Together with Suzanne Pilaar Birch (UGA), Emily Lena Jones (UNM), and Meghan Burchell (MUN), Catherine West has compiled and edited a special collection of articles for Open Quaternary entitled Stable Isotopes in Zooarchaeology: Data Management and New Directions.
Catherine West has been named a Boston University Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow for 2018-2020. Her appointment will focus on developing the first Symposium on Circumpolar Climate Change, Resource Management, and Applied Archaeology.
Catherine West’s work on ancient Arctic ground squirrels was featured on the BU Research website here.
Catherine West’s article in Conservation Biology has received media attention! Check out the coverage here: Eureka Alert Global Source for Science News Public Release: 15-Dec-2016 OU, BU and Smithsonian researchers investigate ancient species in Gulf of Alaska Courtney Hofman, professor in the Department of Anthropology, OU College of Arts and Sciences, collaborated with Catherine West, professor […]
Catherine West of Boston University and Courtney Hofman of the University of Oklahoma, along with their collaborators, recently published their interdisciplinary paper “Integrating archaeology and ancient DNA to address invasive species colonization in the Gulf of Alaska” in Conservation Biology. See the paper on-line here!
Catherine West was asked to comment on a recent study addressing the role of archaeology in Chesapeake Bay oyster conservation. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was featured by National Geographic. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/people-and-culture/food/the-plate/2016/06/sustainable-oyster-harvest-chesapeake-bay/
Catherine West and her collaborators recently published an article in the Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology describing the goals, methods, and preliminary results of the Chirikof Island Project. The article is now available on line!
Catherine West was invited to participate in the National Science Foundation’s “Arctic Horizons” workshop at Brown University. The purpose of this workshop was to bring “together members of the Arctic social science and indigenous communities to reassess the goals, potentials, and needs of these diverse communities and ASSP within the context of a rapidly changing […]
Dr. Christina Giovas of the University of Queensland visited the Zooarchaeology Lab to present her research on animal translocations in the Caribbean with a talk entitled “How to Travel with a Possum and Other Tales of Biological Invasion: Reconstructing Pre-Columbian Mammal Translocations in the Lesser Antilles, West Indies.”
AR308 students learn to flintknap and grind stone with BU graduate student Justin Holcomb. Photo by Peri Tur. Students in Professor Catherine West’s spring course – Archaeology 308: Archaeological Research Design and Materials Analysis – learned to do hands-on archaeological research using collections on loan from the Alutiiq Museum in Kodiak, Alaska. Our class is […]