Schedule & Working materials
📚 Module 0: 
download the preparatory materials
These working materials are for the accepted students in order to prepare for the course before its starts but also provide information for all other students interested in analytical paleobiology.
Schedule & Course Material 2026
📚 as soon as we have the timetable set up we will post it here.
Schedule & Course Material 2025
| Dates | Module | Instructor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| August 18 | Introduction to the course. Computers, programming and R recap |
A. Kocsis |
| August 19 | Community diversity |
W. Kiessling, A. Kocsis |
| August 20 | Fossil record databases & biases, Sampling standardization |
W. Kiessling, A. Kocsis |
| August 21 | Counting-based Diversity dynamics (PM) |
W. Kiessling, A. Kocsis |
| August 22 | Paleogeographic reconstructions and bioregionalization |
A. Kocsis, E. Dowding |
| August 23-24 | – BREAK – | 😀 RELAX 😀 |
| August 25-26 | Spatial sampling standardization Niche and species distribution modeling |
B. Shipley |
| August 27-28 | Bayesian Phylogenetics |
J. Barido-Sottani, L. Mulvey, R. Warnock, R. Wu |
| August 29-30 | Morphometrics |
R. Felice |
| August 31 | – BREAK – | 😀 RELAX 😀 |
| September 1-2 | CMR |
L.H. Liow |
| September 3 | Layeranalyzer |
L.H. Liow |
| September 4-5 | Pyrate, AI methods to reconstruct diversity |
D. Silvestro |
Schedule & Course Material 2024
| Dates | Module | Instructor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| August 5 | Toolset |
A. Kocsis |
| August 6-8 | Basic paleodiversity analyses |
W. Kiessling, E. Dunne, A. Kocsis |
| August 9 | Disparity & traitspace |
T. Guillerme, E. Dunne |
| August 10 | Phylogenetic comparative methods |
T. Guillerme, E. Dunne |
| August 11-12 | – BREAK – | 😀 RELAX 😀 |
| August 13-14 | Bayesian Phylogenetics |
R. Warnock, L. Mulvey |
| August 15-16 | CMR methods |
L.H. Liow |
| August 17 | Time series analyses |
L.H. Liow |
| August 18 | – BREAK – | 😀 RELAX 😀 |
| August 19-20 | PyRate and AI-based diversity |
D. Silvestro |
| August 21 | Paleogeography |
A. Kocsis, E. Dowding |
| August 22-23 | Spatial Subsampling and Niche modeling |
E. Saupe |
Schedule & Course Material 2023
| Dates | Module | Instructor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| August 21-22 | 1. Toolset |
A. Kocsis, E. Dunne |
| August 23-25 | 2. Basic paleodiversity analyses |
W. Kiessling, E. Dunne, A. Kocsis |
| August 26 | – BREAK – | 😀 RELAX 😀 |
| August 27-28 | 3. Phylogenetic approaches |
R. Warnock |
| August 29-30 | 4. PyRate and AI-based diversity |
D. Silvestro |
| Aug 31 – Sept 1 | 5. CMR methods / 6. Paleogeography |
I. Smith (L.H. Liow*), E. Dowding |
| September 2-3 | – BREAK – | 😀 RELAX 😀 |
| September 4 | 6. Paleogeography |
A. Kocsis |
| September 5-6 | 7. Niche modelling |
T. Smith (E. Saupe*) |
| September 7-8 | 8. Geometric morphometrics |
R. Felice |
Schedule & Course Material 2022
| Dates | Module | Instructor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| August 22-23 | 1. Toolset |
A. Kocsis, N. Raja |
| August 24-25 | 2. Paleodiversity analyses |
W. Kiessling, E. Dunne |
| August 26-27 | 3. Geometric Morphometrics |
M. Weinkauf |
| August 28 | – BREAK – | 😀 RELAX 😀 |
| August 29 | 4. GIS Basics in R |
A. Kocsis |
| August 30-31 | 5. Global diversity dynamics |
E. Dunne, A. Kocsis, C. Reddin |
| September 1-2 | 6. Capture-Mark-Recapture methods |
L. H. Liow |
| September 3-4 | – BREAK – | 😀 RELAX 😀 |
| September 5-7 | 7. Phylogenetics |
R. Warnock |
| September 8-9 | 8. Niche modelling |
E. Saupe |
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