Paleoenvironment Course
This course equips learners with essential skills to analyze paleoenvironments by integrating sediments, fossils, artifacts, and dating techniques with real-world landscapes. Participants will construct reliable chronologies, minimize uncertainties, and produce professional reports that advance environmental research and management practices in a Canadian context.

4 to 360h flexible workload
certificate valid in your country
What will I learn?
Gain hands-on expertise in reconstructing past environments using field and lab data from sediments, terraces, fossils, pollen, charcoal, and artifacts. Master key dating techniques like radiocarbon and OSL to develop accurate chronologies, while practicing sampling, stratigraphic analysis, and synthesis for authoritative paleoenvironmental assessments.
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Develop skills
- Archaeological interpretation: quickly analyze faunal, charcoal, and lithic evidence.
- Stratigraphy and sedimentology: accurately log valley deposits and terrace sequences.
- Chronology building: apply radiocarbon, OSL, and U-series dating to sites.
- Paleoenvironmental proxies: interpret pollen, fossils, and isotopes for past climates.
- Integrated reconstruction: combine field data into comprehensive paleoenvironment reports.
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