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Students’ Research Accomplishments

 

Ph.D. Students

1. Clayton Tinsley

  • Recipient of an American Scandinavian Foundation grant 2001-2002 $18,000.
  • Paper presentation AEA Conference Glasgow March 3-6, 2001
    Hofstadir and Sveigakot zooarchaeological comparisons.
  • Co-author of one research paper:
    McGovern, T.H., S. Perdikaris and C. Tinsley 2001
    Economy of Landnam: evidence of zooarchaeology. Nordall publishers, Iceland.

2. Colin Amundsen

  • Paper presentation at the Division of Graduate Studies and Research of Brooklyn College: Graduate Student Colloquium, Tuesday December 5, 2001. Title: The zooarchaeology of Midbaer, Iceland
  • Paper in Press:
    Title: Farming and Maritime Resources on the Island of Flatey in Breydarfjordur. AEA 2001
    conference proceedings publication.
  • Poster presentation, AEA Conference, Glasgow March 3-6, 2001. Farming and Maritime Resources on the island of Flatey in Breidarfjordur, NW Iceland

3. Matthew Brown

  • Paper presentation at the Division of Graduate Studies and Research of Brooklyn College: Graduate Student Colloquium, Tuesday December 5, 2001. Title: Paleopathology in a Bronze Age population from Sirmium, Yugoslavia

4. Clayton Tinsley and Colin Amundsen

  • Session organized by Tinsley and Amundsen for the Society for American Archaeology Meeting, Philadelphia, PA April 6-10, 2000.
    Session Title: Historical Ecology in the North Atlantic.

Undergraduate Students

1. Tariq Ahmad

  • Invited presentation for the lecture series of the Icelandic Fieldschool, Hafralaekjarskoli, Iceland July 26, 2001
    Topic: The site of Hebnes
  • Recipient of William M. Beauchamp Founder’s Scholarship Award of the New York State Archaeological Association. $500 and 1 year membership. Spring 2001.

2. Marianna Betti

  • Invited paper at the Center for Northern Studies conference on Undergraduate Research in Arctic Social Science, Wolcott Vermont Nov. 8-11, 2001.
    Topic: Norman Architectural contributions to the castles of South Italy
  • Invited presentation for the lecture series of the Icelandic Fieldschool, Hafralaekjarskoli, Iceland July 26, 2001
    Topic: Viking Eastward Expansion

3. Jennifer Braun

  • Invited paper at the Center for Northern Studies conference on Undergraduate Research in Arctic Social Science, Wolcott Vermont Nov. 8-11, 2001 
    Topic: Human impact on Icelandic plant communities: a comparative approach between two time horizons
  • Invited presentation for the lecture series of the Icelandic Fieldschool, Hafralaekjarskoli, Iceland July 26, 2001
    Topic: Charcoal investigations from the sites of Hofstadir and Sveigakot

4. Matthew Brown

  • Invited paper at the Center for Northern Studies conference on Undergraduate Research in Arctic Social Science, Wolcott Vermont Nov. 8-11, 2001
    Topic: Sexing and Ageing prehistoric populations: The case of Bronze Age Sirmium and Mala Mitrovica, Yugoslavia
  • Invited presentation for the lecture series of the Icelandic Fieldschool, Hafralaekjarskoli, Iceland July 26, 2001
    Topic: Analyzing Human Skeletal Remains

5. Andrew Leykam

  •   Invited presentation for the lecture series of the Icelandic Fieldschool, Hafralaekjarskoli, Iceland July 26, 2001
    Topic: Management of the Commons: The Cod Wars

6. Yang Miller

  • Invited movie presentation at the Center for Northern Studies conference on Undergraduate
    Topic: Archaeology, Education and Media: The REU Summer 2001 experience
  • Invited presentation for the lecture series of the Icelandic Fieldschool, Hafralaekjarskoli, Iceland July 26, 2001
    Topic: Ethnoarchaeology and Film Making

7. Christina Rhodes

  • Invited presentation for the lecture series of the Icelandic Fieldschool, Hafralaekjarskoli, Iceland July 26, 2001
    Topic: Bioinfomatics and software development for classroom use

High School Students

1. Jonathan Hamill

  • Participation in Intel Science Talent Search, November 28, 2001
    Topic: Dental Pathology in skeletons from the Sirmium site

2. Yury Veynblat

  • Participation in Intel Science Talent Search, November 28, 2001
    Topic: Ageing and Sexing of Animal Bones

3. Daniel Ruderfer

  • Participation in Intel Science Talent Search, November 28, 2001
    Topic: Tracing vertebral pathology in skeletons from Bronze Age Yugoslavia

4. Lisa Chang

  • Participation in Intel Science Talent Search, November 28, 2001
    Topic: Thin section microscopy on Gadus morhua cranial and vertebral elements