This multi-disciplinary conference will be both inclusive and substantive involving biologists, geologists, geographers and palaeontologists addressing research questions over different timescales, i.e. decadal, multi-decadal, millennial or tens of millennia to millions of years in deep time.
The conference will provide a unique platform to present a range of research cultures and topics linked to the common challenges of understanding the impact of climate change on ecosystems throughout geological time.
Four Key Themes have been identified:
- Bridging Timescales: reconciling research on Ma timescales with that on a resolution of ka or a;
- Data Modeling: framing and testing hypotheses in deep and shallow time;
- Comparing the impacts of change at the equator and the poles, and;
- Looking forward: what can past changes tell us about the present/future.
The conference will take place in association with the Climate Impacts Research Centre and will be hosted at Van Mildert College, Durham University as part of its 50th Anniversary celebrations.
For further information, please visit the conference workshop link above.