London is proposing to host the 2013 ICP conference. Key points of the proposal include: - The conference venue would be at the Old Billingsgate Market building, which has over 400 years of maritime history and is located on the Thames. - London has excellent transportation access via 5 international airports and Eurostar trains. Delegates would receive Oyster cards to use on public transportation. - Over 125,000 hotel rooms are available nearby from budget to luxury options. The conference dinner would be held at the Natural History Museum. - Field trips would explore fossil sites, deglaciation environments, and Thames River archaeology. Day trips could visit Oxford, Cambridge, Stonehenge, Bath and other sites

1. ICP London 2013 Bid
London ICP 2013
An accessible, vibrant world-class city

4. Unrivaled Access by air & rail

5. Unrivaled Access by air & rail

6. 5 International Airports within one hour of London

7. 22 EUROSTAR Trains from Paris and 11 from Brussels daily
Connections with over 10 European destinations to St. Pancras Station

8. Each delegate will be issued an OYSTER card
to be used on buses, bicycles, rail, underground & Thames river Taxis

9. There has been an outdoor street market near Lower
Thames Street since Henry IV granted the citizens the
rights to collect tolls at Billingsgate. In 1699 an Act of
Parliament was passed making it "a free and open
market for all sorts of fish whatsoever". The first
Billingsgate Market building was constructed on
Lower Thames Street in 1850 for the largest fish
market in the world. This was demolished c.1873 and
replaced in 1876 by the building that is the host venue
for ICP. In 1982, the fish market was relocated to a
new 13-acre (53,000 m²) building complex close to
Canary Wharf in the Docklands.

10. Old Billingsgate Market - Conference Venue
400 years of maritime history at a Thames-side location

11. Sunday Evening Ice-Breaker On the Old Billingsgate Terrace

12. Daytime Conference setup
One half of the conference hall will
house all the posters for the
conference so that delegates can
take their time studying the science
during the entire week. The entire
conference floor can be viewed
from the first floor walkway. Free
WiFi access everywhere in the
building.
The opposite half of the conference hall
will house the theater for the keynote
addresses and other talks.

13. Sunday Icebreaker party on the the Old Billingsgate Thames-side terrace
View of the south bank
View of the north bank
with the spotlights on the
Old Billingsgate terrace

14. The Vaults - a place to relax during the conference

15. Extensive choice of hotels with more than 125,000 rooms
London-wide from budget and student halls to 5 stars:
1) 196 Bishopsgate Mid-Range
2) Andaz Liverpool Street Luxury
3) ApexCity of London Mid-Range
4) ApexLondonWall Mid-Range
5) Club Quarters Gracechurch Mid-Range
6) Hilton LondonTower Bridge Mid-Range
7) TheTower Mid-Range
8) Threadneedles Hotel Luxury
Accommodations

16. Conference Dinner Venue - The Great Hall of the Natural History Museum
~20 minute underground train tube ride from Old Billingsgate

17. Conference Field Trips
Isle of Wight - Tertiary & Cretaceous fossiliferous marine deposits
Deglacial paleoenvironments of Norfolk
Wales - Carboniferous Devonian Old Red Sandstone
Seven Sisters - Late Cretaceous Chalk Cliffs
Thames River Foreshore Archaeology with Thames Estuary Partnership

18. Oxford & Cambridge
Stonehenge
Bath
Dover
Canterbury
Windsor Castle
Day Trips from London

19. London History

20. London Attractions
More than 250 free attractions with some of the worlds’ top museums and galleries
6,000 restaurants & bars
150 Theatres
250 Galleries
40,000 shops
1000 Venues
2,000 years of history
4 World Heritage sites
300 languages spoken

21. University College London, London’s Global University
One of the World’s Leading Universities
Host for pre and post ICP meetings
Pimm’s On the Quad Reception for all delegates

22. Conference Program
Sir Nicholas Shackleton Day: 40 years since the beginning of the revolution
Weight and Sea: understanding the controls on global sea level
Really Old Stuff: Lessons from the future from past Greenhouse worlds
Modeling: What’s in the magic Black Boxes?
Ocean Rhythms: Cycles & Thresholds (with Paleomusicology at the PROMS)
All at Sea? The future of Paleoceanograpy - where do we go next?
Ground-Truthing the Paleo record

23. Conference Event Planner; Concerto Group