From bonnie.a.b.blackwell at williams.edu Wed Jul 2 06:45:29 2008 From: bonnie.a.b.blackwell at williams.edu (bonnie.a.b.blackwell at williams.edu) Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 08:45:29 -0400 Subject: [Sasnet] Fwd: [news] Conferenza Fiocchi Nicolai Message-ID: <1215002729.486b78699df40@imp.williams.edu> ----- Forwarded message from University of Siena-LAP&T ----- Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 08:53:54 +0200 From: University of Siena-LAP&T Reply-To: University of Siena-LAP&T Subject: [news] Conferenza Fiocchi Nicolai To: news at lapetlab.it Cari amici, abbiamo il piacere di informarvi che il giorno 3 luglio si terr? presso il comune di San Giovanni d?Asso (SI) la conferenza del prof. Vincenzo Fiocchi Nicolai. Distinti saluti Laboratorio di Archeologia dei Paesaggi e Telerilevamento ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ STEFANO CAMPANA LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF SIENA Email campana at unisi.it WEB SITES http://www.lapetlab.it but also http://www.3darchaeology.org http://www.pavaproject.org ; http://www.space2place.org Mobile ++3280423331 Director of the LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY & REMOTE SENSING LABORATORY-LAP&T SIENA LAB Via Roma 56, 53100 Siena - Italy Phone/Fax ++(0)577-234733/234601 GROSSETO LAB Convento Clarisse, via Vinzaglio 28, 58100 Grosseto - Italy Phone/Fax ++(0)564-441212/13 ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________________________________________ Bonnie A.B. Blackwell, Ph.D., F.G.S.A., F.G.A.C. 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You are invited to attend the following session at "Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions" (10-12 March 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark): Informing the Future by Understanding the Past. Session convenors: Bette Otto-Bliesner and Chris Turney. Please be aware, the abstract deadline is Monday 1 September 2008 (www.climatecongress.ku.dk). Session summary: The past can play a tremendously important role in helping us understand future climate change. This session will invite reports on the latest reconstructions, from data and from modeling, of periods of past climate change that can provide important lessons about the nature, links and causes of climate change at the continental and global scales (e.g. Eemian, Holocene Climatic Optimum) and/or human responses to variability (past civilizations or cultures). Contributions are invited from any part of the globe and dealing with any aspect of climate change and/or archaeological response. Congress Purpose: The Danish Government as host of the UN Conference on Climate Change (COP15) to be held in Copenhagen at the end of 2009 has asked International Alliance of Research Universities to organise this conference as part of the run-up to the COP 15. All findings will be compiled in a book on climate change, and an executive summary with the main findings from the congress will, after agreement with the Danish Government, be handed over to policy makers at the COP15 in Copenhagen at the end of 2009. Please let me know if you'd like any further information. With best wishes, Chris **************************************************** Professor Chris Turney Author of Ice, Mud and Blood: Lessons from Climates Past Popular science website: www.christurney.com Journal of Quaternary Science Asian and Australasian Regional Editor School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources The University of Exeter Exeter Devon EX4 4RJ UK Times Higher University of the Year 2007-08 Home page: www.sogaer.ex.ac.uk/geography/people/staff/c_turney/main.shtml E-mail: c.turney at exeter.ac.uk Office Tel.: +44 (0)1392 263331 Fax.: +44 (0)1392 263342 **************************************************** Slartibartfast: Science has achieved some wonderful things of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day Arthur Dent: And are you? Slartibartfast: No. Thats where it all falls down of course. Arthur Dent: Pity. It sounded like quite a good lifestyle otherwise. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams **************************************************** ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________________________________________ Bonnie A.B. Blackwell, Ph.D., F.G.S.A., F.G.A.C. Director, RFK Science Research Institute, Research Scientist, Williams College _______________________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://socarchsci.org/pipermail/sasnet_socarchsci.org/attachments/20080707/f49c8a7a/attachment-0001.html From paleoknute at 3rivers.net Tue Jul 8 16:08:08 2008 From: paleoknute at 3rivers.net (Ruthann Knudson) Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 16:08:08 -0600 Subject: [Sasnet] Search for Agogino paper In-Reply-To: <2fc53fe60807081454y5ba12549udb545c4d16a0a23c@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20080708220813.B472257C6@outbound.vnet-inc.com> For several years I've been trying to find a copy of an Agogino paper: Agogino, George. 1963. Progress report on the chemical removal of preservative from radiocarbon samples. La Conquista 2. Bob Brunswig, Vance Haynes, George Frison, and Radiocarbon don't have it or know where to find it, and email and letter requests to Alice Agogino (George's daughter) have had no response. Is there any chance that an SAS member might have a copy? 