Freddie Draper off on fieldwork for five months
Freddie is returning to Peru for the second spell of fieldwork for his PhD project on the historical ecology of Peruvian peatlands.
New paper on the hydraulic conductivity of Peruvian peat
“The high hydraulic conductivity of three wooded tropical peat swamps in northeast Peru: measurements and implications for hydrological function” by Tom Kelly, Andy Baird, Katy Roucoux, Tim Baker, Euridice Honorio Coronado, Marcos Ríos, and Ian Lawson has been published by the journal Hydrological Processes. This is the first article from Tom Kelly’s PhD research and … Read more
European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna
Tom Kelly presented a poster, “The high hydraulic conductivity of three wooded tropical peat swamps in northeast Peru: measurements and implications for hydrological function”. You can read the abstract here.
New paper on the pollen record from Quistococha, Peru
“Vegetation development in an Amazonian peatland” by Katy Roucoux, Ian Lawson, Tim Jones, Tim Baker, Euridice Honorio Coronado, Will Gosling and Outi Lähteenoja has been published in the journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. It presents our first pollen diagram from Peru, charting the development of the Quistococha peatland over the last three millennia. The article is … Read more
Radiocarbon dates funded
Ian Lawson and Tom Kelly have been awarded further radiocarbon dates in support of Tom’s project. The application “Peatland development in Abandoned River Channels in the Peruvian Amazon” has been awarded NERC allocation number 1621.0312, approximate value £5200.
Tropical peat meeting at Leicester University
Greta Dargie, Freddie Draper, Tom Kelly, Katy Roucoux and Ian Lawson attended this discussion meeting, which Ian chaired. Greta gave a presentation about her recent fieldwork in the Republic of Congo.
European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna
Katy Roucoux presented a poster, Abrupt vegetation transitions characterise long-term Amazonian peatland development (authors KH Roucoux, TR Baker, WD Gosling, E. Honorio Coronado, TD Jones, O Lähteenoja, and IT Lawson), on the palynological and sedimentological results from core QT-2010-1 from Quistococha, Peru. You can read the abstract here.
BES TEG meeting
Freddie Draper and Tom Kelly gave presentations on their projects at a meeting of the Tropical Ecology Group of the British Ecological Society at Imperial College.
Tropical peat meeting at Leicester University
Katy Roucoux and Ian Lawson led a one-day meeting which involved presentations of new projects and data, and discussions of some common methodological problems faced by tropical peatland researchers.
Fieldwork in the Congo
Greta Dargie, Ian Lawson and Simon Lewis spent several weeks in the Republic of Congo searching for peatlands. Greta’s PhD research, in collaboration with WCS Congo, aims to make the first systematic study of peatlands in the Congo Basin, developing the same kinds of themes that our group has been working on in Peru. Recent … Read more