17 results for projects related to 'climate' |
Project Title: | Barbuda Historical Ecology Project Barbuda Historical Ecology Project |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=133 |
Country: | Antigua and Barbuda |
Region: | Barbuda |
Description: | This project is a multi-disciplinary longitudinal research effort focusing on the island of Barbuda from first human settlement through to the present day. The goal of the project is to investigate human/environment interactions on the island of Barb...[More] |
Keywords: | Caribbean, Longitudinal Research, Community Outreach, Paleoclimatology, Paleobotany, Zooarchaeology |
Project Title: | Investigations of the Long Term Sustainability of Human Ecodynamic Systems in Northern Iceland (MYCHANGE) |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=226 |
Country: | Iceland |
Region: | Mývatn |
Description: | This international, cross-disciplinary NSF-funded project focuses on change, the environment, and sustainability in Iceland during the period ca. AD 1700 to 1950. A major aim of the project is to establish developments in human and social ecodynamics...[More] |
Keywords: | Mývatn, Iceland, hay, grazing, fodder, climate, ecodynamics, economy, resiliance, sustainability, |
Project Title: | Isle of Vallay Archaeology/Climate Change Expedition 2017 |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=229 |
Country: | Scotland |
Region: | Outer Hebrides |
Description: | We are in our second season of a survey of Erskine Beveridge sites on he Isle of Vallay, impacted by Climate Change....[More] |
Keywords: | Vallay |
Project Title: | Isle of Vallay Archaeology/Climate Change Expedition 2017 |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=228 |
Country: | Scotland |
Region: | Outer Hebrides |
Description: | We are in our second season of a survey of Erskine Beveridge sites on he Isle of Vallay, impacted by Climate Change....[More] |
Keywords: | Vallay |
Project Title: | Modelling changes in the coastal geomorphology of Unst, Shetland and the implications for understanding High to Late Medieval harbour changes in the Scandinavian North Atlantic |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=222 |
Country: | Scotland |
Region: | Unst, Shetland Islands |
Description: | This sub-project is part of the SP5 Geomorphology section of the HaNoA project. The geomorphological setting of Norse harbours in the Atlantic is variable, with contrasting landform stability over short, medium and long time scales. Here we asses...[More] |
Keywords: | Geormorphology, Unst, Shetland, Coastal, Harbour, Landing site, Norse, Viking, Erosion, Beach, |
Project Title: | Ø172 Tatsip Ataa Midden Excavation Project - Subsistence Strategies and Economy in Norse Vatnahverfi |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=159 |
Country: | Greenland |
Region: | Quaqortoq municipality, Igaliku Fjord |
Description: | The Norse economy in Greenland was strongly dependent upon a balance of both marine resources (seals, sea birds, walruses) and terrestrial resources (pasture plants, woodland, fertilized soils, domestic mammals, reindeer) (McGovern 1985, 2000, McGove...[More] |
Keywords: | Greenland,Norse,Zooarchaeology,Climate,Subsistance,Eastern,Settlement |
Project Title: | Ø68 Timerliit Excavation Project - IPY - 2008 |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=160 |
Country: | Greenland |
Region: | Quaqortoq municipality, Igaliku Fjord |
Description: | Excavation of a midden at a Norse farm in inland area of Vatnahverfi, Eastern Settlement. Ø68 is a small size Norse farm in the inland district of Vatnahverfi. Even though the main goal to generate a large, well preserved and stratified zooarchae...[More] |
Keywords: | Greenland,Norse,Zooarchaeology,Climate,Subsistance,Eastern Settlement |
Project Title: | RAPID Garðar Collaborative Rescue Project - 2012 |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=161 |
Country: | Greenland |
Region: | Quaqortoq municipality, Igaliku Fjord |
Description: | RAPID is an intensive international multi-disciplinary effort to salvage critical organic remains (zooarchaeological, archaeobotanical, artifactual, geoarchaeological, bioarchaeological, and archaeoentomological) from rapidly degrading cultural depos...[More] |
Keywords: | Greenland, Norse, Zooarchaeology, Climate, Subsistance, Eastern Settlement |
Project Title: | Orkney: Gateway to the Atlantic Rousay, Orkney: Gateway to the Atlantic |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=141 |
Country: | Scotland |
