the 2nd Biennial National Museums of Kenya (NMK) Association of Kenyan Entomologists (AKE) and Sino-Africa Joint Research Centre (SAJOREC) Joint International Scientific Conference Abstract submission deadline Extended to 28 February 2026 THE SECOND SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE SUB THEMES Contact For More Info: For more inquiries contact the Conference Secretariat at scienceconference@museums.or.ke Follow Us On Social Media: Facebook X-twitter Globe
Africa Moving Mountains Summit
15.06.2026 – 18.06.2026 now rescheduled for 01.2027 dates to be determined Kenya, Nanyuki
Round Table on Commercial Anthracology
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 […]
Applications due for the Landscape Research Group’s 2026 Research Fund 15 May 2026
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 […]
MSCA-GLOPOL invites stakeholders to participate in the MSCA-Collaboration-Survey
The MSCA-GLOPOL project invites stakeholders to participate in a short survey on institutional collaboration under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA). The MSCA-GLOPOL project aims tostrengthen international cooperation in Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions with key partner countries and regions. Over 36 months, the project focuses on three core activities: The 20 countries and six regions that MSCA-GLOPOL targets have […]
Mapping Ancient Africa
Mapping Ancient Africa: Scientists March 31, 2026 on the Ecology of the Past website The Mapping Ancient Africa (MAA) research and writing workshop took place in South Africa during March 2026 (click here for more details). During the workshop four of the scientists participating were interviewed by MAA leader Stefanie Kaboth-Bahr to find out more about them, what they are […]
Funded PhD opportunities in paleoenvironmental research
2 PhD positions in Quaternary Palaeoecology / chironomid-base climate reconstruction100% / Possible date of entry: July 2026 The Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel invites applicati-ons for two PhD positions in the research group Geoecology. Where have warm-adapted ecosystems and organisms survived unfavorable conditions in thepast? What were the environments that characterized such refugial […]
Where is Nik now?
Since completing his MSCA ITN, Nik has been a curator for the Endangered Material Knowledge Programme at the British Museum where he helped set up a digital repository for preserving material and crafting knowledge; a MSCA fellow in Archaeology at Cambridge University where he researched the recent social and material cultural history of the Ilchamus […]