Yesterday I had a poster about pastclim (our R package to easily access and use palaeoclimatic reconstructions) at the Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA 2023) in Rome. It was during session Session 82: “Data science and paleoecology: current intersections and advances”.
At this link, you can find the abstract and more information about the session. And if you are interested in reading the poster, you can find it here on ResearchGate.
In these days, there is the Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA 2023) in Rome.
Yesterday morning I gave a presentation about “Time matters: testing for ecological niche changes in Late Quaternary European ungulates“. It was based on our work on the ungulates (scientific paper, blog post), but I have also presented a sneak peek of a resource that will be out very soon, so… watch this space!
Here are a few pictures of my presentation, and a happy INQUA mammoth picture taken after the end of it!
Yesterday I had the pleasure of presenting Climate Change – the Board Game at the Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA 2023) in Rome. It was during session 10, Visualizing Science – The art of communicating science.
At this link, you can find the abstract and more information about the session. And if you are interested in reading the poster, you can find it here on ResearchGate.
In the last two days I have been taking part to the “Mapping Ancient Africa” workshop at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome.
The aim of the workshop was to promote interaction between scientists working across Africa and across disciplines (palaeoclimate, palaeoecology, archaeology, modelling). I led a session about accessing large-scale palaeoclimatic reconstructions through the pastclim R package.
It was a fantastic opportunity to meet with great people, discuss and brainstorm new ideas and… have a lot of fun. Here are a few pictures of the event; more are shared at this link, where you can also access the recording of the plenary session.
This year, for Department Day, our PhD student Zhe Xue presented a poster on his work on leopards. It’s always great to see something you have contributed to being presented publicly!
Zhe’s project builds on the work of Sidney Leedham, our former Part-II student who performed ecological analyses of different leopard subspecies (you can read more here).