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Aquatic Transitions in Southeast Asia and Oceania Keely Mills1, S 158 WORKSHOP REPORT https://doi.org/10.22498/pages.25.3.158 Aquatic transitions in Southeast Asia and Oceania Keely Mills1, S. McGowan2, É. Saulnier-Talbot3 and P. Gell4 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 15-17 February 2017 The first two meetings of the Aquatic On the second day, participants rotated key stakeholders. Small groups mapped Transitions working group, whilst focused between six discussion groups focused on the stakeholder groups, categorizing those who on a global agenda, were dominated by key topics: SE Asia regional review; Ecosystem have a high level of interest in our work, and members from Europe and North America. services; Linking lakes and drivers; Paleo- those who have a high level of influence. Early screening of metadata available from problem solving; Lakes as socio-ecological This was a productive exercise to think more these members highlighted major data systems; and Freshwater biodiversity. In the broadly about our interactions when design- gaps in china, South America, Africa, and afternoon, participants were updated on ing research projects for impact. The meeting Tropical Asia. To address some of these gaps, outputs from the previous Aquatic Transitions concluded with discussions on the next steps Aquatic Transitions "piggy-backed" on a meetings (with a focus on populating the for Aquatic Transitions – the initial three-year number of international conferences in china UcL-hosted Lakecores database), pub- phase ends in December 2017. community (International Paleolimnology Symposium, lished papers and those in preparation, and interest was gauged to assess whether we Lanzhou, August 2015; INTEcOL Wetlands a "Developments in Paleoenvironmental should apply for a second phase to allow us conference, changshu, September 2016) to research" volume that was solicited by to include more researchers from regions raise our profile and recruit potential members Springer. During this session, a number of that lack data. Attendees at the Tropical Asia from Asia. This third meeting focused efforts abstracts were prepared as part of the book workshop provided excellent support, and it in SE Asia, and welcomed 30 participants (20 proposal – with contributions from early-career has been agreed that whilst we tie up Phase 1 from Tropical Asia) to Kuala Lumpur. The group members. As part of the database activities, loose ends, we submit an application in early comprised six Aquatic Transitions "veterans", data and publications from the Tropical Asia 2018 for Phase 2. Future workshops in Africa eight established academics with expertise region were compiled during the meeting and South America would boost interest in the region, eight early-career researchers, (Fig. 1). The day ended with a public lecture and encourage global participation. Finally, seven MSc and PhD students, and a stake- hosted by University of Nottingham’s Malaysia regional leaders to help drive Phase 2 forward holder from the Forestry research Institute of campus as part of the Mindset research were identified. Malaysia. centre lecture series. Three short lectures were delivered by Keely Mills, Nathalie AFFILIATIONS Given the new group composition, day one Dubois and Suzanne McGowan under the title 1british Geological Survey, Keyworth, UK began with introductions to PAGES and "Understanding the Anthropocene using lake 2School of Geography, University of Nottingham, UK Aquatic Transitions, and to what we thought sediment records". The talk attracted over 80 3Université Laval, Québec, canada we knew about lake systems in the tropical attendees and is available as a podcast here: 4Water research Network, Federation University Asia region, summarizing previously published http://mindset.my/content/talk021.html Australia, ballarat, Australia work (Fig. 1). All participants gave "speed cONTAcT talks", introducing themselves, their research, The final day focused on stakeholders and Keely Mills: [email protected] and the lake systems on which they worked. regional engagement and capacity building. The afternoon closed with a short lecture on As Aquatic Transitions moves forward, and "what is paleolimnology" for those who were in an attempt to have our outputs utilized less familiar with its use and application. outside academia, it is important to identify Figure 1: During the workshop, we compiled a list of published paleolimnological research from across the south east Asia region. We are now in the process of synthesizing this data into a paper titled "Paleoenvironmental change from SE Asian lacustrine sites". PAGES MAGAZINE ∙ VOLUME 25 ∙ NO 3 ∙ DEcembEr 2017 CC-BY.
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