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Past and Present IGERT Trainees

Kevin Anchukaitis, Geosciences; Kevin will complete his PhD this semester. His research is on the use of light stable isotopes in tropical dendrochronology, focusing on Costa Rica. He also studies the use of forward models of proxy formation to improve estimates of past climate variability and change. After completion he will take up a postdoctoral appointment at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory with a group studying the Asian monsoon system.

Publications:

1. Vaganov, et al. (2007) How well understood are the processes that create dendroclimatic records? A mechanistic model of climatic control on conifer tree-ring growth dynamics, In M.K. Hughes, T.W. Swetnam, and H.F. Diaz (eds), Dendroclimatology: Progress and Prospects, Developments in Paleoecological Research, Springer-Verlag, in revision.

2. Gagen, et al. (2007) Exorcising the 'segment length curse': summer temperature reconstruction since AD1640 using non-detrended stable carbon isotope ratios from pine trees in Finnish Lapland, The Holocene, (In press)

3. Evans, et al. (2006) A forward modeling approach to paleoclimatic interpretation of tree-ring data, Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, G03008, doi:10.1029/2006JG000166

4. Anchukaitis, et al. (2006) Forward modeling of regional-scale tree-ring patterns in the southeastern United States and the recent emergence of summer drought stress, Geophysical Research Letters, 33(4), L04705, doi:10.1029/2005GL025050.

5. Anchukaitis and Horn (2005) A 2000-year reconstruction of forest disturbance from southern Pacific Costa Rica. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 221(1-2): 35-54.

Derek Anderson, Anthropology; Derek is in the Ph.D. program in Anthropology and is an IGERT Trainee for the 2007/2008 academic year. He received his BA from Penn State (2003) and MA from the University of Wyoming (2007) and has worked primarily in the Northeast, Southeast, and Rocky Mountain regions. His main interests focus on the archaeology of hunter-gatherers, specifically resource use and mobility during the late Pleistocene in North America, as well as cave and rockshelter archaeology, spatial analysis, and geoarchaeology.

Erica Bigio, Geosciences; Erica is a first year PhD student with the Geosciences department and Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research. She completed her Master’s Degree in 2006, and her research compared tree-ring and alluvial records of fire history. She spent the past year with the Dendro-sciences division of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, studying growth responses to forest fire using wood anatomy methods. She plans to begin using tree rings to reconstructing geomorphic processes such as hillslope erosion and debris flow activity, and compare these with records of past climate and human activity in Tavaputs plateau region of Utah. She also hopes to remain active with fire history and fire ecology research.

Margaret Blome, Geosciences (advisor: Vance Holliday); Margaret has a BS in Geology from William and Mary (2004) with a minor in Anthropology. For 2004/2005 she was a Fulbright Scholar (Arabic Language) in Jordan, and she has been awarded an IGERT Traineeship for 2006/07 and 2007/08. For the 2005/06 year Meg worked as a CRM archaeologist in Virginia investigating prehistoric, historic and Civil War sites. Her research interests include Middle Eastern Geoarchaeology. Meg's dissertation research involves the investigation of the feasibility of the “Southern Route” for human dispersal out of Africa ~50ka. She will investigate paleolakes and paleoclimate in Yemen around this time period and also survey for ancient sites. While this research is still in the early planning stages Meg has begun work on a separate project where her role is a small but important one. During the summer of 2007 she worked at a field school in Gazipaşa, Turkey with Professor Nicholas Rauh from Purdue University. They sampled for pollen and carbon in an area where cedars once stood in the mountains above the coast and intend to determine when the intense deforestation occurred in the region. This coming semester she will date the samples and her data will be combined with the pollen data compiled by a colleague at the University of Istanbul.

Tammy Buonasera, is a second year PhD student in Anthropology (Advisor: Mary Stiner). She received a BS in Microbiology and a MA in Anthropology from California State University, Chico. Her research interests include: risk minimization strategies; food processing and storage technologies among hunting and gathering and protoagricultural societies; and identification of ancient organic residues in ground stone, ceramics and anthrosols.

Publications:

1. Buonasera (2007) Investigating the presence of ancient absorbed organic residues in groundstone using GC/MS and other analytical techniques: a residue study of several prehistoric milling tools from central California, Journal of Archaeological Science, 34:1379-1390.

2. Buonasera (2005) Fatty acid analysis of prehistoric burned rocks: a case study from central California, Journal of Archaeological Science 32: 957-965.

