Special conference
plus field excursion
at Satun UNESCO Global Geopark
27th - 29th November 2025

Theme:
“Palaeontology for sustainable development (Geopark, Geotourism and Education)”

in coordination with IGCP-700: Palaeozoic carbonate build-ups in SE Asia

Technical session

• Date : 27th November 2025

• Venue : On-site at Songkhla Rajabhat University Satun Campus, and online.

Post-Conference Field Excursion

• Date : 28th - 29th November 2025

• Attractions :  Lower Palaeozoic fossil sites.

*Tentative Schedules 

• 26th November (Wed.)
  - Meeting at Hat Yai International Airport (HDY) arrival hall for transportation to La Ngu District, Satun Province.
  - Arrival at La Ngu and hotel check-in.

• 27th November (Thu.)
  08.00 – 08.30 : Registration
  08.30 – 09.00 : Opening session/welcome speech
  09.00 – 12.00 : Technical session
  12.00 – 13.00 : Lunch
  13.00 – 16.00 : Technical session
  16.00 – 16.30 : Closing session
  18.00 : Welcome dinner (Stay in La-Ngu District) 

• 28th November (Fri.)
  07.00 – 08.30 : Breakfast at the hotel
  08.30 : Travel to Khao Tanan of Thung Wa District
  09.30 – 10.30 : STOP 1 : Local geopark museum, Khao Tanan, visit Middle Devonian coral-stromatoporoid reef with fossils.
  10.30 – 11.00 : Travel to Ma-Nung District
  11.00 – 11.45 : STOP 2 : Wat Ped Nam, visit Ordovician stromatolitic limestone
  12.00 – 13.00 : Lunch at Ma-Nung District
  13.00 – 13.30 : Travel to Kampang sub-district
  13.30 – 15.30 : STOP 3 : Khao Daeng, visit Ordovician stromatolitic limestone with nautiloid fossils
                                    STOP 4 : Tha Lae-La old quarry, visit Ordovican nodular limestone
  15.30 – 16.00 : Travel to La-Ngu District
  16.00 – 18.45 : Visit Mu Ko Phetra National Park.
                                    STOP 5 : Observe fault contact of the Cambrian siliciclastics and the Ordovician limestones along the Andaman coast.
  18.00 : Dinner at La-Ngu District 

• 29th November (Sat.)
  07.00 – 08.30 : Breakfast at the hotel and check-out
  08.30 : Depart from the hotel and travel to Khao Noi
  09.00 – 10.00 : STOP 6 : Khao Noi, observe a transition of Upper Ordovician red stromatolite limestone and Lower Silurian sequences with siliciclastics, volcaniclastics and graptolitic black shales
  10.00 - 11.00 :  STOP 7 : Ban Pa Samed, observe a transition of Upper Silurian limestone and Lower Devonian limestone/siliciclastic successions with spectacular occurrences of nautiloids, tentaculitids and graptolites
  11.00 – 14.00 : Travel to Hat Yai Town (Lunch at 12.00 – 13.00)
  14.00 : Arrive at Hat Yai Town, Songkhla District

*Remark: the schedule might be subjected to update and we will notify you in advance if any amendment or modification necessary included.

Participant Fee

• 6,500 Baht (THB)

• The registration fee includes pick-up service from and to Hat Yai Airport (HDY), joining technical session, accommodation, meals and dinners, transportation during field excursion, and programme document. Participant who would like to stay alone will pay extra. 

• The fee DOES NOT include the flight ticket.

• Note that the fee dose not include the night  of the 26th November. Please contact to ICPSEA 2025 Secretariat for reservation.

Remark

• Participants who arrive at Hat Yai Airport (HDY), we will be organised van transportation from HDY to Satun (La-ngu district). For the most convenience, we suggest participants book the same flight as/via the organiser by informing us in the registration form’s remark. On the way back from Satun, we will send participants to HDY in which the participants may choose their flight destination differently. 

All questions should be directed to
ICPSEA 2025's secretariat e-mail kantanat.t@msu.ac.th , cc: mongkol.c@msu.ac.th , jaroon.d@nrru.ac.th