Hi All,
next Tuesday Laura Säilä will give a talk titled “A Tale of Ice and Campfires: Changes in the carnivoran guild of Britain during the Quaternary period influenced by hominids and climate change”, it will be an extended version of her talk in the Nordic Geological Winter Meeting. Everyone is warmly welcome to hear and discuss about this fantastic topic!
See you on Tue 19.1. cl. 16.00 in C108, Physicum!
Janina
Hi All,
Yesterday at the club meeting Tuomas reminded us about the 1st International Meeting of Early-Stage Researchers in Palaeontology conference held in Alpuente (Spain) 13-16th April 2016. There is still time to consider if anyone is interested (abstract deadline 31.1. and registration deadline 31.3.).
Here is some more info:
http://imerp-ejip2016.blogspot.com.es/p/circulars.html
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7TJqm_CKphraFktM0dWSFRtS2s/view
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7TJqm_CKphraWo2UWY1c2ItdjQ/view
Janina
Hi All and Happy New Year,
let’s start the spring’s Kurten Club meetings next week. the first meeting is solely for discussion and scheduling of upcoming meetings, so don’t hesitate to participate and propose titles and speakers for the spring!
The place is to be announced later as C108 will be occupied due to the Winter meeting.
Janina
Hi All,
next Tuesday we will have the last BKK of this year! A request to chocolate trilobites has been heard and we will do them and have a relaxing last club meeting for this year. Mikko will held a music quiz and maybe we will have some other fun things to do!
See you on Tue 15.12. at 16.00 in C108, Physicum!
Janina
Hi All,
our scheduled talk about snake fangs had to be cancelled due to speakers other duties, but I visited EvoDevo Journal Club today (I encourage all of you visit there for interesting talks) and was able to get us a new very interesting presentation for the next Tuesday.
Dr. Jacqueline Moustakas-Verho from Helsinki EvoDevo-group will present a talk titled “The cave bear story”, don’t miss the opportunity to hear this fascinating talk!
See you on Tuesday 8.12. at 16.00 in C108, Physicum!
Janina
Hi All,
next week we will have a discussion session about paleontological (or related) societies, groups and so on. This includes also courses and lectures inside and outside university suitable (and recommended) for paleo-people. Gather your own information and experiments and come to share them next Tuesday. We will not have anybody making a presentation about this, but we will try to make it a group conversation led loosely by me.
See you on Tue 1.12. cl. 16.00 (this time hopefully) in C108!
Janina
Ps. remember to join Nimenhuuto and click “in” if you’re coming!
http://kurten-club.nimenhuuto.com/public_join
http://kurten-club.nimenhuuto.com
Hi All,
next week we will have an article session in the club meeting. No one sent me any suggestions of the articles, so I just pulled out three we can discuss about (attached to the email version). I hope people who are attending the club would read the articles, and maybe think some questions and comments.
See you on Tue 24.11. cl. 16.00 in C108!
Janina
Ps. remember to join Nimenhuuto and click “in” if you’re coming!
http://kurten-club.nimenhuuto.com/public_join
http://kurten-club.nimenhuuto.com
Hi All,
we had some discussion about ways to know how many people are coming to the club meetings (in other words find out if there are some days that almost no one comes). Let’s try this Finnish sports club application and see if this kind of registration is useful to the club. It is in Finnish, but after registration (your name or alias and email address: email is sent to you with a password (salasana) to get in) the crucial part is to click “in” (or “out” if you want) next to the upcoming events if you are attending. You can also leave a message, for example if you’re coming late etc.
http://kurten-club.nimenhuuto.com/public_join
Have a wonderful weekend and do not miss the next club meeting where we have Shan Huang presenting her talk ““Biodiversity dynamics in space and time: Deciphering the role of history”.
Yrittänyttä ei laiteta! Nothing ventured, nothing gained!
Janina
Hi All,
next week Dr. Shan Huang from Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center will give us a talk about “Biodiversity dynamics in space and time: Deciphering the role of history”. All of you are warmly welcome to join the presentation and discussion!
Here’s a brief description of Shan:
I am interested in understanding broad-scale biodiversity dynamics, in space and time. My work takes an ecoinformatics approach of synthesizing large, often global, data sets of biogeographic, phylogenetic, and paleontological information to investigate processes that give rise to the dramatic temporal and spatial variation in different aspects of biodiversity, with an emphasis on deciphering the role of history in shaping the modern biota, including evolutionary history of the biotic components and historical environmental transitions. I have found that different systems have advantages for answering different questions about biodiversity, so I integrate knowledge from studying various organismal systems, including terrestrial mammals, marine bivalves, and parasites, to ask: 1) what key processes promote morphological and ecological diversity at different scales, and 2) how climate change influence biodiversity dynamics in space and time?
See you on Tue 17.11. cl. 16.00 in C108!
Janina
Hi All,
next Tuesday we will have a talk by Miikka Tallavaara from Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies. His talk is titled “How climate change shaped hunter-gatherer population dynamics in Europe 30.000-4000 years ago”. Do not miss this opportunity to hear and discuss about this rather hot topic!
See you on Tue 10.11.2015 cl. 16.00 in C108!
Janina