III CUBAN EARTH SCIENCE CONVENTION
Exhibition of Products, New Technologies and Services
www.scg.cu, www.cubacienciasdelatierra.com
CONVENTION PALACE,
HAVANA, CUBA
March 16-20, 2009
”Earth Sciences for Society”
With the purpose of continuing celebration of the Planet Earth initiative,
the Cuban Geological Society (SCG) is pleased to invite Cuban and foreign
professionals, technicians and university students of Geology, Geophysics,
Mining and related sciences to participate in the III Cuban Earth Sciences
Convention and Exhibition.
The event welcomes presentations about
the Geology, Resources and Geohazards of the Caribbean and Cuba, with special
reference to Earth Sciences for Society, including the application of new
technologies in the exploration and exploitation of natural resources, and
the sustainable use of these resources. Also, presentation are welcome about
the main subjects of the Planet Earth Initiative, as: Ground waters, Natural
Hazards, Earth and Health, Climate Change, Energy for a sustainable world,
Megacities, Deep Earth, Oceans, Soils, Earth and Life, Earth Sciences Education
We invite professional societies, institutions and non-government organizations
to organize workshops, round tables and meetings during the Convention. For
coordination, please contact the Organizing Committee as soon as possible
at geociencias@igp.gms.minbas.cu, geociencias@ceinpet.cupet.cu .
Abstract of presentations must be received before January 1st. 2009. Extended
abstract or papers to be included in the memoire must be available befote
January 1st, 2009. They must be sent to Kenya Núñez kenya@igp.gms.minbas.cu
. Format is described below.
The Convention embraces the following
scientific events:
• VIII Cuban Geological Congress
• V Cuban Geophysical Congress
• III Cuban Mining Congress
• II Cuban Oil and Gas Congress
• III Field Workshop of IGP Project
546 Caribbean Subduction Zones
• IV Simposium on Ni-Laterites Geology, Exploration and Exploitation
• II Wokshop Women, Geosciences and Society
• III Simposium Seismology and Geologic Hazards
• IX International Workshop of Informatics and Geosciences (GEOINFO)
REGISTRATION FEE
Convention delegate…. 300 CUC
Student delegate (undergraduate, PhD and Master, with certification) …..
220 CUC
Companion persons…. 80 CUC
The registration fee for delegates provides allowance to Convention Palace, lunch (Days 17-20), documentation, Opening ceremony, Closing dinner party and social events.
Companion persons fee provide allowance to Opening ceremony, Closing dinner party, and social events. Several entertainments will be offered at a low rate to companion persons.
You can pay your registration fee with advantage and book hotels online at www.cubacienciasdelatierra.com or you can choose to pay upon arrival.
REGISTRATION
Please copy and fill in the Registration
Form and send it as soon as possible to: geociencias@ceinpet.cupet.cu , geociencias@igp.gms.minbas.cu
The Registration Form is not binding to either party.
III CUBAN EARTH SCIENCES CONVENTION Registration Form
Last name
First name
I will attend the Convention as delegate ( ), as companion person ( )
E-mail
Mailing Address:
City State/Country ZlP/Postal Code
Phone Number Fax Number
Presentation: ORAL ( ) POSTER ( ) No presentation ( )
Presentation Title
Event
HOTELS AND SERVICES WITH HAVANATUR
The Travel Agency Havanatur S.A. in
Havana and its representatives in other countries are the official Travel
Agency of the III Cuban Earth Science Convention. For any information regarding
traveling to Cuba, visa requirements, hotels, and ground services please contact
Mari Isabel Chávez mchavez@havanatur.cu
Comercial: Vivian Calzado Batista viviancalzado@havanatur.cu
Havanatur Telephone (537) 204 0855, (537) 204-1974, ext. 119 or 120
Hotel Category Single Double
Palco 4 * 65.00 50.00
Melia Habana 5 * 105.00 72.00
Occidental Miramar 4 plus 94.00 70.00
Price for pax per night in CUC -Cuban convertible currency-
Booking for the whole span of the event includes lodging with breakfast, transfer airport – hotel and hotel – airport, transfer to the activities of the Convention program, personalized attendance, and flight reconfirmación.
