The 2025 Africa Day Forum, held on May 23 at the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University. Hosted by Casa Foundation, the forum brought together leaders, entrepreneurs, academics, and policymakers to explore this year’s theme: “Tariffs, Trade & Transformation: Strengthening Africa–Canada Economic Ties.” From high-level insights and cultural showcases to strategic roundtables, the forum […]
New publication on microplastics in alpine lake sediments
Remote Alpine Lakes and Microplastic Accumulation: Insights from Sediment Analysis of Lake Cadagno As a contribution to Colin Courtney-Mustaphi’s continued interest in the application of sedimentological analyses to understanding environmental pollution. In the past, Colin has published on pollution in the Canadian Arctic (Outridge et al., 2017) and total Mercury (Hg) accumulated in the sediments […]
Nikon Small World photo Competition
Photography competition deadline 30 April 2025! https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/
Cambridge Archaeologists at Awards for Research Impact and Engagement
Images and text modified from: Cambridge Chronicles (2025) The Department of Archaeology and the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research are delighted to announce that Professor Gilly Carr, REAL project alumnus Dr Nik Petek-Sargeant and Stanley Jachike Onyemechalu were recognised at the recent Cambridge Awards for Research Impact and Engagement. See the original port on the University of Cambridge Department of […]
New publication promotes paleoecological data to understand planetary boundaries
How #paleoecology insights can be integrated into the #planetary health framework to improve our understanding of global #environmental change, and navigate a challenging future, are explored in a new commentary article (Gillson et al., 2025; Bayles et al., 2025). How #paleoecology insights can be integrated into the #planetary health framework to improve our understanding of […]
REAL project Final Report Archived in CORDIS
Resilience in East African Landscapes: Identifying critical thresholds and sustainable trajectories – past, present and future REAL Project Web Documentary “CHANGES” Project Information Grant agreement ID: 606879 Start date: 1 September 2013End date: 31 August 2017 Funded under Total cost € 3 968 063,33 Objectives (CORDIS) The strong temporal dynamics of the East African landscape […]
Weathering Climate Change in Eastern Africa
An audio recording of Professor Paul Lane’s talk on ‘Weathering Climate Change in Eastern Africa – Archaeological Insights on the Current Climate’ presented on Monday 18th November 2024, is now available to listen to from the Centre of African Studies CAS, University of Cambridge, UK. Permalink https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4815577. The PowerPoint that accompanies the talk is available here.
Videos
REAL Project Web Documentary “CHANGES” REAL ITN members and IIAC-CNRS/EHESS. 2017. “CHANGES”. REAL changes digital documentary. http://www.real-project.eu/changes/ http://webdocs-sciences-sociales.science/real/ University of York Africa Research Network Videos created by REAL members Webinars and recorded seminars https://pecs-science.org/webinar-rebecca-kariuki-on-participatory-scenario-planning-for-conservation/ Creating Socio-Environmental Scenarios Webinar. University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, and Resources for the Future. Wed. 20 October 2021, 15:00-16:30 […]
New publication of a site in Mozambique!
A new study site on the inaccessible Mount Lico, Mozambique, explores the history of forest fire disturbances to the drier leeward forests over the past 7000 years. Evidence from charcoal in the soil pit and current tree demographics suggests that fire activity has recently increased during the past few hundred to 1000 years ago. We […]
KUMiT Project book launch!
The new book of postglacial paleoenvironmental change in Thurgau, eastern Switzerland, and related archaeology around small lakes on the Swiss Plateau is now available for free as a PDF on ResearchGate and books can be found at the Amt fur Archaeologie, Canton Thurgau!! Heiri O, Leuzinger U, Wick L, Brem H, Breu S, Courtney-Mustaphi C, Grudzinska […]
Ancient Lake Victoria: 17000 years ago to present
Our knowledge of the paleoenvironmental changes of Lake Victoria has grown over the past few years with the efforts of Researchers and PhDs involved in the Swiss SNF funded Sinergia Lake Victoria project (SNSF, 2018), based at EAWAG and University of Bern; and the Swedish Research Council funded ARCC project (Scaini et al 2024 Ambio). […]
Call for submissions to Special issues on Conservation and Future Land Use Changes
Dr Rebecca Kariuki is a guest editor for two special issues: Impacts of People’s Engagement in Nature Conservation Frontiers in Conservation Science Call for submissions [PDF] Manuscript Submission Deadline 31 May 2023 People’s participation and support for natural resource conservation have increasingly emerged as essential ingredients all over the world. These processes have evolved towards […]