Dear Colleagues The call for sessions to EGU is closing soon. I urge you to submit session proposals to the Stratigraphy, Sedimentology & Palaeontology Division. Details below: ***************** The European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2011 (EGU2011) will be held again at the Austria Center Vienna (ACV) from 03 Apr 2011 to 08 Apr 2011. We hereby invite you, from now until Monday 13 Sep 2010 (extended from previous deadline of Friday 10 Sep), to take an active part in organizing the scientific programme of the conference. You can do this at: http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2011/provisionalprogramme/SSP Please suggest (i) new sessions with conveners and description and (ii) modifications to the skeleton programme sessions. The latter were compiled by the respective EGU Programme Group Chair and Officers based on community input at the last business meetings or later. When making suggested changes/additions to the programme, as a general guideline we encourage: (i) a minimum of three active conveners from multiple countries and institutes, (ii) the inclusion of young scientists, (iii) gender diversity. Please check with all of the suggested conveners that they agree to take part in the proposed session. Yours sincerely Dr Darren Grocke EGU President of the Stratigraphy, Sedimentology & Palaeontology Division (http://ssp.egu.eu/) Chief-Executive Editor of the open-access journal, Solid Earth (http://www.solid-earth.net/ ) Manager of PubSclero (http://www.pubsclero.net/) Department of Earth Sciences Durham University South Road Durham DH1 3LE UK fax: +44 191 334 2301 [log in to unmask] *****************