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Posted on July 20, 2018
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AFQUA: The African Quaternary environments, ecology and humans 2ndInternational Conference and Workshops 14-22 July 2018-07-15 National Museum, Nairobi, Kenya Day 6 The final day of talks at AFQUA 2018 took a more applied approach in the first session “Applying the Quaternary: The role of…
Category: Meeting, News, Reports, William GoslingTags: 2018, AFQUA, age vs. depth, applied, aquifers, baysean, charcoal, dating, dongas, East Africa, Fire, forests, Kenya Vision 2030, Lake Victoria, landcover, Landcover6k, landuse, Madagascar, ostrich eggs, PAGES, Paleofire, Past Global Changes, pollen, Quaternary, Radiocarbon, rivers, tree rings, U-Th, UN Sustainable Development Goal 15, University of Nairobi, vegetation, wetlands, working group
Posted on July 18, 2018
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AFQUA: The African Quaternary environments, ecology and humans 2ndInternational Conference and Workshops 14-22 July 2018-07-15 National Museum, Nairobi, Kenya Day 5 The fifth day of the AFQUA conference started with the second session on “Archaeological Landscapes”. Talks included: (i) a tribute to the work…
Category: Meeting, News, Reports, William GoslingTags: 2018, AFQUA, Africa, African humid period, Aksumite, archaeological landscapes, civilization, Dick Grove, East Africa, Ethiopia, historical record, history, hominin, Kisese, modern humans, pre-Aksumite, rock shelter, skull, Tanzania
Posted on July 17, 2018
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AFQUA: The African Quaternary environments, ecology and humans 2ndInternational Conference and Workshops 14-22 July 2018-07-15 National Museum, Nairobi, Kenya Day 4 Yesterday (day 3) was excursion day of the AFQUA conference (photos to follow). Day 4 of the meeting was back in the National…
Category: Meeting, News, Reports, William GoslingTags: archaeology, Cape flora, charcoal, fingerprinting, Fire, fossil, geoarchaeology, geochemical, Global Charcoal Database, Hyrax, Lake Bosumtwi, Lake Botswana, Lake Makagadikgadi, Madagascar, midden, morphometrics, pollen, sea-sub-surface temperature, sea-surface temperature, Southern Africa, stone tools
Posted on July 16, 2018
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AFQUA: The African Quaternary environments, ecology and humans 2ndInternational Conference and Workshops 14-22 July 2018-07-15 National Museum, Nairobi, Kenya Day 2 The second day of the AFQUA conference commenced with the second session on “East Africa” and Prof. Tom Johnson asking the question “Should…
Category: Meeting, News, Reports, William GoslingTags: 2018, abrupt climate change, AFQUA, Africa, biomarkers, Bobab, CO2, explosive lakes, football, Inter Tropical Convergence Zone, isotopes, ITCZ, Kenyan rift, Lake Kivu, Lake Victoria, plants, strontium, Turkana Basin
Posted on July 15, 2018
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AFQUA: The African Quaternary environments, ecology and humans 2ndInternational Conference and Workshops 14-22 July 2018-07-15 National Museum, Nairobi, Kenya My first AFQUA conference really began the day before the conference proper started in the Kenyan immigration queue where I met a number of fellow…
Category: Meeting, News, Reports, William GoslingTags: 2018, AFQUA, Africa, carbon isotopes, Conference, congress, continental drilling, East, eliphids, hominin, ICDP, Kenya, Lake Malawi, Lion, Nairobi, National Museum, pigmy hippo, posters, Quaternary
Posted on February 15, 2018
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Yesterday was the second, and final, day of the Netherlands Annunal Ecology Meeting (NAEM) for 2018. Having stayed up rather later than I would normally for a Tuesday night, due to the the gezellig atmosphere, the scrambled eggs and coffee were very welcome for breakfast….
Category: Meeting, Reports, William GoslingTags: Animal ecology, biodiversity, Biodiversity & Geodiversity in the tropics, complexity, essential biodiversity variables, European bison, geodiversity, Landscape, NAEM, NAEM2018, Netherlands Annual Ecology Meeting, Theoretical & Computational Ecology, wolves
Posted on February 14, 2018
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This year at the Netherlands Annual Ecology Meeting participants have been challenged to draw a pictire about a talk that they see as part of the science bingo event #NAEMbingo #NAEM2018
Posted on February 13, 2018
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Today the Dutch ecological community has convened at the Netherlands Annual Ecology Meeting (NEAM) in the forest near Lunteren. The meeting was kicked off by plenary lectures by Trisha Atwood and Han Olff who talked to the theme of “Ecosystem functioning in a changing…
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 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 December 15, 2016
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The British Ecological Society (BES) annual meeting for 2016 has come to an end. It has seemed like a long week (and it is only Thursday) because it has been so action packed. For me it commenced on Sunday when I helped out with…
Category: Meeting, Nick Loughlin, Reports, William GoslingTags: Andes, BES, BES2016, British Ecological Society, carol singers, council, Early Career Researchers, gala dinner, Nick Loughlin, Polylepis, poster, rock-paper-scissors, Special Interest Groups, stabilisation dynamics, Stefano Allesina, Steven Sylvester, Sue Hartley, talk, workshop
Posted on February 26, 2016
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European Conference of Tropical Ecology Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 23-26 February 2016 This is my first time attending the European Conference of Tropical Ecology and my second visit to Germany. The conference attracted c. 350 delegates; big enough to have plenty of interesting science, and yet…
Category: Meeting, News, Reports, William GoslingTags: Achim Breuning, agricultural landscapes, Amazon, Amazonia, biogeography, carbon cycles, cartoon, Christina Ani Setyaaningsih, diversity, El Nino Southern Oscillation, ENSO, European Conference of Tropical Ecology, fig wasps, figs, floristic checklists, Freddie Draper, GBIF, georeferencing, Germany, GTO16, GTOe16, Kartika Hapsari, landscape change, Lourens Poorter, Martine Hossaert-McKay, Maximilian Weigend, metabolism, mutualism, Ravi Prabhu, remote sensing, resilience, Richard Corlett, Society for Tropical Ecology, Sue Page, Sumatra, Taxonomy, tropical peatlands, University Erlangen-Nurnberg, University Goettingen, University of Bonn, University of Leeds, vegetation community, volcanoes, Yadvinder Malhi
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