Meetings

Each year the active IGCP projects hold one or more meetings. The 1995 annual meeting for IGCP 328 was held in Paris, in conjunction with the 8th International Meeting on Early Vertebrates/Lower Vertebrates. Image at right: Participants in the Paris meetings, 1995

A field excursion was also held in 1995, jointly with the Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy (SDS) (with which IGCP has cooperated closely), to Devonian and Carboniferous localities and type sections in northeastern France and southwestern Belgium. In addition to the annual meetings of IGCP 328, smaller working groups get together frequently and symposia are held at numerous paleontological and geological conferences around the world. Image below: International collaboration during the 1995 Field trip by participants (L to R) Elga Mark-Kurik (Estonia), Claire Derycke (France), Gavin Young (Australia), and Valentina Karatajute-Talimaa (Lithuania).

In 1996, IGCP 406 working groups met in: Uppsala, Sweden; Edmonton, Canada; Tallinn, Estonia; and Vilnius, Lithuania. For 1997, IGCP 406 met in Buckow, Germany and in St. Petersburg, Russia. The 1998 meeting of IGCP 406 was in Warsaw, Poland. In September-October of 1999, IGCP 406 met in Jurmala, near Riga, Latvia. In May 2000, IGCP 406 members participated in the 9th E/LV meeting, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA. In July of 2000, IGCP 406 held its final annual meeting in Syktyvkar, Russia. (see the Palaeozoic News page for details).