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The 1st Human Traces workshop will be held online from 25-27 May 2021.
Description
Each day will focus on a specific region, and therefore have a similar structure. The three-hour workshop will include a short presentation of the working group, three 15-minutes talks, a short break, an open discussion in breakout rooms, and a final synthesis.
Program and Zoom links
25 May: The Americas – 15:00-18:00 UTC
https://ethz.zoom.us/j/62368151543
15:00-15:10: Welcome – Presentation of the Working group by Nathalie Dubois
15:10-15:30: Environmental responses to climatic and cultural changes in South-Central Chile
Dr Ana Abarzua (Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile)
15:30-15:50: Molecular evidence for population change associated with climate events in the Maya lowlands
Ben Keenan (ECR, McGill University, Montreal, Canada)
15:50-16:10: Microplastics in sediments
Prof. Jesse Vermaire (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada)
16:10-16:30: Human traces in coastal sediments
Prof. Emilie Saulnier-Talbot (Human Traces SC, Université Laval, Québec, Canada)
16:30-16:45: Break
16:45-17:30: Open discussion in breakout rooms (e.g. database, human trace types, timing, etc)
17:30-18:00: Synthesis
26 May: Europe, Africa, West Asia – 07:00-10:00 UTC
https://ethz.zoom.us/j/63224850499
07:00-07:10: Welcome – Presentation of the Working group by John Boyle
07:10-07:30: Thinking large scale and nonlinear: quantifying anthropogenic impacts through the paleoecology of resilience
Dr Xavier Benito (ECR, Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology, Tarragona, Spain)
07:30-07:50: Sensitivity of lacustrine carbon burial rates to first Human activities during the Holocene: limits and opportunities of meta-analysis in paleolimnology
Mohammed Barhdadi (ECR, University of Clermont Auvergne, France)
07:50-08:10: Study of Holocene lake carbon sequestration subject to variations in primary production rates and climate
Dr Rahab Kinyanjui (ECR, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi)
08:10-08:30: A Holocene perspective on landscape material fluxes and people
Dr John Boyle (Human Traces SC, University of Liverpool, UK)
08:30-08:45: Break
08:45-09:30: Open discussion in breakout rooms (e.g. database, human trace types, timing, etc)
09:30-10:00: Synthesis
27 May: Central Asia, East Asia, Australasia – 03:00-06:00 UTC
https://ethz.zoom.us/j/63891103106
03:00-03:10: Welcome – Presentation of the Working group by Dan Penny
03:10-03:30: Disentangling Climate and Human Influences on Lakes in China Using a Multi-Proxy Approach
Dr Aubury Hillman (University at Albany, State University of New York)
03:30-03:50: Examining the environmental legacy of agro-pastoralism in Central Asia through biotic and abiotic proxies.
Dr Michael Spate (ECR, University of Sydney, Australia)
03:50-04:10: Forest response to the ‘Columbian Exchange’ in the Asia Pacific
Dr Rebecca Hamilton (ECR, Max Planck Institute, Germany)
04:10-04:30: Evidence of Human Activity from Holocene and Late Pleistocene sediments from Tropical and Subtropical Eastern Australia
Prof. Patrick Moss (University of Queensland, Australia)
04:30-04:45: Break
04:45-05:30: Open discussion in breakout rooms (e.g. database, human trace types, timing, etc)
05:30-06:00: Synthesis
Registration
Email the workshop organizer Nathalie Dubois to register: show mail address
Survey
In preparation for this workshop, but also to gather inputs from all the working group members, the group leaders have created a short 20-question survey on Human Traces (definition, timing, acceleration, regions studied, etc).
Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts and expertise. Deadline 20 May: https://forms.gle/q79V8EhvcSgR1W1m7
The survey is fully anonymous and your email won't be collected either. If you want to share additional ideas, feel free to contact the workshop organizer Nathalie Dubois: show mail address
About the working group
The PAGES Human Traces working group, which launched in January 2021, focuses on the long legacy of pre-Anthropocene human impacts. How do they manifest themselves in different parts of the world, and in different stratigraphic records?
Human Traces aims to address the knowledge gap about spatial and temporal variations in early human impacts, with the overarching goal to create a global synthesis of human traces in geologic archives.
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Further information
Questions about the working group or the workshop can be emailed to the group's leaders.
Follow the group on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HTraces
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