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Month: June 2019

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Fieldwork Part 2: A mid-trip interlude (April 29th – May 9th)

by Caitlyn Witkowski on Wednesday June 19th, 2019

The UMBRELLA team assembled even more of its members leading up to the second leg of this latest Spring 2019 expedition in China, meeting first in Xishuangbanna in Yunnan province and then Beijing before continuing on our journey to Tibet. First stop: Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Yunnan province …

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Fieldwork Part 1: from Maoming to Hainan (SE China)- 16th-28th April 2019

by Vittoria Lauretano on Wednesday June 5th, 2019

  The latest fieldwork for the UMBRELLA team brings us to south east China, in the regions of Guangdong and Hainan. Two new members are joining the team to continue exploring the potential of biomarker analysis in these sections: Caitlyn Witkowski and Vittoria Lauretano. We are also accompanied by Alexei Herman and Ksenia Domogatskaya, experts in …

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