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Studia Quaternaria, vol. 22: 35.
Conferences
6th Subfossil Cladocera Workshop
The 6th Subfossil Cladocera Workshop was held in the town of
Èeské Budìjovice, the capital of South Bohemia, in the Czech Republic, on October 11–12, 2004. The meeting was organized by
Kateøina Mikolášová-Nováková at the Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of South Bohemia.
The father of the Subfossil Cladocera workshops was Atte Korhola, who organized the first two workshops in Helsinki in 1999 and
2000 with the aim to establish an informal gathering of people who
work on subfossil remains of Cladocera in lake sediments. The
workshops were concentrated mainly on taxonomical questions –
participants brought problematic or “amazing” findings for the others to see, admire, and identify. One of goals was also teaching; several young scientists have learned to identify their first remains
during the workshops.
Since then, the workshops have been held every year and have
maintained the original informality, taxonomical orientation, and
teaching. When the 2001 workshop was held at the Department of
Geology, University of Helsinki, the Department staff described it
later as follows: “It was a very curious workshop. All those people
were sitting all day, looking at the microscope, and from time to
time there were loud bursts of laughter. Then they again continued
with the microscopes”.
Till now, the following Subfossil Cladocera workshops have
been held:
1st workshop, Helsinki 1999. Laboratory of Physical Geography, University of Helsinki; hosted by Atte Korhola. Participants:
Milla Rautio, Kaarina Sarmaja-Korjonen, Gavin Simpson, Krystyna Szeroczyñska.
2nd workshop, Helsinki 2000. Department of Ecology and Systematics, Division of Hydrobiology, University of Helsinki; hosted
by Atte Korhola. Participants: Mari Hakojärvi, Dave Porinchu,
Milla Rautio, Kaarina Sarmaja-Korjonen, Gavin Simpson, Krystyna Szeroczyñska.
3rd workshop, Helsinki 2001. Department of Geology, University of Helsinki; hosted by Kaarina Sarmaja-Korjonen. Participants:
Tom Davidson, Micha³ Gasiorowski, Giri Raj Gattel, Atte Korhola,
Kateøina Mikolášová, Milla Rautio, Gavin Simpson, Krystyna Szeroczyñska.
4th workshop, Warsaw 2002. Institute of Geological Sciences,
Polish Academy of Sciences; hosted by Krystyna Szeroczyñska.
Participants: Giri Raj Gattel, Piotr Kulesza, Kateøina Mikolášová,
Monika Niska, Mirva Nykänen, Kaarina Sarmaja-Korjonen, Susanna Siitonen.
5th workshop, Helsinki 2003. Environmental Change Research
Unit (ECRU), Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki; hosted by Atte Korhola and Susanna
Siitonen. Participants: Susanne Lildal Amsinck, Rikke Bjerring,
Tom Davidson, Micha³ Gasiorowski, Giri Raj Gattel, Dan Hoare,
Karina Jensen, Emma Lindgren, Mirva Nykänen, Kaarina SarmajaKorjonen, Elwira Sienkiewicz, Gavin Simpson, Krystyna Szeroczyñska.
6th workshop, Èeské Budìjovice 2004. Laboratory of Archaeobotany and Palaeoecology of Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of South Bohemia; hosted by Kateøina Mikolášová-Nováková. Participants: Micha³ G¹siorowski, Anna Halkiewicz, Zuzana
Hoøická, Ryszard Kornijów, Liisa Nevalainen, Monika Niska,
Mirva Nykänen, Jaroslaw Pajakowski, Miroslava Praáková, Kaarina Sarmaja-Korjonen, Krystyna Szeroczyñska, Edyta Zawisza.
The 7th workshop will be held in 2005 prior to the International
Symposium Cladocera 2005 (Herzberg, Switzerland), and the 8th
workshop in Prague in 2006.
The 6th Subfossil Cladocera Workshop was the first one with
presentations by young researchers. The program consisted of oral
presentations (about newly completed results, running projects, as
well as partial or methodological results), microscoping, and discussions on interesting or problematic findings of Cladocera remains (projected or viewed in a microscope), and was chaired by
Krystyna Szeroczyñska and Kaarina Sarmaja-Korjonen. The atmosphere of the workshop was informal and friendly but very
work-intensive.
The participants decided to publish papers and short papers of
Subfossil Cladocera workshops in Studia Quaternaria. Five short
papers presented at the 6th workshop were edited with the help of Z.
Hoøická and they are published in the subsequent section of this volume of SQ.
Zuzana Hoøická & Kaarina Sarmaja-Korjonen