2 January 2019 A new open-access publication co-authored by REAL team members Anna Shoemaker and Paul Lane is available from the MDPI journal ‘Land’. Ekblom A, Shoemaker A, Gillson L, Lane P, Lindholm K-L. 2019. Conservation through Biocultural Heritage—Examples from Sub-Saharan Africa. Land 8(1), 5. Abstract In this paper, we review the potential of biocultural […]
Field Diary Special Issue: Call for Contributions
The Field Diary is a digital open-access newsletter that highlights and promotes the human perspective of conducting fieldwork anywhere in the world by all groups working for companies, government, development/conservation/missionary NGOs, security, graduate students, and academia. The first issue of the Field Diary brought together a collection of fieldwork-themed stories from many parts of the world including, Kenya, Tanzania, Burkina Faso, and New […]
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 […]
REAL participates at YorNight outreach event in York, UK
YorNight at the University of York Date: 26 September 2014 Time: 4 pm – 9 pm Location: St Martin’s Church, York, United Kingdom REAL members alongside University of York archaeologists Louise Iles and Daryl Stump and members of the The Archaeology of Agricultural Resilience in Eastern Africa (AAREA) project, researchers from the Environment Department; Phil Platts and […]
International Swiss Climate Summer School
13th International Swiss Climate Summer School “Linking Land Use, Land Cover, and Climate” 31 August – 5 September 2014, Grindelwald, Switzerland Scope The 13th International Swiss Climate Summer School was focused on the theme “Linking land use, land cover, and climate”. This theme had been chosen due to its paramount importance in terms of both […]
Quadcopter with camera for surveying
During a test run of the DJI Phantom II quadcopter on July 22, 2014, the quad flew away and landed in a field. This video was recorded and shows its 2300-meter-long adventure through the University of York campus and to a nearby school field. Dave Hay, from the Environment Department, put this video on YouTube […]
Rebecca Kariuki contact and bio
Biography: Rebecca Kariuki is a currently a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Sustainability and the College of Global Futures in Arizona State University, USA. She is also an affiliate of the African Academy of Sciences, Nairobi, Kenya and a Climate Change Fellow at the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Kigali, Rwanda. After […]
Rebecca Kariuki
Olkaria Field Survey Report: 26 March-1 April 2014
By: Christine Adongo Photography: Benoit Hazard Edited by: Colin Courtney Mustaphi 30 June 2014 1.0 Introduction Within the framework of the Marie Curie Initial Training Network’s (ITN) Resilience in East African Landscapes (REAL) project, a field-training course was proposed and implemented by Dr Benoit Hazard of EHESS. The goal of this training was to introduce […]
CHIESA Vegetation from space and from the ground Workshop
Between the 17th to 22nd March 2014, several members of the REAL group (Aynalem, Chris, Christine and Esther) participated in the Vegetation from space and from the ground workshop (KITE-CHIESA). This workshop was facilitated by Dr. Phil Platts and Dr. Marion Pfeifer. The course provided an introduction to the use of Earth Observation (EO) products in the […]
Marie Ladekjær Gravesen
Current Position Website Linkedin Google Scholar Biography Marie’s current research interests are climate change adaptation, biodiversity conservation and development assistance based at the Danish Institute for International Studies. Marie has a PhD from the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Cologne, Germany. I have a background in English and Anthropology from University of […]
Marie Ladekjær Gravesen
Position: Early-stage researcher (ESR 10) Address: Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology University of Cologne Albertus-Magnus-Platz D-50923 Cologne Email: marie.gravesen@uni-koeln.de Website: Department webpage Linkedin Biography: I am Marie Ladekjær Gravesen, the ESR 10 of the REAL project. I am affiliated to the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at University of Cologne. I […]