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BSc projects

BSc Biology projects 2020-2021

  • Shanna Engelsman The effect of high and low eccentricity during the Middle and Upper Pleistocene on fire type and fire temperature (Advisor: William Gosling)
  • Lisanne C. van Hoeck The effect of drought on the aboveground biomass of plant functional groups (Advisors: Mariana Gliesch Silva and Franciska de Vries)
  • Matts Kessel A closer look into the past anthropogenic impact on modern forest composition in an Amazonian forest plot (Advisors: Crystal McMichael and Britte Heijink)
  • Amy de Leeuw Human occupation of Ghana forests, West africa, and modification of the environment (Advisor: William Gosling)
  • Wessel Mulder Pollinator response to artificial drought along a secondary successional gradient (Advisors: Mariana Gliesch Silva and Franciska de Vries)
  • Jordan Vermeulen Searching for cultivars (pollen) at lake Urumau, eastern Amazonia: Human occupation history over the last 3000 years (Advisor: Majoi Nascimento)

 

BSc Future Planet Studies projects 2020-2021

  • Esah Erisman Fire regimes of Pre-Colombian, European and quilombola people in lake São João of the last 1000 years (Advisor: Crystal McMichael and Majoi Nascimento)
  • Julia van Haaster A Thousand Year History of Human Cultivation around Lake São João in Brazil, Eastern Amazonia (Advisor: Crystal McMichael and Majoi Nascimento)
  • Thomas van Haastrecht 21th century hydrogen economy in the Netherlands (Advisor: John van Boxel and Albert Tietema)
  • Douwe de Maijer Effects of minimal tillage management on low flying insect abundance and meadow bird nests and behaviour in Dutch cauliflower fields (Advisors: Elly Morriën, Anne Uilhoorn, and Erik Cammeraat)
  • Saskia Overeem Justdiggit: Restoring vegetation by harvesting rainfall in Kenya (Advisor: John van Boxel and Harry Seijmonsbergen)
  • Laryssa Sluijter Charcoal as a proxy for reconstructing land use at the Huila bog site and the Quijos Valley, Ecuador (Advisors: Crystal McMichael and William Gosling)
  • Tijn Tjoelker Food forest carbon sensing remote- and proximal sensing opportunities for food forest carbon accounting (Advisors: Elly Morriën, Sven Jense [Climate Cleanup], and Roy Straver [Climate Cleanup])
  • Sanna Wessel Past dispersal of humans through the Quijos Valley, Ecuador, during 7200 years (Advisors: Crystal McMichael and William Gosling)