CUBAN SOCIETY OF GEOLOGY

 

 

V CONGRESS ON GEOLOGY AND MINING

GEOMIN’ 2003

 

HAVANA, CUBA, March 24-28, 2003

 

FIRST  CIRCULAR

 

Hotel Nacional de Cuba

 

General View of the Hotel Nacional de Cuba

Dear Colleagues!

The Cuban Geological Society is pleased to invite all professionals working on Geology, Exploration Geophysics, Mining or related disciplines, to attend the V CUBAN CONGRESS ON GEOLOGY AND MINING to be held in Havana, Cuba, NEXT March 24-28, 2003. Cubapetroleo, the Ministry of Basic Industry, the Ministry of Sciences, Technology and Environment, and other Governmental and non-Governmental Organizations are kindly supporting this event.

The Congress will focus on Cuban Regional Geology and the Caribbean with emphasis on the Paleogeography, Plate Tectonics, Regional Geology and Tectonics, as well as Energy, Mineral, Groundwater, and Geological Hazards. Similar presentations dealing with any region of the planet are welcome.

There will be a Field Workshop of the IGCP/UNESCO Project 433 "MULTIARC VS GREAT ARC EVOLUTION OF THE CARIBBEAN: FIELD DEBATE" , and several special Workshops dealing with Earth Sciences and Environment; Geology and Petroleum Exploration in the south-eastern Gulf of Mexico Region (Deep Waters); Gemmology; Micropaleontology in Latin-American terrenes and Geobiology and Dowsing.

The Organizing Committee will prepare field trips aimed to make the stay of the participants more pleasant and interesting in our Country. As a complement to these meetings, the Congress will hold the Third Exhibition of Goods and Services in Geosciences, EXPOGEOMIN 2003. Cuban and foreign companies are cordially invited to participate. The Organizing Committee will provide all the facilities required by exhibitors and is offering attractive prices for stand space, as well as for furniture and services.

All these events will constitute a magnificent forum for the exchange of information and experiences about the state of the art in geosciences of Cuba, as well as of Latin American and Caribbean countries.

We have chosen in order to guarantee your comfort and full enjoyment, a travel agency of recognized experience, which has designed a social and cultural program that will guarantee a happy stay in our country.

We hope to give you our warmest and most cordial welcome to GEOMIN'2003!.

 

 

Dr. José Fernández Carmona                                                 Dr. Manuel Fundora Granda

President Organizing Committee                                         President Scientific Committee

 

 

 

                                                                                                                         

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

 

Dr. José Fernández-Carmona                                  Dr.  Manuel Iturralde-Vinent

PRESIDENT  SCG                                                  FIRST VICE PRESIDENT

CEINPET  /MINBAS                                     Cuban National Museum of Natural Sciences

                                                                                                         CITMA

 

Eng. Eric Escobar Pérez                                               Lic. Roberto Gutiérrez-Domech                 

VICE-PRESIDENT                                                    EXECUTIVE SECRETARY

Geologic & Mining  Enterprise                             Institute of Geology and Paleontology

Of Stgo de Cuba                                                                              MINBAS

MINBAS                       

 

       Dr. Manuel Fundora-Granda                                Eng. José Gemen Prol Betancourt

          SCIENTIFIC SECRETARY                                                     SECRETARY OF FINANCES

Institute of Geophysics and Astronomy                        GEOPHYSICAL ENTERPRISE

                          CITMA                                                                     MINBAS      

 

         MSC. Marina Vega Carreño                                     Dr. José Luis Cuevas Ojeda

SECRETARY OF FOREING RELATIONS                           SECRETARY OF EDITORIAL AFFAIRS

    Havana’s Technical University                          Institute of Geophysics and Astronomy

           “José Antonio Echeverría”                                                     CITMA      

 

        Eng. Carlos Perera Falcón                                                Mrs. Caridad Román   

SECRETARY OF PUBLIC RELATIONS                    INCENTIVES & CONGRESSES

CEINPET-MINBAS                                                                   HAVANATUR

     

OTHER MEMBERS

 

