Join paleontologists from Britain, Europe and elsewhere at the University of Plymouth, England, for talks on all aspects of palaeontology, a symposium on Ancient and Modern Biotic Crises, social activities, the Annual Dinner, and a field trip to localities in the Torquay area (the English Riviera Global Geopark).

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Join me in Reno, NV, for the Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting, November 13-16, 2011. My talk is in the Symposium on Illuminating the Phenome: the Future of Morphology in Entomology in the afternoon of Tuesday November 15.

I am sure I just felt an earthquake! 10:55 pm Central, Lawrence, Kansas