Research Cruise SO264 on the RV SONNE - June to August 2018
SONNE - Emperor
Led by paleoceanographers Dirk Nürnberg and Ralf Tiedemann, I and 36 other scientists spent 57 days during the summer of 2018 on the German research vessel RV SONNE in the North Pacific Ocean. Over this time, we collected samples of water and sediment from the bottom of the sea, which we plan to use to reconstruct past climate and ocean circulation. Specifically, we focused our coring on transects up and down the Emperor Seamount chain in order to recover material that “sees” all the water masses present in the North Pacific. Stay tuned over the next few years as results start to come out!
View the cruise report here
Expedition blog
Link to my blog post for this trip titled “Week 1 aboard the RV SONNE”
Check out a series of Youtube videos on our expedition
Archaeological Fieldwork at Aşıklı Höyük - 2017 to Present
The Initiation of Animal Domestication
The archaeological site of Aşıklı Höyük in Turkey is best known for being the oldest pre-pottery Neolithic settlement in Central Anatolia. The site was continuously occupied from about 10,000 to 9,000 years ago, and represents an early example of people’s transition from a nomadic to sedentary lifestyle. As part of this adaptation, evidence acquired from studying bones and dung points to the development of animal management at this site. Working with geochemist Jay Quade, zooarchaeologist Mary Stiner, micromorphologist Susan Mentzer, and archaeologists Mihriban Özbaşaran, Güneş Duru, and Melis Uzdurum, I am applying geochemical methods and mass-balance modeling to try and reconstruct the timing and scale of animal management at Aşıklı Höyük. Future work will attempt to study people’s use of space by quantifying the elemental and isotopic composition of various components of the mound.