Keith Carlson was in the PhD program in Anthropology, and was an IGERT Trainee for 2005/06. He has an MA (2005) from UC Santa Barbara, from which he transferred last year, along with his advisor (Dr. Mark Aldenderfer). He is a specialist in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and since 2004 has been a GIS specialist on the Proyecto Arqueológico Norte Chico in Peru, directed by Dr. Jonathan Haas of the Field Museum. His major interests are climate change, subsistence analysis, computer modeling, and processes of emergent social complexity in foraging and early agricultural societies. Click here to see details of his past IGERT outreach project.

Amy Clark, Anthropology; Amy is an MA student in the anthropology department (advisor: Dr. Steven L. Kuhn) and is an IGERT trainee for the 2007/2008 academic year. She received her BA in Anthropology from New York University. She has excavated a number of sites in southwestern France and has recently (summer 2007) had the pleasure of excavating in southeastern Turkey. Her research interests center on the Middle and early Upper Paleolithic and include lithic technologies and hunter-gatherer subsistence and mobility patterns.

Jessica Conroy, Geosciences (advisor, Jonathan Overpeck); Jessica received her BA from The College of Wooster in 2003, majoring in Geology with a minor in Classical Studies. She received her MS from the Department of Geosciences at the University of Arizona in 2006. She held a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship from 2003-2006, and is an IGERT fellow for 2007/2008. For her Master’s thesis, she created a new record of eastern equatorial Pacific sea surface temperature and El Niño from Galápagos Island lake sediments. Her PhD dissertation will focus on creating a new 2000-year reconstruction of Asian Monsoon variability from lake sediments in western Tibet.

Kathryn Duffy has recently finished her MS with the Chemistry Department (advisor: Dr. Mary Wirth) and was an IGERT Trainee for 2004/05 and 2005/06. She has a BS in Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2004) with a minor in Archaeological Materials, and has done archeological fieldwork in Belize. Her major interests are in archaeological applications of organic chemistry for the identification of archaeological organic residues, with particular interest in textile dyes and paints used in the Andes. Kathryn is starting a PhD in Chemistry at Boston University and also persuing a certificat in Museum Studies. Click here to see details of her past IGERT outreach projects.

Katherine Dungan is in the MA program in the Department of Anthropology (advisor: Barbara Mills) and will be an IGERT Trainee for the 2006/2007 and 2007/2008 academic years. She has also been awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, which she will defer until 2008/2009. Katherine received her BA in Anthropology, as well as a Bachelor of Music degree in Harp Performance, from the University of Michigan in 2005. Her interests include Geographic Information Systems and the archaeology of middle range societies in the Southwestern U.S., particularly Chaco Canyon and the Chacoan regional system. Her undergraduate honors thesis applied GIS-based viewshed analysis to hilltop Early Pithouse period sites in east-central Arizona.

Sam Duwe is in the PhD program in Anthropology (advisor: Dr. Barbara Mills) and was an IGERT Trainee in 2003/04 and 2004/05. He has a BA from the University of Michigan (2003) and has done archaeological fieldwork in Hungary and in the southwestern USA. His MA thesis (2005) was a study of the composition of variation in glaze paint compositions from Bailey Ruin in eastern Arizona, obtained on the ICP-MS instrumentation at CSU Long Beach under the supervision of Dr. Hector Neff. His PhD dissertation will use trace-element compositions to study production and exchange of late prehistoric ceramics in the Rio Grande valley of New Mexico. Click here to see details of his IGERT outreach projects.

Publications:

1. Duwe and Neff (2007) Glaze Pigment Analyses of Pueblo IV Period Ceramics from East-central Arizona using Time-of-Flight Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (TOF-LA-ICP-MS). Journal of Archaeological Science 34(3): 404-414.

2. Fowles, et al. (2007) Clay, Conflict, and Village Aggregation: Compositional Analyses of Pre-Classic Pottery from Taos, New Mexico. American Antiquity 72:125-152.

3. Duwe (2005) Pots, Daub, and Neutrons: A Pilot Compositional Analysis of Hungarian Early Copper Age Clay Assemblages. La Tinaja: A Newsletter of Archaeological Ceramics 16(1-2): 2-5.

J. Israel Favela, Materials Science and Engineering (advisor: Pam Vandiver); Israel has been awarded an IGERT traineeship for 2007/2008. He holds both a BS in Chemistry and a BA in Art History from the University of Arizona. His previous research involves the study of Maya Blue and the degree of indigo intercalation within palygorskite clay as evaluated through spectroscopic methods (FT-IR, Micro-Raman). His current research interests involve the study of red, yellow, white and black pigments from Kostenki I-1 near Voronezh, Russia, an archaeological site dated about 23,000 B.P corresponding to the Upper Paleolithic era. The pigments within the scope of his research also contain an unknown organic binding media of which he hopes to extract, isolate, and characterize through chemical analytical methods.

