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Extended registration deadline of for the NECLIME meeting in Nanjing

One of NECLIME's important meetings this year is going to take place in Nanjing, China, from May 27th to 29th. The registration deadline is now extended until the 15th of March.
To register, please send the registration form (attachted to the first circular) to Wei-Ming Wang (wmwang"at"nigpas.ac.cn) or Jian-Guo Li (jgli"at"nigpas.ac.cn).
Download the 1st circular.

Updates in publications and projects

Publication list of NECLIME related papers is constantly updated, so is the list of projects. If you want to submit your lates paper or information about your current climate-related project, please sent it to the webmaster (andrea.kern"at"nhm-wien.ac.at).

ChoroTree

ChoroTree is a database for the global distribution if trees and shrubs. On an user-friends webpage, information is collected and you be viewed as distribution maps. Check it out at: http://www.chorotree.uni-tuebingen.de/

Report of the annual NECLIME meeting 2012 in Bucharest

The abstract volume of our last annual meeting in Bucharest at the end of last September was published as a special issue of the Anuarul Institutului Geologic al Romȃniei Volume 77 and can now be downloaded from our hompepage. Find more information at the past NECLIME meetings section at "events" or read the NECLIME newsletter from November 2011.
Special thanks go to Stanila Iamandei, Valentin Paraschiv and co-workers for their dedication and hospitality!

Member list update and new working group

After each annual meeting, it's time to update and extent our member's list. Welcome to all new NECLIME members!!!
Also a new working group on fossil woods was formed following one of the scientific focuses of last meeting. Coordinators are Jakub Sakala, Olesya Bondarenko and Stanila Iamandei, who plan their first meeting in 2013.

Picture uploads

FInally some pictures from past meetings could be uploaded. Find some photos of the 10th annual NECLIME meeting in Izmir at the events/past NECLIME meetings section and pictues from the micro-taxonomy workshop in Cracow 2011 at the NECLIME working group's page at groups.

1st circular from the NECLIME meeting 2012 in Nanjing

The annual NECLIME meeting 2011 is over recently, and yet there is the 1st circular to the next one!  This is going to be the second NECLIME meeting in Asia, which will be kindly organised by Wei-Ming Wang in Nanjing, China at the 27th to 29th of May, 2012. The meeting will include two days of scientifc discussions and one day of excursion. The following topics will be the scientific focus
  • Palaeoclimate and palaeoenvironmental evolution in the Neogene of Eastern Eurasia - interactions between climate, biosphere and palaeogeography
  • Variability and seasonality of precipitation, including monsoonal patterns and the aridification of Central Asia
  • Identification of paleoaltitute from the palaeobotanical record
  • Palaeoclimate and vegetation modeling
  • Floristic exchange between Europe and Asia
  • Stratigraphical concepts in Eastern Eurasia
Download the first circular for more details
Registraction is already open - please find the registration form attachted to the first circular and send it to Wei-Ming Wang (wmwang"at"nigpas.ac.cn) or Jian-Guo Li (jgli"at"nigpas.ac.cn) until January, 31st, 2012.

Report from the macrobotanical working group

The workshop of the NECLIME working group of Taxoomy of Neogene macrobotanical records took place in Budapest (Hungary) at the end of May. Now, a report on this meeting can be downloaded, summerizing the key topics of this workshop.
Further information is also available at the "group" section of our homepage.

Updates for the annual NECLIME meeting

The program for our 12th annual NECLIME meeting, held in Bucharest (Romania) from the 27th to the 30th of September, can be viewed online. The program includes the final schedule for all presentations and the list of posters. Technical details and useful information is provided within the 3rd circular.
We are looking forward to seeing you all in Bucharest!

Report of the workshop of "Taxonomy of Neogene palynomorphs"

The second workshop of the NECLIME working group for palynomorph taxonomy is over; it was held in Cracow, Poland, on 14th and 15th of June. Further details are online at the group-section (on the working group's page) or can be read in the workshop-report. Additionally, the abstract volume is available for download.

