摘要：A total of 25 students from six different countries were chosen from over 40 applicants to attend the International Workshop on Methods in Quaternary Paleoecology. The majority of students were from either Argentina or Chile but other countries such as Colombia, Uruguay, France and Germany were also represented.
Students participated in half-day lectures given by eight professors dealing with five major topics: Cathy Whitlock (USA) on charcoal records and analyses; Patricio Moreno (Chile), on high-resolution pollen records; Alan Cooper (Australia) on the extraction and analyses of fossil DNA; Ricardo Villalba (Argentina) on dendrochronology and dendroecology; Christopher Moy (USA) on new methods of radiocarbon and stable isotope analyses; Julio Betancourt (USA), Antonio Maldonado (Chile) and Claudio Latorre (Chile) on methods, analyses and case studies in arid lands paleoecology. The course also involved several laboratory demonstrations involving charcoal analyses, coring equipment, tree rings and rodent middens from the Atacama Desert.
