Oral presentations Oral presentations should not exceed 15 minutes. Oral presentations are organized in thematic clusters (approximately). Each cluster ends with 15 minutes discussion of the respective oral presentations (see preliminary program). All authors should bring their presentations (Power Point or PDF) in external devices ready to install into the equipment provided by the venue. Oral presentations of the morning […]
COST PalaeOpen Paleofire multistakeholder workshop Zaragoza, Spain April 2026
27-29.04.2026 Zaragoza Spain: CSIC hosted a COST PalaeOpen meeting to bring together producers of paleofire data and potential users engaged in land, forest, pasture, and fire management from several countries across Europe from Portugal to Lithuania, Sweden and the Mediterranean. CA23116 – Open Palaeoecological Data – analysing the past building foresight (PalaeOpen) Description Restoring and […]
New priorities for peatland research
Abstract Peatlands are among Earth’s largest terrestrial carbon stores and are crucial for climate regulation, biodiversity conservation, and water security. Yet peatlands worldwide are deteriorating under pressures from climate change and human disturbance. Strategic, globally coordinated research is urgently needed to protect, restore and manage peatlands so they can continue to deliver essential ecosystem services. […]
Neotoma Paleofire at PSU
Paleofire researchers with an interest in open access data sharing through the Neotoma Paleoecology Database converged at Pennsylvania State University hosted by Sarah Ivory’s Department of Geosciences paleoenvironmental research group 20–23 April 2025 to build the Global Charcoal Database version 5 as a Neotoma constituent database.
Exciting publication drop from the PeatQuest project 28.04.2026!
About PeatQuest Peatlands only occupy 3% of the global land area but contain about 25% of global soil carbon – twice as much as the world’s forests. Despite their importance, peatlands and the carbon they contain are under threat including from climate warming, land-use change, wildfires, pollution and sea-level rise. There has been a large […]
Yorkshire Palaeo Group April 2026 meeting – Leeds UK – speakers and abstracts
Schedule Time Speaker Title 13:00 – 13:05 Paul Morris & Jane Bunting Welcome and opening remarks 13:05 – 13:35 Colin Courtney Mustaphi Only 999 samples left to do: Tools and techniques for subsampling and portioning wet sediments (hybrid webinar from PSU, USA) 13:35 – 14:05 Antony Blundell Introducing PPSP (Python Peat Stratigraphy Program) 14:05 – […]
MCAA CH chapter meet up in Zurich
28 March 2026 The Marie Curie Alumni Association hosted a meet-up event for a chance to mingle with several members who live and work in CH, to plan the upcoming year of the chapter, and a chance to exchange with members who works in all industries. Past MCAA CH events have included picnic socials in […]
Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity 2025 annual report
Interdisciplinary research on biodiversity gains and losses in the Anthropocene, funded by The Leverhulme Trust. LCAB Highlights – Year 6 Our year 6 annual report has been approved by the Leverhulme Trust, and we are pleased to share the public facing version. Our early career researchers have excelled themselves, and we are proud to showcase […]
New publication on tropical peatland burning
Thanks to Yuwan Wang and team for this analysis of multiple paleofire records across tropical peatlands! The analysis builds included data generated during the EU funded REAL project from study sites in Kenya and Tanzania (Githumbi et al., 2018a and 2018b; Courtney Mustaphi et al., 2021a and 2021b; Wang et al., 2026). ABSTRACT Tropical peatland […]
Where is Colin now?
Colin Courtney-Mustaphi analyses data sets on how vegetation and wildfires have varied through time in response to societal land use changes, climate and other environmental changes. He completed his role as a Marie Curie Experienced Researcher at the University of York, UK, in November 2026 and has since conducted postdoctoral research at Uppsala University, Sweden, […]
Call for abstracts!
IPC7 Session 26 on “Vegetation Change and Plant–Insect Interactions from the Palaeozoic to Modern Times” Dear PAGES ECR Community,We are excited to invite you to submit abstracts for Session 26: Vegetation Change and Plant–Insect Interactions from the Palaeozoic to Modern Times – Case Studies from Africa and Beyond at the IPC7 in Cape Town, 30 November – 3 December […]
PaperStories: Something Chitinous?
Pubs@ThePub What will we find under the microscope in the next sample? Some plant remains? charcoal? animal fossils? You never fully know until you have a look through the microscope. After preparing the samples and having a look, one item really stood out. Was it a fossil plant seed? or something chitinous, from an invertebrate […]