Guest speakers
We are delighted to announce our Keynote Speakers for the meeting:
QRA Keynote Speaker: Professor Inger Greve Alsos
Northern Ecosystem Reconstruction using Ancient Sedimentary DNA
Professor Inger Greve Alsos is Director of the Aurora Centre for Arctic Ecosystem Genomics at UiT: The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø. She uses ancient sedimentary DNA to study climate and human impact on past ecosystem diversity, species persistence, and ecosystem build-up in arctic and alpine regions. She has also assembled large-scale genome-skims of vascular plants which greatly improves species identification in ancient DNA studies and facilitates methods for going beyond species level detection (palaeophylogeography).
Her research group is currently moving towards full-ecosystems reconstruction providing new data on the past diversity of a range of organisms in terrestrial and marine environments.
Wiley Keynote Speaker: Professor Dorthe Dahl-Jensen
Professor Dorthe Dahl-Jensen is professor at the Neils Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen. Her research interests include reconstruction of climate records from ice cores, most recently as lead of the NEEM deep drilling project on the Greenland Ice Sheet, with a particular focus on ice from past warm periods. She also studies the properties of ice in the solar system, and her current glaciological programme utilises radio echo sounding data with ice flow models to map water under Greenland ice and understand its impact on the evolution of the ice sheet.
Professor Dahl-Jensen has been a leader on many international projects, including NGRIP and NEEM ice coring projects, and has been advisor to many government bodies. She has won several awards, including the EU Descartes Prize (for her work as part of the EPICA ice coring project) and the EGU Louis Agassiz Medal (2014).
