Dear Colleagues, I hope this email finds you well. I am writing to invite you to participate and share the information on the upcoming African International Conference, which will take place in person from Wednesday 23rd June to Saturday 26th June 2027 at the University of Bradford. Operating under the overarching theme “African Renaissance: Reclaiming […]
Journal of Paleolimnology Topical Collection
Resilience and Recovery – Deadline 31 December 2026 Dear colleagues, As the leaves change colour and the nights darken, my colleagues and I would like to remind you that the deadline is approaching for our Topical Collection on Resilience and recovery in lake systems, hosted by Journal of Paleolimnology. We are looking to gather studies […]
News and new directions of the International Paleofire Network
Dear Paleofire researcher, I (Richard Vachula) am reaching out in my capacity as the Community Engagement Officer of the newly invigorated International Paleofire Network (IPN). Throughout its history, the IPN and its predecessor organizations have advanced paleofire research as well as the compilation and synthesis of datasets. Last fall, through an NSF-funded workshop convened at […]
Sustainability Science Award for Scholarly Work Awards
It’s time to nominate a colleague or student of yours for one of the Ecological Society of America’s (ESA) Awards. You can see the full list of awards here. ESA Sustainability Science for Scholarly Work Awards Committee is looking for nominations of “scholarly work that makes the greatest contribution to the emerging science of ecosystem […]
Invitation to 11th Non-Pollen Palynomorphs Workshop (NPPs)
Dear all, We are happy to announce updated information for the 11th Non-Pollen Palynomorphs Workshop, which will be held in Vilnius (Lithuania) from 7th to 11th June 2027. Our regular NPP workshop with its traditional format including oral and poster presentations, a microscopy session, discussions and excursion will be combined with the COST Action “PalaeOpen” […]
African Archaeology Research Day (AARD) returns 11–12 December 2026
MAEASaM Project, University of Cambridge 📣Call for Papers📄: African Archaeology Research Day 2026 🎉 The African Archaeology Research Day (AARD) is resuming this year. 🗓️ 11–12 December 2026📍McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge Archaeology, University of Cambridge AARD is an academic meeting of Africanist archaeologists to encourage early career scholars, post-graduate students and post-doctoral researchers, […]
Paleofire proxies in peatland research 2026
Following some earlier published global analysis there have been an interesting dialogue published in Global Change Biology. The underlying headline remain clear – the Twentieth Century rise in biomass burning of #tropical #peatlands represents the most pronounced increase over the last two millennia. Tropical peatland wildfire incidence has risen in recent decades, driven by drainage […]
Invitation to join the UnAMI Understudied Aquatic Macroinvertebrate working group email list
The UnAMI working group unites researchers that encounter, or are working with, remains of understudied aquatic macroinvertebrates in their sediment samples. Researchers of contemporary aquatic macroinvertebrate fauna are very welcome, to discuss ecological properties and distribution of the organisms that they study. Click here to Join the UnAMI (Understudied Aquatic Macroinvertebrate) working group email list […]
MCAA event Communicating Science in the Era of AI, Zurich CH, 3 October 2026
We are very happy to invite you to Communicating Science in the Era of AI, taking place on 3 October 2026 at the ETH AI Center in Zurich, as part of the Zurich AI Festival. This is an event organized by the MCAA Swiss Chapter in collaboration with the MCAA Communication working group and the MCAA Artificial […]
Call for participants: International Conference “Farming in the Forest” 4
Shared on behalf of the Scientific Organising Committee: We’re pleased to share the updated second circular for the 4th International Conference “Farming in the Forest”, taking place 4–6 April 2027 at Schöntal Monastery, Germany The conference brings together researchers across archaeology, palaeoecology, ecology, soil science and related fields to explore fire, farming, forest use and […]
Painted Portrayals of forest fires
Space25, Basel-Stadt, Swizterland Address: Rebgasse 25, 4058 Basel From space25 “space25 zeigt Werke von zeitgenössischer Künstler*innen, die ihren Arbeits- oder Lebensmittelpunkt in oder um Basel herum haben.” https://www.space25.ch/projects/ https://mattania.ch/ Mattania Bösiger untersucht in seiner Malerei die Bedingungen gegenwärtiger Bildproduktion und Bildwahrnehmung. Ausgangspunkt der Gemälde sind Darstellungen von Feuer – Motive, die meist aus Nachrichtenströmen stammen. […]
Marchant R 2026 New Book:
Mountain Diversity Dynamics of High-Altitude Environments Book • 2026 About the book Description Mountain Diversity: Dynamics of High-Altitude Environments explores the highly biodiverse, culturally rich, and often threatened mountain regions that comprise a quarter of the world’s continental land surface. Mountains cover only 25% of global continental land surface yet are home to more than 85% of the […]