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, February 13, 2023 (6:00 PM) to Friday, February 17, 2023 (2:00 PM)

Monday, February 13, 2023

6:00 PM Ice breaker evening
Ice breaker evening
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: MN09
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:45 PM
Room: MN09
Contributions

9:00 AM Introduction to Workshop - Elisabeth Dietze (UGGG) Lyudmila Shumilovskikh (Dep. Palynology and Climate Dynamics)

9:10 AM 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)

9:30 AM 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)

9:45 AM Palaeoecological signals for Mesolithic Land Use in a Central European Landscape? - Shaddai Damaris Heidgen (Senckenberg HEP, University of Tübingen)

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

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

10:30 AM Discussion about European fire-vegetation interactions

11:15 AM 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 AM Vegetation dynamics and fire history in permafrost area of Central Siberia during the last 7000 years - Elena Novenko (Lomonosov Moscow State University)

12:05 PM 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 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Room: 16-4

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

12:45 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:45 PM - 2:15 PM
Room: 16-4
2:15 PM Flash talks followed by poster session incl. coffee
Flash talks followed by poster session incl. coffee
2:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: MN09
Contributions

2:15 PM Postglacial fire and vegetation dynamics of the East-European forest-steppe - Ekaterina Lukanina (UBPQ)

2:20 PM 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)

2:30 PM Holocene fire history in the mid-Kama region (Urals, Russia) - Vlada Batalova (Georg-August-University Göttingen)

2:35 PM Paleofire activity in the subtaiga of Western Siberia: natural and anthropogenic causes. - Maria Nesterova (Tyumen Scientific Centre SB RAS)

2:35 PM 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)

2:35 PM 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)

2:45 PM "Utilizing paleoecological reconstructions to inform fire-disturbance restoration and land management" - Natalie Winward (University of Utah)

2:50 PM 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)

2:50 PM From biomass to fossil fuels: A contemporaneous transition to anthropogenic driven environmental changes recorded in a Central Himalayan Lake - Ankit Ankit (UGGG)
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: MN09
Contributions

9:00 AM 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)

9:20 AM A kaleidoscopic analysis of archival sedimentary macro-charcoal samples for reconstructing prehistoric and contemporary fire activity in South Africa - Abraham Dabengwa (GNOI)

9:35 AM 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.)

9:50 AM Mediterranean trait response to fire gradient - Bérangère Leys (Institute of Mediterranean Biodiversity and Ecology)

10:05 AM 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 AM Assessing changes in global fire regimes via expert elicitation - Sara Sayedi (Brigham Young University)

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

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

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

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

12:10 PM 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 PM Discussion about paleodata-based challenges
12:45 PM Lunch break with option for mini-walk
Lunch break with option for mini-walk
12:45 PM - 2:15 PM
Room: 16-4
2:15 PM
2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: MN11
Contributions

2:15 PM Neotoma workshop - Petr Kuneš Thomas Giesecke (Utrecht University)
4:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: 16-4

4:30 PM Discussions in groups about data types and databases and their utility
Discussions in groups about data types and databases and their utility
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: MN11 and MN10

7:30 PM Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
7:30 PM - 11:30 PM
Thursday, February 16, 2023

9:00 AM 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
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: MN11 and MN10

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

11:15 AM Trends and Peaks analysis in R with the ‘tapas’ package - Walter Finsinger (CNRS, University Montpellier, France)
12:45 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Room: 16-4

1:45 PM Walk to the forest on Muschelkalk near the campus to refresh ourselves
Walk to the forest on Muschelkalk near the campus to refresh ourselves
1:45 PM - 2:45 PM
Room: MN09

2:45 PM Planning future joint research
Planning future joint research
2:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: MN11 and MN10

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

4:45 PM including presentation awards for early career researchers
including presentation awards for early career researchers
4:45 PM - 5:45 PM
Room: MN09
Friday, February 17, 2023
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Room: field trip, see details
Contributions

9:00 AM Field trip to Harz mountains: Impact of mining on vegetation and environment - Lyudmila Shumilovskikh (Dep. Palynology and Climate Dynamics) Thomas Giesecke (University of Utrecht)

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