Pre-congress Training Course
This intensive two-day course is designed for students and young scientists undertaking proxy-based and modeling-based research in palaeoecology and paleoclimate in South and Central America. It aims to provide specific training on theoretic and practical tools used on radiocarbon chronology, integration of archives, proxies and sites, in order to reconstruct past climate and environments. It will provide training on the building of age models, and the spatial interpretation of paleodata focusing on challenges and opportunities of multi-proxy analysis over time. Various software packages will be used, such as the Neotoma Paleoecology Database, the popular open-source software of R for statistical analysis and Quantum GIS for spatial analysis.
Participants: 30 people
Cost, which includes Course material and Coffee breaks: Registration to the course can be paid at desk once you arrive (in U$ or COL$) and should be done on the 7th of July at 8:00 am. To apply please contact Catalina González (lotred@eafit.edu.co) and send her your CV (2 pages max.).
| Professionals | COP$200.000 | U$ 100 |
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| Students | COP$100.000 | U$ 50 |
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Note 1: The Registration includes Course material and Coffee breaks. More details in the LOTRED Training Course_Flyer-2-Español.pdf
To apply please send your CV (2 pages max.) together with your Conference Abstract submission form to Catalina González (lotred@eafit.edu.co).
Please identify the file with your name and country. Documents should be written in English. Students will be informed whether or not they will receive a grant via email.
Lectures:
Dr. Maarten Blaauw, Queen's University, Belfast, UK. Palaeoecologist with a vast experience on basic and Bayesian age-depth models and their application to a large and growing number of sites across the globe.
Dr. Alexander Correa-Metrio, Institute of Geology (UNAM), Mexico. He is an expert of Neotropical climates and terrestrial ecosystems through the Quaternary. His research includes modern and fossil records aiming to integrate them to produce quantitative environmental reconstructions.
Ms. Suzette Flantua: University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She is in charge of the Latin American Pollen Data Base. She is expert in the application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing on the spatial analysis of landscape, sustainable use of natural resources and climate change.
Dr. Catalina González, Head of the Palinología & Paleoecología Tropical Lab at Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. Her interests are on the development of the Neotropical vegetation in association with climate change at different time scales, and the understanding of land-ocean interactions.