OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
Online seminar followed by Q&A – all welcome. NB – all times given in UK time.
Mark Bush is a Professor of Biology at the Florida Institute of Technology. He earned his BSc, and PhD at the University of Hull, UK. He was a post-doc at The Ohio State University and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. In 1992 he was appointed to the faculty of Duke University before meeting his wife who wanted to move to a warmer climate. He has been faculty at Florida Tech since 1996.
His research sits at the nexus of biogeography, ecology, paleoclimatology and archaeology in the Andes and Amazonia. He uses the microfossils and chemistry of lake sediment cores to recreate past environments and determine how systems have changed through time. Some of his work is on relatively long time-scales, looking at the last 1,000,000 years, whereas the same techniques are also applied to looking at changes of the last few decades.