Schedule for the "Taxonomy of Neogene macrobotanical records" workshop

The next workshop of the NECLIME working group on the taxonomy of the Neogene macrobotanical records of Eurasia is going to be held in Budapest on May, 24, 2011. It will be held in the Botanical Department of the Hungarian Natural History museum (Könyves K. körút 40). A map is included in the schedule, which is now ready for download.

The registration for our annual NECLIME meeting 2011 is still open!

The deadline for the registration and abstract submission for the annual NECLIME meeting in Bucharest (September 27th to 29th) is extended to the 10th of June, 2011.
Please send your abstract and the registration form to the main organizer of the conference Dr. Stanila Iamandei (iamandei"at"gmail.com).
Further information is available at http://www.igr.ro and our "events" page.

2nd  NECLIME Synthesis Volume

NECLIME's 2nd Synthesis Volume is finally published as a Special Issue with the subheading "The Neogene of Eurasia: Spatial gradients and temporal trends" in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (304). Edited by by Torsten Utescher, Madelaine Böhme und Volker Mosbrugger, it contains 3 special scientific focuses
  • Climate and Ecosystem Evolution in Western Eurasia
  • Climate and Ecosystem Evolution in Eastern Eurasia
  • Proxy-based Large Scale Patterns and Model Experiments
Find more information about the content at "Publications".

2nd circular of the annual NECLIME meeting

Shortly before the abstract submission deadline on Sunday, the 24th of April, has arrived, the 2nd circular for the annual NECLIME meeting available.
Scientific focus is on
  • Using fossil woods in palaeoclimate reconstructions
  • Into the Icehouse: changing climate and vegetation response at the Plio/Pleistocene transition
  • Atmospheric CO2
    - atmospheric CO2 and Neogene climate change
    - implications of palaeo-altitude on CO2 reconstructions from fossil plants
  • Analysis of monsoonal patterns
    - quantifying monsoonal patterns by palaeobotanical proxies
    - identification of palaeo-elevation
    - the analysis of altitudinal floras
    - sensitivity studies with models (global and regional), analysis of tele-connections
To submit an abstract, send an e-mail to the main organiser Dr. Stănilă Iamandei (iamandei'at'gmail.com) next to the registration form.
Get further informaton about registration fee, preliminary scedule and useful travel information within the 2nd circular and at "events".

Forthcoming NECLIME working group meetings

The working group of macrobotanical taxonomy and the working group on Taxonomy on Neogene palynomorph records are going to have a meeting in the next couple of month.

The NECLIME working group on macrobotanical taxonomy is going to meet Natural History Museum in Budapest, Hungary, on the 24th of May. For question and registration, please send an e-mail to Torsten Utescher (utescher"at"geo.uni-bonn.de) or Boglárka Erdei (erdei"at"bot.nhmus.hu).

The meeting of the NECLIME working group on Taxonomy of Neogene palynomorph records will be held in Cracow, Poland, on the 14th and 15th of June. For registration, please send the filled-out registration form to Elzbieta Worobiec (e.worobiec"at"botany.pl) until the 15th of May.

Further information for both meetings can be found within the "events" section.

Update for the pollen-list of Nearest Living Relatives

The NECLIME working group on Taxonomy of Neogene Palynomorphs aims to improve the basic data used for palaeoclimate and vegetation reconstruction. Now there is a first update in the list of Nearest Living Relatives. New records, modfied data entries and changes are summerized in this downloadable table.
The next meeting of the working group is going to take place in Cracow this June. More information will be online soon!

Updates forthcoming/past events

Finally our events page is updated. Short reports about NECLIME's past annual meetings in Budapest at the EPPC and Kunming are now online including the whole book of abstracts and a few pictures from Kunming.

Additionally further details about the NECLIME annual meeting 2011 in Bucharest are uploaded. You can now register with this registration form.

There are also the first announcements for 2012, where there will be a NECLIME meeting in Nanjing (China) in May next to NECLIME symposia at the IPC XIII/ IOPC IX conference in Tokyo.

