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RESEARCH INTERESTS

My research interests bridge the fields of paleoclimatology, paleoecology, archaeology, and low-temperature geochemistry. Recent efforts are focused on climatic and ecological archives contained in accretionary, hard-part remains of coastal marine shellfish and finfish from Holocene archaeological deposits and Neogene fossil deposits. These archives are microsampled at high resolution in the Paleoclimate & Paleoecology Laboratory. Current projects include:

• Holocene climate archives preserved in archaeological limpet shells (Patella vulgata) from Viking deposits on the Orkney Islands and Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age sites elsewhere in Scotland (collaborators: Jonathan Lees, UNC; James Barrett, University of Cambridge; Nicky Milner, University of York; Steven Mithen, University of Reading; Bernd Schöne, University of Mainz; Ting Wang, PhD candidate). Funded by the National Geographic Society (Award #8214-07) and NSF (AGS-1103371).
   
• Late Holocene subtropical climate reconstruction using geochemical proxies in archaeological shells (Mercenaria campechiensis) and otoliths (Ariopsis felis), southwest Florida (Karen Jo Walker, Florida Museum of Natural History, collaborator; Ting Wang, PhD candidate).  Funded by NSF Awards #0455974 and #0602422 and the American Chemical Society's Petroleum Research Fund (Award #39318-G2).
   
• Latitudinal changes in seasonality along the US Atlantic Coastal Plain during Neogene warm climate intervals: Analogues for future global warming? (collaborator: Joe "Clam-boy" Carter, UNC, and Buck Ward, Virgina Museum of Natural History; Joel Hudley, PhD candidate; Ian Winkelstern, MS student)
  
• Proxy development and climate reconstruction from Pinna nobilis shells, western Mediterranean (collaborator: Dr. Rafa Garcia-March, post-doctoral researcher, UNC)

Viking Age site, Quoygrew, Orkney Islands, Scotland.

 

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