The biosphere and many of its ecosystems are currently changing due to global warming in an manner unprecedented for many million years. Research shows that abrupt environmental perturbations of the late Palaeocene to early Eocene some 55 million years ago, and also of some earlier periods, might be used as biospheric and ecological palaeoanalogues for present-day and future global change.
This two-day discussion meeting sees invited presentations from internationally renowned geoscientists and ecologists in environmental and palaeoenvironmental change. The meeting will bring together scientists and policymakers from a range of disciplines to explore how current geological and ecological synergies illuminate our understanding of what planet Earth might be like 100 years or more in the future.
Speakers include: Dr Manuel Barange, Plymouth Marine Laboratory Dr Peter Mayhew, University of York Professor Paul Valdes, University of Bristol Professor Jim Zachos, University of California, Santa Cruz
