Posted on April 5, 2019
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Amazonia – natural wilderness or abandoned parkland? By Judith Kirschner (currently studying for MSc Earth Sciences: Geo-ecological Dynamics track at the University of Amsterdam) In the 4th edition of our “Amsterdam Paleoecology Club” (APC), we discussed ‘A 6900-year history of landscape modification by humans…
Category: ReadingTags: Amazonia, Andes, charcoal, cultural parkland, fire history, Geo-ecological Dynamics, Lake Sauce, Landscape, MSc Earth Sciences, Peru, pollen
Posted on November 6, 2018
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The 2018 edition of the University of Amsterdam masters course “Environments Through Time” is now up and running. The course sits at the interface between ecology, physical geography and archaeology and seeks to provide students with a better understanding of how long-term (>100’s years)…
Category: Reports, Teaching, William GoslingTags: archaeology, chronology, climate, ecology, Environments through time, Global Charcoal Database, land use, land-use change, MSc Biological Sciences, MSc Earth Sciences, multi-proxy, Neotoma, NOAA, Pangea, past environmental change, physical geography, time-series analysis, vegetation
Posted on November 19, 2017
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The second and third weeks of the Environments Through Time course at the University of Amsterdam has focused on obtaining practical experience of developing chronologies, analyzing multi-variate data-sets, and conducting time series analysis. The focus of the course has been on Quaternary environmental change,…
Category: Reports, Teaching, William GoslingTags: archaeology, Bayesian, calibration, chronology, Earth Sciences, Ecology and evolution, Environments through time, Geoecological dynamics, Geology, IBED, Masters, MSc Biological Sciences, MSc Earth Sciences, ordination, palaeoecology, physical geography, Radiocarbon, time series, University of Amsterdam, UvA, wavelete
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
