Talkin' Tropics

Talkin' Tropics


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Talkin' Tropics Ep. 5: Dr. Emma Rehn
March 22, 2022

Dr. Emma Rehn is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH), at James Cook University. Emma is a palaeoenvironmental scientist specializing in the recovery and analysis of macrocharcoal from sediment

Talkin' Tropics Ep. 4: Pamela Akuku
December 01, 2021

Pamela Akuku is a PhD student at IPHES, or the Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution) in Tarragona Spain, and the University of Calgary, Canada. Pam is a Kenyan archaeology

Talkin' Tropics Ep. 3: Dr. Makarius Itambu
September 24, 2021

Dr. Makarius Itambu is a Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology and Heritage management at University in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Mak’s research the nature and type of environments that were occupied by early humans and the plant environments surroundi

Talkin' Tropics Ep. 2: Nussaïbah Raja
August 13, 2021

Nussaïbah Raja is a PhD candidate in the Department of Paleontology at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Germany. Her research examines the response of coral reefs to climate change and examines changes in reefs over time through the analyses of regio

Talkin' Tropics Ep. 1: Dr. Chris Kiathipes
July 06, 2021

Dr. Chris Kiathipes is an environmental archaeologist and human paleoecologist who specializes in the recovery and analysis of plant microfossils. His research projects bring together archaeological and paleoecological methods to document the long-term in