A five-week intensive training workshop focusing on methods used by analytical palaeobiologists has been held since 2005. As in previous years, the 2014 workshop will held at Macquarie University in Sydney. The sessions will run between 9 June and 14 July. The Australian Research Council will provide funding.
Topics will include community palaeoecology, diversity curves, speciation and extinction, phylogenetics, phenotypic evolution, and geometric morphometrics. Both simulation modelling and data analysis methods will be employed. Training will combine lectures and labs. Participants will be given hands-on instruction in programming using R and taught to use other analytical software. In addition to the workshop coordinator, each week a new instructor will be present. The instructors are expected to include John Alroy, Alistair Evans, Michal Kowalewski, and Graeme Lloyd. Ecologists without a background in palaeontology but with a strong interest in the fossil record are encouraged to apply. Further details are available at: http://fossilworks.org/?page=workshop_2014 John Alroy ARC Future Fellow Department of Biological Sciences Faculty of Science Macquarie University Sydney, NSW 2109 http://fossilworks.org
