Posted on July 16, 2018
by WDG
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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 28, 2017
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Two articles recently published on-line in the journal Vegetation History & Archaebotany (of which I am an Associate Editor) recently caught my attention.These explore: agricultural practices of people living in the Netherlands c. 3000-2000 years ago (Arnoldussen & van der Linden, 2017), and what…
Category: Reading, William GoslingTags: ancient agriculture, animals, archaeobotany, Bronze Age, Celtic fields, charcoal, Chultun, Climate change, drums, feast, geochemistry, Guatemala, La Corona, macrobotanical, Maya, Netherlands, north-west Europe, pit, plants, pollen, Raarakker, raised bed agriculture, ritual, Roman period, Vegetation History & Archaeobotany, whistles
Posted on October 9, 2014
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As part of the “500,000 years of solar irradiance, climate and vegetation changes” Natural Environments Research Council funded (NE/K005294/1) project we have produced a wall chart explaining the type of research we do and how it can help to place on-going, and projected, climate change in…
Category: Adele Julier, Online resources, Phil Jardine, William GoslingTags: BES, British Ecological Society, change, climate, Climate change, eduction, fossil pollen, fossil record, Future, Ghana, Lake Bosumtwi, Natural Environments Research Council, NERC, Open University, Oxford Brooks University, plants, prediction, radiation, response, Schools, solar, solar irradiance, university, University of Nottingham, vegetation, vegetation changes, wall chart, wall charts
Posted on May 26, 2014
by philjardine
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Following on from Wes Fraser’s insightful and revealing interview, cactus-hugger Adele Julier tells us about her academic background and her role on the Lake Bosumtwi pollen chemistry project. For more videos check out the “Ecology of the past” YouTube channel.
Category: Adele Julier, Online resources, Phil JardineTags: A level Biology, Africa, BES, Botany, British Ecological Society, careers, chemistry, Degree, ecology, Lake Bosumtwi, Masters, Maths, modern pollen, Natural Science, NERC, plants, pollen, pollen chemistry, pollen wall, science, vegetation
