Nicole Hultquist is first author on a new article in the Journal of Archaeological Science, titled “Strontium isotopes and the geographic origins of camelids in the Virú Valley, Peru”. This paper, based on her MSc research at Trent University, uses strontium isotopes to confirm that camelids (llamas and alpacas) were raised locally in coastal Peru […]
Nicole Hulquist is the second author on a recently published study that sources atmospheric methane production using “clumped” stable isotopes (molecules containing multiple heavy isotopes). The article appears in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, a publication of the AGU. Read more in the article here. Congratulations, Nicole!
EAL lab member Karen Stewart won the student paper competition at the annual meeting of the Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology this past weekend for her paper “Small But Not Forgotten? Plant Remains from CRM Excavations of Historical Sites.” Congratulations, Karen!
Owen Lannon (CAS ’24) has started a new position at the National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility (NOSAMS) at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Falmouth, MA. Owen’s work involves processing organic carbon samples for their radiocarbon AMS. Congratulations, Owen, on the new job!
Claire Mukigi, a rising senior at Natick High School, joined the Environmental Archaeology Laboratory as part of the BU Greater Boston Area Research Opportunities For Young Women (GROW) program, an internship that places high school students from the Boston area in BU labs for the summer, sponsored by the CAS Office of STEM Outreach & […]
A new member of the Environmental Archaeology Laboratory is joining us this fall, Anne Johnakin, a PhD student in Anthropology. Anne comes to BU with an MSc in Archaeological Sciences from the University of Oxford and a BA in Anthropology from Dartmouth. Anne’s prior work has included microbotanical and stable isotope analyses, as well as […]
Marston and collaborator Dr. Petra Vaiglova (Australian National University) have authored an article in the latest issue of the Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association. This special issue, titled “Finding Fields: The Archaeology of Agricultural Landscapes”, addresses methods for locating fields using archaeological methods. Marston and Vaiglova combine archaeobotanical and stable isotope analyses to […]
Peter Kovacik received a research grant from the Friends of Coronado & Jemez Historic Sites, located in New Mexico. This award will support additional radiocarbon dating as part of Peter’s doctoral research into Spanish colonial land-use strategies in the Albuquerque Basin of New Mexico. Congratulations, Peter!
Nicole Hultquist is a co-author on the recently published article “Tracing sources of atmospheric methane using clumped isotopes” published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS). In this article, Nicole and her colleagues used novel isotopic methods on rare isotopic forms of methane to understand better the sources of […]
Peter Kovacik received a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Research Grant from the Archaeology Program of the US National Science Foundation. This award, titled “Effect of Colonial Policy on Land Use”, provides funds to permit Peter to engage in archaeobotanical research into Spanish colonial land-use strategies in the Albuquerque Basin of New Mexico, and how land-use practices […]