Thomas Fenn, Anthropology;Tom is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Anthropology (advisor: Dr. David Killick) with a minor in Geology. He has a BA in Anthropology (minor in Geology and Classics) from the University of Maine, and a MSc in Geology (minor in Anthropology) from the University of New Orleans (2001). He studies ancient technology and transference of technological knowledge through many types of material culture, time periods and geographical contexts. His current dissertation research is studying the development of the trans-Saharan caravan trade from the 5th through 15th centuries CE by examining copper metallurgy technology and its role in the advent and development of that commerce. See an article in UA News on his work here, and also at Nature.com.

Publications:

1. Fenn, et al. (2006). The Social Contexts of Glaze Paint Ceramic Production and Consumption in the Silver Creek Area. In The Social Life of Pots: Glaze Wares and Cultural Dynamics in the Southwest, AD 1250-1680, pp. 60-85, The University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Lesley Frame is in the PhD program in Materials Science and Engineering (advisor: Pamela Vandiver) and has been awarded an IGERT Traineeship for 2005/06 and 2006/07. She has a BS in Materials Science and Archaeology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2004) and has archaeological fieldwork experience in Hungary, Cyprus, and Israel. Her current field research is at Saruj al Hadeed in Dubai, UAE. Her major interests are in metallurgical technologies; her BS thesis was an examination of copper crucible smelting in Iran during the 6th millennium BCE. Her Masters research involves the metallographic examination of artifacts from Godin Tepe on th Iranian Plateau. Lesley has helped to maintain and design this IGERT webpage as her outreach project.

Deanna N. Grimstead, Anthropology; Deanna has an M.A. (2005) and B.A. (2001) from California State University, Chico. Her interests include: evolutionary ecology, zooarchaeology, and geochemistry. Her previous research has applied the theoretical principles of human behavioral ecology to foraging and agricultural societies in California and Arizona. Her master’s research evaluated the possibility of “sourcing”, via trace elements, archaeological derived artiodactyls from prehistoric contexts in California. Currently, she is applying geochemical sourcing techniques to the archaeofaunal remains derived from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. This research will enable zooarchaeologists to understand from where the prehistoric inhabitants of Chaco Canyon were obtaining their animal protein, and possibly extend the utility of human behavioral ecology principles into the complex world of agricultural societies.

Publications:

1. Grimstead and Bayham (In Press) Archaeofaunal Correlates of Feasting at the Marana Mound Site. In Power and Economy at the Marana Mound Site, James M. Bayman, Paul R. Fish, and Suzanne K. Fish, editors. Arizona State Museum series.

2. Dalton and Grimstead (2005) Faunal Analysis of FBI Case No. ***-***. Report Submitted to the Federal Bureau of Investigations, Sacramento, May 2005.

3. Westwood et al. (2004) Archaeological Survey Report for the Sierra Source Project, Near Chilcoot, Plumas County, California. February 18. Chico: California State University, Chico, Archaeological Research Program.

4. Willey et al. (1999) Analysis of Human Bones Attributed to the Civil War Battle of Wilson’s Creek: The Kerr-Glidwell and Manion’s Auction Collection. Chico: Chico State Anthropology Department.

Randy Haas, Anthropology (advisor: Mark Aldenderfer); Randy is an IGERT trainee for the 2007/2008 academic year. Randy completed a B.A. (2001) and an M.A. (2003) at Northern Arizona University. While at NAU, he coordinated archaeological contracts and public education functions for the Anthropology Laboratories. From 2003-2007, he directed archaeological mapping and GIS services at Tucson-based Western Mapping Company. Randy is interested in the relationships between human behavior, the environment, and the subsistence technology of hunter-gatherer and low-level food producer societies. Methodologically, Randy is interested in the integration of geo-spatial landscape modeling, agent-based modeling, and lithic analysis.

Publications:

1. Haas (2006) The Social Implications of Basketmaker II Cordage Design Distribution. Kiva 71(3): 275-298.

2. Haas (2002) Basketmaker II Fiber Industry of Boomerang Shelter, Utah: A Synthesis of Archaeological Data Analysis and Experimentation. Kiva 67: 167-185.

3. Haas et al. (2007) Fluvial. In An Atlas of Rock Breakdown Features in Geomorphic Environments, Bourke and Viles (eds), pp.23-47. Planetary Sciences Institute, Tucson.

