2018

Xishuangbanna workshop on Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction

4th to 8th September, 2018, the second workshop of the BETR programme has been held at the beautiful Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG), Chinese Academy of Sciences. In total, 84 people attended the workshop.

Workshop lectures:

As promised during the workshop,most of the pdfs can be made open to download. At the moment, 7 lectures have been uploaded. The rest will be uploaded gradually.

BETR ECRs meeting (4th September)

More than 30 representatives attended the BETR ECRs meeting. In the morning, the group was divided to two projects' meetings.  Talks were given to update the progress of each projects.
BETR-PPT and BETR-Eco-PT talks by:

1) Maoyan Zhu (NIGPAS Nanjing, China) - Perturbation of the Earth system at the PPT and resilience of the biosphere
2) Dan Condon and Chuan Yang (BGS, UK) - A 4D framework for the PPT
3) Chao Li (CUG Wuhan, China) - Role of continental weathering in dynamic shelf oxygenation and animal evolution
4) Junxuan Fan (NIGPAS Nanjing, China) - Deeptime Digital Earth (DDE)
5) Hongfei Ling (NJU Nanjing, China) - Cr and U isotope systematics in the modern ocean and during the PPT
6) Simon Hohl (NJU Nanjing, China) - Cd isotope study of ancient sedimentary systems
7) Graham Shields (UCL, UK) - Possible effects of sporadic evaporite dynamics on global climate change
BETR-UMBRELLE talks by: (more details are to come)
In the afternoon, the whole BETR representatives joint together for the ECRs' meeting. To showcase the early career researchers in the BETR programme, following talks from each consortium were given:

BETR – Proterozoic-Phanerozoic transition
  • Dr. Zongjun Yin (NIGPAS Nanjing, China) ‘Research progress and Sino-UK collaborations in Proterozoic-Phanerozoic transition palaeobiology’
  • Dr. Chuan Yang (BGS, UK) ‘New advances in Proterozoic-Phanerozoic timescale in China’
  • Dr. Ying Zhou (UCL, UK) ‘From a new Tonian Sr isotope curve for North China to Ediacaran redox and nutrient cyclicity in South China’
  • Dr. Meng Cheng (CUG Wuhan, China) ‘New redox reconstruction of the early Cambrian in South China’

BETR – Eco-PT
Research updates from Dr. Robert Newton and Huyue Song
  • Dr. Matthew Kent (Nottingham University, UK) ‘Quantifying the effects of UV exposure on sporopollenin’
 
BETR – UMBRELLA
Research updates from Prof. Paul Valdes, Prof. Bob Spicer and Prof. Tao Sun
  • Dr. Alex Farnsworth (Bristol, UK) ‘Modelling climate and vegetation changes during the rise of the Himalayas’

                       


                                                   As these talks content mostly unpublished data, the .pdfs won't be open to download.

Workshop CLAMP working materials:

nankunshan_scoresheets.zip
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