The 9th International Conference on Paleoceanography (ICP9) will be held at the Shanghai Everbright Convention & Exhibition Centre International Hotel.
The Conference Theme is "The Future Ocean: Perspective from the Past -- A Tribute to Professor Sir Nicholas J. Shackleton". Five sessions will be organized, including Time Constraints on Mechanisms for Oceanic Change, Sea-Land Interactions and Monsoons, Inter-Ocean Exchanges, Biotic Response to Perturbations in Ocean Chemistry, and The Holocene -- Baseline for the Future.
The Conference's 2nd circular will be announced on 30 December 2006. Online registration and abstract submission will start on 30 January 2007. The Conference provides travel grants for oral speakers and some young participants. A number of tours and field excursions will be organized after the Conference, including field excursions to the Chinese Loess Plateau and the Tibetan Plateau. Contact the Conference Secretariat by icp9
mail.tongji.edu.cn.
Travel grants are available to attend this conference. Click here for information about IMAGES early career scientist travel subsidies (application deadline is 30 June 2007). Click here for information about European Science Foundation Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences travel grants aimed at young European researchers (deadline 18 June 2007).
Abstract deadline (extended): 10 July 2007