Date:
01 - 06 September 2014
Event type:
Conference, Field trip
Organised by:
Geological Curators' Group
Venue:
The King's Manor, University of York
Event status:
EVENT CLOSED
Abstracts & Registration Deadline 20 June 2014
The SPPC Symposium is part of the week-long 62nd Symposium on Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy (SVPCA)
The 2014 SVPCA and SPPC meetings will be hosted by the Centre for Anatomical and Human Sciences, Hull York Medical School in the historic city of York. The city has a long association with palaeontology and geology – the Yorkshire Museum was opened here in 1830 making it one of the longest established museums in the country. It was founded to house the collections of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, which include many local fossils such as the Kirkdale Cavern Quaternary Mammals and the Jurassic reptiles from the Yorkshire coast, as well as an enormous quantity of archaeological material, especially from Roman, Viking and Medieval York.
Venue
The SVPCA talks will take place in The King’s Manor. Owing to the age of the building, wheelchair access to the lecture theatre is difficult. Please could anyone with access concerns contact the conference organisers ([email protected]).
The SPPC talks and posters, and the SVPCA auction will take place in the York Medical Rooms on Stonegate in the city centre. The symposium banquet will be in the Merchant Taylors’ Hall on Aldwark.
Call for Abstracts:
Abstracts for the SVPCA meeting are encouraged on all aspects of vertebrate palaeontology, although the Geological Curators' Group day can include almost any palaeontological topics. We are aiming to have a dedicated poster session this year and would particularly like to encourage poster submissions.
The Deadline for abstracts and registration is Friday 20th June.
Talks and posters from GCG members would be especially welcome. We
encourage all GCG members to attend, and submit your paper to the
Geological Curator in due course.
Field Trips
No trip to Yorkshire would be complete without a fossil hunting trip to the coast around Whitby. Unfortunately, high tide on the Saturday following the symposium is mid-afternoon. So, instead we are proposing to run two field trips:
- The first trip will be on the Monday preceding the symposium (1 September). This will be to Saltwick Bay and will be run by Dean Lomax, author of Fossils of the Whitby Coast and assistant curator of palaeontology at the Doncaster Museum & Art Gallery.
- The second trip will be in the more traditional slot on Saturday 6 September. This will be to see a disused Alum Quarries, the Whitby Museum and the Rotunda Museum in Scarborough, and is being organised by Will Watts, formerly of Scarborough Museums Trust. Delegates may also be interested to know that the Scarborough Museums Trust will be holding a fossil festival on the weekend of 13 and 14 September.
Fees:
Registration is £20 for the day only, or £80 for the full week.
More Information:
Please check out the website for further details.