Name: Long-term fire-vegetation change: data-based challenges
Start: 2023-02-13T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2023-02-17T14:00:00+01:00
Location: Faculty of Geoscience and Geography

Long-term fire-vegetation change: data-based challenges

from Monday, 13 February 2023 (18:00) to Friday, 17 February 2023 (14:00)

Monday, 13 February 2023

18:00 Ice breaker evening
Ice breaker evening
18:00 - 21:00
Room: MN09
Tuesday, 14 February 2023
09:00
09:00 - 12:45
Room: MN09
Contributions

09:00 Introduction to Workshop - Elisabeth Dietze (UGGG) Lyudmila Shumilovskikh (Dep. Palynology and Climate Dynamics)

09:10 Keynote: Assessing vegetation and paleofire dynamics in SE Europe based on direct comparisons of charcoal and organic biomarker data with pollen records - Andreas Koutsodendris (Heidelberg University)

09:30 The role of fire in the Medieval and Early Modern landscape of Bad Waldsee within the broader context of the pre-Alpine forelands of South-Western Germany - Sara Saeidi ghavi andam (Baden-Württemberg State Office for Cultural Heritage- Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart, Gaienhofen-Hemmenhofen, Germany)

09:45 Palaeoecological signals for Mesolithic Land Use in a Central European Landscape? - Shaddai Damaris Heidgen (Senckenberg HEP, University of Tübingen)

10:00 Fire dynamics in high-diversity beech forests in the Eastern Carpathians - Petr Kuneš (Charles University, Faculty of Science)

10:15 Reconstructing the Early to Late Holocene fire events in the vegetation of the Zenne Valley, Central Belgium - Elena Marinova-Wolff (INA)

10:30 Discussion about European fire-vegetation interactions

11:15 Keynote: Non-pollen palynomorphs as a tool to study local boreal forest fire and disturbance dynamics - Normunds Stivrins (Department of Geography, University of Latvia)

11:50 Vegetation dynamics and fire history in permafrost area of Central Siberia during the last 7000 years - Elena Novenko (Lomonosov Moscow State University)

12:05 Reconstruction of forest fires in the Nizhnyaya Tunguska river basin (Central Evenkia) in the middle and late Holocene from the data of the macroscopic charcoal analysis in peat - Anton Shatunov (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Geography, Moscow, Russia)
10:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:45 - 11:15
Room: 16-4

12:20 Fire-vegetation interactions in Eurasia - Discussion
Fire-vegetation interactions in Eurasia - Discussion
12:20 - 12:45
Room: MN09

12:45 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:45 - 14:15
Room: 16-4
14:15 Flash talks followed by poster session incl. coffee
Flash talks followed by poster session incl. coffee
14:15 - 18:00
Room: MN09
Contributions

14:15 Postglacial fire and vegetation dynamics of the East-European forest-steppe - Ekaterina Lukanina (UBPQ)

14:20 Comparison of fire and vegetation dynamics depending on human impact in the Orkhon Valley during the Late Holocene - Chéïma Barhoumi (Albrecht-von-Haller Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Göttingen)

14:30 Holocene fire history in the mid-Kama region (Urals, Russia) - Vlada Batalova (Georg-August-University Göttingen)

14:35 Paleofire activity in the subtaiga of Western Siberia: natural and anthropogenic causes. - Maria Nesterova (Tyumen Scientific Centre SB RAS)

14:35 The reconstruction of Holocene northwestern Mongolian fire history based on high-resolution multi-site macro-charcoal analyses - Hermann Behling (Albrecht-von-Haller Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Göttingen)

14:35 Glacial-interglacial fire-vegetation-climate feedbacks of the high-northern latitudes: what Lake El’gygytgyn, NE Siberia, has recorded - Elisabeth Dietze (Landscape Geoscience, Göttingen University and Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems, AWI Potsdam)

14:45 "Utilizing paleoecological reconstructions to inform fire-disturbance restoration and land management" - Natalie Winward (University of Utah)

