VIII Web site in due course and in the third circular.

ACCOMMODATION

University accommodation:
A limited number of student accommodations will be available in the University Residence Arsenal (Cité universitaire de l'Arsenal) in the centre of the town (the site of the meeting can be reached easily by bus or on foot). Single rooms with shared adjoining bathrooms are available. The cost per room per night is 15 € including breakfast.
Reservations should be made directly with the organizing committee on the enclosed registration form when registering for the conference. Given the limited aviability of these rooms, reservations should be made as early as possible.

Hotel accommodation:
In Toulouse
There are 8500 rooms in the hotels in Toulouse. Participants may visit some of them at the following address:
http://www.toulouse-tourisme-office.com/
For complementary information, please contact the Office de Tourisme, Donjon du Capitole – B.P. 0801 – 31080 Toulouse cedex, tel: (33)5 61 11 02 22, e-mail: infos@toulouse-tourisme-office.com
Some hotels are suggested here below. All prices are given in Euros and are per room per night. Please book directly through the address indicated. Note that most hotels are in a central position, close to the railway station, metro and bus services, the shopping areas and numerous restaurants and bars.

GRAND HOTEL CAPOUL ***

100 € per night
13 place Wilson, 31000 Toulouse, France
Tel: +33 5 61 10 70 70,
Fax: +33 5 61 21 96 70
http://www.hotel-capoul.com
e-mail: grand-hotel-capoul-sa@wanadoo.fr


HOTEL ALBERT 1er **
50 € per night
8 rue Rivals- 7 rue J-F. Kennedy, 31000 Toulouse, France
Tel : +33 5 61 21 17 91,
Fax: +33 5 61 21 09 64
http://www.hotel-albert-1er.com
e-mail: hotel.albert.1er@wanadoo.fr


HOTEL LE CAPITOLE **
48-50 € per night
10 rue Rivals, 3100 Toulouse, France
Tel: +33 5 61 23 21 28,
Fax : +33 5 61 23 67 48
http://www.capitole-hotel.com/en/index.htm
e-mail : hotelcapitole@wanadoo.fr



HOTEL DE FRANCE **
48 € per night
5 rue d’Austerlitz, 31000 Toulouse, France
Tel : +33 5 61 21 88 24,
Fax : +33 5 61 21 99 77
http://www.hotel-France-toulouse/
e-mail: contact@hotel-France-toulouse.com


HOTEL OURS BLANC – WILSON **
47-65 € per night
2 rue Victor Hugo, 31007 Toulouse Cedex, France
Tel: +33 5 61 21 62 40,
Fax: +33 5 61 23 62 34
http://www.hotel-ours-blanc.fr


HOTEL DES ARTS *
23 € per night
1bis rue Cantegril, 31000 Toulouse, France
Tel : +33 5 61 23 36 21,
Fax: +33 5 61 12 22 37


LE FAIR-PLAY
25 € per night
4 allées Paul-Feuga, 3100 Toulouse, France
Tel: +33 5 62 26 56 57,
Fax : +33 5 62 26 47 87

In Albi:

Some hotels are suggested below, but you may visit the Tourist Office of Albi:
Internet : http://www.mairie-albi.fr - www.tourisme.fr/albi
E-mail : otsi.albi.accueil@wanadoo.fr
Fax : 33(0)5 63 49 48 98

Grand Hôtel d’Orléans***
54 to 100 € per night
Place Stalingrad
81000–Albi
tel : 33(0)5 63 54 16 56
fax : 33(0)5 63 54 43 41
http://www.bestwestern.com/

George V**
36 to 40 € per night
29 av. Maréchal Joffre
81000-Albi
tel :33(0)5 63 54 24 16
fax : 33(0)5 63 49 90 78

Le Vieil Alby** Closed for June
40 to 52 € per night
25 rue Toulouse-Lautrec
81000-Albi
tel : 33(0)5 63 54 14 69
fax : 33(0)5 63 54 96 75

Hôtel Saint Clair
8 rue Saint Clair
tel: +33(0)5 63 54 25 66
fax: +33 (0)5 63 47 27 58

Hôtel le Terminus
33 avenue Maréchal Joffre (near Railway Station)
tel:+ 33 (0)5 63 47 09 76
fax:+33(0)5 63 47 09 76

Hôtel La Régence
27 avenue Maréchal Joffre (near Railway Station)
tel: +33 (0)5 63 54 01 42
fax: +33(0)5 63 54 80 48

Campanile**
45 to 68 € per night
av. de Lattre de Tassigny
81000-Albi
tel:33(0)5 63 47 18 80
fax:33(0)5 63 38 15 37
http://www.campanile.fr

Lapérouse**
34 to 54 € per night
21 place Lapérouse
81000-Albi
tel : 33(0)5 63 54 69 22
fax : 33(0)5 63 38 03 69

Formule 1
22 to 25 € per night
Cantepau
81000-Albi
tel: 33(0)5 63 47 59 27
fax : 33(0)5 63 77 65 79


The hotel: “Formule 1” is out of the town but to reach the campus site of the University buses are available.

SOCIAL EVENTS 

The Pander Society Dinner is scheduled in Toulouse during the evening of June 23rd. On June 24th a guided tour of historical places in the inner city of Albi (Basilica of St Cécile and Toulouse Lautrec Museum) will be organized for the afternoon.

TRAVEL INFORMATION

Travel:
Destination is Toulouse for Scientific session. Participants may reach the "Blagnac Airport", about 8 km from the city center, directly by plane. Participants should make their own travel arrangements to this destination. There is a connecting shuttle bus service from the Blagnac airport to the center of Toulouse every 20 minutes. A single bus ticket costs €1.50 (8 French francs). The price of the taxi is about €15 during the day and about €20 during the night.
From Paris, Toulouse may be reached throughout the day either by regular flights or by train connections to Toulouse railway Station "Matabiau" with the TGV (Hight Speed Train).
By road, Toulouse may be approached on the A61 (from Carcassonne, southeast), the A62 (from Bordeaux, northwest), the A69 (from Albi, east), the A64 (from Tarbes, southwest) motorways. Maps may be downloaded from:
http://www.mairie-toulouse.fr/images/maptranF.GIF and
http://www.mairie-toulouse.fr/Cartes/Carte001F.htm

Car rental services:
Several companies offer car rentals at Paris and Toulouse-Blagnac airports or railway stations. It takes about 6 hours to drive from Paris to Toulouse (705 km). Please make arrangement through your travel agent.

Insurance/ Visa:
All participants should note that they must have valid health and travel insurance; in case, please purchase prior to your departure.
Please check whether a Visa is necessary. Participants are responsible for their own Visa arrangements.

PLEASE ADDRESS ALL CORRESPONDENCE TO:

Marie-France PERRET-MIROUSE Laboratoire de Dynamique des Bassins,
Université Paul Sabatier
38 rue des Trente-six Ponts, TOULOUSE, France,
tel :00 33 (0)5 61 55 84 41, fax : 00 33 (0)5 61 55 82 50, e-mail : mfperret@cict.fr

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