Fumie Iizuka, Fumie Iizuka is in the Ph.D. program in Anthropology(advisor: Dr. Mark Aldenderfer)and is an IGERT trainee for 2006/2007. She has a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan and an M.A. in Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has done archaeological fieldwork in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Mexico, Peru, Japan, and Southwestern USA. Fumie is interested in issues about the emergence of ceramics. She is currently collaborating with Dr. Pamela Vandiver (U of Arizona, MSE) to investigate the technology and function of the earliest pottery in Panama. She is also examining, along with Dr. Richard Cooke at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, the environmental and social contexts of the Panamanian Archaic and Formative periods.

Dan Jeffery was in the PhD program in Materials Science and Engineering (advisor: Pamela Vandiver) and was an IGERT Trainee for 2005/06. He has had an eclectic educational background – a BA in Linguistics from Brigham Young University (2002), with fluency in Russian, and an MSc in the Technology and Analysis of Archaeological Materials from University College London (2004). His MSc thesis was a metallographic study of the blacksmithing techniques for manufacturing knives in Novgorod, Russia, between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries. His research interests are in archaeometallurgy and conservation science. Click here to see details of his past IGERT outreach project.

Kevin Jones is a PhD candidate in Geosciences (advisors: Greg Hodgins and Jay Quade) and was an IGERT Trainee 2003/04 and 2004/05. He holds a BS in geology from the College of William & Mary (1996), an MS in planetary geology from Brown University (1998), and an MS in environmental sciences from the University of Virginia (2002). He has worked as a cartographer for the Virginia Division of Mineral Resources, a GIS programmer for Terralogic, Inc., an archaeologist at Monticello, a document analyst at The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, and a soil scientist with the US Forest Service. His research involves applications of radiocarbon dating, including 1) use of mollusk shell radiocarbon as a marine upwelling proxy in Peru, and 2) plasma oxidation, a technique pioneered by Dr. Marvin Rowe of Texas A&M University to extract carbon from rock art paints for radiocarbon dating.

Publications:

1. Jones et al. (In press, accepted 2006). Seasonal variations in Peruvian marine reservoir age from pre-bomb Argopecten purpuratus shell carbonate. Radiocarbon.

Troy Knight, is a PhD student in Geography and the Laboratory of Tree Ring Research (advisor: Tom Swetnam). He holds a BA from the University of Georgia in Anthropology and History (1995) and an MA in Geography from Georgia State University (2003). In between pursuing degrees he has gained archaeological field experience on the Northern Plains, in the Northern Rockies and in the Mid-Atlantic region, and worked as a consultant on hydrological applications of dendrochronology in his native Georgia. His research interests are varied, but generally revolve around paleoenvironmental reconstructions and human/environment interactions in historical contexts. His dissertation will investigate the role of climatic variation in shaping the population dynamics of pinion/juniper woodlands in eastern Utah using dendrochronological methods, highlighting the environmental implications for past inhabitants of the region.

Andrew Kowler is a MS student in the Department of Geosciences (advisor: Jay Quade) and is an IGERT Trainee for 2005/06 and 2006/07. He has a BS in Environmental Science and Policy from the University of Maryland (1999) and from 1999 through 2005 worked as a soil scientist for the NRCS conducting soil survey on the Navajo Nation. He is particularly interested in understanding Quaternary landscape evolution and paleoclimatic reconstruction by employing soil stratigraphy, and geochronologic/stable carbon and oxygen isotopic analyses of soil carbonates, and his thesis will deal primarily with dune eolian deposits of the late Pleistocene and Holocene. His research will provide a soil geochemical component to the Quaternary paleoclimatic record of the Colorado Plateau during Paleoindian and Archaic times. Andrew will be involved in concurrent research and surficial geologic mapping efforts in collaboration with the USGS. Click here to see details of his current IGERT outreach project.

Amy Margaris was an IGERT Trainee 2003/04 and 2004/05 and completed her PhD dissertation in Anthropology (advisor: Dr. Steven Kuhn) in 2006. She has a BA from Oberlin College (1996) and an MA from the University of Arizona (2002), both in anthropology. She studies the application of infrared spectroscopy to understanding bone and sediment diagenesis (the chemical and structural changes that occur after burial), bone tool technologies, and models of technology transfer for both the deep and more recent past. Her dissertation research, supported by an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, combines laboratory investigations into the mechanical and working properties of various bony materials with an analysis of archaeological tool collections from south-central Alaska. She has conducted fieldwork in the eastern U.S., Denmark, Germany, Israel, and Turkey. In her free time Amy enjoys fiddling, knitting,and eating at diners. Click here to see details of her IGERT outreach project.

