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2012

The 2012 Fermor Meeting of the Geological Society

19 - 21 September 2012, two of our Project I (Reinventing the Planet) researchers, Tim Lenton and Graham Shields-Zhou, have co-organised with Ian Fairchild and Dan Condon the 2012 Fermor Meeting with the theme: The Neoproterozoic Era: Evolution, Glaciation, Oxygenation. About 150 participants attended the conference. 23rd of September the Fermor Meeting ended successfully with a following two-day fieldtrip in Charnwood and Longmynd. The conference has clearly brought the research of the Neoproterozoic Era around the world to its state of the art and aroused a lot  interest towards this period of Earth history. There are some comments to describe the meeting:

.." it was a great conference...I learnt an immeasurable amount and it was fun to chat with so many on the field trip."

 "truly historic and First Class meeting at Burlington House"

 "It was one of the best conferences I have attended for ages."

"It was a pleasure spending three days with the Neoproterozoic community and truly one of the best, if not the best, small conferences I have attended. This seems to have been a universal sentiment among the people I spoke to about the meeting, and is testament to a well planned programme. I was struck be the strongly cooperative and amicable tone at the meeting, as well as the broad scope of the talks. It will certainly rank well in the history books."

The Meeting's official webpage is on the Geological Society website.
The Geological Society posted a vedio of the talk of Paul Hoffman during 2012 Fermor Meeting on Youtube with the title:

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