Note that if it reads “find dinner” or “find lunch” these activities are not included in your workshop fees.
Otherwise indicated meals and activities (eg. coffee breaks) are included and participants do not need to pay anything.
In particular, the trip to 3 cenotes on Wednesday and the workshop dinner on Thursday are included for everybody; if you are
unable to participate either of these two activities please let Norma know (ncortes@cimat.mx) so we can plan ahead.
| Sunday 7 January | Participants arrive. Frequent bus connections from Merida. | |
| Monday 8 | Intros | |
| 07:00 | Breakfast | |
| 09:00 | Welcome, workshop plan | Andrés, Maarten |
| 09:30 | Introductions of participants | All |
| 10:00 | Introduction to the region – palaeoecology+archaeology | |
| 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30 | Introduction to radiocarbon dating | |
| 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Writing collaborative applications I: speed-dating | Maarten |
| 15:00 | Introduction to Bayesian statistics in chronology building | Andrés |
| 16:00 | Coffe | |
| 16:30 | Hands-on I: intro to Clam and Bacon | |
| 18:00 | Free time, find dinner | |
| 20:00 | Informal talks: the role of palaeo in global challenge research. | |
| Tuesday 9 | Dating | |
| 07:00 | Breakfast | |
| 09:00 | Introduction to 210Pb dating | |
| 10:00 | New 210Pb models | Marco |
| 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30 | Hands-on II: 210Pb dating (xls, Plum) | |
| 12:30 | Extended lunch break (find lunch, a swim at the bay suggested) | |
| 16:30 | Writing collaborative applications II: brainstorming in teams (with coffee!) | Intro by Simon on successful teams) |
| 18:00 | Hands-on III: work on your own data | |
| 19:00 | Informal talks: the role of palaeo in global challenge research | |
| 20:00 | Dinner. | |
| Wednesday 10 | Sampling | |
| 07:00 | Breakfast | |
| 08:00 | Lake cores and sampling | Amy |
| 09:00 | Databases | Simon |
| 10:00 | Coffee break | |
| 10:30 | TBA | |
| 11:30 | Visit to three Cenotes Miguel Colorado: http://descubro.mx/ruta-de-los-tres-cenotes-en-miguel-colorado-campeche/ |
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Bus leaves from the Hotel at 11:30, Box Lunch en route. Dinner in Champotón and expect to return around 21:00
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| Thursday 11 | Sites | |
| 07:00 | Breakfast | |
| 09:00 | Case studies of palaeo-research in Latin America (short talks by ECRs) | Short talks by ECRs |
| 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30 | Simulations of dating strategies incl. Hands-on | Maarten |
| 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Simulations of dating strategies | Maarten/Andrés |
| 15:00 | Writing collaborative applications III: potential funders and first drafts | |
| 16:00 | Hands-on IV: work on your own data (with coffee!) | |
| 20:00 | Workshop dinner. | |
| Friday 12 | What’s next? | |
| 07:00 | Breakfast | |
| 09:00 | Future directions | |
| 10:00 | Hands-on V: work on your own data | |
| 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30 | Hands-on VI: work on your own data | |
| 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Writing collaborative applications IV: plans | |
| 15:00 | Wrapping up | |
| 15:30 | Workshop ends | |
| Saturday 13 | Participants leave | |
| 07:00 - 09:00 | Breakfast | |