       Dr. Rafael Tenreyro-Pérez                                                Dr. Leodegario Lufriú-Díaz

Division of Exploration and Production                         Division of Geobiology and Dowsing

               Cubapetroleo                                                                                  CSG

 

          Mr. Antonio Lopez

    Division of  Gemmology

                    CSG

 

COMMISSION OF ACREDITATION                                TECHNICAL COMMISSION                                           

Eng. Mirtha Príncipe                                                                     MSc. Orlando Carras                                                                         

Mrs. Bárbara Polo González                                                        MSc. Kenya Núñez                                                                                                                                   

 

 COMMISSION OF SOCIAL EVENTS    III EXHIBITON OF GOODS AND SERVICES

Eng. Raúl Gómez García                                                    Eng. Encarnación Vivero

MSc. Nyls Ponce Soane                                                      Eng. Consuelo Diaz

Mr. Roberto Morales

                                                                                         

 

 

GENERAL INFORMATION

 

  San Cristobal de la Habana, name with which was found on November 16 of 1519 in a meeting of its firsts inhabitants around a Ceiba tree, the present Capital City of Cuba, has served since that date as a basic stone for the development of the Cuban nation history and as a bridge with the rest of the world. Since very early It was defined like place for rest and impulse of fleets and a grip of navigators which has determined its condition of road of all the destinations.

 

Its only border is the Malecon that welcomes the visitors with its blue smile, full of foam and marine scent, sending a message of dreams and happiness of its inhabitants.

 

What you astonish to the traveler to their arrival it is the warm hospitality of their residents, conquering walls and walls.

 

The city that grew around the bay, which has been its support and the foundation of its expansible character, has an area of 727 Km2 and a population of more than 2 million inhabitants. They live all together and are related in her with an  ease and a sense of freedom not very common in other cities of the world.

 

Havana is a city of multiple faces, that seduce you by their contrasts, their virtues, its provincial way and   its history of metropolis. And here, inside this beautiful city, is the Venue of our event.

 

THE VENUE

 

Hotel Nacional de Cuba, the most symbolic hotel in Havana, capital of Cuba, "The Pearl of the Antilles", will be the venue of these events. Over 60 years of history put this prestigious hotel of the Great Caribe Hotel group in a class of its town. The Hotel Nacional de Cuba was opened in December 1930 and  still preserves all the splendor of its  eclectic architecture, a mixture of Art Déco features and other modern influences of the period.

You will spend unforgettable days and nights there, where space and good taste combine with great facilities for meetings and conventions in the heart of the cultural and social life of the City.

 

MAIN TOPICS

 

-          Regional  Geology

-           Geology Marine  

-           Environmental Geology and  Mining                                                    

-          Regional Geophysics  and Geophysical Prospecting                         

-          Seismology and Recent Movements                                                   

-          Palaeontology                                                                                            

-          Stratigraphy                                                                                             

-          Geomorphology, Quaternary and Karst Geology                                 .

-          Gemmology                                                                                              

-          Mineralogy, Petrology y geochemistry                                                

-          Sedimentology                                                                                         

-          Petroleum Geology and of others energetic  bearings                       

-          Geology of Solid Mineral Deposits                                                        

-          Geological Engineering and Hydrogeology                                          

-          Engineering of Mineral Deposits                                                           

-          Geobiology  and Downsing in Geosciences.                                                                   

-          Economy in Geology and  Mining         .                                                .

-          Techniques and technologies of mining, techniques & technologies of mineral characterization and processing of  ore minerals and other natural resources.             

-          Geomathematics and Geoinformatics                                                  

-          Weathering Crusts                                                                                 

-          Education in Geological Sciences                                                        

 

 

EVENTS

 

ü     V CONGRESS ON GEOLOGY AND MINING

ü      V International Workshop       " Earth Sciences and the Environment"

ü      II International Workshop       "Geology and Petroleum Exploration of the Southeast Gulf Of Mexico Region (Deep Waters)"

ü      I International Workshop           “Gemmology ´ s 2003”

ü      Field Workshop at Eastern Cuba  Project 433  UNESCO/IGCP

ü      II International Workshop      "Geobiology and Dowsing in Geosciences”

ü      I International Workshop  “ Micropaleontology of the Latinamerican Territories”

(It is expected to create The Society of Iberoamerican Micropaleontologists”).

