Category: Crystal McMichael
Posted on July 26, 2018
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20th Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) Abstract submission is now open for INQUA 2019 in Dublin Ireland (25-31 July 2019). Please consider submitting to the special session I am co-organizing on landscape change in the tropics. Submissions welcome from the fields…
Category: Crystal McMichael, News, William GoslingTags: archaeology, biogeography, changing tropical landscapes, Dublin, geoarchaeology, geomorphology, INQUA, INQUA 2019, International Union for Quaternary Research, Ireland, land use, land-cover, Landcover6k, PAGES, palaeoecology, Past Global Changes, Quaternary, volcanology
Posted on May 30, 2018
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Open access for 50 days with this link: https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1X6ja7tFrJFBkG Castilla-Beltrán, A., Hooghiemstra, H., Hoogland, M.L.P., Pagán-Jiménez, J., van Geel, B., Field, M.H., Prins, M., Donders, T., Malatesta, E.H., Hung, J.U., McMichael, C.H., Gosling, W.D. & Hofman, C.L. Columbus’ footprint in Hispaniola: a paleoenvironmental record of…
Category: Crystal McMichael, Journal articles, Publications, William GoslingTags: AD 1492, Anthropocene, archaeology, charcoal, Columbus, Dominican Republic, Hispaniola, Laguna Biajaca, landscape change, loss-on-ignition, macro-fossils, multi-proxy, palaeoecology, particle size, Phytoliths, plant, pollen, pre-Columbian, Russian corer
Posted on December 26, 2017
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On Jan 1, 2018 I (Crystal McMichael) get to ring in the New Year in the best way possible by heading off to the tropics to do fieldwork! And this time I get to take two students with me. Britte Heijink and Veerle Vink…
Category: Crystal McMichael, Field work, News, ReportsTags: Amacayacu, charcoal, Ecology & Evolution, Environements Through Time, forest plot, IBED, Institute for Biodiversity & Ecosystem Dynamics, MSc Biological Sciences, palaeoecology, Panama, Phytoliths, pollen, San Lorenzo, Sherman, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, STRI, Tropical Ecology, University of Amsterdam, UvA
Posted on November 30, 2017
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Job: Post-doctoral researcher in Neotropical Palaeoecology Location: Institute for Biodiversity & Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam Duration: 3 years Deadline for applications: 15 January 2018 We are seeking to recruit a Neotropical palaeoecologist to join the recently funded “The past peoples of Amazonia: Assessing…
Category: Crystal McMichael, News, William GoslingTags: Amazon, Amazonia, charcoal, Crystal McMichael, fieldwork, funding, GIS, Human impacts, Job, microfossils, Neotropical, NWO, palaeoecology, paleoecology, palynology, Phytoliths, pollen, Post-doc, post-doctoral researcher, quantitative analysis, R, The past peoples of Amazonia: Assessing ecological legacies, tropical forests
Posted on November 3, 2017
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The first, ever, week of the Environments Through Time course at the University of Amsterdam has just finished. The course sits within the MSc Biological Sciences (Ecology & Evolution) and MSc Earth Sciences (Geo-ecosystem Dynamics) but is also avaliable to other masters students. In…
Category: Crystal McMichael, Reports, Teaching, William GoslingTags: Earth system feedbacks, Ecology & Evolution, Extra-terrestrial forcing of environmental change, Geo-ecological Dynamics, Humans as drivers of environmental change, IBED, Institute for Biodiversity & Ecosystem Dynamics, MSc, MSc Biological Sciences, MSc Earth Sciences, scales of change, University of Amsterdam, UvA
Posted on November 1, 2017
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By Crystal McMichael The Llanos de Moxos in Bolivia is an area the size of England that has one of the highest densities of archaeological sites in the Amazon basin. I travelled there for the first time earlier this month for the fourth International…
Posted on October 20, 2017
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Discussion on human impacts on Amazonian forest… McMichael, C.H., Feeley, K.J., Dick, C.W., Piperno, D.R. & Bush, M.B. (2017) Comment on “Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition”. Science 358. DOI: 10.1126/science.aan8347 Junqueira, A.B., Levis, C., Bongers, F., Peña-Claros, M., Clement, C.R.,…
Category: Crystal McMichael, Journal articles, PublicationsTags: Amazon, Amazonian, archaeology, European, Human impacts, Humans, indiginous people, palaeoecology, Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition, post-Columbian, pre-Columbian, spatial scale
Posted on October 9, 2017
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Gosling, W.D., de Kruif, J.*, Norder, S.J., de Boer, E.J., Hooghiemstra, H., Rijsdijk, K.F. & McMichael, C.N.H. (2017) Mauritius on fire: Tracking historical human impacts on biodiversity loss. Biotropica. DOI: 10.1111/btp.12490 * This paper evolved from the BSc Future Planet Studies thesis of Jona…
Posted on June 27, 2017
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by Crystal McMichael Wimbledon tennis fortnight is on its way, but we’ve had our own palaeoecology fortnight here at the Institute for Biodiversity & Ecosystem Dynamics at the University of Amsterdam. We’ve seen seminars on reconstructing past landscapes and climates on timescales of decades…
Category: Crystal McMichael, Meeting, News, ReportsTags: BSc, BSc Biology, BSc Future Planet Studies, global warming, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, Jonathan Overpeck, palaeoclimate, palaeoecology, PhD defence, research projects, seminars, Suzette Flantua, tennis, University of Amsterdam, Wimbledon
Posted on July 18, 2016
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Bush, M.B. & McMichael, C.N.H. (2016) Holocene variability of an Amazonian hyperdominant. Journal of Ecology online. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12600
Category: Crystal McMichael, Journal articles, PublicationsTags: Anthropocene, Climate change, forest enrichment, fossil charcoal, fossil pollen, human disturbance, hyperdominat tree, Iriartea deltoidea, palaeoecology, plant-climate interactions
Posted on February 12, 2016
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Bush, M.B., de Oliveira, P.E., Raczka, M.F., Gosling, W.D., Mayle, F.E., McMichael, C.H. & Urrego, D.H. (2014) Paleoclimates of Amazonia: An ice-age view. IN: Ribeiro F. & Carvalho, I. (eds.) Paleontologia: Cenários de Vida – Paleoclimas Volume 5. Editora Interciência Ltda., Brazil, pp. 353-368….
Category: Alice Kennedy, Bryan Valencia, Carina Hoorn, Charlotte Miller, Crystal McMichael, Hayley Keen, Macarena Cardenas, Phil Jardine, Summary by year, Wesley FraserTags: Amazon, Amazonia, assemblage, chemistry, creative, diversity, environmental change, forest, freeze–thaw, Ice Age, Lake Bosumtwi, lowland, maturity, microfossils, mudrocks, palaeoclimate, Paleoclimate, pollen, Public Engagement, Quaternary, Sex & Bugs & Rock n Roll, spore, statistical, sub-sampling, tool, tropics, vegetation, West Africa
Posted on December 18, 2015
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Online, open access: McMichael, C., Piperno, D., Neves, E., Bush, M., Almeida, F. & Mongelo, G. (2015) Phytolith assemblages along a gradient of ancient human disturbance in western Amazonia. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 3. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2015.00141
