Three events related to ichnology will take place in this meeting. The first is a field trip on March 24, 1999, to northwestern Georgia on March that will take participants to three outcrops of Late Ordovician and Silurian strata in the southern Appalachians. The field trip will cover the stratigraphy and facies relations of the Ordovician and Silurian, with emphasis on trace and body fossil assemblages. Field trip leaders will be Andy Rindsberg and me. We have some particularly interesting trilobite burrows that we hope will provoke some spirited debate at the outcrops.

The next item is the Robert W. Frey Memorial Symposium on March 25, the first memorial session in honor of Frey since his death seven years ago and appropriately held in Athens, Georgia, his home while he taught at the University of Georgia. The theme of the symposium is ichnology, taphonomy, and education, and seven invited papers will cover these topics. Participants include former Frey students Stephen Henderson, who with Frey co-authored the very first article published in the inaugural issue of Palaios; Samuel Bentley, Frey's last master's student; Andy Rindsberg, who did a comprehensive master's thesis of Ordovician and Silurian trace fossils in Georgia with Frey, and me, his last Ph.D. student. Other participants are two students, Suzanne White, who is working on a master's thesis with Frey's replacement at Georgia, Sally Walker; and Dharia McGrew, an "academic granddaughter" of Frey because she did a project with me this past summer. Last but not least is Chuck Savrda, who is providing a paper on his work in the Selma Group of Alabama, a formation that saw some seminal work by Bob Frey, Richard Bromley, and George Pemberton. Steve Henderson and I are the co-chairs of the symposium. [On the evening of March 25, the Southeastern Section of the Paleontological Society will host an informal party at the house of Sally Walker to reminisce about Bob Frey while savoring fine bread, cheeses, and a keg of beer.]

The last item is a three-day field trip to Sapelo Island on March 26-28, the best-studied barrier islands of the Georgia coast. Participants will undoubtedly see many of the same biogenic structures, sedimentary processes, and facies so well elucidated by Jim Howard, Bob Frey, and their German and American associates during the 1970's and 1980's. The field trip leader will be Susan Goldstein.

The preregistration deadline is February 19, 1999, although late registrants are allowed depending on availability. Further information about the field trips, including registration, can be found at the following Web address:

Questions should be directed to Erv Garrison, (706) 542-1097, egarriso@gly.uga.edu, or Sue Goldstein, (706) 543- 2397, sgoldst@gly.uga.edu, both at the Department of Geology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA.

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