PalaeOpen: bringing data together for reconstructing past environments

Convener: W.Z. Hoek | Co-conveners: Possum Pincé, Javier de la CasaECSECS, Agnieszka GruszczyńskaECSECS

Different palaeoecological disciplines have collected relevant, site-specific data during the last decades. Much of the palaeoecological data are currently dispersed across different repositories, databases and largely not publicly available. COST action CA23116 - Open Palaeoecological Data (PalaeOpen) aims to meet the challenge of bringing much of these data into the public domain, harmonise their taxonomy and metadata, and make them relevant to nature conservation. By combining domain specific repositories and databases, this action will unlock these data collections and make them available for palaeoecological meta-analysis of ecosystem interactions on a continental scale. This will permit integrated analysis of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem responses to natural and anthropogenic environmental change. This session focuses on terrestrial and aquatic environments, data storage and management, and outreach and education. We welcome all types of proxy data studies, single proxy as well as interdisciplinary data from biological, physical and (bio)chemical proxy data communities.