PalaeOpen 2025: Effective conservation starts with open scientific data
‼️General Information for PalaeOpen 2025
📅Date: 02.07.2025 - 04.07.2025 (Wednesday to Friday)
🗺️Location: Prague, Czech Republic
🏛️Venue: Charles University, Faculty of Science (address: Albertov 6, Prague 2)
🚗Travel funds: Limited funding for travel and accommodation costs is available for COST Action members.
Registration
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Practical information
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Keynote speakers
Currently, we are pleased to confirm the participation of the following keynote speakers (alphabetical order):
| Name | Presentation title | Affiliation |
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| Luke Andrews | Tiny shells, big stories: Testate amoeba as indicators of environmental change, past and present | Liverpool John Moores University, UK |
| Xavier Benito | Reconstructing past environments from diatoms: opportunities and challenges for combined paleoecological databases | Institute for Agrifood Research and Technology (IRTA), Spain |
| John Boyle | Geochemical proxies in palaeoenvironmental analysis | University of Liverpool, UK |
| Přemysl Bobek | Reviving Historical Fire Use: Using Paleorecords to Guide Prescribed Burning in the Subalpine Zone | Czech Academy of Science, Czechia |
| Nathalie Dubois | Lipid biomarker signatures for reconstructing ecosystems | Eawag & ETHZ |
| Sandra Garcès-Pastor | SedaDNA: Enhancing Ecological Research through Open Databases | University of Barcelona |
| Gavin Simpson | How to make the most out of disparate palaeoecological data? | Aahrus University, Denmark |
| Danielle Schreve | Unlocking the potential of the Quaternary vertebrate palaeoecological record for nature restoration challenges | University of Bristol, UK |
| Lyudmila S. Shumilovskikh | Non-pollen palynomorphs in palaeoecological databases: potential and challenges | University of Göttingen, Germany |
| Sara Varela | Open access databases for working in macroecology, uses and common problematics | University of Vigo, Spain |
| Jack Williams | Neotoma Paleoecology Database: Recent Updates and Current Directions | University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
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