Annual NECLIME meeting 2011

The next annual NECLIME meeting is going to be in Bucharest (Romania) from the 26th to the 31st of September, 2011. It is going to be held at the National Geological Museum and organised by the Geological Institute of Romania by Stanila Iamandei, Valentin Paraschiv and Eugenia Iamandei.
First details are online on the "events" page, more information will be annonced within the first circular in December.

News in the working group for macrobotanical records

Current work is consentrated on checking, updating and revising the connection of plant's Nearest Living Relatives. The pre-meeting and further discussion lead to a first update of the Palaeoflora database.
The summerized changes can be downloaded and further details can be found in "groups".
The next meeting of this group is already planned for Budapest next year.

2nd circular NECLIME meeting in Kunming

A prelimnary program for the Chinese Academy of Science NECLIME Symposium in Kunming (Now, 18th to 20th, 2010) can be downloaded now. The registration to this symposium is still open until September, 15th.
You can find more details here.

NECLIME meeting in Budapest

Time and place for the 11th NECLIME meeting is now fixed. The meeting is going to be held at 14.30 on the 8th of July (Thursday) in the lecture room 1 (Semsey room). We are looking forward to see you at the meeting!

11th NECLIME annual meeting 2010

This year the NECLIME annual meeting is going  to take place in the frame of the 8th EPPC meeting in Budapest (July, 6th to 10th), at 2.30 in the afternoon. The exact place for the meeting will be announced just shortly before the meeting itself online, but it will be also in to EPPC program.
You can find more details about topics discussed in the circular here.

Workshop report of the "Taxonomy of the Neogene palynomorphs working group"

In this first workshop held in Sofia (18th of May, 2010) of the new NECLIME working group on taxonomy of the Neogene palynomorphs several important topics including the identification and climatic relevance of special taxa were discussed. You can find more details in the report here or on the events/past workshop meeting page.

Workshop on taxonomy of Neogene palynomorphs

Dimiter Ivanov and Torsten Utescher organise this workshop in Sofia on Tuesday, the 18th of May, 2010. Presentations in the morning and early afternoon are followed by a discussion and microscope work (program details).

Summary of the pre-meeting of the NECLIME working group on macro-palaeobotany

The NECLIME working group on taxonomy of macro-palaeobotany had their pre-meeting in Frankfurt on the 17th of March, 2010.
You can read the summary of the discussion here.
Their developed concept will further be presented and discussed on the NECLIME meeting at the EPPC 2010 in Budapest.

Chinese Academy of Science NECLIME Symposium

Details for the Chinese Academy of Science NECLIME Symposium were added.
This symposium is going to be held in Kunming (Yunnan, China) from the 18th to the 20th of November, 2010.
Read further information at "events" or click here.

1st pre-meeting Taxonomy of the Neogene macrobotanical record of Eurasia

The NECLIME working group is going to have their first pre-meeting on the 17th of March, 2010 in Frankfurt/M, Germany. Details can be found at "events" and here.

NECLIME workshop on Digital Plant Distribution

This workshop was held on the 13th of January in Frankfurt/M, Germany.
A summary of the discussion is now online!

NECLIME 2020

At NECLIME's 10th annual meeting in Izmir, Turkey, scientific objectives for the NECLIME community for the upcoming 10 years were discussed. Details and conclusion can now be found online in the NECLIME 2020 button in the main menue.

NECLIME symposia at te EPPC 2010, Budapest

There are going to be several NECLIME symposia at this year's Euopean Palaeobotany - Palynology Conference in Budapest (6th to 10th of July):
  • Beyond Milankovitch - Cenozoic vegetational dynamics on millennial to decadal scales
    Convenors: Andrea Kern, Mathias Harzhauser, Torsten Utescher
  • Evolution and palaeoclimate  - molecular phylogenetic approaches and the Cenozoic plant fossil record
    Convenors: Svetlana Popova, Alexandra Nora Muellner
  • Early Pleistocene terrestrial climate and vegetation - the environment of early humans
    Convenors: Angela A. Bruch, Suzanne Leroy
  • Palaeocarpological records
    Convenors: Edoardo Martinetto, Carol Gee
Go to "events" to read more about our symposia or visit the official EPPC 2010 webpage.