Seminar: "Using data from the past to predict the future of marine ecosystems"

Postdoctoral researcher Maria Bas López from ICM-CSIC will be giving a semianr at ICTA-UAB in the framework of our Oceans Societal Challenge. The event can be followed online.

Seminar: "Using data from the past to predict the future of marine ecosystems"
 

Speaker: María Bas López, postdoctoral researcher in marine ecosystems and trophic ecology at ICM-CSIC, Barcelona.

Date: Thursday, May 4th 2023
Time: 1pm- 2pm
Venue: Room Z/033 and online https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84730918253?pwd=UzBOenlwNGd3QmJ4WlhaR1MzRmlQZz09

Like many other ecosystems, marine ecosystems are also sensitive to environmental oscillations, and the archaeological contexts related to coastal resources exploitation are paramount contexts to analyse past human-environment interactions. From the first contact between human societies and coastal regions, a progressive process of greater incidence in marine ecosystems was initiated both at local and regional scales. Human impacts on marine ecosystems have been accelerating and increasing over time and simultaneously, the human population has grown and expanded geographically, in conjunction with the improvement of fishing technology and the beginning of global markets. Nowadays, our marine ecosystems are also changing in the context of climate change and global warming. The main aim of this talk is to disentangle one way to improve the accuracy of predictions of global warming on marine ecosystems through the analysis of the ancient marine ecosystems from previous warmer periods throughout the Holocene.

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