Category: Field work
Posted on February 2, 2018
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By Seringe Huisman (MSc Biological Sciences, Institute for Biodiversity & Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam) Hello all! You might have been wondering if I died in the middle of Amazonian nowhere, since I haven’t come back to writing a blog after we left for fieldwork in July….
Category: Field work, Reports, Seringe HuismanTags: Amazon, Amazonia, Amsterdam University Fund, Biological sciences, boring, Chimerella, Coring, Cormoran, Ecuador, fieldwork, IBED, Institute for Biodiversity & Ecosystem Dynamics, Lake, MSc, MSc research project, phytolith, Phytoliths, Radiocarbon, Radiocarbon dating, research project, Sangay National Park, Treubmaatschappij, University of Amsterdam, UvA
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 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 August 25, 2017
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Part 2: Progresso by Molly Kingston (a BSc Biological Sciences student at Florida Institute of Technology, taking part in an expedition lead by Prof. Mark Bush) With a fresh set of clothes and a shower after almost a week without one, it was time…
Category: Field work, ReportsTags: Andea, Andes, bathymetric, BSc Biological Sciences, Chachapoya, Chachapoyans, Colinvaux-Vohnout, El Progresso, FIT, Florida Institute of Technology, Florida Tech, GPS, Huayabamba, Lake, Livingstone corer, Mark Bush, Peru, piston corer, Progresso, sediment, Universal corer
Posted on August 23, 2017
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Part 1: Huayabamba by Molly Kingston (a BSc Biological Sciences student at Florida Institute of Technology, taking part in an expedition lead by Prof. Mark Bush) When I first heard about this class in Peru, I had no idea that I was going to…
Category: Field work, ReportsTags: Andean, Andes, BSc Biological Sciences, Chachapoyans, field work, FIT, Florida Institute of Technology, Florida Tech, grave robbers, Laguna Huayabamba, Livingstone corer, Mark Bush, mummies, ossuary, Peru, Polylepis, skeletons, Uchucmarca, undergraduate, Universal sampler, woodland
Posted on July 27, 2017
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Insights into recent field work in Ecuador by a team lead by Crystal McMichael can be found in a recent blog from our collaborators at the Instituto Geofisico, Escuela Politecnica Nacional, Quito (Ecuador). Trabajo colaborativo entre Volcanólogos y Palenólogos potenciará el conocimiento sobre el…
Category: Field work, News, Reports, William GoslingTags: comunidad, ecosystem, Ecuador, Escuela Politecnica Nacional, IBED, IGEPN, Institute for Biodiversity & Ecosystem Dynamics, Instituto Geofisico, Landscape, palaeoecology, palenología, sediments, University of Amsterdam, UvA
Posted on October 13, 2015
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Palynologendagen “Een historisch-ecologische benadering van het landschap in noord-oost Twente” (“A historical-sociological approach to understanding landscapes in north-east Twente”) 8-9 October 2015 Organized by: Harm Smeenge, Bas van Geel & Stefan Engels For the: Palynologische Kring Last week I took part in my first…
Category: Field work, Meeting, News, Reports, William GoslingTags: Bas van Geel, Een historisch-ecologische benadering van het landschap in noord-oost Twente, Harm Smeenge, Mirella Groot, Palynologendagen, Palynologische Kring, pollen day, Stefan Engels, Twente
Posted on September 21, 2015
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By Crystal McMichael The month-long palaeoecology module at UvA is coming to an end. We have had two weeks of lectures and microscope work, an introduction to quantitative palaeoecology, and we just finished a week of fieldwork in Twente, which is in the easternmost…
Category: Authors, Crystal McMichael, Field work, TeachingTags: BSc Biology, BSc Future Planet Studies, Dutch, ecology, field excursion, field work, Kruidenbitter, Laboratory, learning, lectures, macrofossils, microfossil, microscope, Netherlands, Ootmarsum, palaeoecology, phytolith, pollen, presentations, quantitative, soil, teaching, tropics, Twente, University of Amsterdam, UvA
Posted on June 4, 2015
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Posted on April 30, 2015
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On our first field day three of the XPERT team (Valerie, Barry and Sarah) claim they saw an Andean or spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus) in the paramo of the Cayambe-Coca National Park… Valerie did manage to provided some supporting evidence in…
Posted on April 14, 2015
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Sediment coring on Lake Erazo. Photo by Valerie van den Bos (who spent the flight over reading a book on how to take the perfect photo) By Alexandra Lee and Nick Primmer To study the palaeo-environmental record of the Andean…
Tropical Botany in Belize By Nick Loughlin As mentioned in my last post I have recently returned from a 2 week field course in tropical botany run by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) in conjunction with their MSc course on the ‘Biodiversity and Taxonomy…
Category: Field work, News, Nick Loughlin, ReportsTags: Belize, biodiversity, Botany, Central America, Chiquibul forest reserve, fieldwork, Las Cuevas Research Station, NERC, RBGE, Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Taxonomy, tropics
