[APES Jobs] FW: [saabnet] MSc and PhD bursaries: Landscape-level assessment of plant resources available to early modern humans

[Bursaries, Employment and Career Opportunities in Environmental Fields]

Prof Kevin Balkwill

Professor in the School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences

Assistant Dean:  Staff Development in the Faculty of Science

University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, WITS, 2050, South Africa



Reverend Kevin Balkwill

Assistant Priest (self-supporting), Anglican Church of St Mark, Northriding



Work Telephone +27 (0) 11 717-6468 -- Fax number +27 (0) 11 -717-6494 or 086-553-6376

Home telephone number +27 (0) 11 782-7642 -- Cell number 072-417-6813

E-mail: Kevin.Balkwill at wits.ac.za

http://web.wits.ac.za/Academic/Science/APES/  http://www.wits.ac.za/pullenfarm
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Sent: 19 January 2015 09:24 PM
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Subject: [saabnet] MSc and PhD bursaries:  Landscape-level assessment of plant resources available to early modern humans

> The  climate  and  environment  of  the Cape  region  of  South
> Africa  has  caught  international attention  as  the  likely
> refuge  for  a  small  population  of  our  ancestors  during the
> exceptional  glacial  period  of  MIS6.  In  a  larger,
> multidisciplinary  and  international  collaboration  (over  30
> active  researchers  from  20  different  institutions)  we  are
> developing and testing a palaeoscape model to better understand the
> dynamic co-evolution of people, plants, and
> animals in this region. To better understand the environmental
> constraints on societal development atthis critical
> nexus  in  human  history, these  advertised  projects will address
> a  previously  unexplored knowledge  gap about  the
> resources to early humans. The aim is to obtain a deeper understanding
> of the contemporary plant nutritional base
> (including  the  biomass,  nutritional  content  and  an estimation
> of  nutritional  return  rates  of  foraging) over  a wide
> range of rainfall regimes and edaphic environments and a functional
> understanding of how this resourcebase would
> be affected by the lower levels of CO2, predicted to have occurred
> during MSI6. Refer to  Marean  et al. 2014

For more information see the attached circular.
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