Winter Lecture: Ice Age Mammals on Mendip – from caves to conservation

Join Professor Danielle Schreve for the first Winter Lecture of the series and explore the Ice Age Mammals on Mendip.

During the last Ice Age, rapid climate and environmental change led to a major reorganisation of the fauna of northwestern Europe. Species were forced to move, adapt or face extinction.

For over fifteen years, Professor Danielle Schreve has been painstakingly excavating a new cave site in the Mendip Hills, which is yielding fascinating insights into how animals coped with these challenges.

This illustrated lecture will tell the tale of changing landscapes and ice age beasts, in the face of climate change and discuss how this information can be used to support modern conservation initiatives.

Speaker: Professor Danielle Schreve holds the Heather Corrie Chair in Environmental Change in the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol. Her research focuses on Ice Age mammals and encompasses many different aspects including evolution, extinction, palaeoecology and mammalian responses to climate change.

Increasingly, Danielle’s research is contributing to the field of conservation palaeobiology – using evidence from the past to underpin conservation decisions today – and laying the foundations for nature recovery and species reintroductions in Britain.

How to take part

Thanks to the generous sponsorship from the Friends of Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives , this season’s Winter Lectures will be held in person at M Shed and online via Zoom.

If you are attending in-person, please arrive 15 minutes before the advertised start time to take your seat. Parking in the area can be difficult so you may want to allow extra time to find a space if you are driving to the venue.

If you are attending online, this lecture will take place over Zoom. Details of how to join the session will be in your registration email.

Please note, this lecture will not be recorded unless specified above.