The SUBUTTEC team devoted three days of mixed in-personn and on-line conferences and scientific exchanges. For those who attended the meeting in Guadeloupe fieldtrips focusing on the project goals have been organized. The programme was the following:

 

 

Monday 29th January

8h45-9h00, Introduction Mélody Philippon, SUBUTTEC Project Coordinator

9h00-9h30,  Invited speaker/ Ass. Pr. Yamirka Rojas-Agramontes

(Kiel, online talk): “The Caribbean: A natural laboratory to understand the consequences of ridge subduction and the evolution of intraoceanic arc systems”

9h30-10h00,  Invited speaker/ Pr. Manuel Itturalde-Vinente (Cuba, online talk):

“Origin, evolution, debate and survival of GAARlandia”

10h00-10h30,  Invited speaker/ Pr. Jason Ali (Hong-Kong, online talk): “Thirty years of GAARlandia: a critical geo-focused review”

10h30-10h45, //Coffee break on GAARLandia shore//

10h45-11h15, 1 Invited speaker/ Pr. Blair Hedges (Philadelphia, online talk): “A critical evaluation of overwater dispersal mechanisms in Caribbean biogeography”

11h15-11h45, Invited speaker/Ass. Pr. Julissa Roncal (Newfoundland Memorial University, in person talk): “Historical biogeography of Caribbean endemic plants.”

12h00-12h30, Invited speaker / Ass. Pr. Malte Ebach (Australia, online talk):

Lunch Break

½ Day field excursion in Geosciences: Quaternary strain and extreme events recorded by the Grande Terre Carbonate platform (Gosier Fault trace and Morne Perrin)

 

Tuesday 30th January

8h00-8h50      Presentation task 1:

Etienne Bezault: WP1 Objectives, Methods and targets. “Biogeography and dispersion across Caribbean Islands : the case of Columbid birds”

Visotheary Ung: “Comparative biogeography methods and vicariance.”

Marcel Bourgade: ”What the phylogeny tells us about the herpetofauna of Martinique from the geological history of the Eastern Caribbean. »

 

8h50-9h20      30 min discussion //Coffee Break//

 

9h20-9h50      Presentation task 2:

Melody Philippon: WP2 Objectives, Methods and targets

Jean-Jacques Cornée:”Lost islands in the Lesser Antilles”

Leny Montheil: “The moving Caribbean forearc sliver”

Arya Monchauzou: “Vertical motion along the whole Lesser Antilles arc and forearc”

9h50-10h20    30 min discussion //Coffee Break//

10h20-10h50  Presentation task 3:

Nestor Cerpa: “The influence of overriding plate velocity on non-isostatic topography at subduction zones : insights from 2-d numerical models”

Diane Arcay: “Effect of a 3D convex geometry of the subduction trench on surface deformation, potentially applying to the Caribbean set-up during the Eocene”

Yannick Boucharat: “Quaternary islands geomorphology and sea-level variations in Indonesia”

10h50-11h20  30 min discussion //Coffee Break//

11h20-11h50  Presentation task 4

Laurent Husson : “Modeling vertical land motion in convergence zones – insights from the Indonesian example”

Guillaume Dupont-Nivet :

Manon Lorcery : “Reconstructing Earth’s biodiversity from mechanistic eco-evolutionary models”

11h30-12h00  30 min discussion

Lunch Break

½ day excursion Biology: Rain Forest endemic species lead E Mira.

Wednesday 31 Janvier

9h-12h, 14h00-18h00, Round table WP 1, 2, 3 et 4 exchanges and synthesis of the first year’s milestones.

½ day excursion: Reefal ecosystems lead by C Dromard