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GEOCHEMISTRY, PROVENANCE, AND TECTONIC SETTING OF PALEOPROTEROZOIC METAVOLCANIC AND METASEDIMENTARY UNITS OF THE ALUTAGUSE ZONE, NORTH ESTONIA – A COMPARATIVE STUDY WITH THE SOUTH SVECOFENNIAN ZONE
Full text link<p>Nykänen, V., Cook, N. & Kaija, J. (eds) 2023. EU SuperCluster Lapland Geoconference – October 30–31, 2023, Hotel Santa Claus, Rovaniemi, Finland. Geological Survey of Finland, Open File Research Report 55/2023, 212 pages, 69 figures and 9 tables. (pg.255)</p>
Aldehyde-free resins based on resorcinol and natural alkylresorcinols modified with styrene
No full textEstimation of key ecosystem services in the GreenTwin
No full text<p>This document is a short literature review of the necessary data of urban green infrastructure to approximate the provision of key urban ecosystem services in the GreenTwin. It is based on the currently stored and collected data for Individual plants and Green areas in the Plant Library.</p>
Pollen-based REVEALS estimates of plant cover in Europe for 36 grid-cells and the last 11700 years
No full text<p>This dataset corresponds to the pollen-based REVEALS estimates of 25 plant taxa for Europe and associated standard errors, published in Marquer et al. (2017). This is part of the results from the Swedish project LandClim I (Gaillard et al., 2010; Trondman et al., 2015; Marquer et al., 2014, 2017).</p><p>The study area includes a large part of northern and Central Europe, i.e. Ireland, Great Britain and a latitudinal transect from the Alps in the south to northernmost Norway.</p><p>These REVEALS estimates are based on 151 pollen records (small/large, lakes/bogs/mires) that were selected from the European Pollen Database (Fyfe et al., 2009; Giesecke et al., 2014), the Alpine Palynological Data-Base (University of Bern, Switzerland), or were provided directly by individual data contributors.</p><p>The selected pollen records are grouped into 36 1° x 1° grid-cells.</p><p>Twenty-five consecutive time windows over the last 11,700 years BP are used: 0-100, 100-350, 350-700 BP for the three first time windows, and 500 calendar years each from 700 to 11,700 BP.</p><p>For details about the REVEALS model, see Sugita (2007).</p><p>In the excel file, the folder "Metadata" contains the explanation of abbreviations in the data folders and information about the pollen records used for the REVEALS reconstructions. All REVEALS estimates and their SEs are given in proportions of the grid cell (the total of all REVEALS estimates sum up to 1). The codes of the 25 consecutive time windows are given in the folder "Code time windows". The results of the 36 grid cells are in the folder "REVEALS 36GCs" and the related standard errors in the folder "SE_REVEALS 36GCs". Note that in the folder "Metadata", the GPS coordinates correspond to the upper left (NW) corners of each grid cell</p><p><i>Project(s):</i></p><p><a href="https://www.awi.de/en/science/geosciences/polar-terrestrial-environmental-systems.html"><strong>Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems @ AWI</strong></a> (AWI_Envi)</p>
A full Holocene record of transient gridded vegetation cover in Europe
No full text<p>Fossil pollen assemblages provide a record of past vegetation composition, both natural (climate-induced) and anthropogenic (human-induced). Pollen-based quantitative reconstruction of plant abundance (in percentage cover) require that biases due to differences between plants in pollen productivity and dispersal characteristics are corrected. Such correction is achieved by the "Regional Estimates of VEgetation Abundance from Large Sites"(REVEALS) model given that estimates of relative pollen productivity (RPPs) and fall speed of pollen (FSP) are available for the major plants building the plant cover. For details about the REVEALS model, see Sugita (2007).</p><p>REVEALS estimates of the abundance of 31 taxa, 11 plant functional types (PFTs), and 3 land-cover types (LCTs) were produced for Europe at a 1˚x1˚ spatial scale for 25 consecutive time windows from 11.7 ka calibrated years BP* to present as part of the Swedish Research Council (VR) research project "LandClimII". This is the second generation (version June 2021) of REVEALS reconstruction for Europe; it is based on a total of 1128 pollen records from pollen databases/archives and individual authors (See LandClimII Contributors). The first generation was published in Trondman et al. (2015) and Gaillard (2019). These pollen-based REVEALS estimates of land cover are currently used to quantify the effects of the biogeophysical forcing induced by human deforestation on the regional climate of Europe at 6 ka and 2.5 ka BP (VR LandClim II project), and to evaluate and revise the scenarios of anthropogenic land-cover change (ALCC) HYDE (Klein Goldewijk et al., 2017) and KK10 (Kaplan et al., 2009; 2011) .</p><p>The gridded pollen-based REVEALS reconstructions cover Europe (30°-75°N, 25°W-50°E) and were performed at a spatial scale of 1° × 1° (ca. 100 km × 100 km), which is the estimated spatial scale of REVEALS plant-cover estimates using all available pollen records (1128) within a grid cell and all pollen counts within each time window to ensure reliable estimates of plant cover and minimize their error estimates. The REVEALS estimates and standard errors were reconstructed for 25 time windows covering the Holocene i.e. X to 100 BP, 100 – 350 BP, 350 – 700, 700 – 1200, 1200 -1700 BP and in 500 consecutive time windows from here to 11,700 BP (BP – before present (1950)). The RPP and FSP values used in this REVEALS reconstruction are found in csv table Taxa_to_PFT, PPE and FSP values. All details of the protocol used for this REVEALS reconstruction can be found in Trondman et al. (2015).</p><p>All REVEALS estimates and their SEs are given in proportions of the grid cell (the total of all REVEALS estimates sum up to 1). There are 25 files labelled TW.(number of time window).RVestimates.jun21.csv and 25 files labelled TW.(number of time window).standarderrors.jun21.csv. The RVestimates.csv files contain the REVEALS estimates for each land-cover type (LCT), plant function type (PFT) and taxa which has a unique grid ID and corresponding longitude and latitude. The standard error csv files contain the standard errors for each land-cover type (LCT), plant function type (PFT) and taxa.