Hi all, See the workshop advertisement below. Attendance is fully-funded for successful applicants.
Workshop: NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Species' Range Shifts in a Warming World Topic: Methods for integrating niche models, genetics, and fossil pollen data to understand species' range dynamics under changing climates Meeting dates: May 3-5, 2017 Location: NIMBioS at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Application Deadline: February 1, 2017 Workshop objectives: This workshop aims to improve our ability to understand species' and community response to climate change by identifying new modeling and analytical tools for integrating currently isolated datasets and fields of research on large-scale ecosystem shifts. Specifically, this workshop will focus on integrating paleoclimatic niche modeling, fossil pollen data, simulations of forest stand processes, and genetic marker data. These approaches vary in spatial and temporal resolution. At this workshop, researchers from diverse fields will: explicate the advantages and assumptions of each data type; discuss ways to analyze disparate data in a statistically coherent manner, while quantifying uncertainty across scales; and define a framework to examine species jointly at the community level rather than individually, leveraging power from many datasets. Synthesis findings from the workshop will be published, and a funding application will be organized to test this framework. Accomplishing these goals requires combining mathematical and computational approaches from very different fields – an exciting prospect. This workshop will help link and utilize large but underused datasets developed over decades, and lay foundations for genuinely interdisciplinary, collaborative paleoecological science. For more info, and to apply see website: http://www.nimbios.org/ workshops/WS_rangeshifts Cheers, Andria Dawson Postdoctoral fellow with the PalEON Project [email protected]
