Dr. Michelle de Gruchy

What are some good publications for getting started with reflectance spectroscopy of heavy metals in soils?

The Ancients and Thin Edge of the Wedge are a couple podcasts that interview archaeologists. Both will mention if the person interviewed has a new book on the topic of the podcast, but the book isn't the focus.

If you went to college:
1. What was your career goal when you started?
2. Your initial major?
3. If you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. What do you do now, professionally?

1. Archaeologist
2. Archaeology
3. No change - archaeology
4. Archaeologist

Thanks!

Thanks!

New article! A team of us have developed a methodology (and script - see supplementary materials) for incorporating archaeological and palaeoenvironmental data into a model of past land use that is suitable for climate modelling 🧪🏺https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109142

A bit. HOT's focus is on mapping where things are, which is really important. UNOSAT doesn't usually do mapping in that sense (unless required), rather the focus is on identifying damage/affected areas with first results usually within 24 hours.

Agreed!

You can find many UNOSAT maps and datasets resulting from activations of the humanitarian emergency mapping service here: unosat.org/products/

UNOSAT's Humanitarian Emergency Mapping Service is underpinned by the International Charter Space & Major Disasters disasterscharter.org/web/guest/ho...

Did you know the UN Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) 🛰️ has a Humanitarian Emergency Mapping Service that can provide satellite analysis in the event of a humanitarian emergency and can be activated by humanitarian NGOs? unosat.org/services

My name - Sophie - spelt out in aerial images, from NASA Landsat.

Oh now this is very cool - your name spelt out in landscape images, from NASA! landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...

Later in the evening there was also a photographic presentation by a team that has been documenting damage to cultural heritage [6/6]

A paper about the "violation" (Google Translate) of cemeteries and Islamic shrines by Muhammed Fahad Al-Qar; a paper on The Position of Terrorist Groups on Places of Worship in Iraq: al-Hamdaniya Churches as an example by Zakaria Hashem Ahmed Al-Khader and Zain Al-Abidin Musa Jaafar...[5/?]

A paper on the origins and formation of Arab-Islamic cities by Muhammed Hamad Ahmad, Abdulaziz Khudair Abbas, and Areej Ahmed Hussein; a paper entitled (using Google Translate) Methods of Obliterating Cultural Identity and Methods of Deterrence and Prevention by Alaa Savory Abdulaziz Mustafa...[4/?]

A paper by Alaa Hassan Mardan Al-Lami specifically on Islamic heritage and how it's interpreted; another paper by Hussein Aliwi Nassar Al-Zayadi and Hossem Sabbar Hadi on the trafficking of antiquities from Iraq...[3/?]

The conference on countering extremism and terrorism was held in Karbala karbala-intel.net/english/8288 The papers in the cultural heritage session were: Ways to Protect Algerian Archaeological Heritage in light of National legislation and International Agreements by Amaj Bellacem, [2/?]

I recently returned from a trip to Iraq where I attended two conferences and visited various places. The first conference was on countering extremism and terrorism and included a session on cultural heritage. The second conference was the 5th edition of an annual archaeology conference [1/?]

On the Way in Upper Mesopotamia. Travels, Routes and Environment as a Basis for the Reconstruction of Historical Geography edited by Adelheid Otto and Nele Ziegler, with a chapter by Katleen Deckers and I on the importance of terrain is available open access here: epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/109051/