Fossil-hunting expedition across France
Over the past week (June 21st-28th), the two postgraduate members of the TERRAFORM team (Catarina Barbosa and Antonietta Knetge) travelled to Poitiers, France for fieldwork. Alongside Dr. Bernard…
XV. International Palynological Congress (IPC) XI. International Organisation of Palaeobotany Conference (IOPC)
The emerging field of trait-based paleoecology suffers from the siloing of its practitioners along multiple dimensions including the availability of infrastructure and materials, and…
European Geoscience Union Meeting 2024
The 5-day conference in Austria’s capital, Vienna, with over 18,000 in attendance, is the meeting that offers an invaluable opportunity for networking and knowledge exchange. Our team of researchers…
The Plant-Climate Interaction Lab houses a new Nikon stereomicroscope
The Plant/Climate Interaction Lab houses a new Nikon stereomicroscope, supported by iCRAG and ERC-TERRAFORM, configured to create high-resolution maps of complex materials. The system uses a high…
Understanding how fossilisation of plants works
Researchers from the TERRAFORM team visited University College Cork in March to carry out a pilot project in experimental taphonomy with collaborator Maria McNamara. Postdoc Will Matthaeus and PhD…
New publication!
The ERC-funded TERRAFORM project team, led by Prof. McElwain recently published in New Phytologist a comprehensive review in which they took a unique approach, evaluating which extant plant traits…