International meeting on the Cambrian Explosion

Dear colleagues,We invite you to participate to an International meeting on the Cambrian Explosion to commemorate the 100 anniversary of the discovery of the Burgess Shale by Charles D. Walcott. This meeting will be organized in August of 2009 in Banff National Park, Canada. Please do not hesitate to advertise this event as widely as possible.Hope you will all be

Dear colleagues,
We invite you to participate to an International meeting on the Cambrian Explosion to commemorate the 100 anniversary of the discovery of the Burgess Shale by Charles D. Walcott. This meeting will be organized in August of 2009 in Banff National Park, Canada. Please do not hesitate to advertise this event as widely as possible.
Hope you will all be able to make it!
INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Co-Chairs:
Dr. Jean Bernard Caron (Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto), jcaron@rom.on.ca
Dr. Doug Erwin (Smithsonian Institution, Washington), ERWIND@si.edu
David Rudkin (Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto), davidru@rom.on.ca
Members:
Dr. Stephen Dornbos (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), sdornbos@uwm.edu
Dr. Sarah Gabbott (University of Leicester), sg21@le.ac.uk
Dr. Robert Gaines (Pomona College), robert.gaines@pomona.edu
Dr. Charles Henderson (University of Calgary), cmhender@ucalgary.ca
Dr. Paul Johnston (Mount Royal College, Calgary), pajohnston@mtroyal.ca
Kimberley Johnston (Palaeontographica Canadiana), kimberley@paleos.ca
Dr. George Pemberton (University of Alberta), george.pemberton@ualberta.ca
Dr. Jean Vannier (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1), jean.vannier@univ-lyon1.fr
Dr. Xingliang Zhang (Department of Geology, Northwest University, Xian), xlzhang@pub.xaonline.com
Dr. Maoyan Zhu (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), myzhu@nigpas.ac.cn

Dr. Jean-Bernard Caron. Associate Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology Burgess Shale Collection Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
Tel.: 416-586-5593
Fax: 416-586-5863
E-mail: jcaron@rom.on.ca
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