We will convene a workshop of American, Canadian, and Russian scientists
in September, 1997. The focus of the workshop will be paleoenvironments
of Beringia. This will be an interdisciplinary meeting involving geologists,
paleontologists (including paleobotanists, paleoentomologists, and vertebrate
paleontologists), archaeologists, paleoceanographers, climate modelers,
and modern biologists. The purposes of the workshop are twofold: 1) to
examine and synthesize the current state of knowledge in the above-mentioned
fields concerning Beringia with the aim of preparing a new volume on Beringian
paleoenvironments, and 2), to establish an agenda for future Beringian
research, focusing on the suitability of new techniques to answer ongoing
research questions and pinpointing potentially important aspects of research
that have previously been lacking or under represented in Beringian study
regions