Elizabeth May, is a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology and the Laboratory of Tree-ring Research (advisors Paul Sheppard & Jeffery Dean). She is an IGERT trainee for 2006/07. She received a B.A. from the University of Georgia (2002) where she studied archaeology and geology. Elizabeth has extensive fieldwork experience in the southeastern United States and in the southern Southwest. Her interests include dendrochronology, environmental reconstruction, and catastrophe theory. She is interested in the responses of human populations to natural disasters. Her master?s work involves dating the eruption of Sunset Crater Volcano in northern Arizona using tree-rings and archaeological remains.

Publications:

1. May, et al. (2006) Human Adaptation to the 11th Century Eruption of Sunset Crater Volcano, Northern Arizona. Paper and Abstract, Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Philadelphia, PA, October 22-25, 2006.

2. Sheppard, et al. (2005) Dendrochronological responses to the 24 October 1992 Tornado at Sunset Crater, Northern Arizona. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 35: 2911-2919.

James Mayer transferred in 2003 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison to the Ph.D. Program in Geosciences along with his supervisor, Dr. Vance Holliday. He was an IGERT Trainee in 2003/04 and was one again for 2005/06 (See his IGERT outreach projects past and present). He has a BA from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and an MS from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. James’ research interests are, very broadly, geoarchaeology and site formation processes. More specifically, he is interested in the late Quaternary landscape evolution, paleoenvironments, and Paleoindian geoarchaeology of the High Plains and Southern Rocky Mountains. (He is also a heavy metal drummer, though we try not to hold that against him).

Publications:

1. Mayer (2002). Evaluating natural site formation processes in eolian dune sands: a case study from the Krmpotich Folsom site, Killpecker Dunes, Wyoming. Journal of Archaeological Science 29, 1199-1211.

2. Mayer and Mahan (2004). Late Quaternary stratigraphy and geochronology of the western Killpecker Dunes, Wyoming. Quaternary Research 61, 72-84.

Chris McPhee received his MS from the department of Geosciences, and is now at Duke university to persue a PhD in forestry. He has a BS in Environmental Studies from Yale University. His interests lie in the reconstruction of paleoclimate conditions through the use of tree-ring proxy indicators. Paleoclimate reconstructions contain implications for human change as represented in the archaeological record (the Anasazi culture of the southwest US is one example). His main focus will be on reconstructing Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) chronologies in the southwestern US. Click here to see details of his past outreach project.

Susan Mentzer is in the PhD program in the Department of Anthropology (supervisors: Vance Holliday and Mary Stiner). She was an IGERT Trainee in 2003/04 and 2004/05 and is an NSF Graduate Fellow from 2005/06 through 2007/08. She received her BA in Archaeology and Earth Sciences from Boston University in 2003. Her interests include the formation processes of cave sites using the technique of soil micromorphology and the taphonomic effects of mineral assemblages and sediment chemistry on artifact and hearth preservation. Her MA thesis (Anthropology, December 2005) focussed on the micromorphology and geochemistry of Obi Rakhmat Grotto, a Paleolithic site located in northeastern Uzbekistan. Susan's PhD topic is the site formation processes of the Paleolithic sites of Ucagizli Caves I and II, located in the Hatay region of Turkey. She is also involved with the archaeological project at Mt. Lykaion as the micromorphologist, specifically working on the micromorphology of the ash altar to Zeus. Susan recently won the "Best Student Paper" award at the Developing International Geoarchaeology conference in Cambridge, UK. Click here to see details of her IGERT outreach project.

Publications:

1. "Sediment chemistry and mineralogy of the Pleistocene and Holocene deposits at Obi-Rakhmat Grotto and Paltau Cave, Uzbekistan" Paper presented at the 2007 Developing International Geoarchaeology conference in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Lisa Molofsky,is in the PhD program in Geosciences (advisor: Joaquin Ruiz) and is an IGERT Trainee for 2006/2007 and 2007/2008. She has a B.A. in Earth and Planetary Sciences with a minor in Fine Arts from Washington University in St. Louis in 2005. Her current research focuses on the indigenous tin trade in South Africa during the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. She uses heavy isotopes and major and trace elements to chemically fingerprint tin artifacts found in archaeological sites across Southern Africa with the aim of matching this fingerprint to potential ore sources. During the summer of 2007, she completed a field season at a tin smelting site known as "Smelterskop" in South Africa, where she collected materials related to tin smelting including tuyere pieces, slag, and tin prills for chemical analysis. Her PhD thesis will build on Lisa's work with tin in Southern Africa by focusing on determining the source(s) of tin during the Mediterranean Bronze Age. Click here to see details of her IGERT outreach project.