 

ü      EXPOGEOMIN 2003: III EXHIBITION OF GOODS AND SERVICES IN GEOSCIENCES

 

 

The Organizing Committee will provide all necessary facilities required by exhibitors. The Committee is offering low rates for stand space, furniture, and services. The stand spaces are limited so interested companies please contact:

 

Ing. Encarnación Vivero

CEINPET

Washington N0 169 esq. a Churruca, Cerro, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba

FAX: (537) 66-6021

Phones: (537) 57-7309/7341/7342

E-mail: lab@castrol.minbas.cu

 

 

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

 

Å     Key Conferences

 

ü      Recognized foreign and Cuban experts will focus on matters of general interest. They will have a duration of 30 min.

 

Å     Panel Discussions

 

ü      Programmed themes of general and current interest will be discussed in panels, where several points of view on the selected topics will be debated, under the direction of a moderator. The panels will have a duration of 1 ½  to two hours.

 

Å      Oral Presentations

 

ü      Authors will have 15 minutes for their talks and five minutes for questions and answers.

 

Å     Posters

 

ü      Authors will make extensive use of posters to present and explain results graphically. Posters will be held at programmed and at extraordinary schedules. All Workshops will have an interactive technical section of posters. Posters will be presented in panels 1,5 m x 1 m.

 

Å     Posters to Distance

 

ü        This new modality will allow those colleagues that can not attend the  Congress, to sent their contributions to be presented as a poster  by the Organizing Committee.

Depending on the forms of shipping the Organizing Committe will take care of printing and presentation of the poster. The author will recieve a document crediting its participation in the Congress. The  POSTER send by electronic mail for its impression by the Organizing Committee must be in our hands before  February 1rst of  2003.  Power point files are preferred.

But you can also sent the poster by airmail, and migth be brougth by another Participant.

 

REGISTRATION

 

Attendees must complete the entire Registration Form included in this Circular and mail it to the Organizing Committee

 

ü      By Fax:     (537) 33-9497 

 

ü      By e-mail:            

ü      Dr. Manuel J. Fundora Granda

Scientific Secretary

Organizing Committee GEOMIN' 2003

fundora@iga.cu or mjfundora@yahoo.com

 

ü      Mrs. Barbara Polo

Accreditation Commission

Organizing Committee GEOMIN' 2003

bpolo@iga.cu with copy to  marina_vega1311@yahoo.com

 

Attendees could  also complete the REGISTRATIOM FORM issued in the Web Site of the  Cuban Society of Geology, www.scg.cu.

 

All mail concerning inscriptions, abstracts and technical contributions to the Congress and other events shall be addressed as follows:

 

 

IV CUBAN CONGRESS ON GEOLOGY AND MINING

 

ü                  Dr. Manuel J. Fundora Granda

Scientific Secretary

Organizing Committee GEOMÍN 2003

Instituto de Geofísica y Astronomía

Calle 212 No 2906 e/ 29 y 31, Rpto. " La Coronela" , La Lisa,

Ciudad Habana, CUBA CP. 11 600.

E-mail :    fundora@iga.cu  or  mjfundora@yahoo.com    

Fax (537) 33-9497

Phones: (537) 271-4331 / 0953 / 0644 line 29

 

ü         MSc. Marina Vega-Carreño

Department  of Earth’s Sciences

Technical University of Havana

“Jose Antonio Echeverria”

Calle 114 s/n Mnao 15.

La Habana, Cuba

Email: marina_vega1311@yahoo.com

Phone: (537) 260-0982

 

For more information concerning specific workshops ot the III Exhibition of Goods and Services in Geosciences please contact:

 

 

V International Workshop   "Earth Sciences and the Environment"

 

ü      MSc. Orlando Carrás

Organizing Committee GEOMÍN 2003

Technical University of Havana

Department of Earth's Sciences,