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Drs Eli Lazarus & José Constantine's latest work on channel patterns featured in PNAS "First Look" blog

Registration for Polar Marine Diatom Taxonomy and Ecology Workshop open until 12 May

Prof Chris MacLeod published with colleagues in April 2013 Nature Geoscience

Cardiff EARTH has a YouTube Channel!

Dr Martin Ziegler, Prof Ian Hall, et alia in latest Nature Geoscience

Lecture Series 2012–2013: DANGEROUS EARTH

Open to the public – come join us! (Follow link below for schedule...)

15 Apr 2013

Workshop Aims

This workshop is a continuation of three previous Polar Marine Diatom Workshops held in Yamagata, Japan (2005); Nebraska, USA (2007); and Sydney, Australia (2011). The workshop will provide the international community of polar diatom researchers with an opportunity to interact and discuss topical issues and new results that bear on recent and future research activities in the polar regions. It will have a strong focus on the Neogene to Recent time period and taxonomic issues toward standardization of terminology and identifications – it will be interactive with many dedicated microscope sessions. The workshop will allow students and early career researchers to interact with, and receive training and advice from leaders in the field and, as such, researchers at all stages of their careers are encouraged to attend.

In a nutshell, the workshop aims are to:

transfer sound taxonomic skills and exchange knowledge relative to modern and fossil diatoms of polar regions;
engage the international marine phytoplankton and palaeontological communities and raise the research profile and opportunity for on-going training of students and researchers.

The workshop supports the sound development of robust proxies for palaeoceanography, evolution of sea-ice communities, timing of climatic events in polar regions.

Registration
Registration is open until 12^th May 2013. Please fill out the Registration Form and the Payment Form and return both to Jenny Pike (pikej@cardiff.ac.uk) by the registration deadline. Please note that registration is limited by available laboratory facilities so early registration is advised to avoid disappointment!

We have three registration fees: Full (£180), Student (£150) and Accompanying Person (workshop dinner only; £40). Registration includes all workshop costs, lunches, morning and after tea/coffee, and the workshop dinner

Payment: Credit and debit cards are accepted for payment (VISA, VISA Debit, MasterCard and Maestro). If you are unable to use any of these options, please contact Jenny Pike (pikej@cardiff.ac.uk) for information about bank transfer. On the Payment Form , please fill out the card details, the cardholders address details and the appropriate registration amount. Please return the form to Jenny Pike (pikej@cardiff.ac.uk) and not to the Income Section as stated on the form.

Accommodation
Accommodation has been reserved in Cardiff University Senghennydd Hall. The accommodation fee (£24.36 per night) is based on room only and consists of single en suite rooms with tea/coffee making facilities. The rooms are arranged into units of 4 or 5 that share an equipped kitchenette. Senghennydd Hall is situated 10 minutes walk from the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences and 10 minutes walk from Cardiff city centre. To apply for this accommodation please download the Accommodation Form and return to the Group Accommodation Office (groupaccom@cardiff.ac.uk).

Travel Grants
IGBP PAGES have provided a number of Travel Awards for postgraduate students and early career researchers to attend the workshop. For further information please download the Travel Award Application Form and return the form to Jenny Pike (pikej@cardiff.ac.uk) by 12^th May 2013.

Note that the British Phycological Society also provide travel grants to student members, who have been members for at least 3 months.

Travel to Cardiff
There are two main ways to get to Cardiff. International flights can be taken either to London, or to Cardiff. You will have to balance cost versus convenience.

1. Flying to Cardiff involves a connection through Amsterdam, plus a bus/taxi to the city centre. Taxis will cost approximately £30 (approximately 30-40 minutes depending on time of day). Buses are cheaper but only run at certain times of day. There are some direct flights from a few other European cities.

2. Flights to London will be cheaper, but you will need to consider adding up to £100-£120 for inland travel. There are 3 options: (1) direct bus (~4 hours from Heathrow to Cardiff; cheapest option); (2) bus to Reading, train from Reading to Cardiff (~2.5 hours, known as RailAir link, next cheapest option); and (3) Heathrow Express train to London, train from London to Cardiff (2 hours from central London to Cardiff). If you chose the train option, book these tickets up to 3 months ahead and they will be considerably cheaper (perhaps over £100 saving). Pre-booked train tickets can be picked-up at the station of departure from machines with a reference number and the purchase credit card.

More details will appear here in late April.

Future Timeline for Workshop

12^th May 2013:             Registration closes
June 2013:                    Participants will receive relevant information for joining the workshop.
4^th August 2013:           Workshop icebreaker – welcome to Cardiff!
5^th – 9^th August 2013: Workshop science sessions

We hope to see you in Cardiff in August!

Polar Marine Diatom Workshop Organising Committee
Jennifer Pike (Cardiff University, UK), Leanne Armand (Macquarie University, Australia), David Harwood (University of Nebraska, USA), Richard Jordan (Yamagata University, Japan), Amy Leventer (Colgate University, USA)

Workshop Support
The Organising committee would like to acknowledge the support of the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, IGBP PAGES, The Micropalaeontological Society , the Linnean Society of London , and Beta Analytic