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Report of GLOMAR PhD student Friederike Grimmer about her participation in the XIV International Palynological Congress and X International Organisation of Palaeobotany Conference in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil from 23 to 28 October 2016
Between the 22nd and the 28th of October I attended the 14th International Palynological Congress (IPC) and the 10th International Organisation of Palaeobotany Conference, as well as the pre-congress workshop “Tilia/Neotoma Paleoecology Database” which took place in the Bahia Othon Palace Hotel in Salvador, Brazil.
The one-day workshop took place on Saturday, the 22nd of October and was organized by Eric C. Grimm, the developer of the program Tilia. In the course, a general introduction to the Tilia program and its functions was given. Additionally, the Tilia interface to the Neotoma Paleoecology Database was explained. This course was quite interesting as I learned about some functions of Tilia and the Neotoma database that were new to me. It was also a great opportunity for meeting some other young conference participants already before the actual start of the conference.
516 scientists from 45 countries participated in the conference, the majority coming from Brazil, China and Argentina. The conference, although rather small, had a tight schedule with many parallel sessions. It was advisable to go through the program and the abstract book in advance to make a personal schedule. The topics were very diverse and covered various plant-related proxies, many different time-scales, but also e.g. melissopalynology and forensic palynology. For me it was particularly interesting to learn about other applications of palynology, apart from paleoclimate reconstructions, like its potential in solving tricky crime cases.
I presented my work in a talk within the session “Understanding climate variability in a warmer than present Pliocene world”, organized by Ulrich Salzmann, Matthew Pound and Stijn De Schepper. Although it was a very small session with only four talks, I received some helpful feedback on my presentation and met other scientists working on similar topics.
Overall, it was a great and unique opportunity to meet many palynologists at once and expand my scientific network. I would like to thank GLOMAR and the Past Earth Network (PEN) for providing funding for my conference participation.
The one-day workshop took place on Saturday, the 22nd of October and was organized by Eric C. Grimm, the developer of the program Tilia. In the course, a general introduction to the Tilia program and its functions was given. Additionally, the Tilia interface to the Neotoma Paleoecology Database was explained. This course was quite interesting as I learned about some functions of Tilia and the Neotoma database that were new to me. It was also a great opportunity for meeting some other young conference participants already before the actual start of the conference.
516 scientists from 45 countries participated in the conference, the majority coming from Brazil, China and Argentina. The conference, although rather small, had a tight schedule with many parallel sessions. It was advisable to go through the program and the abstract book in advance to make a personal schedule. The topics were very diverse and covered various plant-related proxies, many different time-scales, but also e.g. melissopalynology and forensic palynology. For me it was particularly interesting to learn about other applications of palynology, apart from paleoclimate reconstructions, like its potential in solving tricky crime cases.
I presented my work in a talk within the session “Understanding climate variability in a warmer than present Pliocene world”, organized by Ulrich Salzmann, Matthew Pound and Stijn De Schepper. Although it was a very small session with only four talks, I received some helpful feedback on my presentation and met other scientists working on similar topics.
Overall, it was a great and unique opportunity to meet many palynologists at once and expand my scientific network. I would like to thank GLOMAR and the Past Earth Network (PEN) for providing funding for my conference participation.
Participants of the Tilia workshop with Eric Grimm (3rd from right). © Marlon França