Out this week in the journal Science member of the UMBRELLA team, Prof. Robert Spicer, has publihed new and exciting research examining the originsn of our modern plant diversity. Many readers may even be familiar with many of these plant specieis as they are also common in many of our back gardens. An international team …
Back in the field! While we in the UK languish in lockdown our colleagues in China has returned to Tibet to start fieldwork in the western Gangdese Mountains, SW Tibet. Despite the recent resurgence of the virus in Being an UMBRELLA group from XTBG and Yunnan University recently arrived in Lhasa in preparation for this …
The phrase ‘the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau’ permeates the scientific literature, extending even into the realms of molecular phylogeny. It implies that this enormous and almost flat-surfaced portion of Earth’s surface rose as a coherent entity, and that uplift was driven entirely by the collision and northward movement of India. In a study published …
The East Asian monsoon covers much of the largest continent on Earth leading to rain in the summer in Japan, the Koreas and lots of China. Ultimately, more than 1.5 billion people depend on the water it provides for agriculture, industry and hydroelectric power. Understanding the monsoon is essential. That is why colleagues and I …
UK-China impact festival On Tuesday 8th November the UMBRELLA team was invited to be part of the first UK-China festival of science. This is event showcased the latest research being jointly developed collaboratively between both nations with the UMBRELLA-BETR project specially invited to showcase some of the latest cutting-edge work in the impact of climate …
September saw the UMBRELLA team all gather together in XTGB once again for a series of meeting’s, paper discussions and project targets, however we were also very excited to have a general meeting with the other two BETR projects (BETR – Proterozoic-Phanerozoic transition & BETR – Eco-PT) joining us for a general meeting and workshop. This brought …
The focus of this fieldwork was to pick up where we left off on the 2nd Fieldwork trip back in October 2017 to study three more Cenozoic basins in Yunnan. This time Jan Peter Mayser flew alone over to China on the 15.01.2018 and met up there with Bob Spicer, Tao Su, Huang Jian and …
Update 26th October – 2017: A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between University of Bristol and Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) on October 25. As representatives of the two sides, Prof. Paul Jonathan Valdes and Prof. Chen Jin signed the agreement. According to the MoU, the two sides will join hands to improve training and scientific research …
