{"id":853,"date":"2026-04-07T12:36:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/dino-lab\/?p=853"},"modified":"2026-04-07T12:45:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:45:50","slug":"853","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/dino-lab\/2026\/04\/07\/853\/","title":{"rendered":"34th Canadian Palaeontology Conference August 24th to 26th, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-854\" src=\"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/dino-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2026\/04\/34th-Can-Palaeo-Conf-228x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/dino-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2026\/04\/34th-Can-Palaeo-Conf-228x300.png 228w, https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/dino-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2026\/04\/34th-Can-Palaeo-Conf.png 651w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif\">CONFERENCE VENUE<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif\">This year the annual Canadian Paleontology Conference (CPC) will be held at the University of Regina in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif\">The meeting will take place over three days, <strong>Monday, August 24th to Wednesday, August 26th, 2026.<\/strong> Scientific sessions will be held throughout the day on August 25 and 26 and will include both oral and poster presentations.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif\">An icebreaker event will be held at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum the evening of August 24th, providing opportunity for attendees to connect and network at the start of the conference. <strong>An awards banquet and fieldtrips are also currently being planned.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif\">REGISTRATION AND ABSTRACT SUBMISSION<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif\">Registration will open on <strong>May 1, 2026<\/strong>, and the deadline for abstract submission is <strong>Monday, June 1, 2026<\/strong>. Participants will be able to register on site; however, advance registration is strongly encouraged. Both registration and abstract submission will be managed through the FourWaves platform. Additional details and instructions will be distributed via email in the coming month. If you have any questions, please e-mail gac.paleontology@gmail.com<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif\">This year we will be awarding the <strong>Billings Award<\/strong>, intended to acknowledge outstanding contributions to Canadian paleontology. Nominations are strongly encouraged with nomination packages found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gacpd.ca\/billings-medal\">here<\/a>. <strong>The deadline for nominations is July 6, 2026<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif\">Please see the next circular for a conference schedule.<\/span><\/strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-852\" src=\"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/dino-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-07-122206-228x300.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CONFERENCE VENUE This year the annual Canadian Paleontology Conference (CPC) will be held at the University of Regina in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. The meeting will take place over three days, Monday, August 24th to Wednesday, August 26th, 2026. Scientific sessions will be held throughout the day on August 25 and 26 and will include both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/dino-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/dino-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/dino-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/dino-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/dino-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/dino-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":859,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/dino-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions\/859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/dino-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/dino-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/dino-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}