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!
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 & […]
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 […]
The UROP research of Angela Zhang (CAS ’24) is featured in an article by BU’s research publication, The Brink. Read the article, titled “Secrets of Ancient Egyptian Nile Valley Settlements Found in Forgotten Treasure,” here. Congratulations Angela on the exciting research and wonderful article!
Environmental Archaeology Lab alumna Kathleen M. Forste (GRS ’21) and John M. Marston are co-authors on a new article, “Cultivating the Hills and the Sands: A Comparative Archaeobotanical Investigation of Early Islamic Agriculture in Palestine”, in Environmental Archaeology. In this article, Forste et al. integrate archaeobotanical assemblages from a range of settlements across Early Islamic […]
Owen Lannon (CAS ’24) is featured on the cover of the fall 2023 newsletter of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. The image is of Owen excavating a pit during the summer 2023 excavation at the Ancient Agora of Athens, alongside fellow volunteer Trinity Rosa.