Disentangling the pre-industrial climate in Plakias

Last week Danai (in-person) and Rosa (online), participated in the Q-MARE International Workshop and Training that took place in Plakias, in southern Crete (Greece) and is part of the PAGES (Past Global Changes) project and supported by the COST action Marine Animal Forest of the World ( MAF-WORLD). The workshop “Detecting, describing and disentangling pre-industrial climate and human impacts on marine ecosystems” brought together specialists from various fields such as geology, palaeontology, marine ecology, history and archaeology.

This interdisciplinary meeting focused on methodological approaches across different fields which focused on understanding environmental and climate change over time and associated human impacts. Among the aims of the meeting, were to explore opportunities on a unified view of the pre-industrial climate and marine ecosystems and to draft methodological outputs on the meaningful combination of the different methodologies employed.

Lectures were delivered and the work of the early career researchers was also presented. We enjoyed interesting discussions on the complementarity of the different methods, the analysis of data derived from different sources (palaeontological, archaeological and historical) and their integration into marine ecosystem models aiming to disentangle human and climate impacts.

It was great meeting everyone there!

*Danai’s participation was supported by funding from the COST Association.