Jessica Munson is in the MA program in the Department of Anthropology and an IGERT Trainee for 2004/05 and 2005/06 (supervisor: Takeshi Inomata). She received her BA in Art History and Archaeology from Princeton University in 2001, where she studied the iconography and pigments used in the Kuaua kiva murals of northern New Mexico. Her current research interests lie in the application of remote sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to studying broad-scale ancient agricultural systems and settlement patterns in the Maya area. Her MA research reexamines the Seibal settlement pattern data using spatial analysis to study the social organization of prehispanic Maya farming households at this Late Classic site in the Department of Peten, Guatemala. She is also examining the potential application of airborne radar imagery (AIRSAR) to identify archaeological features in the tropical lowlands. Click here to see details of her past IGERT outreach project. And her past project.

Caitlin O’Grady is a PhD student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (advisors: Nancy Odegaard and Pamela Vandiver) and was an IGERT Trainee for 2005/06 and 2007/08. She was a Kress fellow in conservation at the Arizona State Museum in 2006/07. She has a BA in Art History from Case Western Reserve University (2000), an MA in Art History and Advanced Certificate in Conservation from New York University (2004), and an MS in Materials Science and Engineering from UA (2007). She has been a staff conservator on excavations in Turkey, Guatemala, Albania and Peru, and has worked in the conservation departments of the American Museum of Natural History, the Arizona State Museum, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Morgan Library and Museum. Her research interests are in the application of scientific methods to understanding the fundamental causes of deterioration of archaeological collections, and the development and testing of methods for their stabilization. Her Ph.D. dissertation research focuses on applying conservation science methods to the analysis and stabilization of archaeological materials to be included in the forthcoming Arizona State Museum exhibit, “Journeys of Our Ancestors: Migration in the American Southwest” (to open September 2011). The exhibit traces migration in archaeological and historic contexts in the American Southwest through analysis of material culture. Selected artifacts range in age from the Paleo-Indian period (12,000 – 13,000 BP) to the 19th century. Click here to see details of her past IGERT outreach project.

Publications:

1. O’Grady (2005). The occurrence of rock varnish on stone and ceramic artifacts. Reviews in Conservation 6: 31-38.

2. O’Grady (2005). Morphological and Chemical Analyses of Manganese Dioxide Accretions on Archaeological Mexican Ceramics. In Materials issues in art and archaeology VII, P. B. Vandiver, J. Mass, A. Murray, J. Merkel, eds., Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh, 182-193.

Jill Onken is a first-year PhD student in the Geosciences department (advisor: Vance Holliday) and is an IGERT trainee for the 2007/2008 academic year. She has an MS in Geosciences from the UA and a BA in Anthropology from the University of California, Davis. Jill’s masters thesis, completed under the direction of Vance Haynes in 1991, focused on the effect of ambient temperature variation on the hydration rate of late Holocene Mono Craters ash shards deposited in different microenvironmental regimes. Before returning to UA to pursue doctoral studies, she worked as a geoarchaeologist and geomorphologist in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and Oregon for several cultural resource management firms. Her present research interests include alluvial stratigraphy and floodplain response to climate variability. Jill is especially interested in the landscape and paleoenvironmental conditions associated with early agriculture on the Colorado Plateau.

William Reitze is a PhD student in the department of Anthropology (advisor: Vance Holliday) and an IGERT Trainee in 2004/05 and 2005/06. He has a BS degree from the University of New Mexico (2002) and an MA degree from Colorado State University (2004). His MA thesis focused on landscape formation and raw material use by prehistoric populations at high altitudes in Northwestern Wyoming. William’s research interests include geoarchaeology in Paleoindian and Paleolithic contexts, and especially landscape evolution at the terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene, site formation processes, geomorphology and geochronology. Click here to see details of his IGERT outreach project. And his past project.

Joshua Reuther is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology (advisors: Mary Stiner and Vance Holliday) and an IGERT Trainee for 2005/06 and 2006/07. He has BA (2000) and MA (2003) degrees in Anthropology from the University of Alaska. His MA thesis was a study of inter-laboratory variation in the radiocarbon dating of an archaeological site in northern Alaska. His interests are in Alaskan archaeology, radiocarbon dating and Paleoindian origins. Click here to see details of his current IGERT outreach project.

Publications:

1. Potter, et al. (In Press) Holocene Assemblage Variability in the Tanana Basin: NLUR Archaeological Research, 1994-2004. Alaska Journal of Anthropology, in press.

2. Lowenstein, et al. (2006) Identification of Animal Species by Protein Radioimmunoassay of Bone Fragments and Bloodstained Stone Tools. Forensic Science International 159:182-188.

3. Reuther, et al. (2006) The Use of an Improved pRIA technique in the Identification of Protein Residues. Journal of Archaeological Science 33(4):531-537.

