REAL

Resilience in East African Landscapes

  • Projects
    • ARCC archive 2017–2021
      • ARCC Project Overview
      • ARCC blog
      • ARCC Project Report
      • Student Partners
        • Beny Lilawola
    • REAL archive 2013–2018
      • REAL Project Overview
      • REAL blog
      • REAL Project Videos
      • REAL Final Report
      • REAL Final Reporting EU CORDIS
    • REAL Team Members
      • Advisory Board
      • Principal Investigators
        • David Anderson
        • Franziska Bedorf
        • Michael Bollig
        • Lowe Borjeson
        • Benoit Hazard
        • Paul Lane
        • Rob Marchant
        • Dirk Verschuren
        • Mats Widgren
      • Early Stage Researcher Alumni
        • Christine Adongo
        • Maxmillian Chuhila
        • Chris de Bont
        • Aynalem Degefa
        • Esther Githumbi
        • Marie Gravesen
        • Rebecca Kariuki
        • Eric Kioko
        • Nik Petek
        • Annemiek Pas Schrijver
        • Anna Shoemaker
        • Geert van der Plas
      • Associate Partners
    • MAEASaM site 2020–2024+
    • Simone Markoff Univ Basel 2021–2025+
  • Publications
    • Annemiek Pas Publications
    • Colin Courtney Mustaphi publications
    • REAL Project Publications
      • Lexicon
      • Library Archive
      • Palaeo-Glossary
    • Laboratory Protocols
  • Contact us
  • Colin Courtney Mustaphi
    • Publication List
    • Google Scholar
    • Study sites map
    • X Twitter
    • BSX
    • Knowledge Core GmbH PaleoLabTools
  • Videos

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 […]

New data paper in Open Quaternary

By: Colin Courtney Mustaphi, 6 June 2015 Courtney Mustaphi, C J, Gedalof, Z, Daniels, L D and Pisaric, M F J. 2015. Paleoecological and Sedimentological Data from: “A Classification for Macroscopic Charcoal Morphologies Found in Holocene Lacustrine Sediments”. Open Quaternary, 1: 5, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/oq.ae This paper presents and archives the data set used in the study: Courtney Mustaphi, […]

Software for working with compositional data: CoDaPack

Comas-Cufí M, Thió-Henestrosa S. CoDaPack 2.0, 2011. Universitat de Girona. Available at http://ima.udg.edu/codapack/

Useful Links

Research Partners Lauregn Lenggenhager – Environmental historian, University of Basel Scientific Publishing Elsevier Publication tipsScrivener Software to help manage writing projects GIS Tools Online geographic coordinate conversionsAnother online geographic coordinate converterOnline UTM and decimal degree converterMontana State University’s online coordinate converter Software Data VisualizationsGeoGebra Graphics SoftwareImageJ Image processing and analysis Geology software toolsSoftwareCAU Kiel Institut […]

Latest News

New publication on microplastics in alpine lake sediments

Remote Alpine Lakes and Microplastic Accumulation: Insights from Sediment Analysis of Lake … [Read More...]

Nikon Small World photo Competition

Photography competition deadline 30 April 2025! https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/ … [Read More...]

Cambridge Archaeologists at Awards for Research Impact and Engagement

Images and text modified from: Cambridge Chronicles (2025) The Department of Archaeology and the … [Read More...]

New publication promotes paleoecological data to understand planetary boundaries

How #paleoecology insights can be integrated into the #planetary health framework to improve our … [Read More...]

More News

  • About us
  • People
  • Projects
  • Training
  • Resources
  • Contacts

Site information

REAL is a Marie Curie Actions InnovativeTraining Network (ITN), funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme.

Find us on Facebook:

Find us on Facebook:

Coordinating partner

Prof. Paul Lane
Department of Archaeology and Ancient History,
Uppsala University, and
Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge

Copyright © 2025