Posted on September 27, 2018 by WDG
The Institute for Biodiversity & Ecosystem Dynamics is currently seeking two people to enhance our Computational Support team: Database manager and developer Geo-informatician Click links for further details and how to apply. The closing date for both posts is 7 October 2018.
Category: News, William GoslingTags: big data, Biology, Computational Support, Computing, Data Science, Database developer, Database manager, Earth, ecology, Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics, ELD, environmental sciences, EPB, evolution, Evolutionary and Population biology, Faculty of Science, FAME, Freshwater and Marine Ecology, Geo-informatician, geospatial data, geostatistics, GIS, IBED, Informatics, Institute for Biodiversity & Ecosystem Dynamics, meta-data management, relational databases, spatial data, TCE, Theoretical and Computational Ecology, University of Amsterdam, UvA
Posted on November 30, 2017 by cmcmicha
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 October 27, 2017 by WDG
Researchers in the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED) at the University of Amsterdam have been studying the páramos and Andean ecosystems for over 50 years. These highly diverse ecosystems are currently restricted to mountain-tops (resembling an archipelago of islands in the sky),…
Posted on July 18, 2017 by WDG
This year 15 (fifteen!) bachelors students completed their research projects in palaeoecology based within the Department of Ecosystem & Landscape Dynamics at the University of Amsterdam. The students had a variety of backgrounds with the majority coming from the BSc Biology and the BSc…
Category: Reports, Teaching, William GoslingTags: Amazonian, analytical chemistry, Andean, Andes, Bachelor, biogeography, BSc, ecology, Ecosystem & Landscape Dynamics, geographical information systems, GIS, Institute for Biodiversity & Ecosystem Dynamics, modelling, Netherlands, palaeoecology, paleoecology, project, research, students, Thesis, University of Amsterdam
Posted on January 23, 2015 by WDG
Flantua, S.G.A., Hooghiemstra, H., Van Boxel, J.H., Cabrera, M., Gonzlez-Carranze, Z., Gonzlez-Arrango, C. (2014) Connectivity dynamics since the last glacial maximum in the northern Andes: a pollen-driven framework to assess potential migration. Monographs Systematic Botany Missouri Botanical Garden, 128: 98-123. In: Stevens, W.D., Montiel,…
PCRG COMPLETE AGAIN I am glad to say that after almost two months out of the office running around with 8 bags of equipment, Frazer and I have finished our tour of the Americas. As the work has been so diverse, we would like…
Category: Encarni Montoya, Field work, Frazer Bird, MeetingTags: Amazonia, Casa Cultural Trude-Sojka, Cayambe, Chironomidae, Coca, Dirección de Educación Hispana, Ecuador, Estación Biológica Pindo Mirador, fieldwork, FIT, Florida Institute of Technology, Geobambu, GIS, Instituto Geofísico de Quito, International Biogeography Symposium, Laguna Pindo, Lake Chalalan, Lake Consuelo, lake surface sediments, Mark Bush, non pollen palynomorphs, Patricia Mothes, Polylepis, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Ecuador, Puyo, Quito, R, Susana León Yánez
Posted on October 31, 2012 by WDG
The back end of September and October has been very busy as I have tried to catch up with the teaching, administration and research activity which somewhat accumulated whilst on field work! Major tasks have been: 1) the marking and coordination for level 3 Geological Record of Environmental Change…
