ISSN:1646-5806

EDITORIAL

Journal of Paleontological Techniques

Paleontology is a comprehensive domain of Science which is growing fast becoming more and more attractive to a great audience. The fossils explain us the origin and evolution of the species, with all its implication. Dinosaurs and other fossils attract thousand of visitors to the museums and are frequent subjects of news and documentaries.

The quality of the discoveries is often proportional to the quality of the methods and techniques used in the paleontology, in special those related with the Preparation, which is the cleanness, consolidation, protection, reconstruction of the fossils, since it is collecting until they are ready for exhibition and study. (...)

Recent events:

Proceedings of the 1st Annual FPCS- FREE!

-I Workshop on Paleontological Preparation - Torres Vedras, Portugal, check for more information at: http://alt-shn.blogspot.com/

September 23 -26, 2009 - 69th SVP Annual Meeting - Society of Vertebrate Paleontology(http://www.vertpaleo.org/meetings/)

30 July Jornadas sobre Patrimonio Paleontológico, Enciso, La Rioja, Spain

(http://www.dinosaurios-larioja.org/main.html)

5-6 June - International Conference Geological collections and museums: Mission and management; Coimbra, Portugal

June 5-7, 2009; Tate Conference(http://www.caspercollege.edu/tate/) - an abstracts volume will come out

Coming soon:

Abstracts book from "International Conference Geological collections and museums: Mission and management"
 

Coming events:

- 3rd Annual Fossil Preparation and Collections Symposium
April 29 - May 1, 2010. The Field Museum will be the host:

http://www.fieldmuseum.org/prepsymposium

The Third International Palaeontological Congress, IPC3, London, June 28
to July 3, 2010