Exhibition of Products, New Technologies and Services
The Convention includes an Exhibit of Products, New Technologies and Services for the various branches of Earth Sciences, to be displayed at the International Convention Center. If you wish to participate please contact Isabelita Morales at isabelita@ceinpet.cupet.cu, geociencias@ceinpet.cupet.cu, geociencias@igp.gms.minbas.cu, and sent the following documentation.
Request Form for a Stand
Exhibitor's name
E-mail Fax:
Stand title and subject
Approximate area and required resources
Institution Name and Address
Contact Person
Name of persons taking care of the stand
The stands must be from March 16 morning, untill March 20 morning.
FIELD TRIPS
Several Field Trips are planned during and post Convention. Information will
be posted as become available in forthcoming months. Usually the number of
participants is restricted to ~ 20-30, so early registration is convenient.
For that purpose contact the Field Trip convener directly.
POST CONGRESS
Field trip IGC Project 546 to Metamorphic Complexes in Central Cuba
Convener: Antonio García Casco (agcasco@ugr.es)
Profesional organizer at PALCO
Lic. Mireya Mesa Tamargo mireya@palco.cu
Telephone: (537) 208 6176 and (537) 202 6011 tol 19 ext. 1512
Fax: 202 8382
ABSTRACT SUBMITION
Abstracts for oral and poster presentations should be submitted as an attachment
to geociencias@ceinpet.cupet.cu , geociencias@igp.gms.minbas.cu. In the subject
line, please write the first four words of the title of your paper in order
to minimize virus spread. Deadline for Abstracts: January 1st, 2009
FORMAT
For presentations at the Convention, abstracts (in English or Spanish) shall
be submitted ready for publication in electronic format (.rtf .doc). Abstracts
should have between 250 and 450 words and may include an inserted figure in
gif format optimized for the web. The size of the abstract, including text
and/or figure, should not exceed an 8.5 " x 11" page. The margins
should be one inch. Please follow the indications set in the example below.
No corrections will be introduced to the abstracts.
Example:
TITLE WRITTEN IN UPPER CASE FONT, ARIAL SIZE 10, center alignment
Manuel F. Arrizaga(1), Marina Arimao Perez(2)
(1) Instituto de Geofísica y Astronomía, Calle 212 No 2906 esq. Ave 29, La Lisa, La Habana, Cuba. ZIP 11 600 E-mail: arec@iga.cu; (2) Instituto Superior Politécnico "José A. Echeverría", 124 s/n, Marianao 15, La Habana, Cuba. E-mail: sss@aaa.uu
Title should be in upper case and centered.
The names of the authors in upper and lower case. Underline the name of the
author who will present the paper. The name of the institutions in upper and
lower case should include the address and electronic mail. Leave one line
blank between the institution list and the main text of the abstract, as well
as between the title and the author list..
The abstract should reflect the theme or hypothesis of the presentation, the
materials and methods used, the general results, and specially the conclusions,
in not less than 250 words or more than 450, single spaced. The text shall
be written with font type ARIAL, Size10.
--Figure centered--
Guidelines for the papers to be published in the Memoirs of the Convention
All the presentations accepted by the Scientific Committee can be submitted
for publication in the Digital Memories of the Convention (CD-ROM). The contributions
should be submitted according with the present guidelines, or will be rejected.
Contributing papers should be send before January 10, 2009 to geociencias@igp.gms.minbas.cu,
geociencias@ceinpet.cupet.cu. You will receive confirmation. The subject of
the email should be “Author’s paper”, with the name of the
corresponding author. For any question please contact: Kenya Núñez
Cambra (kenya@igp.gms.minbas.cu). Papers are to be prepared as MS Word documents
(.doc), without macros or hidden formatting, in order to avoid problems transferring
to PDF format. Illustrations can be in white and black and color, but each
contribution should not exceed 1 Mb as a whole. Do not use "header"
and “footer”, because they will be incorporated by the CD publisher.
