The IPN invites Early Career Researchers interested in paleofire research to join the virtual workshop organized in cooperation with PAGES DiverseK Working Group
Paleofire research: methods, development and opportunities
26-27 May 2021
Workshop schedule
DAY 1 – 26.05.2021 – Introduction to Paleofire (2:00 PM – 3:35 PM UTC)
| 2:00-2:15 | Welcome: IPN, DiverseK, PAGES, PAGES ECR |
| Introduction (15 min talk + 5 min discussion) | |
| 2:15-2:35 | Richard Vachula (College of William and Mary, USA): Introduction to charcoal methods and advances |
| Talks (10 min talk + 5 min discussion) | |
| 2:35-2:50 | Sambor Czerwiński (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland): The potential and limitations of using historical data for palaeofire reconstructions |
| 2:50-3:05 | Marion Lestienne (Czech University of Life Sciences, Czechia): Integrating past variability in climate-driven Mediterranean fire hazard assessments for 2020-2100 |
| 3:05-3:20 | Vachel Carter (Charles University, Czechia): The role of climate-fuel feedbacks on Holocene biomass burning in upper-montane Carpathian forests |
| 3:20-3:35 | Andriantsilavo Razafimanantsoa (University of Cape Town, South Africa): Palaeoecological evidence of fire and its role on vegetation dynamics in Central Highlands Madagascar during the Holocene |
DAY 2 – 27.05.2021 – Paleofire continued (2:00 PM – 4:00 PM UTC)
| 2:00-2:05 | Welcome: IPN |
| Talks (10 min talk + 5 min discussion) | |
| 2:05-2:20 | Michela Mariani (University of Nottingham, UK): Disruption of Indigenous burning promotes unprecedented wildfires in southeastern Australian forests and woodlands |
| 2:20-2:35 | Raquel Franco Cassino (Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brazil): Paleofire records in the Brazilian savanna: long-term fire variability in a fire-dependent ecosystem |
| 2:35-2:50 | Andy Hennebelle (Université de Montréal, Canada): The multi-scales calibration of sedimentary charcoal for fire characteristics reconstructions |
| 2:50-3:05 | Charuta Kulkarni (European Union Marie Curie Fellow (2018-2020), currently independent researcher): Anthropogenic fires in agroforestry landscapes of India: Lessons from the “burnt” past for future management of tropical social-ecological systems |
| Discussion panel (all attendees) | |
| 3:05-4:00 | DISCUSSION in sub-groups (all attendees) |
| 30 min discussions in sub-groups | |
| 25 min of general discussion and wrap up |
Speakers and their presentation topics will be announced via our social media channels so stay tuned and follow us to be up to date with all the information! You can find us on the IPN blog, the dedicated IPN forum topic, and on the IPN and DiverseK Twitter accounts.
Registration
The meeting will be held on Zoom.
The event is open to all ECRs and you do not have to register to attend. We will provide the link to Zoom meeting on our social media and on the IPN blog and IPN forum before the event. However, if you want to receive the link to the meeting directly on your e-mail, please register via our Google form.
If you have any questions related to the event, please contact the organizers:
– Carole Adolf (carole.adolf@zoo.ox.ac.uk, @CaroleAdolf),
– Katarzyna Marcisz (marcisz@amu.edu.pl, @marciszowna),
– Estelle Razanatsoa (estelle.razanatsoa@uct.ac.za, @Razanatsoae)
