Friday, January 13, 2023

Schedule for the Swedish Oikos 2023 meeting and deadline for registration

The schedule for the Swedish Oikos 2023 meeting that will take place at the conference venter Wallenberg in Gothenburg from January 31 to February 1st is finally available, see attached document


Registration: Registration for the Swedish Oikos Conference 31 January to 1 February is now open. Deadline for registration is January 15 (see separate registration date for Abstract submission below). The registration fee is 1600 SEK, with additional costs for the Icebreaker 31 January (Sjöfartsmuseet Akvariet) 250 SEK and Conference Dinner (Wallenberg Center 295 SEK). All prices are without VAT and drinks are available at the bar in both events. Please use the following link for registration: https://www.trippus.net/OIKOS2023-del and remember to aslo register as a member of the Swedish Oikos Society on https://nordicsocietyoikos.org/become-member#:~:text=The%20Nordic%20Society%20Oikos%20is,affiliated%20with%20the%20Nordic%20countries.


About the conference:  We have confirmed 5 keynote speakers:
-Helmut Hillebrand, University of Oldenburg, "Are there thresholds for biodiversity change?"
-Isla Myers-Smith, University of Edinburgh, "The causes and consequences of biodiversity change in the warming Arctic"
-Ulrika Candolin, University of Helsinki, "Behavioural responses to a changing world"
-Sam Dupont, University of Gothenburg, "A question of time: How time modulates the response to marine global environmental changes"

-Simon Creer, University of Bangor, "Exploring the spatio-temporal relevance of eukaryotic eDNA traces across diverse biomes"


Workshops: There will be four workshops taking place in the afternoon on January 30, in association to the Swedish Oikos Meeting in Gothenburg; 1. Incorporating Arctic grazers into ecosystem models: a way forward, 2. SBDI user workshop - How to publish your metabarcoding data, and 3. SBDI user workshop - Modelling the distribution of alien species in Sweden, 4. Data visualization. For more info and registration, see: Thematic Workshops at the Oikos Meeting in Gothenburg 2023. | Nordic Society Oikos. Please register to those directly to the orginizer.