Summary from the 12th International workshop on subfossil Chironomids, New Forest, UK

Abstract

In June 2013, 40 scientists (Figure 1) met in the New Forest to attend the 12th International workshop on subfossil chironomids. This meeting, hosted by the University of Southampton, brought together researchers from Europe, North America, South America and Asia. This workshop setting fosters coherence and cooperation within the subfossil chironomid community and provides an invaluable opportunity for introducing new researchers to the field. The workshop series began in the mid-1990s, with the most recent meetings being held in Iceland (2007), Denmark (2009) and Norway (2011). The purpose of this workshop was to exchange ideas, discuss new developments in the field and to unify subfossil chironomid larval taxonomy and methods.