1st IMERP - XIV EJIP in the world

Researches from all those countries come to 1stIMERP-XIV EJIP!! We are waiting for you! See you in Alpuente!

Lecturers on 1st IMERP-XIV EJIP: Susan Turner

Let us with the presentation of the differents lecturers. Now it is the turn of the second lecturer of te workshop about Paleozoic.

Workshop "Life in Palaeozoic: an overview of land and sea ecosystems" lecturers.

Susan Turner (Geoscience consultant and editor; Honorary Research Fellow at several institutions including Queensland and New Brunswick museums, Curtin and Monash universities) is one of the world authorities on agnathan and chondrichthyan fishes and especially their early evolution, with special interest in thelodonts (Thelodonti), basal sharks (e.g. Doliodus, Protodus, Mcmurdodus), and certain other groups (e.g. gyracanths, xenacanths). She has produced an extensive amount of work in her nearly 50 years of research. Her PhD (begun when in Reading University under Bev Halstead) focused on understanding the British thelodonts then known with special reference to their applied biostratigraphy and palaeogeography (with a first paper on the closure of Iapetus in Nature in 1970) she continued that work worldwide over the years, pioneering Palaeozoic microvertebrate research in Gondwana, collaborating on the Handbook of Paleoichthyology on the clade and is now concerned with the origins as well as palaeobiology. Migrating to Australia in 1980, she began to discover new taxa notably mid-Palaeozoic sharks based on microfossils and this has led, especially with her students and colleagues in international research projects, to finding out more about the evolution of basal agnathans and gnathostomes.  One important work challenged the hypothesis that conodont animals were vertebrates (they are not!). Discovery and recognition of the first Carboniferous tetrapod in the southern hemisphere and the youngest-known dicynodont led to new avenues of research and inclusion as a "Wizard of Oz". Field experience includes work on four continents, with description of fossils from many countries besides. Working always in a museum environment, she created a major geology gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne and assisted in the re-structuring of the Queensland Museum. She co-ran UNESCO:IUGS IGCP 328 and was a member of the Paleobiological Fund, the IGCP Board and Global Geoparks Expert Committee (helping to create the Australian Geopark Kanawinka and assessing ones in China and Iran), and is on the current Australian IGCP Committee.

Lecturers on 1st IMERP-XIV EJIP: Christian Klug

Today we can announce exciting news about our congress: the differents lecturers of the workshops are confirmed!. During next days, we will present every one of them.

Workshop "Life in Palaeozoic: an overview of land and sea ecosystems" lecturers.

Christian Klug (curator of the Palaeontological Museum of the University of Zurich, Switzerland) grew up in Southern Germany. Already at the age of 10, he became interested in nature, particularly botany and geology. Some years later, he began collecting Triassic fossils in the area around his hometown Schwabisch Hall (Germany). After school, he studied palaeontology in Tuebingen. Both his MSc- and his PhD-thesis focused on Devonian ammonoids based in materials from Morocco. After a scientific internship at the Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde in Stuttgart (Germany), he received a part time position as research associate at the Palaeontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zurich. Since 2014, he is now curator of the museum. In his research, he focuses on the palaeobiology of cephalopods and macroecological changes in the Palaeozoic.

We´ve run out of places!!!!!

Dear participants,

We inform you that we do not allow any more people to register, since we have reached the maximum capacity of the installations for the congress. Please, if you know anyone who still want to register, tell them to contact us before making a payment.

All the best

Organizing committee

VERY IMPORTANT!!!!

Dear participants,

We have reached the maximum number of accommodations we considered when we decided to organize the 1stIMERP/XIV EJIP, 120 places.

After this threshold, people can still register, but housing and transport are not included anymore (we will help finding alternative housing options in nearby localities, though). In a few days we will publish a list of alternative housing options for those who still want to participate in the congress, but are not included within the first 120 registrations.

All the best,

Organizing committee 1stIMERP/XIV EJIP 

VERY IMPORTANT! Few accommodation places available!

Dear participants,

We are very close to the maximum number of reservations we considered when we decided to organize the 1st IMERP-XIV EJIP, 120 places. The moment we reach the 120 registered participants, we will publish it in our blog.

After the 120 threshold, people can still register, but housing and transport are not included anymore (we will help finding alternative housing options in nearby localities, though). In a few days we will publish a list of alternative housing options for those who still want to participate in the congress, but are not included within those first 120.

All the best,

1st IMERP-XIV EJIP Organizing Committee

75% of the accomodations covered!

Dear participants,

We have reach over 75% of the accommodations we offer for free with early-bird registration. We want to thank all of you for your great response to this meeting, and we are doubling our efforts to make it a great experience for all.

And remember, if you have sent your inscription but you did not fulfill the payment, please do it as soon as possible. Remember too that the early-bird registration's deadline is next 29 February.

Please, stay in touch for more news.

1st IMERP-XIV EJIP Organizing Committee