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[email protected] FastTIMES v. 16, no. 3, September 2011 2 FastTIMES v. 16, no. 3, September 2011 3 Calendar Please send event listings, corrections or omitted events to any member of the FastTIMES editorial team. 2011 2012 September 12–14 Near Surface 2011: 17th January 15–17 International Conference on European Meeting of Earth Sciences and Engineering: Environmental and Engineering brings together scientists, Geophysics, Leicester, England engineers, and students to share their experiences and research October 9–12 GSA 2011 Annual Meeting: results about all aspects of Earth Archean to Anthropocene: The Sciences and Engineering, past is the key to the future, Zurich, Switzerland Minneapolis, Minnesota February 21 Deadline for submission of November 20–23 10th SEGJ International articles, advertisements, and Symposium: features the contributions to the March issue interdisciplinary integration of FastTIMES of geosciences for better understanding and modeling of February 26–29 22nd ASEG: the conference invisible underground structures theme ‘Unearthing New Layers‘ and processes, Kyoto, Japan recognises that transformational change in our industry can still November 21 Deadline for submission of occur, Melbourne, Australia articles, advertisements, and contributions to the December March 25-29 25th Anniversary Symposium on issue of FastTIMES the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Nov 29 – Dec 1 SERDP and ESTCP Partners Problems (SAGEEP) “Making in Environmental Technology Waves: Geophysical Innovations Technical Symposium & for a Thirsty World”, Tucson, AZ Workshop “Meeting DoD’s Environmental Challenges”, May 21 Deadline for submission of Washington, D .C . articles, advertisements, and contributions to the June issue of December 5-9 2011 AGU Fall Meeting . 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