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Programme

3rd June
 
“Lielupe” Hotel in the Jurmala, Bulduri Avenue 64/68, Jurmala.
Phone: +371 7752755
Fax: +371 7752694
 
12:00 – 21:00 Registration
19:00 -21:00    Ice break party: Restaurant – Lielupe Hotel
 

4th June
 
Conference hall “Lielupe”– Lielupe Hotel
 
10:00 – 10:30 Opening speeches:
 
Representatives of Latvian University and partners
Sheila Hicks – President of PMP
Laimdota Kalnina – National co-coordinator of PMP for Latvia
 
10:30 – 11:20 Keynote speaker: Anneli Poska “Estimating spatial scale of pollen dispersal in the semi-cultural landscape of the Roztocze region (SE Poland)”
 
11:20 – 11:40 Coffee break
 
Section 1. Results of pollen monitoring
 
Chairperson: Irena Agnieszka Pidek
 
11:40 – 12:00Sheila Hicks “25 years of monitoring pollen deposition. What have we learnt?”
12:00 – 12:20 Eliso Kvavadze “Ten years monitoring of arboreal pollen in Lagodekhi Reserve”
12:20-12:40 Helena Svitavska–Svobodova “Pollen monitoring of the mountain areas of the Czech Republic in 1996 – 2006”
12:40-13:00 Laimdota Kalniņa, Oļģerts Nikodemus, Dainis Ozols, Inese Silamiķele “Results of ten year pollen monitoring in Latvia”
13:00 – 13:20 Mariana Filipova–Marinova, Elissaveta Bozilova “Five years of pollen monitoring in different plant communities along the Bulgarian Black Sea coast”“Five years of pollen monitoring in different plant communities along the Bulgarian Black Sea coast”
 
13:20 – 14:50 Lunch
 
Section 2. Pollen-climate relationship
 
Chairperson: Sheila Hicks
 
14:50-15:10 Antti Huusko, Sheila Hicks ”Pollen accumulation rates and their relationship to meteorological parameters”
15:10-15:30 Agrita Briede, Gunta Grišule “Character of climate changes and variability in Latvia”
15:30- 15:50 Pim van der Knaap, Jacqueline van Leeuwen “Fifteen years of pollen traps and climate in the Swiss Alps”
15:50- 16:30 Discussions
 
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break
 
Poster session
Conference Hall “Kemeri”
Chairperson: Laimdota Kalnina
17:00 – 19:30 5 minutes presentation of each poster:
  1. Bauerochse Andreas,  Leuschner Hanns Hubert.Subfossil pine woodland and trackways in Campemoor (NW Germany)
  2. Birks Hilary H., Arguitxu de la Riva Caballero, Anne E. Bjune. DOORMAT. Direct Observation of Recent Macrofossils Across Treeline
  3. Dorozhkina Marina. Results of monitoring annual pollen influx on the King George Island, Antarctica.
  4. Dorozhkina Marina. Long-distance transported pollen and spores in the moss polsters from the King George Island, Antarctica..
  5. Draveniece Anita. Seasonal variations in air mass types over Latvia .
  6. Jankovská Vlasta. Composition of pollen spectra from surface samples produced by present-day vegetation of boreal zone eastern from Polar Ural Mts. (Russia).
  7. Karlioglu Nurgül, AkkemikÜnal. Pollen monitoring in Turkey and future perspectives.
  8. Kazlauskas Martynas. Reconstruction of vegetation in Rekyva lake vicinity, according to sediment and airborne pollen spectra
  9. Kvavadze Eliso, Bilashvili Kakhaber, Southern European Seas: assesing and modelling ecosystem change (SESAME) Project in progress (Georgia)
  10. Kihno Kersti, Jääts Liisi. Influence of an experimental use of slash-and-burn cultivation on the environment. A project plan.
  11. Kihno Kersti , Mäemets Helle. Investigations on recent pollen rain in the district of Saadjärv Drumlin Field (East-Estonia).
  12. Meltsov Vivika, Saar Maret. The vegetation of surroundings of aerobiological sampling site
  13. Namatēva Anita, Kalniņa Laimdota. Vegetation of mire microlandscapes as source area for pollen influx in the Teiči Mire
  14. Noryśkiewicz Agnieszka M. Nine years of annual pollen deposition in the Taxus baccata reserve in the Wierzchlas, Tuchola Forest, N Poland 1998-2006
  15. Panajiotidis Sampson, Gerasimidis Achilles, Fotiadis George. Monitoring modern pollen deposition in fir forests of mountain Timfristos, central Greece.
  16. Pardoe, Heather S. The Pollen Monitoring Programme in Britain, 1996-2006.
  17. Polevova Svetlana, C. Ambelas Skjøth (2), Severova Elena, Kosenko Yana. Ragweed pollen in aeropalynological spectrum of Moscow: long-distance transport or local flowering?
  18. Šaulienė Ingrida, Veriankaitė Laura. The impact of long distance air masses to airborne pollen concentration in Lithuania
  19. Severova Elena. Long – transported pollen in aeropalynologycal spectrum of Moscow
  20. Szczuka Ewa, Giełwanowska Irena, Pidek Irena A., Seta Aleksandra, DomaciukMarcin. Pollen of the Antarctic plants Colobanthus quitensis and Deschampsia antarctica and its representation in moss polsters
  21. WallerMartyn, Grant Michael, Bunting Jane. The identification of coppice management through pollen analysis
  22. Zimny Marcelina, Święta-Musznicka Joanna. Relationship between pollen frequency in moss polsters and vegetation composition in PMP stations located in the Kashubian Lakeland (N Poland) 
20:00 – 22:00 Dinner in hotel “Lielupe” restaurant
 

