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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 […]

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 […]

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INQUA Congress Human-Environmental Interactions in Mountain regions

Dear colleagues, The next INQUA Congress will be held in India … [Read More...]

Where is Colin now? (2026)

Colin Courtney-Mustaphi analyses data sets on how vegetation and wildfires have varied through time … [Read More...]

Human Traces workshop Synthesis in Africa 22–26.07.2026 Kenya

Dear colleagues, It’s a great pleasure to announce our next in-person Human Traces … [Read More...]

Call for abstracts!

IPC7 Session 26 on "Vegetation Change and Plant–Insect Interactions from the Palaeozoic to Modern … [Read More...]

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