microscopic view of sunflower pollen grains on an acupuncture needle

Happy #FossilFriday and another awesome #FeatureFriday !

Meet Zahra Omarjee, Masters student in palaeoecology at University of KZN (@ukznpalaeolab). Zahra believes that studying the past is key to solving our most pressing current global challenge, climate change🌍
👉 past.org.za/grantee-zahra-…

electron microscope view of various pollen grains

Fire suppression makes wildfires more severe independent of fuel accumulation and climate change: Nature Communications

nature.com/articles/s4146…

What an amazing morning with Trevor Hill and Jemma Finch from #UKZN . Taking cores from the wetlands of the #Holley farm to create a pollen record for the area around our site #Holley Shelter. #Paleoenvironment Senckenberg Research Manuel Will Dr. Sara E. Rhodes

So proud of Asi Ntsondwa’s journey from the rural Eastern Cape to the bright lights of the big 🍎 where she’ll join NYU ANTHROPOLOGY’s PhD program. All thanks to excellent mentoring & guidance from Lynne Quick. The future of African Paleosciences is bright! CSHO @ NYU The Leakey Foundation

❄️Curious about the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and its impact on southern Africa's climates, environments, and human evolution? Our new #Quaternary Science Reviews paper (tinyurl.com/mwcfh948) sheds light on this icy chapter at #Boomplaas Cave

Shoutout to all the amazing Women in Science who make the Boomplaas archaeological project possible #WomenInScienceDay

Brilliant day in the mangroves today talking about climate, sea level and palaeoecology with learners from
Newlands East with UKZN Palaeoecology Laboratory in partnership with Jive Media Africa University of KZN and funded by National Research Foundation of South Africa #BeachwoodMangroves

Nozizwe Mtshali presenting her preliminary salt marsh foram data from the Berg Estuary on the West Coast of SA. Thanks PAST AFRICA National Research Foundation of South Africa for support. #PRIS #CAES UKZN Palaeoecology Laboratory University of KZN #sealevel #FossilFriday

Talia Enoch doing UKZN Palaeoecology Laboratory proud. Getting everyone excited about mangrove pollen and sea level #PRIS2023 #CAES University of KZN Lauren Pretorius

Exciting downcore phytoliths coming out of Josh van Schalkwyk’s Drakensberg wetland #PRIS #CAES UKZN Palaeoecology Laboratory University of KZN #grasslands Trevor Hill

An excellent report in The Conversation by Lynne Quick on our ongoing work to build high-resolution coupled terrestrial climate-vegetation records for the African MSA-LSA transition.

theconversation.com/pollen-in-pee-…

U.S. National Science Foundation The Leakey Foundation

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…

I’ve been feeling pretty down about the state of things but reading about Salona’s journey reminds me why I’m here. So proud to have worked with this incredibly inspiring #womaninscience Salona Reddy UKZN Palaeoecology Laboratory

Paper alert: An analysis and environmental interpretations of wood charcoal from the Later Stone Age deposit at #KlasiesRiver Cave 1, by Bongekile Zwane, Bamford, Van Wijk & sarahwurz doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb…

#klasiesriver #charcoal #environment #lsa #laterstoneage #tsitsikamma

Found more interesting ways that sedimentary charcoal can be used for INQUARoma2023
Bumped into this poster by Alexander Pecenko on determining reference and historic fire temperatures using macrocharcoal

And that’s a wrap for the @boomplaas 2023 season. Such a pleasure working with so many talented and diverse students and specialists from across Africa and the world. Many thanks to U.S. National Science Foundation and The Leakey Foundation for all the support. CSHO @ NYU NYCEP NYU ANTHROPOLOGY

An amazing day with the Boomplaas team in South Africa! Loved hearing about Adela Cebeiro’s work! She has such an incredible project!

Had a lot of fun inintroducing ochre to Boomplaas students. This team is amazing ! Thanks to all of them, Dr Gillian Wong and Justin Pargeter ❤️🤎💛🧡🖤