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Richard Pokorny, PhD, is a Czech paleontologist, speleologist, traveller, and promoter of popular science. He has long been involved in scientific activities in northern Europe with a focus on Iceland and the Faroe Islands. For this purpose, he founded the Institute Julius von Payer for Subarctic and Arctic Research, bringing together specialists on biotopes in cold regions of Earth. He has authored eight books and over 50 journal articles.Veronika Fialova graduated from the Faculty of the Environment of Jan Evangelista Purkyne University, Czech Republic, and completed a geological internship at the Icelandic Institute of Natural History, Reykjavik. Her MSc thesis explored local historical coal mining.Dr Fridgeir Grimsson is the foremost Icelandic paleobotanist and palynologist, currently active at the Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research of the University of Vienna, Austria. His research focuses on the history of Cretaceous and Cenozoic land plants.Vit Koutecky is a PhD student of the Faculty of Science of Charles University, Prague. He specializes in the study of fossil wood anatomy with special emphasis on Cenozoic flora. His MSc and PhD theses explore Palaeogene volcanic flora of northwestern Bohemia, and he promotes the use of the so-called whole-plant concept in palaeobotany.

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