Miguel Araújo was invited to serve as a speaker at the 2024 Meeting of Unifying Ecology Across Scales, a highly prestigious Conference, which will be held at Southern New Hampshire University, United States, in the summer of 2024. The Unifying Ecology Across Scales Gordon Research Conference is a premier, international scientific conference focused on advancing the frontiers of science through . . . [ Read More ]
2024 ECTE Conference in Lisbon
The European Conference of Tropical Ecology Conference, the Annual Meeting of the Society for Tropical Ecology (Gesellschaft für Tropenökologie, gtö), will take place in Lisbon in February 2024. The overarching topic will be "Tropical ecosystems in a fast-changing planet“. Miguel Araújo has the pleasure to be giving the opening keynote focusing on modelling climate change impacts on . . . [ Read More ]
2024 IBS meeting in Prague
Our lab will be present in "force". Núria Galiana and Miguel Araújo are co-organisers of the symposia on "Network Biogeography: The Present and Future of Terrestrial Food Webs" that will be held at the International Biogeography Society Meeting in Prague, in January 2024. Juan David González Trujillo is also participating, showcasing some of our recent work on trophic structure of global . . . [ Read More ]
Building Bridges in Biology Conference
Miguel B. Araújo was invited to give a keynote address to the March 2023 Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência Conference on Building Bridges in Biology. The conference has a strong focus towards solving health problems but with a broad view, which includes ecosystems and global change. His talk will draw on some of the lab's recent work on trajectories and critical transitions in complex . . . [ Read More ]
Operations Research in Turbulent Times Conference
Miguel Bastos Araújo will have the pleasure to give the opening keynote address to the XXII Congress of the Portuguese Association for Operational Research taking place at the University of Évora between the 6th and 8th of November. This year’s topic is “Operations Research in Turbulent Times: Adaptation and Resilience” and the talk will focus on “Self-organisation of complex networks in . . . [ Read More ]
Opening of the EU Green Week
The 19th of October witnessed the Opening of the European Green Week, this year under scientific curation by Miguel B. Araújo and taking place at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. Despite the pandemic situation the event went well with a at least a good hundred of people present in the large auditorium of the Foundation and many more attending online. The . . . [ Read More ]
Conference: Climate Action – Strategic Challenges 2020
I was invited to an interesting political discussion surrounding the strategic actions required to face the challenges of climate change. The conference took place in Porto (Portugal) with the presence of 5 ministers of Portugal as well as many other decision makers. The slot in which I participated about "agriculture and climate change starts roughly at 2h26 min of the following . . . [ Read More ]
Conference: Community Ecology for the 21st Century
Photo by Miguel Araújo (Guys fulvus in Monfrague) Of the many problems confronting society on the veil of the 21st Century, one of the gravest is the likelihood that modern humans may so change the intrincate workings of the earth's ecosystems that they will no longer be able to provide the support that human culture requires for its existence. Yet, our ability to understand and predict the . . . [ Read More ]
Conference: Species on the Move
Miguel Araújo is thrilled to participate in the "Species on the Move International Conference" at Hobart, in Tasmania, Australia, between the 9th and the 12th of February 2016. During this conference he will provide an oral presentation with the following title and abstract: From models of species distributions to models of communities: Climate and land use changes are leading to . . . [ Read More ]
Conference: Biodiversity Informatics and Modelling Species Distributions
Miguel Araújo, Antoine Guisan, and Town Peterson will provide keynote addresses at the Symposium and Panel Discussion: Frontiers of biodiversity informatics and modelling species distributions that will take place on the 4th of November in New York at the American Museum of Natural History. The event is part of a task force created by GBIF. Details on the task group and the public . . . [ Read More ]