Month: May 2016

Workshop Climate and Landscape Change in the Pantanal: Assessing environmental vulnerabilities and future water security in Brazil’s wetland wilderness

Date & Place: 20 -24 July 2016 in Brasilia, Brazil

Under the Researcher Links scheme offered within the Newton Fund, the British Council. Researcher Links scheme we will be holding a workshop on the above theme in Brasilia on 20 – 24 July, 2016. The workshop is being coordinated by Prof. Carlos Saito (University of Brasilia) and Dr. Bronwen Whitney (Northumbria University Newcastle), and will have contributions from other leading researchers from the UK and Brazil. We are now inviting Early Career Researchers (defined as having up to10 years post-PhD research experience) from the UK or Brazil to apply to attend this workshop. All travel and accommodation expenses will be covered by the Newton Researcher Links programme.

Workshop themes include:

  1. climate change and water security;
  2. hydrology and flood pulse;
  3. tourism and environmental impacts;
  4. invasive species and impacts on biodiversity;
  5. modelling climate-landscape dynamics;
  6. socioenvironmental conflicts;
  7. the role of environmental education.

Follow the following link to apply as soon as possible! Deadline is 26th of May! LINK: Newton Fund Researcher Links Workshop

NEW DEADLINE 14th International Palynological Congress 2016, Brazil

Date: 23-28 October 2016

You still have a chance to submit your abstract! A new deadline was set for the 22nd of May. Please follow the following link for more information: http://pastglobalchanges.org/calendar/all-events/127-pages/1573-14th-international-palynological-congress

TIP!:
Submit your abstract to the LandCover6k session at http://www.ipciopcbrazil.com/
SS23 – Pollen-based Holocene land-cover reconstructions for climate modelling – PAGES LandCover6k. Organizers: Marie-José Gaillard, Sonia Fontana, Ralph Fyfe, Konrad Gajewski, Ulrika Herschuh, Anupama Krishnamurthy, Anne-Marie Lézine, Rob Marchant, Jack Williams & Qinghai Xu

Open access radiocarbon database available for Easter Island

A new dataset called EIRA (Easter Island Radiocarbon Ages) has been recently presented by V. Rull in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (Front. Ecol. Evol., 26 April 2016). The EIRA database contains all the radiocarbon ages from Aroi, Kao, and Raraku sediments published to date (1984–2015) and can be freely accessed at NOAA !

As described by the author in this paper: “The EIRA database provides paleoecologists and paleoclimatologists with a thorough chronological dataset to be analyzed statistically as a whole or by parts (by sites, by age intervals, etc.), aimed at contributing to the development of new age-depth models, reconsider the existing ones, or plan new studies and coring campaigns“. Thank you to the author for this open source database!

Summer School – Early Career Researcher – “Using observations and modelling to understand past climate changes”

University of Reading | 5th-9th September 2016

This 5 day residential event at the University of Reading aims to bring together young researchers from the palaeo­observational and climate­ modelling communities and show how their skills can complement each other.

The conference will provide participants with the ability to use modelling tools and palaeo-observations to understand the dynamics of past climate changes. Participants will also present their own work through oral and poster presentations and will have a chance to network with their peers at social events.

For more information check the website: INQUA ECR 2016