5th June
Conference hall – Lielupe
 
      Section 3. Pollen-vegetation relationships
 
      Chairperson: Mariana Filipova – Marinova
 
9:30 – 9:50Heather S. Pardoe,Achilles Gerasimidis  “The representation of Pteridium in Tauber trap samples from a range of habitats across Europe”
9:50 – 10:10Anna Filbrandt-Czaja, Andrzej Nienartowicz, Anna Hrynowiecka- Czmielewska “Modern pollen spectra from Tuchola Forest”
10:10 – 10:40 Thomas Giesecke, Sonia L. Fontana, Peter Friis Møller, Richard H.W. Bradshaw, Beth Stavngaard “Interannual flowering variability and stand scale dynamics monitored by pollen traps below the canopy”
10:40-11:00Irena A. Pidek “Abies pollen deposition in different vegetation units of the Roztocze region (SE Poland)”
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
 
Section 4. Surface pollen samples: traps, mosses and soils
  
      Chairperson Thomas Giesecke
 
11:30 – 11:50Jacqueline van Leeuwen “Spores of fungi on dung in Swiss Alpine pollen traps and in sediments from the Alps, Bhutan, and the Azores”
11:50 – 12:10Anne E. Bjune,Hilary H. Birks, Arguitxu de la Riva Caballero“Pollen traps below, at, and above the present day tree-line at Upsete, western Norway”
12:10-12:30 Eliso Kvavadze, Maia Chichinadze “Preliminary results of pollen deposition in vineyard of Kvemo-Magaro village (Kakheti, Georgia): Comparison between pollen traps and surface soil samples”
12:30 – 12:50 Olga V. Lisitsyna, Sheila Hicks, Satu Räsänen “How different sources of modern pollen data reflect actual vegetation: a comparison of pollen deposition in moss samples, pollen traps and modern lake sediments”
 
13:00-14:30 Lunch
 
Section 5. Applications of pollen monitoring
 
Chairperson: Pim van der Knaap
 
14:30 – 14:50 Petr Kuneš, Barbora Lučenicová, Vlasta Jankovská, Petr Pokorný, Helena Svobodová-Svitavská “Using modern pollen spectra from Southern Siberia for interpretation of Central European landscape and vegetation of the Full and Late Glacial”
14:50 – 15:10Agnieszka Noryśkiewicz “Moss polster and fossil studies in the Linje Mire, relict stand of Betula nana, Chelmno Lakeland”
15:10- 15:30 Hulya Caner “The Comparison of Pollen Stratigraphy between Marmara Sea and Southern Black Sea”
 
15:00 – 16:00 Coffee break
 
16:30 Departure for the historical excursion to Riga
 
20:00 Dinner Restaurant “Livonija”, Meistaru Street 21, Riga
 

6th June
 
Conference hall –“Lielupe”
 
Section 6. Pollen monitoring by different methods
 
Chairperson: Sheila Hicks
 
09:00 – 09:20 Ranta Hanna, Sokol Catherina & Hicks Sheila Comparison of time-series measurements between a volumetric air sampler and a Tauber pollen trap in the northern tree-line area of Fennoscandia
09:20 – 09:40 Severova Elena Long – transported pollen in aeropalynologycal spectrum of Moscow
09:40 – 10:00 Święta-Musznicka Joanna, Zimny Marcelina Modern annual pollen deposition in the Kashubian Lakeland (N Poland) against aerobiological data from Gdańsk
10:00 – 10:30 Discussion. Plans for workshops and joint publications.
 
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
 
11.00-11.30 PMP Business Meeting
11.30-13.00 Workshops
 
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
     
14:30 Departure for Open air Museum
 
15:30 – 17:00 Guided visit to the Open air Museum
 
18:00 Gala Dinner Restaurant “Priedes krogs”
 
 
7th June
 
8:00 Departure for the scientific excursion to the Taurene site
 
Full-day excursion to the Vidzeme hihgland including Gauja national Park, Sigulda, Taurene, Araisi Lake Castle, Cesis Town. Visit of pollen traps in Suda Mire and Taurene integrated monitoring sites. Guides: Prof. Olgerts Nikodemus, Inese Silamikele, Solvita Rūsina, Laimdota Kalnina, Liene Spruzeniece,
 
 
8th June
09:00 Departure for the scientific excursion to the Ķemeri Mire
Half-day excursion to the Kemeri National Park, visit Lielais Kemeri Mire unique raised bog vegetation with pollen trap located in the mire.Closing discussions. Guides: Inese Silamikele, Laimdota Kalnina, Janta Mezs, Agnese Pujate.
 
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch at cafe Dižpriede
14:30 – Departure / free time in Jurmala
 

9th June
 
08:30 Departure for the post-conference scientific excursion
Full-day excursion along the western coast of the Gulf of Riga (Lake Engure Nature Park, interdune mires close Roja, Neolithic site Purciems), the Kolka Cape, Slitere National Park, where pollen monitoring is in progress and visit the natural monument "Zilie kalni"
Guides: Vija Znotina, Laimdota Kalnina, Inese Silamikele.
 
18:00 Return to the hotel.