Originally posted by Dr. Jane Bunting (University of Hull) This group is intended to be open and to support communication, especially between isolated researchers (who might be the only ones in their group or department interested in estimating pollen productivity or in different methods of quantitative reconstruction of past environments from pollen records), so […]
Palaeochronology Building Workshop
The Paleochronology Building Workshop II is a hands-on workshop on the production of robust and reliable chronologies for palaeoecological records, dated using radiocarbon and other types of absolute dates. The workshop will cover details on dates, different approaches to age-modelling, and through practical computer sessions we will discuss, learn and practice with some of the latest software […]
African Quaternary: Nairobi July 14-22 2018
2nd AFQUA International Conference Dates: 14.07 – 22.07.2018 Venue: Nairobi, Kenya Contact person: AFQUA 2018 Organising Committee, afqua.congress@gmail.com Website: https://afquacongress.wixsite.com/afqua2018 The second AFQUA (The African Quaternary: Environments, Ecology and Humans) International Conference and Workshops will be held in Nairobi, Kenya, from 14-22 July 2018. Venue The National Museum of Kenya. Description AFQUA brings developed and developing world researchers together […]
New pollen record from alpine Mt Kenya
New publication Cores from the high-elevation lake, Oblong Tarn, on Mount Kenya near the Cesar and Josef Glaciers, were collected in 1983 and 1985 by a team from Stockholm University led by Wibjorn Karlen. Then again a team from Gent University led by Dirk Verschuren collected additional cores in 2010. Pollen counts from the cores […]
African Archaeology Research Day
Welcome to AARD 2017 We are pleased to invite you to the 2017 African Archaeology Research Day (AARD) meeting, which will be hosted on Saturday 25 November at the Department of Archaeology, University of York. The African Archaeology Research Day has been an annual event in the UK since 2002 and the first meeting held […]
Starting Seminar for the Sustainability and Resilience research programme
Tackling climate and environmental changes The aim of this grant is to allow researchers the freedom to identify the research idea, methods and implementation steps, and to solve a specific research task within a limited period of time. This call is jointly funded by the Swedish Research Council and Sida through the development aid funds […]
Claudia Capitani contact info and publication list
Claudia Capitani Nelson Mendela Advanced Institute for Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania and York Institute for Tropical Ecosystems, Environment Department, University of York, UK Biography Starting as a biologist with a strong interest in wildlife conservation, throughout my professional career I have developed a multidisciplinary background including land use modelling, policy impact assessment and human […]
Swedish Research Council funded Adaptation & Resilience to Climate Change Project & Publications
Kimana wetlands in Kenya near the Tanzanian border that have been recently converted to agricultural use. The Vetenskapsrådet (VR, Swedish Research Council) in association with Sida and Formas has funded a multiyear project titled ‘Adaptation & Resilience to Climate Change‘ that runs parallel and has overlapping focal areas to the REAL project. The grant forms […]
Rob Marchant contact info
Position: Professor Address: York Institute for Tropical Ecosystems Environment Department University of York Heslington York YO10 5DD United Kingdom Email: robert.marchant@york.ac.uk Website: Departmental website
Paul Lane
Position: Professor of Global Archaeology Address: Institute for Archaeology and Ancient History Uppsala Universitet Box 626 751 26 Uppsala Sweden Email: paul.lane@arkeologi.uu.se Website: Uppsala University website Role in REAL Paul Lane is the project coordinator and supervises the work of Nik Petek and Anna Shoemaker.
Colin Courtney Mustaphi contact info
[Biography] [KITE at York] [Publications] [Contact Info] [Twitter] Address: Geoecology, Department of Earth Science, University of Basel Klingelbergstrasse 27 4056 Basel Swizterland Email: colin.courtney-mustaphi@unibas.ch Biography: I use sediment stratigraphies to reconstruct past environmental conditions using sedimentological and palaeoecological methods. By studying the past we can start to understand how ecosystems will respond […]