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URL: http://socarchsci.org/pipermail/sasnet_socarchsci.org/attachments/20080708/dd710fab/attachment.html From bonnie.a.b.blackwell at williams.edu Thu Jul 10 06:22:05 2008 From: bonnie.a.b.blackwell at williams.edu (bonnie.a.b.blackwell at williams.edu) Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:22:05 -0400 Subject: [Sasnet] Fwd: seminar on the History & Heritage of Glass Message-ID: <1215692525.4875feed3f2d4@imp.williams.edu> ----- Forwarded message from Glass Science in Art and Conservation Congress ----- Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 11:57:17 +0200 From: Glass Science in Art and Conservation Congress Reply-To: GLASSAC listserv Subject: seminar on the History & Heritage of Glass To: GLASSAC-LIST at LISTSERV.UV.ES Dear Colleagues, I would like to announce a day seminar on the History & Heritage of Glass. Details may be found at: http://www.cambridge2008.sgthome.co.uk/pages/HandHProg.htm Yours Sincerely, Congress Organizer Sonia Murcia-Mascar?s Institut de Ci?ncia dels Materials Universitat de Valencia PO Box 22085 46071 Valencia - Spain Tel: 0034 963544547 Fax: 0034 963543633 E-mail: glassac at uv.es Website: www.uv.es/glassac ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________________________________________ Bonnie A.B. Blackwell, Ph.D., F.G.S.A., F.G.A.C. Director, RFK Science Research Institute, Research Scientist, Williams College _______________________________________________________________________________ From bonnie.a.b.blackwell at williams.edu Sat Jul 12 09:21:06 2008 From: bonnie.a.b.blackwell at williams.edu (bonnie.a.b.blackwell at williams.edu) Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 11:21:06 -0400 Subject: [Sasnet] Fwd: Fluvial Deposits and Environmental History Message-ID: <1215876066.4878cbe2f154e@imp.williams.edu> ----- Forwarded message from Timothy Beach ----- Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:11:14 -0400 From: Timothy Beach Reply-To: Geoarchaeology topics , Timothy Beach Subject: Fluvial Deposits and Environmental History To: GARCH-L at LISTSERV.TAMU.EDU Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to present the second announcement for the 39th Annual Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium (BGS) on the theme of "Fluvial Deposits and Environmental History", to be held in Austin, Texas October 10-11, 2008. The goal of the 2008 Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium is to advance our understanding of the interrelations of geomorphology and environmental history through the lens of fluvial deposits in several key areas, particularly in paleohydrology, geoarchaeology, and fluvial adjustment to environmental and climate change. Please consider this an invitation and "call for presentations". In addition to scholars with primary expertise in fluvial geomorphology, the 2008 BGS welcomes contributions from scholars working within the symposium theme with primary expertise in sedimentology, archaeology, hydrology, and soil science. The symposium web site is located at: https://webspace.utexas.edu/hudsonpf/binghamton (Google key words: Binghamton geomorphology Austin) Registration: A grant from the National Science Foundation is helping to keep the registration costs very affordable. "Early bird" registration (to August 1) is only $110 for professionals and $50 for students. Registration is open via a secure online Internet site on the BGS web site, or by a "hard copy" registration form that can be downloaded from the symposium web site (pdf or Word doc). Field trip: A pre-symposium field trip led by Mike Blum is scheduled for October 9, and will traverse a "source-to-sink" route along the Colorado River in Central Texas, from the Texas Hill Country to the Gulf of Mexico. Location: The symposium is being held on the campus of the University of Texas in Austin, located in Central Texas along the margins of the beautiful Texas Hill Country. To register for the 2008 BGS or for additional information please consult the symposium web site, or e-mail Paul Hudson (pfhudson at mail.utexas.edu). We hope to see you in Austin this fall! Sincerely, Paul Hudson Karl Butzer Tim Beach ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________________________________________ Bonnie A.B. Blackwell, Ph.D., F.G.S.A., F.G.A.C. Director, RFK Science Research Institute, Research Scientist, Williams College _______________________________________________________________________________ From bonnie.a.b.blackwell at williams.edu Thu Jul 17 06:22:05 2008 From: bonnie.a.b.blackwell at williams.edu (bonnie.a.b.blackwell at williams.edu) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:22:05 -0400 Subject: [Sasnet] Fwd: Reid Bryson obituary and memorial announcement Message-ID: <1216297325.487f396de55ce@imp.williams.edu> ----- Forwarded message from AMQUA announcement list ----- Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:16:55 -0500 From: AMQUA announcement list Reply-To: AMQUA announcement list Subject: [Amqua-announce] Reid Bryson obituary and memorial announcement To: amqua-announce at museum.state.il.us Reid A. Bryson 7 June 1920 - 11 June 2008 Reid A. Bryson died at his home in Madison WI, 11 June of this year. He was born in Detroit 7 June 1920. He is survived by his wife and four children. He completed a BS at Dennison in 1941. Following basic meteorological training, he served 3 years in the Air Force during WWII as a weather forecaster. He completed his PhD in meteorology at the University of Chicago in 1948 and joined the Geography Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison at that