OUR AGENDA
March 2013 London’s Natural History Museum (NHM) will host an international, multi-disciplinary conference that brings together researchers across the geological, geophysical, and biological disciplines to assess the state of research into the causes of mass extinction events. The main goal of this conference will be to evaluate the respective roles of volcanism, bolide impacts, sea level fluctuations and associated climate and environmental changes in major episodes of species extinction.
Publication
An edited volume of keynote review articles drawn from the conference presentations will be published by the Geological Society of America. To ensure inclusion, completed articles will be delivered at or immediately after the conference along with commissioned supplementary articles covering all the major conference topics.
Sponsors
In addition to the proposed hosting and organizational support of the conference by The Natural History Museum and the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, financial support to offset conference expenses is committed from the Solid Earth Composition and Evolution Working Group of the International Mineralogical Association, and the Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group (VMSG) of the UK. Additional financial support is currently being sought from other sources.