People can make forests MORE resilient... #Anthropocene #ConservationOptimism 🧑🏽‍🤝‍🧑🏽🌳🔥🌳✅ Past human‐induced ecological legacies as a driver of modern Amazonian resilience Crystal McMichael People and Nature besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pa…

Had an opportunity to give a talk at Ecological Society 2023 and represent Neotropical Paleoecology lab at Florida Tech with a talk on Paleoecology and Paleoclimate in NW Amazon, and how that informs us on possible climate tipping points. Majoi Nascimento Crystal McMichael Mark Bush

🌳🔍 Exciting insights from our latest study in PNASNews! We've delved "underground" into the dynamics of forests and savannas, looking at the role of the water table in shaping these environments. Curious about our findings? Let's dive in! 🧵buff.ly/3qoOO6u 1/5

"Fire in the clouds" now out from Majoi Nascimento How did shifting use of fire shape an Andean biodiversity hotspot? #biodiversity #fire #palaeoecology #Andes #charcoal #spectroscopy ecologyofthepast.info/2023/08/29/fir… Ecosystem & Landscape Dynamics (ELD) department IBED Crystal McMichael Dr S. Yoshi Maezumi Mark Bush

Palaeoecology course 2023 is up and running Ecosystem & Landscape Dynamics (ELD) department IBED UvA Faculty of Science students learning identification skills, gaining field work experience & mastering multi-variate statistics - & learning about how the world around came to be the way it is! ecologyofthepast.info/2023/09/06/pal…

New paper! Freeze-drying #sediments results in a loss of #charcoal recovery, which can skew analyses of past #fire regimes. With Majoi Nascimento William Gosling Mark Bush Dr S. Yoshi Maezumi and others! IBED Ecosystem & Landscape Dynamics (ELD) department UvA Faculty of Science sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New record of fire temperatures in Peru shows how fire use shaped biodiverse Andean forests over the last 2100 years. High temperature fires linked to slash-and-burn Maíz cultivation until 800 CE, follwoing by increased humidity and forest regrowth. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Presenting at the ‘Archaeology beyond the decade’ conference in 30min! You can join online via sites.google.com/view/archaeolo… 🌴

Another great PhD offer to combine geochemistry from speleothems & lakes to reconstruct past temperatures and explore in depth past climate changes! A project led by almighty Ana Moreno Caballud & Blas Valero Garces. Find more details here: saco.csic.es/index.php/s/LP… #PaleoIPERocks Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología

🚨Environmental disaster here at Lake Tefé, in Central Amazon More than 100 river dolphins dead in the last few days due to the drought At inst_mamiraua, in collab with many institutions, we are struggling to help them and understand the actual causes

Amsterdam’s plan to remove 11,200 parking spaces from its streets by the end of 2025 is even more inspiring when we realize the kind of people-places that are possible where cars used to be. Example — #Amsterdam’s Elandsgracht between 2014 & 2019, via Thomas Schlijper’s great pics.

The funk lecture is approaching! Register and schedule now👇 biogeography.org/news/news/octo…

Our new paper on proxies used to detect pre-Columbian Indigenous land use is now out in Quaternary Science Reviews!! With William Gosling Carolina Levis Frans Bongers @frankmayle and more!! sciencedirect.com/science/articl… IBED Ecosystem & Landscape Dynamics (ELD) department Science Panel for the Amazon

Thursday was the PE&RC Day 2023 on Disease Ecology with interesting presentations by Wim van der Poel, Helen Esser and Marjolein Bruijning. Congratulations again to Nina for winning the Call for Institutional Collaboration! 🥳

Thursday I won the Institutional Call for Collaboration at the PE&RC day!🎉 Can’t wait to work with prof. Marielos Peña Claros and Crystal McMichael on sustainable forest management in #Amazonia! 🌴🇸🇷 #womeninSTEM #ecology

Patrick Jansen 🐾 Heimans & Thijsse St Het doet er toe. Ik snap dat je je publiek lastig kunt kiezen (hoewel je dat danig beperkt als je je symposium op een zaterdag plant), maar je kunt echt wel wat moeite doen om een diverse groep sprekers neer te zetten.

In a new article in Scientific Reports I find that male PhD students are almost twice as likely than female PhD students to obtain a cum laude distinction for their dissertation. A cum laude is very rare, and only awarded to 5% of Dutch PhD students. 1/5 OA: nature.com/articles/s4159…

New #paper out today on the Journal of Quaternary Science today, looking at the “Influence of flooding variability in the development of an Amazonian peatland”! Proud to finally share some of the results from my #PhD!! Many thanks to all the co-authors. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

Suriname’s Saamaka Maroons still grow rice from seeds an ancestor escaping from a plantation carried in her hair. Now a gene bank seeks to widen use of the rare species to help fight the climate crisis. My story for the The Guardian 🌾🇸🇷👇 theguardian.com/environment/20…

The UvA Amsterdam has opened a fund to provide assistance in Gaza. You can read more about it and donate here: medewerker.uva.nl/en/executive-s…