NORSEC Activities : the North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO ) Cooperative.

Since hosting an NSF-funded organizing workshop in 1992, the Hunter Bioarchaeology Laboratory has also been the coordinating center for the NABO research cooperative. NABO is an internationally recognized non-governmental regional research cooperative with over 450 members in 14 countries.  NABO includes 40 major northern research centers in North America, EU, and Scandinavia, and has received support from European, Canadian, and US funding sources. Two major grants to NABO from NSF Polar Programs total just over $1 million.

NABO has developed expertise the study of:

• Human Impacts on terrestrial and marine ecosystems
• Effects of Climate Change on cultural and natural landscapes and seascapes
• Inter-cultural interactions and global impacts in the North Atlantic.

  NABO scholars were the first to combine the high-resolution proxy climate data of the Greenland ice cores with historical and archaeological data, the first to provide a regional dating program for the North Atlantic, and the first to set up an international archaeological education program in the region.

  NABO scholars have published three major monographs, three edited volumes, over 100 articles in reviewed journals, including Science, The Holocene, Antiquity, World Archaeology, American Ethnologist, and American Anthropologist.

  NABO Sponsors workshops and major meetings (NYC 1992, Glasgow 1994, Tromsø 1996, St John's 1997, NYC 1999, Glasgow 2001, NYC 2001), and has sponsored eleven doctoral dissertations since 1993.

  NABO has been featured in popular articles in the New York Times, Washington Post, Times of London, Science, Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, Discovery Magazine, Seattle Times, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.

  NABO has cooperated in the production of three PBS radio shows, two NOVA TV shows, two Discovery Channel shows, and one History Channel show. In the next six months, NABO will be a center piece of UK Channel 4 Science production on the North Atlantic and a third NOVA production in the US.

  NABO is now cooperating closely with the Smithsonian Institution in a major new millennial exhibit on the Viking Voyages: North Atlantic Saga opening in Washington DC May 2000, and touring NY, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Boston over the next three years.

The experience of the NABO cooperative brings a solid network of international cooperation and multiple opportunities for student and faculty research in the North Atlantic area.