Dear Colleagues,
Apologies for cross posting. We are organising
Palaeo50, a horizon scanning workshop at the
Oxford Long-term Ecology Laboratory on 13th-14th
December, 2012, which aims to identify the 50
most important questions in palaeoecology and
highlight key areas of a new research agenda. We
are hoping for an international response, from
palaeoecologists, ecologists and policy makers,
who are interested in understanding the biotic
responses to environmental change from annual to
geological timescales, and the applications of
this knowledge for ecosystem management. Please
forward this on to any colleagues that you think might be interested.
We are asking that members of the community
submit the questions that they think
palaeoecology needs to answer by 31st October
2012, by following the link at our website,
<http://www.oxlel.ox.ac.uk/50-pressing-questions-palaeoecology>http://www.oxlel.ox.ac.uk/50-pressing-questions-palaeoecology.
Examples of the types of questions that we are
looking for are provided on the submission page.
These questions will be debated at the workshop,
whittled down to a list of 50, and submitted as a
co-authored manuscript for publication. All
contributions will be acknowledged, but there is
option to remain anonymous if you prefer to do so.
We are also looking for participants to attend
the workshop. Delegates will be grouped into
working groups organised around the 5 themes
which are described in detail at our website. The
price of the workshop will be £75, and the
deadline for applicants is 14th September 2012.
An application form can be downloaded at our
website (
<http://www.oxlel.ox.ac.uk/50-pressing-questions-palaeoecology>http://www.oxlel.ox.ac.uk/50-pressing-questions-palaeoecology).
We also have a small amount of funding available
which can cover the registration cost for
postgraduate students and early career researchers.
Please do get in touch
(<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected])
if you have any further queries. We look forward to receiving your questions!
Best wishes,
Alistair Seddon*, Ambroise Baker* and Anson Mackay**
*Oxford Long-term Ecology Laboratory, University of Oxford.
**Environmental Change Research Centre, UCL
Follow us on Twitter: <https://twitter.com/#!/Palaeo50>@Palaeo50
Sponsored by PAGES, The Quaternary Research
Association, the British Ecological Society, and the Oxford Martin School.
