Willem Koster

Institution: University of St Andrews

Theme: Landscape Form, Use and Change: a dynamic Earth

Department / group: School of Geography & Sustainable Development

Institution URL: https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/willem-wilmer-koster(af4e0067-a5b9-4d83-b975-f48669dfb368).html

Personal URL: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Willem_Koster2

Google Scholar URL: N/A

Research interests:

I am interested in human-vegetation interactions, especially in late Antiquity and Medieval times. I use available pollen data to make quantitative models of past changes in the vegetation. I am interested in multidisciplinary approaches to landscape reconstruction that include paleoecology, archaeology, paleogeography, economic and environmental history.

Career history:

2019 – present: PhD University of St Andrews, Geography
2016-2019: MSc Utrecht University, Environmental Biology (Palaeoecology)
2013-2016: BSc University of Groningen, Biology

Active research projects:

New digital tools for using palaeoenvironmental records to understand longterm human ecodynamics in Iceland

Recent publications:

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