EUROPROBE Workshop-2000 Announcement
GeoRift, EUROBRIDGE, and North
Caucasus Workshop
"The Lithosphere of the
Southern EEC and its Margin"
13-15 October
2000 Gurzuf (Yalta), Ukraine
You are encouraged to attend this multidisciplinary workshop on all
aspects of the geology, geophysics, and geochemistry of the lithosphere of the southern
part of the East European Craton and its accretionary margin – upper mantle,
crystalline crust, and associated accretionary complexes and sedimentary basins. The
workshop will take place on the Black Sea coast of the Crimean Peninsula and is sponsored
by the European Science Foundation (ESF) through its EUROPROBE programme, specifically the
EUROPROBE GeoRift, EUROBRIDGE, and North Caucasus projects. (For more information on these
projects and EUROPROBE, check the EUROPROBE website at http://www.geofys.uu.se/eprobe). Organization of
the workshop is by the Institute of Geophysics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
and Ukrgeofisika.
Scientific Programme
The workshop is multidisciplinary, targeted on the southern EEC and its
margin, and all contributions having to do with the following are welcome:
- the structure, evolution, and origin of the southern EEC and
marginal lithosphere
- intracratonic tectonics and structural reactivations
- the sedimentary basins overlying the southern EEC and its margins
- the Ukrainian Shield and Voronezh Massif
- the Donbas Foldbelt and Karpinsky Swell
- the Scythian plate and the North Caucasus region
- regional tectonic/paleogeographic syntheses of the southern EEC
and its accretionary margin
- neotectonics of the southern EEC and its margins
Workshop Format
There will be three days of scientific contributions, being provisionally
divided into three symposia along the lines of:
- Structure and composition of the Precambrian crust of the southern
EEC
- Phanerozoic sedimentary basins of the southern EEC and its margin
- Accretionary tectonics on the southern margin of the EEC
Each of these thematic days will include an oral session in the morning
comprising some 2-3 "keynote" addresses and 7-8 contributed presentations and an
early evening session comprising brief oral introductions to posters – which are
expected to make up about 60% of all contributions. It is expected that about four hours
every day, in the mid-afternoon, will be available for local scientific excursions,
working group meetings, poster discussions, and other informal activities.
It is expected that there will be about 80 participants. The language of
the workshop will be English.
Workshop Venue
The workshop will take place at the "Pushkin Sanatorium" near
Gurzuf on the Crimean Peninsula in Ukraine – this is the same location as the highly
successful 1996 EUROPROBE GeoRift Workshop. The sanatorium lies directly on the shores of
the Black Sea, with a sandy/gravelly beach with water in mid-October that should be warm
enough to allow swimming. Other recreational facilities, such as saunas, are also
available.
Travel to Gurzuf
Travel to Gurzuf is via Simferopol, the main transportation hub on the
Crimean Peninsula. There are direct flights connecting Simferopol to Kyiv, Moscow,
Frankfurt, and Istanbul. There is also overnight train service connecting Simferopol to
Kyiv and other main centres in Russia and Ukraine. Participants should nominally plan to
arrive in Simferopol on 12 October and leave on 16 October.
The workshop organizers will provide transportation between Simferopol and
Gurzuf. Assistance with local transportation and accommodation, if necessary, in Kyiv for
participants transferring from the international airport (KBP) to the local airport (IEV)
or to the railway station is available upon request by the workshop organizers. More
detailed information regarding rail and air connections between Kyiv and Simferopol and
transfer possibilities in Kyiv will be distributed to registrants at a later date.
Registration and Costs
Registration is requested by no later than 15 June 2000 and can only
be effected by e-mail, to one of the EUROPROBE project leaders listed below (cf.
"communication").
A workshop "accommodation and meals package" will be available
for 180 EUROS (sharing a two-bed room) or 220 EUROS (single room). This includes 4 nights
accommodation at the Pushkin Sanatorium, all meals and banquets, coffee breaks, workshop
registration and local transportation and excursions. Availability of single rooms is
limited and will be allocated on a first come-first served basis. Payment in advance is
not required – but payment on arrival in Gurzuf in any Eurocurrency or in US$ is
obligatory.
There is limited financial support available for
workshop participants, without further stipulation of qualification, from EUROPROBE.
Interested registrants are invited to apply for financial support directly to one of the
EUROPROBE project leaders listed below (cf. "communication"). Decisions
regarding financial support will be made and communicated to applicants no later than 1
July 2000. Applicants are encouraged to apply for partial support only, allowing
the limited amount available to be more widely distributed, using this as a lever to
receive additional support from other sources.
Abstracts
Registrants intending to make a scientific contribution are requested to
submit a short abstract in English – indicating all co-authors and addresses as well
as the relevant symposium listed above (cf. workshop format). The abstract should not be
longer than about 250 words and must be submitted by e-mail only (as an attached *.doc or
*.rtf file) to one of the EUROPROBE project leaders listed below (cf.
"communication"). The abstracts will be edited and published prior to the
workshop in a special issue of the Geophysical Journal (Kyiv). The final
deadline for submission of abstracts is 15 June 2000.
Communication
All further communication regarding the workshop – enquiries,
information, registration, application for financial support, registration, and abstract
submission – should be directed to one of the following EUROPROBE project leaders:
Svetlana Bogdanova Svetlana.Bogdanova@geol.lu.se
("EUROBRIDGE" and workshop Symposium 1)
Randell Stephenson ster@geo.vu.nl
("GeoRift" and workshop Symposiums 2 and 3)
Riccardo Polino R.Polino@csg.to.cnr.it
("North Caucasus" and workshop Symposium 3)
General information regarding the workshop venue etc. can also be
requested from the local organizers:
Olga Legostaeva Olgal@igph.kiev.ua
Vitaly Starostenko vstar@igph.kiev.ua