14:50 In search of Early Neolithic fires in prehistoric soil archives in the Silesian loess zone (SW Poland) - Mateusz Krupski (Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Institute of Soil Science, Plant Nutrition and Environmental Protection)

14:50 From biomass to fossil fuels: A contemporaneous transition to anthropogenic driven environmental changes recorded in a Central Himalayan Lake - Ankit Ankit (UGGG)
Wednesday, 15 February 2023
09:00
09:00 - 10:45
Room: MN09
Contributions

09:00 Keynote: Charcoal or no Charcoal? – An initial study of potential critical sources of error in the analysis of microcharcoal in Greenlandic palynological samples - Sascha Krüger (National Museum of Denmark, Environmental Archaeology and Materials Science)

09:20 A kaleidoscopic analysis of archival sedimentary macro-charcoal samples for reconstructing prehistoric and contemporary fire activity in South Africa - Abraham Dabengwa (GNOI)

09:35 Using past analogues to understand role of fire and climate change in Central Indian forests - Krishna Pavan Kumar Komanduri (Department of Environmental Studies, Ashoka University, Sonipat, India.)

09:50 Mediterranean trait response to fire gradient - Bérangère Leys (Institute of Mediterranean Biodiversity and Ecology)

10:05 The largest forest fire in the modern history of the Czech Republic: a long-term perspective through charcoal records - Přemysl Bobek (Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences)

10:20 Assessing changes in global fire regimes via expert elicitation - Sara Sayedi (Brigham Young University)

10:35 Discussion about fire-vegetation data and their application
10:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:45 - 11:15
Room: 16-4
11:15
11:15 - 12:45
Room: MN09
Contributions

11:15 Keynote: On FAIR Data and Samples - Mareike Wieczorek (Alfred Wegener Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung)

11:35 The Global Paleofire Database - past, present, future - Elisabeth Dietze (Landscape Geoscience, Geographical Institute, University of Göttingen, Germany)

11:50 Keynote: The Neotoma Paleoecology Database – a brief history and outlook - Thomas Giesecke (Utrecht University)

12:10 Keynote: Unraveling the power of using combined databases: some past, present and future examples - Graciela Gil-Romera (Pyrenean Institute of Ecology - IPE-CSIC)

12:30 Discussion about paleodata-based challenges
12:45 Lunch break with option for mini-walk
Lunch break with option for mini-walk
12:45 - 14:15
Room: 16-4
14:15
14:15 - 16:00
Room: MN11
Contributions

14:15 Neotoma workshop - Petr Kuneš Thomas Giesecke (Utrecht University)
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: 16-4

16:30 Discussions in groups about data types and databases and their utility
Discussions in groups about data types and databases and their utility
16:30 - 18:00
Room: MN11 and MN10

19:30 Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
19:30 - 23:30
Thursday, 16 February 2023

09:00 Group discussions, e.g. to develop a template to integrate paleofire data into Neotoma
Group discussions, e.g. to develop a template to integrate paleofire data into Neotoma
09:00 - 10:45
Room: MN11 and MN10

10:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:45 - 11:15
Room: 16-4
11:15
11:15 - 12:45
Room: MN11
Contributions

11:15 Trends and Peaks analysis in R with the ‘tapas’ package - Walter Finsinger (CNRS, University Montpellier, France)
12:45 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:45 - 13:45
Room: 16-4

13:45 Walk to the forest on Muschelkalk near the campus to refresh ourselves
Walk to the forest on Muschelkalk near the campus to refresh ourselves
13:45 - 14:45
Room: MN09

14:45 Planning future joint research
Planning future joint research
14:45 - 16:15
Room: MN11 and MN10

16:15 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:15 - 16:45
Room: 16-4

16:45 including presentation awards for early career researchers
including presentation awards for early career researchers
16:45 - 17:45
Room: MN09
Friday, 17 February 2023
09:00
09:00 - 14:00
Room: field trip, see details
Contributions

09:00 Field trip to Harz mountains: Impact of mining on vegetation and environment - Lyudmila Shumilovskikh (Dep. Palynology and Climate Dynamics) Thomas Giesecke (University of Utrecht)