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JD Dolinar
Graduate Teaching Assist (TA), Sch Of Environ,Society&Sustain
Research Summary: I am interested in the physical, spatial, and computational study of Quarternary human lifeways as affected by the Earth system. I use a variety of reconstructive lenses including theoretical and analytical methods of natural and social sciences (e.g., archaeology, geoarchaeology, archaeobotany, behavioral ecology, etc.). My research considers several geographical regions of western North America and the America’s including specific focus on inter-mountain and high-elevation environments.
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KATHLEEN NICOLL
Professor, Sch Of Environ,Society&Sustain
Affiliated Faculty, University of Utah, Middle East Studies Program
Research Summary: Geosciences
Geomorphology of Arid Landscapes
Archaeological Geology
Petroleum exploration
Primary geographic regions of research: Namibia, Southern Africa, Turkey, Egypt, American southwest
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Izzy Osmundsen
Graduate Teaching Assist (TA), Anthropology Department
Research Summary: My master's thesis is to examine extant plant patches as a result of past human niche construction to provide evidence of cultural modification for designation as traditional cultural places/landscapes.
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Russell Greaves
Adjunct Associate Professor, Anthropology Department
Research Summary: My training and research interests are in the comparative archaeology and ethnoarchaeologyy of hunter-gatherers and small-scale agricultural societies. I have archaeological experience in the American west. My ethnoarchaeological research includes foragers of Venezuela, agriculturalists in Mexico, and Native Americans of the Southwest. My research is multi-disciplinary, focusing on human ecology, material culture, and behavioral variability among modern and past subsistence peoples.
Research Keywords:
Hunters and gatherers,
Small-scale agricultural societies,
Technology,
Subsistence,
Human evolutionary ecology,
Ethnoarchaeology,
Geoarchaeology,
Ethnobotany and paleoethnobotany,
Zooarchaeology,
American archaeology,
Ethnology,
Museum studies
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Marie D. Jackson
Research Professor, Geology & Geophysics
Research Summary: My collaborative investigations in pyroclastic volcanism, mineralogy, materials and archaeological science investigate mineral cements in young basalt at Surtsey volcano, Iceland, and ancient Roman concrete. We apply Roman methods of concrete production to environmentally-friendly, glass-based analog concretes. An innovative arc-fracture test measures ductility, fracture toughness and repair. Physical property measurements describe rapid consolidation of tephra in Surtsey basaltic drill cores.