September 25, 2015 King’s Manor, City of York, UK European Union showcase of science Members of the REAL project participated in the European researchers’ night showcasing ongoing science funded by the European Commission.
Global Paleofire Working Group @Harvard Forest
The Paleofire: Data-Model Comparisons for the Past Millennium workshop was organized by the Global Paleofire Working Group (GPWG) Workshop and held at the Harvard Forest – http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/ between September 29 and October 2, 2015. The Global Palaeofire Working Group (GPWG) oversees the Global Charcoal Dataset (GCD), was developed to facilitate research on fire in the Earth system. Our group provided the […]
Baringo Fieldwork Pt. 3 – The final step
Four months in the hot Baringo sun was not enough for the archaeological team of Baringo, so we returned for a third and final time. This time we wanted to blow everyone away with our discoveries and, by the end of the fieldwork in July, we surprised even ourselves. The fieldwork had everything: beautiful and […]
Charcoal and Wood Working Group meeting @York
CHARCOAL AND WOOD WORKGROUP MEETING Environment Department: University of York Sunday 4th October 2015 Organisers: Dana Challinor (Oxford), Lauren Shotter (Edinburgh), Maria Gehrels and Colin Courtney-Mustaphi (York) Programme: 10am Arrival and coffee 10.30 – 12.30am Presentations/Discussion Colin Courtney-Mustaphi (University of York): The REAL project; an overview of how we build, analyse and use […]
Excavations in Baringo, Fieldwork Pt. 2
From January to March, the extraordinary team exploring the archaeology around Lake Baringo set out on another adventure. Rather than endlessly walking through the landscape, discovering scatters of worked stone and shapely pottery, we returned to three sites we recorded during our previous fieldwork. The sites were subject to small excavations that uncovered a great […]
REAL attends ‘African Heritage Challenges: Development and Sustainability’
Paul Lane and Nik Petek attended the workshop ‘African Heritage Challenges: Development and Sustainability.’ It was hosted at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) in Cambridge from the 15th to the 16th of May. Paul Lane, who was invited as a plenary speaker, talked on the topic of ‘African […]
20th QRA Postgraduate Symposium
QRA is the Quaternary Research Association interested in the last 2.6 million years of the Earth’s history- the “Ice Age”, the organisation has a vast and thriving membership of researchers involved in Quaternary research (QRA homepage). Esther Githumbi attended the 20th postgraduate symposium held at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge. The symposium was a […]
YorNight 2015
25 September 2015, York, UK European Researchers’ Night is a mega event which takes place every year simultaneously in several hundred cities all over Europe and beyond. It aims to show that research is fun and influences daily life for all of us. YorNight is York’s contribution to this event, hosted by the University of […]
Digitising old graphs
DataThief III by Bas Tummers Ever have the need to pull data from a publication but you cannot access the raw data. Perhaps it is from an old publication and the graph was hand drawn or the data files that went into making the graph have been long lost through the evolution of data […]
Our Common Future under Climate Change Paris 2015
Quadcopter footage over southern Kenya
Beginning with a view to the SSW, with Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania visible on the horizon, the camera does a 360 view, then looks down at the south end of the swamp and flies north, where the water is channelled out for irrigation farming.
LandCover6k: PAGES working group
Overview Adequate incorporation of land cover in global and regional climate models is still one of the major priorities in the climate modeling community. In particular, anthropogenic land cover change (ALCC) is still not successfully implemented in these models. As a result, climate modeling in paleo-mode or projection mode that tries to take ALCC into account is […]