Workshop

We are pleased to announce the workshop decision for the our last call. The Scientific Advisory board has decided on ConSensIS led by Rachel Racicot from Senckenberg, Frankfurt aM, and Travis Park (Monash University, Australia). The CONservation SENsory paleobiology International Scientific network...

PaleoSynthesis has been running for over six years, and Elizabeth Dowding has been on board almost from the start. In the early years, Liz was primarily involved in the Big Questions before succeeding the project's first postdoc, Jansen Smith, in December 2022. Throughout this time, Elizabeth has n...

Hello out there! A little reminder about our workshop call… No ideas of your own? Maybe you know a colleague you'd like to throw into the ring. So feel free to spread the word and the link!

👏 Congratulations 👏 to the Big Questions team lead by Jansen A. Smith! After such a hard work the paper "Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project" is published in Paleobiology. "Paleontology provides insights into the history of the planet, from the origins of life ...

We are opening the last call for workshop proposals in 2025! The deadline is December 15, 2025. Please visit the website with the necessary information before you start to prepare a proposal. For questions you may contact Danijela Dimitrijevic (science) or Barbara Seuß (logistics)

Last day of the DeepIL workshop. So far a time full of inspiration, ideas, and a great exchange between colleagues from different disciplines and with different backgrounds. Intense but inspiring!

After a short break following the summer school, the program continues. Next week, the DeepIL workshop will take place at the PaleoSynthesis Center. Participants will mainly be scientists based in Germany. However, DeepIL also receives support from external research institutions. The workshop is le...

As for all the previous workshops we had an icon designed. DeepIL will be the upcoming workshop in fall and the topic is "Deep-Time Impacts of Life on the Earth System". And today we are happy to present the latest icon representing this workshop.

"Forests aren’t keeping up with today’s climate chaos. While temperatures soar within decades, tree populations take 100 to 200 years to shift in response. A sweeping new analysis of ancient pollen and modern data reveals this dramatic lag—and its consequences. As ecosystems fall out of sync with t...

"Climate and ecosystem dynamics vary across timescales, but research into climate-driven vegetation dynamics usually focuses on singular timescales. We developed a spectral analysis–based approach that provides detailed estimates of the timescales at which vegetation tracks climate change, from 101...