4. Gelvin-Reymiller, et al. (2006) Technical Aspects of a Worked Proboscidean Tusk from Inmachuk River, Seward Peninsula, Alaska. Journal of Archaeological Science 33:1088-1094.

5. Reuther and Gerlach (2006) CIEP Analysis of an Alaskan Archaeological Conundrum. Current Research in the Pleistocene 23:138-140.

6. Reuther and Gerlach (2005) Testing the “Dicarb Problem”: A Case Study from North Alaska. Radiocarbon 47(3): 359-366.

Amanda Reynolds is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geosciences (advisor: Jay Quade), and was an IGERT Trainee in 2003/04 and 2004/05. She holds a B.A. in Anthropology and Geology (honors) from Indiana University, Bloomington and an MS from the Geology and Planetary Sciences Department at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research interests include paleoclimatic proxies, geochemical and archaeological heavy isotopic tracers (especially strontium) and sediment petrology. Her Ph.D. thesis tracks paleosol weathering and monsoonal response to Himalayan uplift over the last 10 Ma. Click here to see details of her IGERT outreach project.

Publications:

1. Reynolds, et al. (2005). 87Sr/86Sr Sourcing of Ponderosa Pine used in Anasazi Great House Construction at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico . Journal of Archaeological Science 32(7):1061-1076.

Dana Drake Rosenstein is in the PhD program in the Department of Anthropology (advisor: David Killick). She was an IGERT Trainee in 2004/05 and 2005/06 and is now an NSF Graduate Fellow from 2006/07 through 2008/09. She has a BA with Special Honors in Anthropology from George Washington University (2002) and is completing a MSc in Archaeology from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, on the technology and dating of BaTswana ceramics in northwestern South Africa. She works on ceramic technology and archaeometallurgy, using ethnoarchaeology, optical petrography and metallography, and chemical techniques. Her MSc thesis employs optically stimulated luminescence dating (OSL), and she is currently learning archaeomagnetic dating, with the intention of applying both methods to the study of pre- and post-colonial towns in southern Africa. Click here to see details of her past IGERT outreach projects.

Jessica Rowland received her MS from the Department of Geosciences in 2006 (advisor: Jay Quade), and was an IGERT Trainee in 2003/04 and 2004/05. She has a BS in geosciences and anthropology from Trinity University. Her research interests are in the application of light stable isotope geochemistry to paleoclimatic and paleodietary studies. Her MS research focussed on stable isotope analysis of a time series of Paleolithic ungulate teeth from Mediterranean cave sites in Israel, in order to reconstruct broad scale changes in climate and environment in the region. Click here to see details of her IGERT outreach project.

Jonathan Scholnick, Anthropology; Jon is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology (advisors: Steve Kuhn and Mary Stiner). He recevied a BA from the University of Virginia (1998) and an MA from the University of Arizona (2003). His BA and MA thesis research focused on the circulation of decorated ceramics between Ancestral Pueblo sites in East-Central Arizona. His dissertation research evaluates quantitative models of cultural diffusion in order to interpret artifact diversity. Part of it expands Deetz and Dethlefson's classic study of 17th and 18th century New England gravestones in order to study spatial models of culture change using GIS and spatial statistics.

Tim Shanahan completed his PhD dissertation in the Department of Geosciences (advisor: Jonathan Overpeck) in 2006, and he was an IGERT Trainee in 2003/04. His dissertation is on the dating and paleoenvironmental interpretation of portions of cores from Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana, a meteorite impact crater containing varved sediments that provide a continuous record from the present to at least the penultimate interglacial.

Publications:

1. Shanahan et al., (2006) Paleoclimatic variations in West Africa from a record of Late Pleistocen and Holocene lake level stands of Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana. Paleogeography, Plaeoclimatology, Paleoecology 242:287-302

Britt Starkovich is in the Ph.D. program in the Department of Anthropology (advisor: Mary Stiner) and was an IGERT Trainee in 2003/2004 and 2004/05. She received her B.A. in Anthropology and B.S. in Biology from the University of Wyoming in 2003, and her MA in 2005. Her MA thesis was on the analysis of faunal assemblages from an Epipaleolithic/Neolithic transition site in Southeastern Turkey. Her interests include the changing subsistence strategies of foragers in Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition and during the Epipaleolithic/Neolithic transition in the Mediterranean, faunal analysis and lithic analysis. She is also interested in Paleoindian foraging strategies. Click here to see details of her IGERT outreach project.

