Lynne Quick
@fynbospollen
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southern African palaeoenvironments Researcher @MandelaUni @The_Palaeolab @ACCPSouthAfrica
South Africa
Joined June 2010
Huge congratulations to our brilliant Palaeolab @MandelaUni @MandelaScience MSc graduates Luke Nel and Marishka Govender! Also in the picture is head of the lab @fynbospollen. #mandelagrad25 #palaeopride Swipe to see their respective thesis titles.
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The Palaeolab wishes you all a very happy New Year ✨️ Stay tuned to see what our students and collaborators get up to this year! @MandelaUni @fynbospollen @ACCPSouthAfrica
#science #newyear #research
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📣Our paper is Editor's Choice for the December issue of @EcographyJourna And respresents a key output from my @NRF_News African Origins Platform grant #research #palaeoecology @The_Palaeolab
@MandelaUni 🎓 https://t.co/1zlIqVxEzb
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The 2nd Mapping Ancient Africa paper is out "Highland forest dynamics across equatorial East Africa during the end of the African humid period" by @sjivory & colleagues in Quaternary International https://t.co/00obWI5qlm
@KabothBahr @rkinyanji @fynbospollen @INQUA #palaeoecology
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MAPPING ANCIENT AFRICA QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL SPECIAL ISSUE ARTICLE #2 Ivory, S.J., MacDougal, E., Mason, A., Pereboom, E., Garelick, S., Ficken, K., Wooller, M.J., Nakileza, B. & Russell, J.…
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Scientists have used pollen monitoring equipment to measure airborne microplastics for the first time. What did they find? MPs were detected in 95% of daily samples from sites in the UK and South Africa - with nylon the most abundant polymer. https://t.co/4Ivt8anZ7z
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Fire drives major Holocene vegetation shifts between subtropical and Mediterranean-type ecosystems: a case study from a biodiversity hotspot in South Africa https://t.co/Ty0ZxtwQTO
#Fire #VegetationChange #Palaeoecology @NordicOikos @WileyEcolEvol
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🎉New paper alert: A 6000-year pollen sequence reveals the pivotal role of🔥in shifting #SouthAfrica's Mediterranean-type vegetation to subtropical ecosystems🌿#GlobalChange #Palaeoecology
@EcographyJourna cc @Ese_Manzano @ChevalierManu @BAdriaanGrobler
https://t.co/EsW9hTUSja
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Fire plays a pivotal role in driving ecological shifts between Mediterranean-type vegetation and subtropical ecosystems in South Africa. This study investigates long-term environmental dynamics and...
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June highlights: fieldwork trips into the Cederberg & Succulent Karoo, great to be out with the Varsche Rivier archaeological team & exploring old & new landscapes 💚 #collaboration #research
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May highlights: fantastic #SASQUAXXIV congress with awards going to @The_Palaeolab & @ACCPSouthAfrica students 🏆, tour of the excellent #Boomplaas excavation & #fieldwork in the Cango Valley & Cape Fold belt mts
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And all the talks and poster presentations🤓 https://t.co/tXrPWD9ePP
#SASQUAXXIV #research #conference
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Officially, 4 days till #SASQUAXXIV Things to look forward to: 1. Adventure tour at the iconic Cango Caves 2. Tour of the Boomplaas Cave led by @justin_pargeter 3. Botany for non-botanist workshop led by @Ese_Manzano to learn how to do botany fieldwork without knowing botany
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Online seminar tomorrow for the @INQUA Mapping Ancient Africa project "Quaternary period seismicity on the West African Craton" by N’dji dit Jacques Dembele https://t.co/JwGQGbBLZB
#palaeoecology #palaeoclimate #archaeology #geology @KabothBahr @rkinyanji @sjivory @fynbospollen
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The next Mapping Ancient Africa seminar will take place online at 17:00 CEST on 16 May 2024. Speaker: N’dji dit Jacques Dembele (President of WAQUA, Université des sciences sociales et de gestion d…
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We are counting down to #SASQUAXXIV To start off, here are some video introductions of the students that will be attending the #congress See link below: https://t.co/nWPnIVmLnq
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Check out Stella's awesome work on #fire dynamics in the #CapeFloristicRegion #palaeoecology #research 🔥🌿 https://t.co/BuRLei2imF
New high-resolution paleofire record from the Cape Floristic Region tracking long-term linkages between moisture availability and fire! Spoiler: wetter conditions result in increased fire at this fuel-limited site! Check out the pre-proof here:
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The #newsletter is officially out! Check your emails to see 2023 #highlights from our incredible members.
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Save the date! and learn more about Nature's Fingerprints- #Biomarkers #StableIsotopes #Ethiopia #MAA Mapping Ancient Africa: Seminar 15 https://t.co/THkTW4U2ZF
@KabothBahr @palaeolim @sjivory @fynbospollen @INQUA
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The fifteenth Mapping Ancient Africa seminar will take place on 15 March 2024 (17:00 CET) Speaker: Bruk Lemma (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany; Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute –…
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❄️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 ( https://t.co/pyWKRFiUxA) sheds light on this icy chapter at #Boomplaas Cave
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Really great to have @PASTEvolve support two of the @The_Palaeolab 's Masters students this year🤩
What better way to celebrate #FossilFriday than by introducing our most recent PAST grant recipients! 🎉 Keep your 👀 on our page as we highlight these incredible origins science researchers. Congratulations to our awardees! Full list👇 https://t.co/yHxERrOn9g
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This interactive tour ( https://t.co/KzLV9ZXpb3) lets you explore various aspects of fieldwork at Boomplaas Cave in South Africa. The tour highlights several of the site's workstations & an incredible team of African-led researchers. @NSF @TheLeakeyFndtn @CSHO_NYU @SASQUA1
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