The International Association of Limnogeology (IAL) is pleased to invite you to attend the 4th International Limnogeology Congress (ILIC2007), which will be held in Barcelona (NE Spain) from 11th-14th July 2007. Several academic, research and social institutions, as well as a number of researchers and professionals of the field will be deeply involved in the congress organization.

Limnogeology aims at the multidisciplinary study of ancient and recent lacustrine systems and their paleoenvironmental and environmental significance. As a consequence, this emergent discipline deals with both integrative and specialized contributions from very diverse, complementary fields of research focused on any kind of lacustrine records.

The International Limnogeology Congresses (ILIC) promote collaboration among researchers across all disciplines of lacustrine research, from related Earth Science disciplines (i.e. sedimentology, stratigraphy, basin analysis and modelling, structural geology, geochemistry, paleogeography and paleoclimatology, among others) to paleolimnology and lacustrine paleobiology. These congresses also seek to provide a periodic updated overview of the state of knowledge on lacustrine records and of advances in their integrative comprehension. This aim is achieved by means of guest plenary lectures by some researchers, and oral and poster contributions from the rest of the attendees. In this new edition of ILIC, topic oral and poster sessions will be a part of the main organization frame, combined with thematic sessions and/or symposia coordinated by specialists. Field trips and workshops showing the results of the study of ancient and recent lacustrine records and/or the development of new techniques will be programmed too by the organizers and also after request of the potential congress attendants.

We will have great pleasure in welcoming you to Barcelona for the 4th International Limnogeology Congress and we trust that you will enjoy it. Please make your registration now for further information and request.

With kind regards on behalf of the organizers,

Prof. Dr. Lluís Cabrera
Chair of the 4th ILIC