Despite that, our arrival on Saturday before the the conference and some cut-throat planning allowed a bit of time for the brain to absorb as some of our research group took a break to see some highlights of Vienna. My presentation was received with lots of interest and questions, which gave me plenty to think about as we move ahead to publish the results of the pilot growth experiments I ran through to early this year. There is lots more work still to do to take the micromorphological measurements, but promising results from the macromorphology. You never know what is going to catch your attention the most at a conference, and often it's the unexpected that delights the most. Capturing my imagination this year was the possibility to use earthworm calcite deposits to reconstruct climate (see more here). Already on the flight home I was checking which lineages of Earthworms are native to Canada, and what prospects we might have at my high northern sites.
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