How mud forced the Mongols to abandon invasion of Europe, The Times, 27 May 2016

Our publication Climatic and environmental aspects of the Mongol withdrawal from Hungary in 1242 CE (in: Nature Scientific Reports) was discussed by The Times on Friday, May 27 2016. Read more

Using Arctic driftwood at the interface of marine and terrestrial (paleo-) environmental research, Apr 27-30, 2016

Venue  The Icelandic Forest Research Institute Mógilsá, which is located ~20km northwest of Reykjavik, Iceland (Apr 27-30, 2016) Aims - Organizing and coordinating future fieldwork  activities - Joining forces towards a cross-disciplinary driftwood review paper - Fundraising and proposal writing to improve international driftwood research - Implementing the newly generated momentum of this workshop into ... Read more

PAGES EuroMed 2k meeting at Hoeri, Germany, March 23-25, 2016

With the workshop entitled “Consolidation, finalization and publication of the EuroMed2k database”, we will mainly aim at generating several contributions for the 2016 PAGES Special Issue. In this regard, we will critically outline the reconstruction potential and merging limitation of the various high- to low-resolution, marine and terrestrial proxy ... Read more