Dear Friends:

The 46th Annual Conference on Bioassay, Analytical, and Environmental Radiochemistry (BAER 2000) will be held at the Renaissance Madison Hotel in Seattle, Washington, November 12-17, 2000. The conference provides an informal setting where members of the scientific community can gain insight, share experiences, and develop solutions to problems. The conference will offer vendor and technical workshops, presentations, posters, and invited speaker(s).

We invite your abstract submissions for presentations and posters, reporting on the results of specific activities or research projects. Please provide a one-page abstract following our format guidelines.

The abstracts and extended abstracts will not be peer reviewed or edited. Abstracts will be presented in hardcopy format. Also, a CD of the entire proceedings, abstracts, and extended abstracts will be distributed to attendees at the conference.

To minimize mailings of hard copy announcements and correspondence about BAER 2000, the conference organizing committee will provide information and updates about the conference on the Internet. We have created a Website at http://baer2000.pnl.gov that will include information on technical abstracts, workshops, registration, lodging and transportation, program outline, vendor workshop and exhibits, etc. We will continually update our Website as information becomes available.

If you do not have access to the Internet and wish to receive hard copy announcements, please notify the committee by July 15, 2000.

Sincerely,

Steven N. Bakhtiar, Ph.D.
Conference Chair

DETAILS and DEADLINES

Abstract Submission Guidelines

Due August 1, 2000.

One page. No more than 600 words.

Please use Microsoft Word or WordPerfect files with Times New Roman or similar style font in 11-point with 1-inch margins at the top, bottom and each side.

Email to baer2000@pnl.gov

If you do not have access to email, mail a hardcopy with a pc-formatted electronic file.

We will notify submitters by August 30, 2000, of abstracts accepted for presentations or posters. Extended abstracts for publication in the proceeding must be submitted by September 15, 2000.

Conference Registration (Registration Form)

Register early and save money. Registration includes continental breakfasts, break-time snacks, lunches (Monday through Thursday), and entertainment night.

Early registration is $270, due August 1, 2000.

Late registration fee is $300, after August 1, 2000.

Registration for a full-time student is $100.

Registration for a "Significant Other" is $75 (includes lunches and entertainment night).

Phone 1-800-278-4159 for reservations at the Renaissance Madison Hotel, 515 Madison Street, Seattle, Washington, 98104 or FAX (206) 447-0992.

Register by October 19, 2000, to obtain special conference rate of $120/night (this is $104/night plus tax to meet the government rates). (Prevailing rates after October 19, 2000). Mention you are registering for the BAER 2000 Conference.

Find additional information about the hotel at http://renaissancehotels.com/SEASM/

Email abstracts and extended abstracts to baer2000@pnl.gov

Direct questions to:

Barbara M. Gillespie, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (509) 376-5802
Steven Bakhtiar, Waste Management Hanford (509) 373-3015

Mail Conference Registration and any hardcopy abstracts (w/electronic file) to:

BM Gillespie
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PO Box 999 MS K6-96
Richland, WA, 99352
Fax: (509) 372-1704

A vendor letter has been sent to past participating vendors. There is opportunity to exhibit or host workshops, refreshments, luncheons, co-host the entertainment night, and other sponsorships. If you are interested in participating at the conference, please contact Kevin Bull, Severn Trent Laboratories, Richland, WA at (509)375-3131 or email at bullk@quanterra.com.

Open this file, print out, fill in information and mail to contacts above.

This page will be updated as schedules, sponsors, and events become available. Please review this page monthly.

This page contains information about past BAER conferences http://www.lanl.gov/BAER-Conference/.

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