Alyson Thibodeau is in the Ph.D. program in the Department of Geosciences (advisor: Joaquin Ruiz)and an IGERT Trainee in 2004/05 and 2005/06. She was awarded a B.A. in Anthropology and Geology by Amherst College in 2004. She was awarded an M.S. in Geosciences by the University of Arizona in 2006. Her research focuses on the application of radiogenic and stable isotopes (Pb, Sr, Cu), to the genesis of ore deposits, and to problems in prehistoric mining and mineral trade. She is also interested in the application of light microscopy (petrography, metallography) to the reconstruction of past ceramic and metal technologies. For her M.S. research she used lead isotopes to constrain the source of silver-bearing lead ore smelted at La Isabela (1494-1498), the first European town in the New World. Her current research focuses on the isotopic characterization of turquoise deposits across the American Southwest and Mexico and seeks to develop methods for identifying the geologic sources of turquoise recovered from archaeological contexts.

Publications:

1. Thibodeau, et al. (2007) The Strange Case of the Earliest Extraction of Silver by European Colonists in the New World. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104:3663-3666 (and online supplementary data).

Noah Thomas is in the PhD program in Anthropology (advisor: David Killick) and was an IGERT Trainee in 2003/04 and 2004/05. He received a BA in Anthropology from UC Santa Cruz (1994) and an MA from New York University (1998). His MA thesis was on micro-artifact deposition in rock shelter contexts in the Upper Paleolithic of France. In 1997 he began excavating at the mid-seventeenth century pueblo of Paa-ko (New Mexico) with a University of Chicago team, directed by Mark Lycett. He was responsible for the excavation, over eight summers, of a lead- and copper-smelting workshop at this site, and his dissertation examines the evidence for technology transfer (in both directions) between Spanish colonists and native Americans at this workshop. More generally his interests are in archaeological theory, and especially in social studies of technology. Archaeology is however only his day job – by night he is a jazz trumpeter with two bands (Fashionistas, Beautiful Bird) in Tucson. Click here to see details of his IGERT outreach project.

A. J. Vonarx is in the PhD program in the Department of Anthropology (advisor: Takeshi Inomata) and was an IGERT Trainee in 2003/04 (see her IGERT outreach project here). She has BAs from the Pennsylvania State University in Anthropology and Psychology (1997) and an MA in Secondary Science Education from the University of Michigan (2001). She is interested in the development of creative techniques for the analysis, dating, and interpretation of architecture in Mesoamerica and the Southwestern United States. Other interests include the study of technological innovation, experimental archaeology, pyrotechnologies, and geochemical sourcing of artifacts. Her dissertation will develop fire investigation techniques and modeling programs for use in archaeology - allowing researchers to recognize behavioral choices implicated in the remains of ancient burned structures, tombs, and ritual deposits.

Publications:

1. Icove, et al. (2006) The Scientific Investigation and Modeling of Fires at Cehevlon Pubelo. In Featured Papers of the Meeting for the International Society for Fire Investigation, Cincinnati 2006, edited by K. Kennedy, pp. 247-261. Narional Association for Fire Investigation, Sarasota.

2. Hirth, et al. (2006) Supply Side Economics: An Analysis of Obsidian Procurement and the Organization of Workshop Provisioning. In Obsidian Production in Ancient Central Mexico, edited by K. G. Hirth, pp. 115 – 137. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake.

3. Hodgins, et al. (2005) AMS Radiocarbon Dating of Prehispanic Lime Plasters. In Proceedings of 2004 Internationa Symposium on Archaeometry, edited by J. Pérez-Arantegui, pp.176-180. Institucion Fernando el Catolico, Zaragosa, Spain.

4. Website: 2005 Earthwatch Student Challenge Awards Project - Experimental Archaeology of Ancient Structural Fires www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/arch/chevelonburn/index.html

Patrick Wrinn is writing his PhD dissertation in Anthropology (advisor: John Olsen) and expects to finish this semester. He was an IGERT Trainee for 2005/06 and had an NSF Graduate Fellowship from 1999/2000 to 2001/02. He has an AB in Anthropology from Harvard University (1998) and an M.Phil. in Archaeology from Cambridge University (2000). He has archaeological experience at Middle and Upper Paleolithic sites in Spain, France, Morocco, Turkey and Russia. He is co-director of excavations at Obi-Rakhmat rockshelter in Uzbekistan, and his dissertation examines hominid subsistence and site use across the Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition in the Altai Mountains, Siberia. Click here to see details of his past IGERT outreach project.

Publications:

1. Wrinn and Rink (2003). ESR dating of tooth enamel from Aterian levels at Mugharet el ‘Aliya (Tangier, Morocco). Journal of Archaeological Science 30(1): 123-133.

2. Derevianko, et al. (2005). Archaeology, Anthropology and Paleoecology of Obi-Rakhmat Grotto, Uzbekistan. Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk.

 
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