</p><p>* BP = before present (1950). The information about the quality (previously referred to as reliability (Trondman et al. 2015)) of the REVEALS estimates in each grid cell is provided in the GC_quality_by_TW.xlsx file. There are 3 categories i.e. 1 is high quality ( 1 or more large lakes, OR 2 or more sites of any site type), 2 is low quality (only 1 small lake, OR small bog OR large bog) and no data. Extra information about each site is provided in the metadata file. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.937075</p><p><a href="https://www.merge.lu.se/">Projects:</a></p><p><a href="https://www.merge.lu.se/"><strong>ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system</strong></a> (MERGE)</p><p><a href="https://pastglobalchanges.org/science/wg/former/landcover6k/intro"><strong>Past Global Changes_LandCover6k</strong></a> (PAGES_LandCover6k)</p><p><i>Funding:</i></p><p><a href="https://www.pangaea.de/nojs.php"><strong>Swedish Research Council</strong></a> (VR), grant/award no. <strong>2016-03617</strong>: Quantification of the biogeophysical and biogeochemical forcings from anthropogenic deforestation on regional Holocene climate in Europe, LandClim II</p><p>For the full list of contributors see: LandClimII_contributors.xlsx</p><p>File descriptions:</p><p>1.) LANDCLIMII.RV.results.JUN2021.zip - contains 2 folders i.e.</p><p>a.) LANDCLIMII.RV.means.JUN2021 - 25 csv files one for each time window containing the mean REVEALS estimates of the 31 taxa, 11 plant functional types (PFTs), and 3 land-cover types (LCTs) at each grid cell.</p><p>b.) LANDCLIMII.RV.standarderrors.JUN2021 - 25 csv files one for each time window containing the standard errors for the REVEALS estimates of the 31 taxa, 11 plant functional types (PFTs), and 3 land-cover types (LCTs) at each grid cell.</p><p>2.) GC_quality_by_TW.xlsx - contains information about the grid cell quality per time window.</p><p>3.) LandClimII contributors.xlsx - contains the information for the individuals and databases owning or collating the analyzed pollen records.</p><p>4.) LandClimII metadata.xlsx - contains all the information regarding the 1128 pollen records e.g. site name, location, source, data available, references etc</p><p>5.) Taxa_to_PFT, PPE and FSP values.csv - contains the 31 taxa grouped into the 11 PFTs. It also contains the pollen productivity estimates and fall speed of pollen values used in the land-cover reconstruction.</p>
Virtual Green Planner 2021 Windows 64-bit standalone build
No full text<p>Virtual Green Planner is an interactive 3d software for concept-level collaborative urban and green space planning and analysis developed in the GreenTwins project. This is the Windows 64-bit standalone build of the earlier 2021 version of the software.</p>
Developmental changes of fundamental frequency and temporal characteristics in Estonian adolescent speech
No full text<p>Poster from 20th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences; Prague, Czech Republic, August 7-11, 2023</p><p>Age- and gender-related anatomic changes of the vocal apparatus during childhood and adolescence have a direct impact on speech acoustics, manifested in a sudden drop of fundamental frequency (F0) during puberty in boys and in a gradual decrease of the acoustic vowel space and formant frequencies in both genders. In parallel with anatomical changes, the development of speech-motor control as well as cognitive and linguistic processing takes place, which manifests itself in the increase of speech and articulation rates.</p>
EuroTeQ Professional
No full text<p><strong>Define the competencies for the EuroTeQ professional of the future</strong>.<strong> </strong></p><p>Defining the competencies of the future is an iterative process. It is not simply a gathering of information. It is an evolving process which includes many perspectives from various industries/fields and functions. Furthermore, the skills will evolve depending on how far we look into the future. The EuroTeQ project's vision covers 5-10 years. A broad selection of stakeholders, local advisory board members, university representatives, and ecosystem members from different industries will be involved to get an overview of the full extent. Live workshops, a survey, an online session, and in-depth interviews will be tools to collect the various input from the stakeholders. </p><p><strong>Design a procedure to keep the competencies adaptable in time </strong></p><p>In a world where society and technology evolve rapidly, the need for professional skills will continue to change. Therefore, it is necessary to design a procedure for collecting continuous feedback from the industry and their needs. This process will help to ensure the constant relevance of our course offerings in the future. </p><p>As part of the deliverable, we will also have to decide whether this approach to collect competencies for the future is re-usable or must be adjusted for future input. We will monitor and evaluate all the activities in this process. In a "lessons learned" reflection, we will then be able to conclude which are the most effective or to define other means and ways to adjust the future competencies to deliver on time. </p><p><strong>Deliverable Description:</strong></p><p><strong>1. Actively engage with different professions -</strong> We will open up EuroTeQ Engineering University and actively engage with other professions to build a close, local, diverse community. </p><p><strong>2. Nurture the local eco-systems - </strong>All Partners within EuroTeQ Engineering University are active stakeholders in their local eco-system (e.g. TUM – One Munich, TU/e – Brainport, DTU – Knowledge City, etc.). Together with the local partners of the eco-system, the alliance wants to develop the concept of an 'open university' further, where the local community engages in campus activities (also beyond activity 3.2, experiences from 3.2 will help here).</p><p>Leading university: Technical University of Eindhoven (TU/e)</p>
