My most treasured memory of symposium

Modern palynology is believed to have come into existence at the 16th Scandinavian Meeting of Natural Scientists, in Christiania (now Oslo), in 1916 , where the Swede Lennart von Post presented the first pollen diagrams (Manten 1966). 100 years later, a 2-day symposium entitled ‘Centenary (1916–2016) of Pollen Analysis and the Legacy of Lennart von Post’ at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on 24–25 November 2016 celebrated 100 years of Quaternary pollen analysis (Richards 2017).

Huge thanks to organizers Marie-José Gaillard and others, I got a golden chance to attend such a wonderful event and present two posters. So excited to hear wonderful talks by invited palynologists from all over the world (totally 25 invited lectures), including senior palaeoecologists John Birks and Henry Hogheimstra, and other well-known palynologists.

All excitements are recorded in the images below, including the signatures I requested from some invited speakers and other scientists.

Simply put, that's the most gorgeous symposium I have ever attended, so I am always treasuring such a beautiful memory of centenary symposium!

Some signatures from invited speakers and other scientists

A group photo of attendees

Björn E. Berglund talked on "Lennart von Post and Scandinavian palynology into the mid-20th century"

H. John B. Birks talked on "Lennart von Post and quaternary palynology since the 1960s"

Kevin Edwards talked on "Lennart von Post, palyno-historiography and continuity"

Open lecture by Stephen T. Jackson on "Ecology Novelty and Conservation Science: Lessons from the Past for the Future"

Yan Zhao talked on "Palynology and research in China"

Henry Hogheimstra chaired Round-table discussion "FUTURE – Visions for the future of pollen analysis" [Introduction by scientists of different generations, working on different continents and focusing on different topics, left to right: Ralph Fyfe, Anne-Marie Lézine, Anupama Krishnamurthy, and Stephen T. Jackson]

With Heikki Seppä and Qinghai Xu

With Eric Grimm

With Stephen T. Jackson

Coffee break

Closing ceremony (Marie-José Gaillard presented thanks gifts to co-organizers)

Fantastic pollen stamps

With Petr Kuneš

Dinner time

With some new palynology friends

For special Issue “Think horizontally, act vertically”: the centenary (1916–2016) of pollen analysis and the legacy of Lennart von Post " , please visit Vegetation History and Archaeobotany at https://link.springer.com/journal/334/27/2