Future Meeting: JK2018

The aim of the "International Meeting around the Jurassic-Cretaceous Boundary" is to discuss eustatical, biological, physiographical, geochemical, ... events at/near the boundary (i.e., over an interval of time spanning the Kimmeridgian to the Hauterivian, with a special focus on Tithonian to Valanginian strata).

Mailing list: http://www-connexe.univ-brest.fr/geosciences/dada/mail.cgi/archive/TB/20...
Preliminary registration and abstract submittal: https://php5.univ-brest.fr/conference/ocs/index.php/JK2018/JK2018
Final registration (payment): http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/registration.html

Organizing committee

Prof. Rossana Martini, Université de Genève, Switzerland
Dr Lionel Cavin, Muséum d'histoire naturelle (MHN) de Genève, Switzerland
Prof. Jean J. Charollais, Université de Genève, Switzerland
Prof. Bruno R.C. Granier, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France
Dr Christian Meister, Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève, Switzerland
Dr Eric Monteil, Muséum d'Histoire naturelle (MNH) de Genève, Switzerland
Dr André Piuz, Muséum d'histoire naturelle (MHN) de Genève, Switzerland
Prof. Andreas Strasser, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Scientific committee

Prof. Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dr Cinzia Bottini, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Dr Špela Goričan, ZRC SAZU, Slovenia
Dr François Atrops, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard (Lyon 1), France
Dr Evgenij Baraboshkin, Moscow State University, Russian Federation
Prof. Peter O. Baumgartner, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
Prof. Mohamed Benzaggagh, Université Moulay Ismail - Meknès, Morocco
Dr Joachim Blau, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany
Prof. Ioan I. Bucur, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania
Dr Eric Buffetaut, CNRS, France
Prof. Miguel Company Sempere, Universidad de Granada, Spain
Prof. Raymond Enay, Université Claude Bernard (Lyon), France
Dr Mohssine Ettachfini, Université Cadi Ayyad, Marrakesh, Morocco
Dr Jacek Grabowski, Państwowy Instytut Geologiczny, Warsaw, Poland
Prof. Bruno R.C. Granier, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France
Prof. Malcolm B. Hart, Plymouth University, United Kingdom
Dr Hartmut Jäger, GeoResources STC, Germany
Prof. Mikheil Kakabadze, I. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia
Prof. Jaap Klein, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Netherlands
Dr Stephen Lokier, Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates
Dr Carles Martín-Closas, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Dr Mathieu Martinez, Université de Rennes 1, France
Prof. Atsushi Matsuoka, Niigata University, Japan
Dr Eric Monteil, Muséum d'Histoire naturelle (MNH) de Genève, Switzerland
Prof. James G. Ogg, Purdue University, United States
Dr Mikhail A. Rogov, Геологический Институт, Российская Академия Наук, Russian Federation
Jean-Loup Rubino, Total, France
Prof. Mariusz A. Salamon, Uniwersytet Śląski, Poland
Dr Christian Salazar, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile
Dr Robert W. Scott, The University of Tulsa, United States
Dr Mike Simmons, Halliburton, United States
Prof. Andreas Strasser, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Prof. Helmut J. Weissert, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Prof. Ismail Omer Yilmaz, Middle East Technical University (Ankara), Turkey

Scientific partners and sponsors

• Association Paléontologique Française (APF)
• Società Paleontologica Italiana (SPI)
• Societatea Paleontologilor din România (SPR)
• Sociedad Española de Paleontología (SEP)
• Comité Suisse de Stratigraphie (strati.CH)
• International Subcommission on Stratigraphic Classification (ISSC)
• International Research Group on Ostracoda (IRGO)
• International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS)
• Меловая комиссия МСК (Russian "Cretaceous Commission")
• Юрская комиссия МСК (Russian "Jurassic Commission")
• Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology (SSP) - European Geosciences Union (EGU)
• Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM)
• The Paleontological Society

IAS Grants

The International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS) has kindly confirmed the support to the meeting, which will be provided in form of travel grants to IAS student members. Applications for the grant have to be submitted through the IAS website at http://www.sedimentologists.org/