In long overdue news, here is a little update on the events that happened in January, a month of professional changes and interesting developments. New year, new position As of 1st of January 2019, I am now a postdoc in the Department of Bioscience - Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity at Aarhus University, in Denmark. I joined Jens-Christian Svenning's team at the Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World (BIOCHANGE) to work in the MegaPast2Future project, which aims at developping a solid, synthetic understanding of megafauna ecosystem ecology and its potential role in developing a sustainable, biodiverse future. My work here will focus on understanding the long-term biogeography of megafauna to provide a basis for understanding and reconstructing megafaunas in the Anthropocene. Exciting topic in an exciting work environement! I am thrilled to be part of the team and can't wait to share a bit more info about what I am doing here. Meeting of the Royal Society of London Some time ago, I was invited to participate in a meeting at the Royal Society of London, organised by Dr Erin Saupe and Dr Samuel Turvey. The title of the meeting was: The past is a foreign country: how much can the fossil record actually inform conservation?
This meeting aimed to bring together researchers from the fields of deep-time palaeontology, Quaternary science, historical ecology, and conservation biology to provide expert-based interdisciplinary assessment of the potential opportunities for using different long-term biodiversity archives to inform conservation and environmental management. It took place on the 28th and 29th of January 2019 in London. The recording of the presentations are available on the website HERE (unfortunately without the video). This was a fascinating meeting and I am very grateful to have been invited to present my work among such a great panel of scientists. There will be a special issue in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, where every participant was invited to submit a paper. I am looking forward to see this published! As should you if you're interested in long-term biodiversity data and how they can inform conservation. Stay tuned for more info on that soon...
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