News (full view)
Sepember 2011. Special Volume IGCP 546 Geologica Acta (pdf).
Apri/14/2010. Deepest Black Smoker Discovered in Caribbean. http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/nocs/news.php?action=display_news&idx=723; http://news.discovery.com/earth/deepest-black-smoker-discovered-in-caribbean.html; http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/ciencia_tecnologia/2010/04/100412_volcanes_submarinos_caribe_expedicion.shtml
March/07/2010. David Buchs (Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia, david.buchs@anu.edu.au) has joined IGCP 546 leadership.
January/18/2010. Paul Mann has provided a web link for info on the
Haiti eartquake (Seismology of Haiti Earthquake; Jackson School of Geosciences):
http://www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/rels/011310.html
August/19/2009. The Geological Society on-line debate scheduled to begin in
September 2009, will centre on controversy surrounding the origin of the
Caribbean Plate.
http://www.geolsoc.
July/31/2009. As part of our IGCP546 project, we have arranged a session titled "Evolution of the Caribbean Plate: Linking its Tectonic, Magmatic, Metamorphic and Stratigraphic Records" for the 2009 AGU Fall Meeting to be held in San Francisco December 14-18. We have invited several speakers and Andrew Kerr, Rob Rogers, and Esteban Gazel have already accepted our invitations (thank you!). Now we would like to invite you to submit your contributions to the session. Details of the session are found below or simply follow this link: http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm09/program/scientific_session_search.php?show=detail&sessid=448. We hope to see you in San Francisco at the end of the year. Best, Uwe & Antonio
April/19/2009. IGCP Scientific Council scores 5/5 our project (see full report pdf).
October/10/2008. Brilliant Minds - Cuban geologist Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte. Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte from Cuba is carrying out research at the University of Mainz.
February/05/2007. Workshop announcement: Circum-Caribbean and North Andean tectonomagmatic evolution: impacts on palaeoclimate and resource formation. Convened by Andrew C Kerr, Alan Hastie & Iain Neill. A two-day multi-disciplinary workshop on the tectonomagmatic evolution of the Caribbean and north Andean region and its implications for paleoclimate and resource formation will be held at Cardiff University, Wales, UK on the 2nd and 3rd September 2009. Contact: Andrew Kerr (kerra@Cardiff.ac.uk)
January/2007. Caribbean Conference, Santo Domingo, March 2008. Second Circular available.
December/2007. The Paleogene of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Basins. Sunday December 2, 2007. 8:00 am - 11:00 am. Houston, TX. http://www.gulfbase.org/event/view.php?eid=2abfprc
August/09/2007. The 9th Central American Geological Congress
(San José, Costa Rica, July 2-4, 2008) has been entitled as of "Public Interest"
by the Government of Costa Rica. Congratulations! More info:
http://www.geologos
July/27/2007. Our session proposal "Caribbean Subduction Zones - Past and Present" for the upcoming 2007 AGU Fall Meeting was approved by the Fall Meeting Program Committee. For details, visit Activities (and follow >> San Francisco 2007)
June/29/2007. During the forthcomming Caribbean Geological
Conference will be held a workshop on Volcanic hazards in the Caribbean.
Please found additional information in the following link.
http://www.ig.utexas.edu/CaribPlate/news/18cgc_volc_hazards.htm
June/08/2007. Workshop (in Spanish). La Conexión Chortis-Sur de
Mexico en el Tiempo y en el Espacio. Organized by:
Instituto de Geología y Centro de Geociencias (campus Juriquilla)
de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. August 8-10, 2007.
More info:
http://www.geociencias.unam.mx/~marina/chortis.htm
June/04/2007. New Book. CENTRAL AMERICA. Geology, Resources and
Hazards. Edited by Jochen Bundschuh and Guillermo E. Alvarado. The book is
an integrated treatment of the principal fields of classical and applied
geosciences of Central America. This authoritative 1300 pages, two-volume
monograph treats the region as a whole, exploring geology, earth resources and
geo-hazards across political boundaries. More information:
http://www.lak2007.uni-kiel.de/lak-book.pdf
http://www.lak2007.uni-kiel.de/flyer_bundschuh_cropped-29-jan.pdf
June/01/2007. 9th CENTRAL AMERICAN GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS. First
announcement. COLEGIO DE GEÓLOGOS DE COSTA RICA, 2008 International Year of
Planet Earth. “Geology, Human Development in Planet harmony”.
http://www.geologos
May/29/2007. We have proposed organizing the SPECIAL SESSION "Past and present of the Caribbean Subduction Zones" for the Fall 2007 AGU meeting to be held in San Francisco just after our field trip to Guatemala. We encourage you to submit presentations to this event.
May/29/2007. Pre-inscription deadline for the Guatemala 2007 field trip: June 30 2007. Visit: Activities > Guatemala 2007
May/29/2007. On Friday May 25 we were informed by the IGCP Secretariat that our project “Subduction zones of the Caribbean” is one of the ten proposals accepted and it has been given the status of an ongoing IGCP project. The quality rate given to the proposal was “Excellent-good”. Uwe and I would like to extend the congratulations to all of you. The project has received 4000 US$ for this year.
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