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Pre-Columbian landuse and legacy effects in Amazonia

July 16, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm BST

- Free

Ecological legacies of human disturbance in Amazonian forest

A recording of this online seminar is available to view HERE

Speaker:  Prof Mark Bush, Institute for Global Ecology, Florida Institute of Technology

Mark Bush is a Professor of Biology at the Florida Institute of Technology. He earned his BSc, and PhD at the University of Hull, UK. He was a post-doc at The Ohio State University and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. In 1992 he was appointed to the faculty of Duke University before meeting his wife who wanted to move to a warmer climate. He has been faculty at Florida Tech since 1996. His research sits at the nexus of biogeography, ecology, paleoclimatology and archaeology in the Andes and Amazonia. He uses the microfossils and chemistry of lake sediment cores to recreate past environments and determine how systems have changed through time. Some of his work is on relatively long time-scales, looking at the last 1,000,000 years, whereas the same techniques are also applied to looking at changes of the last few decades.

Details

Date:
July 16, 2021
Time:
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm BST
Cost:
Free
Website:
https://bookwhen.com/octf#focus=ev-sudr-20210716160000

Venue

Online
United Kingdom
Website:
http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/contact.html

Organiser

Jane Applegarth
Email:
jane.applegarth@eci.ox.ac.uk

Details

Date:
July 16, 2021
Time:
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm BST
Cost:
Free
Website:
https://bookwhen.com/octf#focus=ev-sudr-20210716160000

Venue

Online
United Kingdom
Website:
http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/contact.html

Organiser

Jane Applegarth
Email:
jane.applegarth@eci.ox.ac.uk