This year’s AASP Annual Meeting will be held at the National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton (NOCS), England, and will be a joint meeting with The Palynology Group of The Micropalaeontological Society.

HOW TO GET TO SOUTHAMPTON:

International delegates:

Southampton is located centrally on the south coast of England, and is within easy reach of both Heathrow and Gatwick airports (both around an hour and a half away from the city).  From these airports you can either travel to Southampton by coach to the Central Bus Station near the accommodation and conference venue via NationalExpress coachesor via train to Southampton Central Station (not Southampton Airport Parkway!) - cheaper rail tickets can be obtained by pre-booking through thetrainline.com.

European delegates:

Southampton Airport is a hub for the European regional airline Flybe, with direct connections to many European Cities.

Travelling by Eurostar train from mainland Europe to London St.Pancras rail station is also convenient, requiring a transfer across London by Underground (the Tube) to London Waterloo station, where you catch a train to Southampton Central Station (advance tickets via thetrainline.com). 

Local directions on how to get to the NOCS :

Once you arrive in Southampton, details of how to get to the conference venue at NOCS can be found by clicking here, and details of the routes and timetables of the university bus service (Uni-link) linking the NOCS with the Central Rail Station and Southampton Airport/Southampton Airport Parkway rail station can be found here.

PROGRAMME:

The meeting will comprise two days of oral and poster presentations, including two themed sessions on (a Palaeozoic session and a session concerned with the industrial applications of palynology).

The meeting itself will commence with an Icebreaker and an invited guest lecture at the National Oceanography Centre on the evening of Sunday September 4th and end with the Conference Dinner aboard HMS Warrior at the Portsmouth Historic Naval Dockyard on Tuesday 6th September.

There will be a pre-conference fieldtrip to the Isle of Wight visiting Cretaceous and Paleogene localities in addition to the Dinosaur Isle Museum in Sandown on Sunday 4th September.

The post-conference fieldtrip will be on Wednesday 7th September, and will visit localities on the World Heritage Jurassic Coast of Dorset.

(Depending on demand for fieldtrip places, one of these trip may be run twice at either end of the conference.)

The AASP Business Luncheon (buffet) will take place at a local restaurant over lunchtime of Monday 5th September.