ICOS 2009
The second International Conodont Symposium will be held at the University of Calgary during July 2009. General information is provided via this link, but more detailed information will be provided at http://www.ucalgary.ca/conodont (not yet live) or by contacting Charles Henderson (Chairman of ICOS 2009) via email.
Provisional Schedule/Itinerary
July 12, 2009; Icebreaker on University Campus: Sunday evening
July 13-14, 2009; Sessions at a Department of Geoscience theatre
July 15; Workshops or day trip to Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology;
July 16-17, 2009; Sessions at a Department of Geoscience theatre
July 16, 2009, Thursday evening. Western style banquet, either at Heritage Park or Kananaskis Guest Ranch
Fieldtrips (in preparation)
July 11 and July 18; Burgess Shale day trips (geological & palaeontological sightseeing).
3-4 day post-conference Rocky Mountain fieldtrip with overnights in the resorts of Banff and Jasper; mostly latest Devonian to Early Triassic units will be viewed with collecting opportunities including the Permian-Triassic boundary. There will also be a stop to see the glaciers on the Icefields Parkway.
Accommodation
A block of rooms have been reserved on campus; these are apartment style.
A small block of rooms have been reserved at Village Park Inn close to campus.
More information will be provided by links in our website.
Room reservations and registration will be completed by Conference and Special Events Services on Campus.
Getting to Calgary
There are two daily flights on Air Canada to Calgary from Frankfurt and London.
There are daily flights from Sydney, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Nanjing connecting through Vancouver.
There are numerous direct or connecting flights from the United States, especially from Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Seattle and San Francisco.
Direct flights from most major cities in Canada.
The University and City Attractions
The University has over 25,000 full-time students and has excellent facilities for our meeting including accommodation. Calgary has a population of nearly 1.1 million and is the gateway to the southern Canadian Rocky Mountains. Calgary is home of ‘The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth’ – the Calgary Stampede (July 3-12, 2009).
Possible Sessions
2009 is the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale Lagerstätten; a session on early vertebrate evolution including conodonts would be appropriate.
2009 marks the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin and 150th anniversary of publication of the Origin of Species, so a session on “evolutionary tempo and mode of Class Conodonta” would be in order.
Conodonts are increasingly used in geochemical studies and a session on “high resolution stratigraphy integrating geochemistry, geochronology and biostratigraphy” is proposed.
A session on taxonomic philosophies, that focuses on what constitutes a genus and species in the biological world of conodonts, is being considered.
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