6th REGIONAL COMMITTEE ON NEOGENE ATLANTIC STRATIGRAPHY

Stratigraphy is a key subject area in the geosciences that attracts a high number of researchers and students. This science also has witnessed interest from a growing number of people in society at large, due to its inter-related impacts on the economy, the broader environment, and technology. The Organising Committee welcomes all interested researchers to take part in this exciting event with state-of-the art communications that intends to bring together an international team of experts in a pleasant atmosphere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, at the volcanic oceanic Azorean island of São Miguel!

The congress is being organised within the CIBIO-InBIO Açores research center, at the Department of Biology of the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Azores.

President of the Executive Committee of RCANS: Ildefonso Armenteros (Universidad de Salamanca, Spain).

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of abstracts: 15 December 2016 to 15 April 2017 
Registration and Field trip bookings (at standard rates): 1 January to 15 April 2017
Deadline for formal notification of acceptance of abstracts: 30 April 2017
Registration and Field trip bookings late paid rates: 16 April to Congress
Congress sessions: 10 to13 July 2017
Post-Congress field trip to Santa Maria Island: 14 to 15 July 2017

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

The scientific programme comprises 9 sessions (6 within the framework of the 6th RCANS and 3 within the framework of the 3rd Atlantic Islands Neogene and Quaternary International Congress – 3rd AINIC).

Click here to access the programme for the conference and more details on topics covered.

To know more about this event, please visit the official website.