December 2023 Newsletter
Dear sed-DNA enthusiasts,
The year is almost over, and this is the last newsletter of 2023. It has been a relatively quiet year for the society - although there were many highlights. At least 50 new papers and 20 preprints were produced in the sedaDNA field and was the First Circular SedaDNA Meeting with great success organised in Potsdam. The Society Google group has also been used 55 times in the past year to share new positions, conferences, and events. Every member of the society can use this group to share information with the whole society by sending the announcement to sedadna-society@googlegroups.com and it will automatically send it to the full member list with 442 members at present (71 new members thus far in 2023).
We further would like to highlight, and congratulate, Ulrike Herzschuh for being awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.
Finally we wish everyone already a great holiday season, and all the best for the New Year both scientifically and personally. We are looking forward to what 2024 will bring. Grzegorz Osipowicz et al., (2023) published "Human-environment interactions in the Mesolithic – The case of site Paliwodzizna 29, a lakeside site in central Poland" in Quaternary Science Reviews. Wu Han et al., (2023) published "Anthropogenic activities altering the ecosystem in Lake Yamzhog Yumco, southern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau" in Science of The Total Environment. Kevin Walsh et al., (2023) published "Bioarchaeological approaches to understanding the long-term development of mountain societies" in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. Duncan McLaren et al., (2023) published "Late Pleistocene Faunal Assemblages from Karst Cave Settings on Northern Vancouver Island, Canada" in PaleoAmeric. Ilaria Fracasso et al., (2023) published "Exploring different methodological approaches to unlock paleobiodiversity in peat profiles using ancient DNA" in Science of The Total Environment. Ilaria Fracasso et al., (2023) published "Exploring different methodological approaches to unlock paleobiodiversity in peat profiles using ancient DNA" in Science of The Total Environment. Inger Greve Alsos (2023) made the preprint "Using ancient sedimentary DNA to forecast ecosystem trajectories under climate change" available at Research Square. Kadir Toykan Özdoğan (2023) made the preprint "Archaeology meets Environmental Genomics: implementing sedaDNA in the study of the human past" available at Research Square. Sisi Liu (2023) made the preprint "Tibetan terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems collapsed with cryosphere loss inferred from sedimentary ancient metagenomics" available at BioRxiv. Giulia Zampirolo (2023) made the preprint "Early Pastoralism in Central European Forests: Insights from Ancient Environmental Genomics" available at BioRxiv. Contact me at kevin_nota@eva.mpg.de or you want to announce something to the society, or if you have a recent paper that you would like to advertise in the newsletter.
from ASB zeitung: "The geoecologist Herzschuh (University of Potsdam and Alfred Wegener Institute Potsdam) is being honored for her research on the influence of climate fluctuations in recent geological history on the biodiversity of polar regions. The findings are relevant because they allow important conclusions to be drawn about present-day climate developments."
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