Region: | Orkney |
Description: | This project forms part of the Orkney Gateway to the Atlantic project. The core aim of this research initiative is to inform on sustainability and reliance strategies in the past, investigating how people (and society) reacted and adapted to climatic...[More] |
Keywords: | sustainability, reliance, multiperiod, coastal erosion |
Project Title: | Snow modelling Hörgardalur |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=218 |
Country: | Iceland |
Description: | This is the northern Iceland field site for the snow modelling in Iceland project. Fieldwork in March 2014 collected measurements of snow depth and density near the archaeological site of Skuggi. These measurements along with LANDSAT imagery is us...[More] |
Keywords: | Comparative Island Ecodynamics, snow, Little Ice Age |
Project Title: | Snow modelling Skaftártunga |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=217 |
Country: | Iceland |
Description: | This is the southern Iceland field site for the snow modelling in Iceland project. Fieldwork in March 2014 collected measurements of snow depth and density at the farms of Hrifunes and Búland. These measurements along with LANDSAT imagery is used ...[More] |
Keywords: | Comparative Island Ecodynamics, snow, Little Ice Age |
Project Title: | Snow Modelling Iceland Snow modelling to understand the impacts of Little Ice Age climate change |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=215 |
Country: | Other |
Description: | This project aims to use an existing process based snow model to simulate changes in snow cover and distribution for sites in Iceland and in Greenland. Changes in the duration and depth of snow cover through periods of climatic deterioration may have...[More] |
Keywords: | Comparative Island Ecodynamics, modelling, LIttle Ice Age, snow |
Project Title: | Snow, landscape and people: Fieldwork in Norway |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=132 |
Country: | Norway |
Region: | Heidal |
Description: | Fieldwork from project: Snow, landscape and people: Modelling variations in snow distribution and melt across the landscape and the implications for human activities. Snow surveys were completed in Heidal valley, Oppland, along three discontinuous...[More] |
Keywords: | snow,melt,vegetation,climate |
Project Title: | Snow, landscape and people: Fieldwork in Sweden |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=131 |
Country: | Sweden |
Region: | Abisko |
Description: | Fieldwork from project: Snow, landscape and people: Modelling variations in snow distribution and melt across the landscape and the implications for human activities. Method: Snow depth and density were measured in the pre-snow melt period from ...[More] |
Keywords: | snow,distribution,vegetation |
Project Title: | Snow, landscape and people: Modelling variations in snow distribution and melt across the landscape and the implications for human activities |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=130 |
Country: | Greenland |
Region: | Arctic |
Description: | The quantity and distribution of snow across landscapes and timing of the spring snowmelt is key to a diverse range of processes, from the hydrological cycle and glaciation through to ecological and human-environment interactions. Many snow-covered...[More] |
Keywords: | Snow, modelling, Arctic populations |
Project Title: | The Alluitsoq Project |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=231 |
Country: | Greenland |
Region: | Kujalleq Municipality / Kommune Kujalleq |
Description: | The Alluitsoq Project is a community-based, collaborative research program investigating life at the former Moravian mission of Lichtenau (est. 1774) in South Greenland. It is designed to position descendant community members as key contributors for ...[More] |
Keywords: | Indigenous Archaology, Greenland, Lichtenau, Moravian, Community-based, Collaborative, Colonial |
Project Title: | The Archaeology of Climate Change in the Caribbean The Archaeology of Climate Change in the Caribbean |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=153 |
Country: | Cuba |
Region: | Caribbean |
Description: | Pre-Colombian populations in the Caribbean, from 5000 BC to AD 1492, lived through more than five metres relative sea level rise, marked variation in annual rainfall and periodic intensification of hurricane activity. This Leverhulme funded project ...[More] |
Keywords: | Caribbean, Climate Variability, Environmental Change, Hazards, |