FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

Inkaba yeAfrica's  7th Annual Workshop (2nd for Phase II)

will  take place in Germany from 1 3 November 2010 at the

Interested Inkaba parties/participants and students meet to discuss/report on their Inkaba yeAfrica research projects

Call for Expression of Interest

30 June 2010

     Workshop Theme to follow soon    

Important Dates:

30 June
Expression of Interest
Call for Abstracts (Papers, Posters) 

30 July
Submission : Abstracts
Call for short paper/talk/oral or poster

2 August
Pre-Registration (early) close

27 August
Full Registration, Accommodation, Travel Arrangements

31 August
2010 Inkaba Student Gallery Poster Material

27 September
Submission : Papers, Posters

Enquiries:  admin@inkaba.org

South African Journal of Geology Special Issue (SAJG) - issued by the GSSA (Geological Society of SA)
 

Call for Papers: Delivering the Goods

Deadline : 1 June 2010 (Provisional Titles)

Deadline : 1 November 2010 (Manuscripts)

The South African Journal of Geology (SAJG) has again, as in 2007, agreed to publish a special issue for Inkaba yeAfrica in 2011.

This will come 4 years after their highly successful special issue No.110 that marked the achievements of Inkaba yeAfrica's Phase I.

All Inkaba yeAfrica participants are urged to consider contributing original research papers to the special issue. This will be an important showcase for Inkaba yeAfrica, and an excellent opportunity for students and young researchers to have their first publication.

The deadline for submission will be 1 November 2010, to coincide with the next Inkaba workshop in Potsdam.

Guest editors will be Prof. Maarten de Wit of UCT and Dr Robert Trumbull from the GFZ in Potsdam.

A preliminary count of papers to be expected are needed, therefore kindly please send an e.mail with provisional titles as soon as possible, on or before 1 June 2010 to admin@inkaba.org

South Africa has won the bid to host the 35th International Geological Congress (IGC), which will be held in Cape Town in 2016.

The IGC is held every four years, and is a major gathering of earth scientists from around the globe, attended by more than 6 000 delegates.

At the conference, the latest insights into processes in and on the Earth are discussed and debated, which, in more recent years, have had a strong focus on climate change and its impact on natural earth-system processes.

A feature at this year's congress was the energy crisis and the potential of the non-renewable resources of our planet, i.e. oil, coal and uranium, to meet the ever-growing demand in the future.

SAs bid was conceived as a bid to involve the southern African region and the support of all states within the region was solicited prior to the Oslo meeting. At the time of the bid, South Africa had the full support of Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia and Tanzania.

In introducing the SA bid and extending the invitation to host the 35th IGC on behalf of the Government of South Africa, the CEO, Thibedi Ramontja, stressed the need for a more concerted effort in building capacity among southern African states in the field of the earth sciences.

He announced an initiative aimed at introducing a sustained effort in this regard that would draw on the vast expertise vested in the network of earth scientists under the umbrella of the IGC and the International Union of Geological Sciences.

For more information contact:     Peter Zawada, Executive Manager Regional Geoscience and Mapping, Council of Geoscience - Tel:+27 12 841 1255 or pzawada@geoscience.org.za