Tag: fieldwork
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 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 August 22, 2016
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Enhancing Fieldwork Learning Showcase 2016 University of Reading, Whiteknights Campus 12-13th September 2016 Sign up to attend this years showcase which will include: Nocturnal camera trapping Underwater camera work Field microscopy Drones in teaching and research. Virtual fieldwork Using e-books as lab notes Linking…
Category: News, William GoslingTags: BES, British Ecological Society, camera trapping, citizen science, e-books, ecology, education, Enhancing fieldwork learning, field notes, fieldwork, Geography, Geology, microscopy, teaching, technology, University of Reading, virtual fieldwork
Posted on November 2, 2015
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How to assemble a coring equipment to collect lake deposits A new video from Boromir Bogumil on the operation of a Geo-core piston corer:
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
Posted on September 29, 2014
by Valerie
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Last week, Will – our new associate professor at the University of Amsterdam – joined us on the field residential module of the undergraduate “Paleoecology” course; 7 days exploring the sediments and vegetation of the Twente region of the Netherlands. The experience provided Will…
Category: Reports, Teaching, Valerie van den BosTags: chironomids, field module, fieldwork, microfossils, microscope, palaeoecology, paleoecology, pollen, teaching, Twente, undergraduate, University of Amsterdam, UvA, Vera hypothesis
Posted on September 16, 2014
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My final teaching job for The Open University was to help deliver the “Sedimentary Rocks & Fossils in the Field” section of the Level 2 Practical Science module (SXG288) offered by the Science Faculty. I have been involved in all three presentations of this…
Category: Comments, Reports, Teaching, William GoslingTags: Coe, collective learning, Earth Science, ecology, Environmental Science, Field, fieldwork, fossil, fun, Geography, Geological field techniques, Geology, group work, OU, Rock, sediment, Sedimentary Rocks, Sedimentary Rocks and Fossils, students, SXG288, teaching, team work, The Open University, tutors, undergraduate, university, University of Amsterdam, UvA, Wiley
Posted on September 8, 2014
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Hayley Keen’s video “Past environmental change in the Amazon basin” has been shortlisted for the American Geophysical Union (AGU) student video prize. Please watch and like Hayley’s video; top “Liked” videos will win entry to the AGU 2014 Fall meeting. View all the videos…
Category: Hayley Keen, Online resourcesTags: 2014, AGU, Amazon, Amazonia, American Geophysical Union, biodiversity, Climate change, ecology, Ecuador, environmental change, Fall meeting, fieldwork, forest, fossil, fossil record, Hayley Keen, macrofossil, Neotropics, palynology, pollen, Quaternary, the Amazon basin, The Open University, vegetation, video, wood
Posted on December 13, 2013
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Three members of the PCRG (William Gosling, Encarni Montoya and Nick Loughlin) visited Ecuador (November-December 2013) to develop collaborations with Ecuadorian institutions, recover more lake sediments, and find new potential sites for projects. Below are some photos from: Lake Pindo, Lake Huila, and Lake Erazo. Full…
Category: Field work, William GoslingTags: Amazon basin, Andes, cloud forest, cows, eastern Andean flank, Ecuador, Encarni Montoya and Nick Loughlin, Erazo, fieldwork, Huila, Instituto Geofisico, Lake, Lakes, Livingstone corer, mountains, palaeoecology, past environmental change, Pindo, Pindo Mirador, Pindo Mirador Biological Station, Quaternary, sediment, Universidad Tecnológica Equinoccial, UTE, volcanoes, western Amazonia, William Gosling
Posted on October 14, 2013
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Hello! I’m Adele and I started my PhD about a week ago. It’s been a little intense but I can almost find the lab without a map now, so it is probably time to introduce myself. I’ll be studying pollen-vegetation relationships in Ghana, as…
Category: Adele Julier, NewsTags: 500000 years, BA, Biodiversity and Taxonomy of Plants, chemical taxonomy, climate, Edinburgh, field work, fieldwork, Ghana, Lake Bosumtwi, Magdalene College, Malvaceae, modern pollen-vegetation, MSc, Natural Science, organo-chemical palynology, PhD, Plant Science, Plants in real life, pollen chemistry, pollen traps, Royal Botanic Gardens, solar irradiance, University of Cambridge, vegetation
Posted on October 2, 2013
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Having been away for half of the month I asked people to provide a summary of what they have been up to. Here is what they admitted to… Natalie Ludgate and Lottie Miller have submitted their theses! Well done. Hayley Keen: “Continual pollen counting,…
Category: News, William GoslingTags: ACCA, Asociación para la Conservación de la Cuenca Amazónica, Banos, Bosumtwi, chironomids, Ecuador, Evolution and Systematics, fieldwork, geochemistry, Ghana, Intecol, Marcacocha, midges, Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Peru, PhD submission, Pindo, seminars, wood macrofossils
Posted on July 17, 2013
by WDG
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When it comes to collecting sediments from lakes its all about having the right tools for the job. Working in remote areas of the tropics we tend to favour the Colinvaux-Vohnout corer; supplied by Vince Vohnout at Geo-core). The advantages of this system are: its…
Category: Comments, William GoslingTags: Andes, Avon Redstart, Bolivia, Colinvaux-Vohnout, Core, Coring, Donkey, fieldwork, gravity corer, International Paleolimnology Association, IPA, Lake, limnology, Livingstone corer, Peru, platform, sediments
Teaching in the field: Foundations, feedback and fun
Posted on September 16, 2014 by WDG
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My final teaching job for The Open University was to help deliver the “Sedimentary Rocks & Fossils in the Field” section of the Level 2 Practical Science module (SXG288) offered by the Science Faculty. I have been involved in all three presentations of this…
Category: Comments, Reports, Teaching, William GoslingTags: Coe, collective learning, Earth Science, ecology, Environmental Science, Field, fieldwork, fossil, fun, Geography, Geological field techniques, Geology, group work, OU, Rock, sediment, Sedimentary Rocks, Sedimentary Rocks and Fossils, students, SXG288, teaching, team work, The Open University, tutors, undergraduate, university, University of Amsterdam, UvA, Wiley