Southampton, September 2019: The workshop was hosted by the Department of Geography and Environmental Science in Southampton. Participants from eleven institutes across SRFE and fourteen from the UK came together to work towards creating new collaborative grant applications. Topics of the workshop included long-term reconstructions of climate change and anthropogenic impact and their associated effects on land cover, fire regimes and carbon cycling. An important aim was to create links between palaeoenvironmental researchers from SRFE and the UK, including both early career and senior researchers. Funding was provided by the British Council, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s via the British Embassy in Moscow, and the Natural Environment Research Council.

Tomsk, September 2018: The summer school was hosted by the Institute for Monitoring of Climatic and Ecological Systems in Tomsk. Participants came from nine scientific institutes across SRFE and three from the UK. The meeting focused on training of early career researchers in laboratory and field techniques for palaeoenvironmental research. Group discussions led to the identification of potential collaborative research projects and also highlighted challenges in attracting research funding for Russian colleagues. Cores retrieved during a fieldtrip to Lake Ushataika, will be dated and used as a first DIMA multi-proxy analysis project to understand the environmental history. Analyses will include pollen, NPPs, charcoal, plant macrofossils, SCPs, chironomids, ostracods, stable C isotopes, loss-on-ignition, and XRF. Funding was provided by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Global Britain Fund via the British Embassy in Moscow.

Follow this link for an overview of presentations and sampling protocols at the summer school. [goes to downloads page]

Magadan, March 2018: The workshop was hosted by the North East Interdisciplinary Science Research Institute in Magadan. Participants came from six scientific institutes across SRFE and two from the UK. During the meeting potential avenues for joint work were explored, as well as ways to enhance collaborative projects between SRFE institutions and those in the UK. Practical sessions were used to demonstrate how new approaches in palaeoenvironmental research could be adopted in SRFE laboratories. Funding was provided by the UK Science and Innovation Network in Russia. See also a more detailed blog about this workshop.

Follow this link for an overview of presentations and sampling protocols at this workshop [goes to downloads page]