Our fourth BAP MORS of 2024! These seminars are a great way to learn and connect with our international team on a regular basis. October 29, 2024: Peter Rowley-Conwy (University of Durham). “Mesolithic and Neolithic in southern Scandinavia: what did the farmers have that the hunter-gathers wanted?” Thank you to Peter for presenting his fun and interesting research!
Congratulations to Lauren Michelman, former Master's student supervised by Dr. Angela Lieverse, University of Saskatachewan, on the recent publication of her BAP thesis in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology! Title: Reading between the lines: A study of Harris lines in Middle Holocene foragers of the Cis-Baikal Authors: Michelman LM, Bazaliiskii VI, Weber AW, Lieverse AR. Abstract: With the increase in global wildfire activity in response to global climate warming, the reconstruction of long-term fire histories and their links to environmental and anthropogenic factors [...]
Alexandra Vasilyeva and Larisa Savelieva recently presented a paper at the 6th International 'Paleolimnology of Northern Eurasia' Conference in Krasnoyarsk, 24-29 August. The BAP-related research study, conducted by BAP students Alexandra Vasilyeva (as part of her Master's program at University of St. Petersburg) and Aleksandra Krikunova (PhD program at Freie Universitaet, Berlin) under the supervision of Dr. Larisa Savelieva and Professor Pavel Tarasov, examines the features of pollen-based vegetation modeling using Holocene pollen records from lakes in the Ladoga-Onega [...]
Congratulations to Aleksandra Krikunova and co-authors on the recent publication of their article in Quaternary Science Reviews! Title: Vegetation and fire history of the Lake Baikal Region since 32 ka BP reconstructed through microcharcoal and pollen analysis of lake sediment from Cis- and Trans-Baikal Authors: Krikunova AI, Kobe F, Long T, Leipe C, Gliwa J, Shchetnikov AA, Olschewski P, Hoelzmann, P, Wagner M, Bezrukova EV, Tarasov, PE. Abstract: With the increase in global wildfire activity in response to global climate [...]
Congratulations to Richard Arlt who successfully defended his BAP-related Master’s thesis on August 9, 2024! Richard is a Master’s of Science in Geology student at Freie Universität Berlin, under the supervision of Prof. Pavel Tarasov. Title: Lateglacial and Holocene fire history in the Upper Lena (Baikal Region, Siberia) based on the results of microcharcoal analysis of the sediment core recovered from Lake Ochaul in 2018. Congratulations, Richard! The attached photo shows a happy Richard in his garden after the [...]
Great news! A monumental achievement! After many years of blood, sweat and tears, we offer BIG congratulations to Editors Andrzej W. Weber, Vladimir I. Bazaliiskii, Erin Jessup and all contributing authors on the publication of their new three-volume book! The book was published and funded by the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (German Archaeological Society). A BIG thank you to Series Editors Mayke Wagner and Dominic Hosnerfor all their hard work bringing this epic project to fruition. The monograph is [...]
Congratulations to Linda-Helen Habermann (Freie Universität Berlin) for successfully passing her BSc Thesis! She was supervised by Prof. Pavel Tarasov in the Palaeontology division of the Institute of Geological Sciences, at Freie Universität Berlin. Her BAP-related thesis was entitled "Pollen analysis as an effective approach for stratigraphic and chronological correlation: A case study of two sediment cores from Lake Ochaul, Cis-Baikal Siberia". Both Reviewers gave her the highest Note 1. Read about her research here Congratulations to Linda, who [...]
Double whammy! Congratulations to Jennifer Laughton (Ph.D. student University of Alberta) on successfully passing her Candidacy exam on June 11th! Jennifer was also the recipient of a Graduate Student Teaching Award in recognition of excellence in the performance of teaching assistant duties at the University of Alberta. She was 1 of 14 students from the Faculty of Arts who received the award in April of this year. Way to go, Jen! Read about her research here [...]
Corrie Hyland (BAP PhD student, University of Oxford) recently participated in a public outreach event hosted by the Oxford Museum of Natural History called “Museums Late Night: Water World”. The evening event was held on Friday, May 17 and was based on a wide range of research around the theme of freshwater. She had a great time hosting a stall and talking to people during the event! Corrie’s stall for this event included a poster on reservoir effect corrections [...]
We have a new BAP team member! Alexandra Vasilyeva graduated from the Institute of Earth Sciences, St. Petersburg State University, Russia, and successfully defended her Master’s thesis on pollen analysis under the supervision of Dr. Larisa Savelieva. For her Master's research, Alexandra compared fossil pollen spectra, subrecent (relatively modern) spectra and vegetation composition of the Lake Ladoga Region, Russia, using numerical analyses to reconstruct the vegetation of the region applying pollen-based modelling methods. Her research interests include paleoecological and [...]
