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Annual Report 2007
The presidency of the Austrian Working Group for the History of Earth Sciences changed on February 27th 2007. Johannes Seidl (Archives of the University of Vienna) took over presidency. He was honoured, on December, 11th 2007, by the governor of Lower Austria, who presented him with a Silver Medal for his meritorious work concerning the history of Lower Austria.
Austrian participants at the INHIGEO meeting in Eichstätt, Germany (July, 28th to August, 5th 2007) included Tillfried Cernajsek, Bernhard Hubmann, Marianne Klemun, and Claudia Schweizer.
In September, the University of Laval (Quebec City, Canada) hosted the 9th International Symposium on "Cultural Heritage in Geosciences, Archaeology, Mining and Metallurgy". The meeting gathered approximately one hundred specialists in these fields of research, from all five continents. In more than fifty presentations, the participants reported about their wide-ranging work in collections, archives and libraries. In a welcoming address during the opening ceremony Reginald Auger gave a short overview, in the name of the organizing committee, about the present and past meetings. His thanks were given not only to the participants for coming, but also to different institutions for financial support. Two excursions and receptions, hosted by Alcoa Canada, completed the program of this symposium. Participants from Austria included Andrea Beyer, Alexander Biedermann, Margarete Hamilton, Christoph Hauser, Lieselotte Jontes, Günther Jontes, Franz Pertlik, and Susanne Pertlik.
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