By: Julieth Serrano and Monica Amador At the top of the mountains gathered more than 60 attendees including undergraduate and postgraduate students, senior researchers, and representatives from NERC and ColombiaBio. During this public engagement event we used short films, storytelling and interactive games to highlight the importance of high altitude ecosystems in the Andes […]
by Ismael GarcĆa Espinoza, MSc student in Geography, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede BogotĆ” (Comments: Dunia H. Urrego) It is an exciting āand strangeā thing to arrive, for the first time, to a country knowing that it will be your home for longer than a month. It all gets even quirkier when you discover […]
In June 2019, the BioResilience project palaeoecology team visited and sampled lakes from contrasting regions in terms of natural ecosystems and cultures. We crossed the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia from the lowland forests in the mid-Magdalena Valley to High Andean forest in the Cundiboyacense Plateau, covering an altitudinal transect from 200 to 3000 m asl. […]
The BioResilience soil field team is currently led by Dr Carmen Montes,Ā Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia UNAD de Colombia, in collaboration with Dr Julieth Serrano and Dr Ted Feldpausch (project PI) from the University of Exeter, UK. Dr Montes went to the field to sample soil at 12 plots at La Serrania de las […]
In the high Andean forests around āPantano de Martosā (Swamp of Martos), in Colombia, the BioResilienceās ecology team gathered in the field to measure forest diversity and the response of the Andean forest to variables of change.
Suggested Dissonance is an invitation to an artistic research process by sharing cross-sectional narratives to questions and encounters. This path will take us through the forest, the relational, the interdisciplinary, the sense of belonging, the notion of place, exchange and dialogue between different kinds of knowledge which are intertwined concepts in a space in between. […]
The BioResilience project works across a gradient of forest types in Colombia, ranging from wet to dry forests, and representing structurally intact, degraded forests, and silvopastural systems. This film provides an excellent overview of the importance of dry forests in the tropics.