8th International Meeting on the Secondary Adaptation of Tetrapods to Life in Water
The 8th International Meeting on the Secondary Adaptation of Tetrapods to Life in Water will be held in Berlin 2017. And we welcome you to participate.
This conference series has been established as a stable and meanwhile traditional kind for the scientific society studying all groups of four-limbed, backboned organisms that went back to conquer the aquatic environment, such as ichthyosaurs, sauropterygians, crocodiles, mosasaurs (marine reptiles), hesperornithiforms and penguins (marine birds), and cetaceans, sirenians, pinnipeds (marine mammals).
Although these meetings are usually dominated by palaeontologists, Berlin is open for anyone interested and working in that topic despite of professional background. The goal is bringing together the expertise of scientists, enhancing collaboration, sharing ideas, and support interdisciplinary research including all relevant subjects that can help to answer questions on the study of marine tetrapods, fossil and living ones, like neontology, medicine, physics, physiology.
Oral and poster presentations are welcome.
Two one-day field trips are planned presenting the Marine Triassic of Rüdersdorf (east of Berlin, place of the famous Nothosaurus finds) and the Groß Pampau site (North Germany) containing a rich middle/late Miocene marine mammal fauna.
For further information, please visit the conference website: satlw2017.naturkundemuseum.berlin