This year’s Calpe Conference, held in Gibraltar by the Gibraltar Museum and GONHS aims to answer the question ‘how do we access the datasets required for detailed scientific enquiry at such an enormous temporal scale?’

With Gibraltar being at the forefront of some of these areas of research: the Gibraltar Museum and the GONHS Cave Science Unit are, together with their international collaborators, important players in the fields of archaeology, geomorphology and climate science.

Local teams and international participants will be delivering what promises to be a far-ranging, insightful and exciting Calpe Conference.

The structure of the conference has been slightly modified on this occasion by having an introductory day in which speakers will address aspects of caving history, cave methodology, Gibraltar’s geology and caves in a manner that will be accessible to as wide a public as possible. The event will be held on Saturday 14^th September.

The programme will continue from Sunday 15th to Tuesday 17th September, with an excursion on Wednesday 18th.

Further information and registration forms may be obtained from the Gibraltar Museum (Tel: 200 74289) or its website http://www.gibmuseum.gi. The conference will be held in the John Mackintosh Hall and is free for local residents.