Pubs@ThePub What will we find under the microscope in the next sample? Some plant remains? charcoal? animal fossils? You never fully know until you have a look through the microscope. After preparing the samples and having a look, one item really stood out. Was it a fossil plant seed? or something chitinous, from an invertebrate […]
News from the Marie Curie Alumni Association – The art of personal branding workshop
In the academic bubble, we are automatically self-branded through the accumulation of citations and references. Yet very few of us apply models from the established world of marketing to intentionally build and communicate our personal brand. The Elevate Your Identity workshop was created to address exactly this gap, offering researchers the space and tools to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 paper on Biocultural Heritage in Africa!
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 […]