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 […]
REAL MID-TERM MEETING
The REAL mid-term meeting was hosted at the University of Ghent by Prof. Dirk Veschuren and his team. A special thanks to Yoeri Torsy for arranging the details that made it such an enjoyable meeting. From the 15th-19th June 2015, the REAL team members spent time together updating each other on their research progress,discussed the […]
Scientific video documentary production training
British Institute in Eastern Africa, Kileleshwa, Nairobi June 1-6, 2015 Documenting socio-ecological changes on film within a research framework – from writing to editing REAL : Resilience in East African Landscapes A Marie Curie Actions Initial Training Network (ITN), funded by the European Commission Instructors: • Arghyro Paouri, CNRS-IIAC, Audiovisual Department of IIAC. • Deborah […]
Remote sensing the past
Integrating satellite imagery and palaeoecological datasets to explore recent environmental change On Thursday 21st May 2015, the York REAL members Rob Marchant, Colin Courtney Mustaphi, Rebecca Kariuki and Esther Githumbi, attended a palaeoecology and remote sensing discipline-bridging meeting at the University of Nottingham organised by Dr. Christopher Marston. The aim of the meeting was to bring […]
International Spring University on Ecosystem Services Modelling
With a quest for understanding the changes in space and time for East African Savannah ecosystems, I attended the 2015 International Spring University on Ecosystems Services Modelling. The course was offered at the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) in Bilbao, Spain from the 7th -17th April 2015. It was organized by the Basque Centre […]