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 […]
Where is Lowe now?
Lowe Börjeson is Professor, Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University. Selected recent publications De Bont, C. and Börjeson, L., 2024. Policy over practice. International Journal of the Commons, 18(1), pp.82-93. Growing From Below: Accumulation and Differentiation in Publicly Supported Irrigation Schemes in the Kilombero Valley, TanzaniaV Mbande, L Börjeson, E LiwengaJournal of Agrarian Change 26 (1), e70043 2026 […]
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 […]
Where is Rob now?
Prestigious ERC Synergy Grant awarded to Rob Marchant et al for the AFRI-CAN Project The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Professor Robert Marchant and colleagues an €10 million Synergy Grant to study the effects of climate change on mountain ecosystems and societies in East Africa. The Synergy Grant, awarded by the European Research Council […]
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 Geert now?
About https://www.linkedin.com/in/geert-van-der-plas-67379569/ PhD-trained scientist with a background in paleoecology and a growing specialization in education and data analysis. I bring a strong combination of scientific accuracy, analytical thinking, and communication skills, developed over several years as a PhD and post-doctoral researcher in multidisciplinary projects. My experience spans: – Scientific research & publication – Teaching university-level […]
Where is Maxmillian now?
Following completion of a PhD in History at the University of Wawrick, UK (Chuhila, 2016), Maxmillian continued to work at the Department of History, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. REAL thesis dissertation Chuhila, Maxmillian J. 2016. Coming Down the Mountain A History of Land Use Change in Kilimanjaro, ca. 1920 to 2000s. PhD thesis, Oct […]