General rules The following text has been written like a contribution, to serve as example. Texts must be carefully checked for grammar and spelling by the authors, because the editorial committee will reject contributions with spelling and grammar problems.
THE TITLE OF THE PAPER SHOULD BE WRITTEN IN ARIAL 14”, BOLD, WITH JUSTIFY ALIGNMENT. THE TITLE SHOULD NOT BE LONGER THAN THREE LINES
Pedro Pérez Pérez(1), Juan Hernández Fernández(2) y Alberto Rodríguez Alvarez(3)
After a blank space the authors, align
left, Arial 12”, bold. The speaker underlined, if there are more than
one authors and more than one institution, it should be pointed out with numbers
in the superscript as in the example.
(1) Instituto de Geofísica y Astronomía, Calle 212 No 2906 esq.
A Ave 29, La Lisa, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba. ZIP 11 600, E-mail: perez@iga.cu
(2) Instituto Superior Politécnico “José A. Echeverría”,
Calle 124 s/n, Marianao 15, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba, E-mail: hernandez@yahoo.com
(3) Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Cuba, Obispo # 61, Plaza de Armas,
Habana, Vieja, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba, E-mail: rodriguez@mnhnc.inf.cu
After a blank space, the addresses of the authors with numbers, indented 0.5cm, Arial 10, italic, single space.
ABSTRACT
After a blank space, Around 250 words, Arial 10, single space, justify.
After two blanks, the body of the paper must be subdivided into INTRODUCTION,
MATERIALS AND METHODS, RESULTS, DISCUSSION, CONCLUSIONS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, Arial
12, uppercase, bold, justify left.
The main text of the paper, Font Arial 11, single space, justify, a blank
line between paragraphs and after the headings, also between charts and figures.
If it was necessary to use any other subtitle then it would be Arial 11, bold,
justify left.
Other general rules
Format: Each paper should have at least 4 pages, paper size letter (21,59
x 27,94 cm. or 8,5 x 11 inches.), leaving a margin of 2.0 cm. around the whole
page, 1cm of covering the foot of the page.
Charts (tables): Should fix page side or less, numbered Table I, II, III…,
and include a title, with a blank line before the chart, Arial 10, capital
and small, justify left.
Figures: Must be included in the text and numbered consecutively, Figures
1, 2, 3… Size should guarantees legibility. Figure caption, Arial 10,
capital and small, centered. Figure sized into the page, which is 2.0 cm on
each side.
Units of Measures: Metric International System.
Bibliographical References: The bibliography must be limited to the publications
mentioned in the text, listed in alphabetical order, no numbered, indentation
0.5cm, Arial 10, single space, justify.
Examples:
For periodic publications: Author, year. Title of the paper. Publication (place),
volume (number): page
Pick, M., 1987. On the calculation of the gravity terrain corrections in Czechoslovakia.
Studia. Geoph. et Geod., 39 (4): 245-248.
Elbaz-Poulichet, F., D.M. Guan, J. M. Martin, 1991. Trace metal behaviour
in a highly stratified Mediterranean estuary: the Krka (Yugoslavia). Mar.
Chem. 32: 211-224.
For books or other documents: Author, year. Title. Edition, Place: Publisher,
pages
Finó, F., 1950. Historia y técnica del libro. En Penna, C. V.
Bibliotecología. Buenos Aires : Kapelusz, 132p.
Smith, G., 1989. Theories pertaining to the mass extinctions at the end of
the Cretaceous. Ph.D. thesis, University of London: 109p.
Zavala, S., 1996. La defensa de los derechos del hombre en América
Latina. 2. ed. Madrid : Grijalbo: 145 p. (Selección, 4).
Electronic document: Author, date. Title [on-line]. Availability or access
Van der Hoek, B., 1998. Study of Carbonate rocks: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jstrugeo