My piece in The Conversation @africa.theconversation.com based on our recent article in @antiquity.ac.uk
Read the original article here: doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
22.08.2025 07:53 — 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Our Digitising Desertification summer school continues this week at Newcastle University. We've had a fascinating introduction to declassified cold war satellite imagery from PhD student Jen Makovics.
29.07.2025 09:19 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our Detecting Desertification summer school at Newcastle University continues with some training in writing machine learning algorithms using satellite images in Google Earth Engine
24.07.2025 11:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Day 2 of our Detecting Desertification sumer school at @newcastleuni.bsky.social Students practised using Google Earth Pro for digiting archaeological sites of all types, including these ancient gold mines alongside the Nile in Sudan. Satellite Image from Google Earth Pro Airbus 2025.
22.07.2025 08:53 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Day 1 of our Digitising Desertification summer school (Archaeology, Newcastle uni). PhD student Hope Irvine shows Newcastle students results of our new machine learning algorithms for detecting change to archaeology.
21.07.2025 11:57 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
the calm before the storm...
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04.06.2025 17:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A slave revolt, Mongol invasion, spread of plague and climate change.
Find out how agricultural features in southern Iraq can teach us about all of these in this great thread, then check out the new Research Article in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
02.06.2025 10:32 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Our new article published today in @antiquity.ac.uk focuses on interesting archaeological landscape features in southern Iraq. Groups of long linear earthen ridges sit on the banks of the Shatt al-Arab river in the Basra region, north of the shores of the Gulf… 🧵
02.06.2025 10:08 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
Our latest article is out today. It describes results of remote sensing and OSL dating of archaeological earthworks near Basra in Iraq. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
02.06.2025 08:30 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
A new paper with Google Earth Engine code on remote sensing of vanishing archaeology in Iraq from me, my students and our collaborators www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14...
07.05.2025 10:24 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Pictures of the Mesopotamian Marshes, also known as the Iraqi Marshes. Chibaish Marches, Iraq - An Nasiriyah.jpg 2016 Wiki.
The waterways of the lower #Mesopotamian plains in today's modern #Iraq were one of the most important drivers of life, both urban and rural, in this environment for thousands of years. Water is the lifeblood of agriculture, urban development and trade. 1/6 #coastalhistory #maritimeheritage
24.03.2025 12:24 — 👍 19 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 1
14.03.2025 21:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Loads of news articles have just appeared on my recent research (that I co-direct) at Eridu, but none mention me... story of my career!
14.03.2025 12:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Open Access FAQs – REF 2029
If you're involved in REF2029 preparation for your university re Outputs: @ref2029.bsky.social has published answers to Frequently Asked Questions re Open Access requirements. My personal favourite (relevant to so many aspects of life):
'Appropriate use of exceptions will not be penalised.'
12.03.2025 11:04 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
12.03.2025 13:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A new paper of mine on Early Islamic water management is just out here
12.03.2025 13:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Cullercoats the other day
12.03.2025 06:57 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I might be biased but this is a fantastic #Science4Policy job opportunity for someone passionate about supporting evidence-informed policymaking and Europe's scientific community!
Apply now (deadline 19 March)👇!
www.egu.eu/news/1258/jo...
#SciPolJobs #SciComm #SciCommJobs #Jobs #Geoscience
06.03.2025 09:51 — 👍 19 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 0
Tynemouth this morning
07.04.2024 11:56 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A webinar I am giving tomorrow with Dr Jaafar Jotheri on past and traditional water management in Iraq
giap.icac.cat/seminars/
19.03.2024 17:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bunny
10.02.2024 14:55 — 👍 26 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Exploring Scotland’s past through archaeology at National Trust for Scotland sites. Follow for updates on digs, discoveries, and history! #ForTheLoveOfScotland. Where we are and what we're doing.
Satellite images past and present 🛰️
Building an archive of interactive declassified spy satellite images 🕵️
https://spacefromspace.com/declassified-satellite-images
Visual investigations at the FT. Architect who won a Pulitzer.
Professor of History @ShippensburgU, focused on Middle East since the rise of Islam, author of The Medieval Persian Gulf (https://www.arc-humanities.org/9781802700046/the-medieval-persian-gulf/), views are my own
Archaeology at Durham University - News about our staff, students, partnerships and research from across archaeology.
Geochronologist specialising in luminescence dating, with applications in archaeology, landscape evolution, and environmental studies. Head of the Durham Luminescence Dating Laboratory, Department of Archaeology, Durham University.
Forschungsförderung mit Schwerpunkt auf den Historischen Geisteswissenschaften in Deutschland und weltweit.
Impressum: http://gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/impressum
Financial Services. Maps. Technology. Politics. PhD Urban Science
www.andrasonea.com
Climate data scientist, analyst and communicator. I use open-source tools, open data, open science and open geospatial for good. Climatebase + Climatematch alum. I help with FedGeoDay + FOSS4G NA. Former science/env. journalist (WaPo, C&EN, Science, etc.)
Heritage photographer. Trying to become an archaeologist. Bit of a thing for landscapes, archaeology, movies, music, history, and chocolate. Derbyshire-based.
Data projects, Map enthusiast, GIS professional, Educational technologist and leader. Electic music taste and avid reader.
A little GIS, a little EnviroSci, a little Emergency Management, some Photography, and a lot of UCLA.
✅ This Horizon Europe research project will identify opportunities to strengthen and scale up voluntary climate action to achieve a worldwide net-zero society by 2050.
Honorary Fellow @arcdurham.bsky.social | Landscape archaeology of medieval Eurasia | Water Management | Islamic Archaeology | Environmental History
https://p-j-brown.github.io
Network Archaeologist - Geoarchaeologist - Computational Archaeologist
Cat mum with too many hobbies - traveller
Exploring workforce skills for Industry 5.0. We are a #HorizonEU initiative funded by EU HaDEA
https://bridges5-0.eu/
#Satellites #Science #SeaIce #ExtremeLatitudes.
Remote Sensing of Polar Regions at University of Bremen,
Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP).
https://seaice.uni-bremen.de
Democratic Governance. Climate Transitions. EU. 🇪🇺
🔗 https://retoolproject.eu/ I Follow us: https://linktr.ee/retool_project
#Sustainability scholar @northumbriauni.bsky.social #EnvironmentalEducation #SustainableBusiness #Biodiversity #Animals #Climate Wary of polarization, viral slogans & echo chambers https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=pE0rWdgAAAAJ&hl=nl
Rewilding the Scottish Highlands. Hopeful and bold, we are committed to creating nature-rich landscapes that include and support people.
See rewilding in action @visitdundreggan.bsky.social
