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Post-doctoral fellowship opportunity
Join us… PCRG members on fieldwork in Ecuador The AXA Research Fund Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme is opening shortly! All applications must be pre-approved by the host institution so if you are… more →
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Fire in the forest
wrote 1 month ago: Landscape-scale death of native pine trees (Athrotaxis) in southwest Tasmania Visitors to the less t … more →
Post-doctoral fellowship opportunity
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wrote 5 months ago: Join us… PCRG members on fieldwork in Ecuador The AXA Research Fund Postdoctoral Fellowship sc … more →
Two studentships avaliable
wrote 5 months ago: Two NERC algorithm funded PhD studentships are currently available with the PCRG. The projects are f … more →
Monotonic deshrinking in weighted averaging models
wrote 5 months ago: Weighted averaging regression and calibration is the most widely used method for developing a palaeo … more →
A new version of analogue for a new year
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wrote 5 months ago: Yesterday I rolled up a new version (0.10-0) of analogue, my R package for analysing palaeoecologica … more →
Seminar on Historical Ecology by Paul Humphries: "Making the Dead Speak"
wrote 7 months ago: On the 1st of November I gave a seminar in a series on water in the Murray-Darling Basin entitled Ma … more →
Year 2 Geographers explore Environmental Change and Human Impact in the Central Pennines
wrote 7 months ago: On 24th October, year 2 students from the degrees of Geography, Geog-Geol. and Earth Sciences set of … more →
Sediment sampling on the Andean flank, Ecuador
wrote 8 months ago: One of the key goals of the fieldtrip to Ecuador (August-September) was to sample organic and volcan … more →
Fieldwork: Papallacta and Cosanga
wrote 9 months ago: The second part of our Ecuadorian expedition took in lakes and sections close to the towns of Papall … more →
Dinosaurs-Two Closely Timed Extinctions
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wrote 9 months ago: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cobalt/ As soon as you mention dinosaurs most children’s eyes light up, … more →
Palaeoecology of Africa and the Surrounding Islands, Volume 27: Proceedings of the 25th Inqua Confe
wrote 9 months ago: These papers derive from a workshop on “Quaternary Sedimentary Records in Central Africa and t … more →
Processing sample labels using regular expressions in R
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wrote 10 months ago: I am often found in possession of palaeo core data where the sample identifiers contain a core code … more →
What's wrong with LOESS for palaeo data?
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wrote 11 months ago: Locally weighted scatterplot smoothing (LOWESS) or local regression (LOESS) is widely used to highli … more →
Numerical Analysis of Biological and Environmental Data
wrote 1 year ago: Particpants on the Numerical Analysis course 2012: Lottie Miller, Guiomar Sanchez, Maria Rubio, John … more →
Measuring change in freshwater ecosystems: contemporary and palaeoecology of freshwater mussels
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wrote 1 year ago: By Christine Reid, PhD candidate, Charles Sturt University A change is as good as a holiday? Well, s … more →
Amazonia before Columbus
wrote 1 year ago: Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space & Astronomical Research invited lecture Amazonia before Colum … more →
Salt lake research: how to find the salt lake using the fossil footprints
wrote 1 year ago: I was always amazed by fossils. The fact that somebody left the footprint several millions years ago … more →
Quantitative palaeolimnology: my book chapters are finally out!
wrote 1 year ago: Today I received confirmation that the delayed fifth volume in the Developments in Palaeoenvironment … more →
Course: Analysing Palaeolimnological Data with R
wrote 1 year ago: Update: As of 18 April 2012 the course is now fully subscribed. Should you wish to be placed on a wa … more →
