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New paper: Spatial variability of recent macroscopic charcoal deposition

New paper: Spatial variability of recent macroscopic charcoal deposition

Courtney Mustaphi, C.J., Davis, E.L., Perreault, J.T., Pisaric, M.F.J. 2015. Spatial variability of recent macroscopic charcoal deposition in a small montane lake and implications for reconstruction of watershed-scale fire regimes. Journal of Paleolimnology 54 (1): 71–86. DOI: 10.1007/s10933-015-9838-2  [Video summary]

Charcoal and Wood Working Group meeting @York

Charcoal and Wood Working Group meeting @York

  CHARCOAL AND WOOD WORKGROUP MEETING Environment Department: University of York Sunday 4th October 2015 Organisers: Dana Challinor (Oxford), Lauren Shotter (Edinburgh), Maria Gehrels and Colin Courtney-Mustaphi (York) Programme:  10am               Arrival and coffee  10.30 – 12.30am          Presentations/Discussion Colin Courtney-Mustaphi (University of York): The REAL project; an overview of how we build, analyse and use […]

Earth, air, and fire: Claire Belcher at TEDxExeter

  Published on 29 Apr 2014 This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Typically our response to fire is Danger! and Devastation! But in this talk, Claire Belcher describes how fire also does positive things for our planet, including regulating the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere. […]

Researchers study future of Kenya’s ‘last big mountain forest’ | CIFOR Forests News Blog

Researchers study future of Kenya’s ‘last big mountain forest’ | CIFOR Forests News Blog

Researchers study future of Kenya’s ‘last big mountain forest’ | CIFOR Forests News Blog.

ER 1: (Wild?)fire

ER 1: (Wild?)fire

Marie Curie ITN Experienced Researcher:  Dr. Colin Courtney Mustaphi Host Institution:  University of York Institute for Tropical Ecosystems (KITE), Environment Department Duration:  November 2013 to November 2015 Summary: Fire is an important disturbance in East African ecosystems , influencing community structure and function, species distributions, nutrient processes, and plays a role in global carbon cycle. Humans have […]

Sieved charcoal analysis of sediments

Sieved charcoal analysis of sediments

LAB PROTOCOLS Wet sieved charcoal analysis By: Colin J. Courtney Mustaphi January 22, 2014; November 3, 2020 Sieved charcoal analysis can be performed at various depths down core to examine broad changes in macroscopic charcoal deposition or contiguously subsampled down core at a high resolution to reconstruct fire episodes and to estimate fire return intervals […]

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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 … [Read More...]

New paper on past Mount Kenya forest fires

  New paper out on long term forest fire interactions on Mount Kenya https://t.co/TCIiA5VXJl … [Read More...]

ARCC land use scenario discussions at NM-AIST, Arusha

On 30 March 2022, Rob Marchant led discussions on land use and land cover change scenarios developed … [Read More...]

Swiss Society for African Studies newsletter

  The latest Newsletter 2021/1 from the Swiss Society for African Studies features an ARCC … [Read More...]

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Department of Archaeology and Ancient History,
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