time. Recognizing the need for a more-thorough meteorological training and research program, he founded the UW Dept of Meteorology, which has grown to be the largest in the country (now Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Studies) and one of the most productive departments in research and of students. He formed the Center for Climatic Research in 1963 and was instrumental in establishing the Inst. for Environmental Studies in 1970. He was a long-time member and strong supporter of AMQUA. He attended the first biennial meeting in Bozeman in 1970. Reid was a tower in the fields of meteorology, climatology, paleo-climatology and relationships between the climate, people and vegetation. Early on, he defined the geographic limits of the various airmasses which dominate different areas of the globe and showed how the climatic conditions of each provided a favorable environment for the various natural vegetation areas. He promoted continuing interaction with anthropologists, archeologists, biologists and geologists Bryson was a superb grad student's mentor. His mind seemed full of research ideas and countless means whereby they could be investigated. He planted innumerable seeds for meteorological/climatological research with his students. He produced over 200 research papers on the above topics during his career. Most recently, he developed a model to reconstruct past climates from pollen, tree-ring, geological and archeological evidence, but continued to offer thoughtful, critical comment on results of models still based on an incomplete understanding of the physical environment. A memorial gathering will be held at 10 am, 23 August in the auditorium of the Heritage Oaks facility, 6205 Mineral Point Rd., Madison WI 53705, where friends and colleagues are invited to share their experiences with and impressions of this giant of environmental science. Reid's wife, Fran, continues to reside at the Heritage Oaks. --Wayne Wendland ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________________________________________ Bonnie A.B. Blackwell, Ph.D., F.G.S.A., F.G.A.C. Director, RFK Science Research Institute, Research Scientist, Williams College _______________________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: unnamed Url: http://socarchsci.org/pipermail/sasnet_socarchsci.org/attachments/20080717/2a82764e/attachment.pl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: unnamed Url: http://socarchsci.org/pipermail/sasnet_socarchsci.org/attachments/20080717/2a82764e/attachment-0001.pl From bonnie.a.b.blackwell at williams.edu Thu Jul 31 07:30:34 2008 From: bonnie.a.b.blackwell at williams.edu (bonnie.a.b.blackwell at williams.edu) Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:30:34 -0400 Subject: [Sasnet] Fwd: Workshop on East African Geodynamics, Climate and Evolution Message-ID: <1217511034.4891be7aa9217@imp.williams.edu> if you have questions please contact Martin Trauth. ----- Forwarded message from Martin Trauth ----- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:39:30 +0200 From: Martin Trauth Reply-To: Martin Trauth Subject: Workshop on East African Geodynamics, Climate and Evolution To: QUATERNARY at CLIFFY.UCS.MUN.CA Dear colleagues, i am very pleased to announce a workshop on east africa in october this year - hope to see you in potsdam! all the best, martin --- International Workshop on East African Geodynamics, Climate and Evolution. October 16 - 17, 2008 Universit?t Potsdam, Campus Golm Institut f?r Geowissenschaften DFG Leibniz Center for Surface Process and Climate Studies DFG Graduate School of Earth Sciences (GRK 1364) VW Master program Evolution Across Scales ICDP Germany (SPP 1006) Workshop Scientific Steering Committee: G.H. Haug, R. Oberh?nsli, F. Schrenk, M.R. Strecker, R. Tiedemann, M.H. Trauth Description Recent investigations of both terrestrial and marine paleoclimate archives have led to a concerted debate regarding the nature of Late Cenozoic environmental changes in East Africa, and its influence on mammalian and hominin evolution. Since terrestrial records of East African environmental change are typically rare, geographically dispersed and incomplete, Indian and Atlantic Ocean sediment records were used to reconstruct climatic changes in the region. However, because of the unique tectonic and magmatic evolution of the East African Rift System (EARS) and resulting changes in topography and drainage patterns, marine sediment records may not necessarily reflect contemporaneous environmental changes in East Africa. It is, therefore, important to reach a better understanding of the processes changing the habitat of mammals and hominins before suggesting possible links between climate and faunal changes. This workshop brings together structural geologists, paleoclimatologists, climate modellers and paleoanthropologists to discuss tectonics-climate-evolution interactions in a complex geologic setting. More ... http://www.geo.uni-potsdam.de/Leibnizzentrum/events/events2008/africa_workshop/african_geodyn.html GK 1364 - http://www.geo.uni-potsdam.de/graduiertenkolleg/index.html ICDP Germany - http://www.geo.uni-potsdam.de/icdp_homepage/index.html Evolution Across Scales - http://www.eas.uni-potsdam.de/ ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________________________________________ Bonnie A.B. Blackwell, Ph.D., F.G.S.A., F.G.A.C. Director, RFK Science Research Institute, Research Scientist, Williams College _______________________________________________________________________________