Newswise — The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) prepares for an international gathering of professionals, students, artists, preparators and others interested in vertebrate paleontology. The SVP 70th Anniversary Meeting, hosted by Carnegie Museum of Natural History, will be held October 10-13, 2010 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, East Lobby & Westin Convention Center Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
With nearly 800 presentations, the SVP annual meeting offers dinosaur discoveries, announcements of previously unknown fossil animals, and new insights into the biology and evolution of extinct vertebrates. Special events include a presentation by preeminent biological anthropologist C. Owen Lovejoy; an open forum regarding the U.S. Paleontological Resources Preservation Act (PRPA) of 2009; and discussion of the efforts that are underway to establish new funding at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) around the concept of Deep Time Earth-Life Observatory Networks (DETELON).
This year is expected to break attendance records with more than 1,100 vertebrate paleontology professionals from 31 countries. They will help the Society celebrate 70 years of advancing vertebrate paleontology through science, education, preservation and conservation.
Founded in 1940, the society now has more than 2,300 members and is organized exclusively for educational and scientific purposes. The object of the society is to advance the science of vertebrate paleontology and to serve the common interests and facilitate the cooperation of all persons concerned with the history, evolution, comparative anatomy, and taxonomy of vertebrate animals, as well as field occurrence, collection, and study of fossil vertebrates and the stratigraphy of the beds in which they are found. The society is also concerned with the conservation and preservation of fossil sites.
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