Dear

Please, be inform that the Symposium "Paleography and Global Correlation of the Ordovician Events" (PGCOE) planned  to be held on the basis of the Institute of  Petroleum Geology, SB RAS (Siberian Branch of  Russian Academy of Science), Novosibirsk,  with the participation of the Paleontological Institute of Russian Academy of Science, Moscow in 2006.

In parallel with the symposium there's planned  a post-symposium field trip onto the unique continuous carbonate succession of Lower, Middle and Upper series of Ordovician System on the Kulyumbe River (Siberian Platform). The succession on the Kulyumbe River to be shown therewith is well characterized by macrofauna  and microfossils (trilobites, brachiopods, conodonts, graptolites, ostracods, crinoids, bryozoans etc.)

The time for both the Symposium "PGCOE" and the post-symposium follow-up field trip is scheduled for August 1 - 15, 2006. The expenses of attending the symposium in Novosibirsk-city during  two days are supposed to be borne by the participants all by themselves (the hotel rates are about $ 45-90 per night (single room), meals can cost $10 ¨C 40 a day). The field trip expenses  (12 days $ 60 each) in total amount to $ 720 per person and are to be paid to the Institute of Petroleum Geology by each individual in advance. Anyway, it does not cover the accomodations in Novosibirsk and Noril¡¯sk.

It should be understood that $720 constitute only  part of the expenses to be covered by the Institute to arrange the excursion and include three meals a day, traveling expenses (by train or plane) from Novosibirsk to Krasnoyarsk, boat trip (with cabins for two persons) down the Yenisey river up to Igarka port, transportation on a helicopter from Igarka to the  field camp on the Kulyumbe river, the  stay in the camp equipped with tens for two persons and sleeping bags, then helicopter flight back to Igarka and, finally flight from Igarka to Noril'sk. It also might be possible to fly (by helicopter) directly from the field camp site to Noril¡¯sk.

Accommodation costs (approximately $50 ¨C 90 single room per night) and meals ($20 ¨C 50) in Noril¡¯sk-city are to be paid by the participants themselves. It should also be noted that 10 persons is a minimal number of the group in the excursion whereas 20 people is maximum.

 The participants  will have to take care of the departure from Noril'sk to Moscow (by plane, with  booking  tickets in advance) themselves.

Costs (in US Dollars)

Registration fee                                          $ 100

     It will cover the following:

      Attendance at all scientific sessions

      Abstract volume

     Coffee or tea breaks twice a day

Accommodations (hotel in Novosibirsk)    $135-270 (per 3 nights and advance reservation, without breakfast)

          $45-90 per day

Accommodations (hotel in Noril'sk)     $50-90  (per 1 nights and advance reservation, without breakfast)

Meals (in Akademgorodok)                       $30¨C90  (per 3 days)

     average cost of meals in Novosibirsk:

$10-30  per day

Meals (in Noril'sk)                                    $20¨C40  (per 1 day)

     average cost of meals in Noril'sk:

$20-40   per day

Field excursion                                         $ 720 (60 USA&  per day)

           Accommodation in field camps

           Field/Camp meals

           Transportation

           Guide book

Total   (minimum)                      $1055 (15 days) (approximately $70 per day)

The Program Committee of the Symposium:

Kanygin A.V. (Institute of Petroleum Geology, SB RAS, Novosibirsk)

Sennikov N.V. (Institute of Petroleum Geology, SB RAS, Novosibirsk)

Rozhnov S.V. (Paleontological Institute, RAS, Moscow)

Koren' T.N. (Russian Geological Research Institute (VSEGEI), St. Petersburg)

The Symposium is supposed to be held in view of  the following International projects and organizations:

1)Subcommission on Ordovician Stratigraphy (SOS);

2) IGCP Project 503 "Ordovician Palaeogeography and Palaeoclimate";

3) Interdepartmental Stratigraphic Committee of Russia (ISC);

4) Complex Scientific Program No. 25 of the Presidium of Russian Academy of Science «The Origin and Evolution of Biosphere»;

5) Russian Foundation for Basic Researches (RFBR);

6) Presidium of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences.

In view of the planned Symposium the Program Committee with gratitude will take into account all your  possible corrections  as well as your opinion on the title and  scheduled time of the symposium as well as your advice on the persons indicated in the Committees and the organizations that could support the symposium financially or in other ways.

The Chairman of  Program Committee

Prof.                                                           Alexander Kanygin