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IGCP 591 – Spring Report 2012

IGCP 591 was approved in April to continue with Project Year 2 (2012)! Two regional events have already taken place this year: An IGCP 591 sponsored session at the EGU meeting in Vienna, Austria, as well as a sponsored session and field trip at the GSA North Central meeting in Dayton, Ohio, USA. Both events were productive regional events for IGCP 591 and helped set the table for events yet to come later this year. The two large events for 2012 include the 2nd Annual Meeting and 1st Foerste Symposium to be held in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA in July, in addition to a sponsored session at the 34th International Geological Congress (IGC) in Brisbane, Australia, in August. Details of the upcoming meetings are available at the UPCOMING MEETINGS SECTION on this website. The annual meeting this year in Cincinnati will include field trips to the Appalachian Basin as well as the Illinois Basin of the US midcontinent in addition to two days of scientific sessions. The first public demonstration of the Digital Integrated Stratigraphy Project (DISP), a technological component of IGCP 591, will take place during the pre-meeting field trip in Cincinnati and further details of the progress of DISP will be posted on this website when available. We are all looking forward to seeing you at one of the remaining events this year!

For those of you who like to plan ahead, we have also posted the first circular for the two major events taking place next year associated with IGCP 591. The Annual Meeting for next year (2013) will take place in Lund, Sweden, and will be a joint meeting with the Cambrian, Ordovician, and Silurian Subcommisions (ISCS, ISOS, ISSS). In addition, the 3rd International Conodont Symposium to be held in Mendoza, Argentina, will serve as an IGCP 591 Regional Field Meeting, and details for both meetings are available on this website. We hope to see many of you this year in either Cincinnati or Brisbane, and we also hope to see you again in Lund or Mendoza next year. We are now well over 400 participants during the life of IGCP 591, and we continue to grow! The participant list has just been updated, and if you are still not on the list, or we have made a mistake with your contact details, please send the correct information to osigcp@gmail.com.

The special volume of the Bulletin of Geosciences that includes contributions from the annual meeting last year (2011) is nearly ready for publication and should be out in the second half of this year. Preparations are in place for a special volume in Stratigraphy arising from the annual meeting this year as well. The submission deadline for the special volume for 2012 in Stratigraphy will be one month after the annual meeting (so… Sept. 1st, 2012). More details will be provided at the meeting. You are not required to attend the meeting to submit something for the special publication.

IGCP 591 Annual Meeting in Cincinnati, July 22-28, 2012

IGCP 591 Annual Meeting in Lund, Sweden, June 9-19, 2013

The meeting will be organised jointly with the International Subcommission on Cambrian Stratigraphy (ISCS), International Subcommission on Ordovician Stratigraphy (ISOS), International Subcommission on Silurian Stratigraphy (ISSS).

Deadlines for request for support, registration and abstracts: March 2013.

See more details in the First Circular or contact the organisers: mikael.calner@geol.lu.se.

3rd ICoS and IGCP 591 regional field meeting in Mendoza, Argentina, July 2013

IGCP 591 – Mid-Summer Report 2011

IGCP 591 is off to a flying start in Project Year 1! Special thanks go out to the conference organizers of the dual opening meetings of IGCP 591: The 11th International Symposium on the Ordovician System held in Madrid, Spain, and the International Subcommission on Silurian Stratigraphy Meeting (Siluria Revisited) held in Ludlow, England. By all accounts these were both excellent meetings and we sincerely thank all parties involved for their hard work. We will soon pass the 400 participant mark representing more than 37 countries (see participant list) in just this first year alone. We were able to help a total of 17 people attend the Ludlow meeting thanks to IGCP funding, nearly all of which were either students or early-career researchers. It was great to get this project started, and we look forward to getting the Ordovician and Silurian communities together again next year at the IGCP 591 2nd Annual Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA!

ISOS field trip, Spain, May 2011.

Portugal – Spain – Wales – England

The dual opening meetings held field trips to Ordovician and Silurian successions in Portugal, Spain, Wales, and England. See recently held meetings for more details about these field trips to four of the six countries visited in Project Year 1.

Current Events

With the conclusion of the dual opening meetings in Madrid and Ludlow, links to the conference volumes are now available. They contain a wealth of important new information for the Early to Middle Paleozoic communities and we sincerely thank the authors and most importantly the editors of those volumes for producing such excellent works. Papers submitted to the special volume of Bulletin of Geosciences following the Ludlow meeting will be sent out for review in early August.

Two scheduled IGCP 591 events remain for Project Year 1 (PY1). The 8th Baltic Stratigraphic Conference, organized by Ervīns Lukševičs, and the GSA Post-Conference Field Trip on the Ordovician of the Mid-Continent of North America organized by Pat McLaughlin are still to come in August and October, respectively (see upcoming meetings). We have limited funds to cover the registration fee for a few people to attend the GSA Post-Conference Field Trip in the fall running from Minneapolis, so please contact osigcp@gmail.com as soon as possible if you are in need of support.

The Digital Integrated Stratigraphy Project (DISP – A technological component of IGCP 591) is well underway thanks to a grant from the German Research Council (DFG) to Axel Munnecke of Erlangen University, Germany. Eight sections were scanned in Wales and England this July, prior to the Siluria Revisited meeting in Ludlow, and more scanning will continue in PY1 and PY2. The current time-table for the first public demonstration of the DISP is next summer during the pre-conference field trip of the IGCP 591 2nd Annual Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, where we hope to have two stratigraphic sections scanned and loaded and available for a field demonstration of our vision of the DISP. A link to the original announcement of the DISP is available, and David Boon (British Geological Survey) and Ranyah Kharwat (University of Texas at Dallas) are warmly thanked for their technical expertise in the field this summer and helping to launch the Digital Integrated Stratigraphy Project. Further details will be provided via the DISP link as they become available.