The Australian Organic Geochemistry Conference will be held in Townsville. All contributions in the general field of Organic, Isotope and Environmental Geochemistry will be considered. Pre and post conference field trips will be organised to visit nearby fossil beds of ancient reefs and to the spectacular Great Barrier Reef. This is the origin of this year’s conference title and does not limit the content of the papers to be presented.

Attached are the registration forms, etc. All those interested in attendance or in presenting a paper, please let us know ASAP. We are searching for all aspects related to OGC. So far we have abstracts on gas, coal & petroleum geochemistry, sources and fluxes of marine organics, molecular and isotopic markers of many sorts including humics, fulvics & lipids, and more...

Two Australian teams have made big splashes in Science and Nature last year. I have engaged both to present their ground breaking work in two keynote lectures:

Jochen Brocks et al (ANU/AGSO) not only showed that the whole Hamersley Iron deposit was set down by Archea but they used the molecular marker approach to push the origin of life on Earth back another billion years.

Jeri Dickens et al (JCU) have put together the story which shows the massive carbon input during the latest Paleocene thermal maximum was gas hydrates liberated from continental margin sediments. His "Blast from the Past" makes a convincing argument for including these in the Global Carbon Cycle.

Geotech P/L from Perth offers a prize for the best student presentation, oral or poster.

The AOGC will be held at the Southbank Hotel Conference Centre on Palmer St in South Townsville. A pre-conference mixer will be held at Perc Tucker Gallery on Flinders Street at 17:00 hrs on 11 July 2000.

Please register your intent to attend and / or submit an abstract before 1 June 2000. Print the attached Registration Form and fax to one of the numbers listed below. Cost for the 3 day conference is $450 AUS or $250 AUS for registered post grad students. This includes the three day conference with teas and lunches, the abstract book, and a conference dinner on Thursday 13 July 2000. (Venue to be announced.) The rego form also has field trips and accommodation suggestions. We need to know participant numbers in these items ASAP. Note that the International Chamber Music Festival has offered conference participants Member rates for concert tickets.

Mid Ocean Marine Science - conference web site
Phone: 61 (07) 47 715483 or

Kathryn Burns at AIMS 
Phone: 61 (07) 47 725852.

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