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Title: Barbuda Historical Ecology Project
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 Barbuda and define the island’s place within the cultural and climatic realm of the Lesser Antilles and the circum-Atlantic region. It is a multi-disciplinary project with scholars from across the spectrum of social and hard sciences. Issues of island biogeography, cultural geography, subsistence through each cultural epoch, resilience and vulnerability in the face of extreme weather and environmental/landscape changes,as well as regional and oceanic connections will be approached through multiple disciplines and then analyzed in a collaborative forum. The project emphasis is on interdisciplinary, international collaboration of scientists, education and outreach. The project is part of a large initiative funded by the National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs on Islands of Change (IOC). The IOC initiative will connect progressive interdisciplinary science with innovative approaches to science education and heritage outreach to connect two small rural island communities of Barbuda, West Indies and Thingeyjarsveit, Iceland with the large urban island community of New York City. The islands present strong contrasts in scale, history, ethnicity, and natural environment, but common themes and processes connect these islands in both past and present. The islands today are faced by challenges associated with rapid global change- climate change, sea level rise, changes in plant and animal life, and the social and economic disruptions caused by dramatic shifts in world economy. They also share histories of external colonization, local adaptation, human impacts on landscape and resources, and changing impacts of past global economic connections. These islands are products of complex historical interaction of humans and environment which continues to affect their potential for future sustainability and likewise face common twenty first century challenges of educating citizens and future leaders for resilience and nurturing young scientists with strong social commitment. The Islands of Change program is working to connect local and global educational efforts with exciting new field science to provide lasting benefits to local communities as well as students from the City University of New York.
Keywords:Caribbean
Longitudinal Research
Community Outreach
Paleoclimatology
Paleobotany
Zooarchaeology
Sponsors/Funders GHEA, HERC, BARC
Country Antigua and Barbuda
Region Barbuda
Project Start Year 2000
Project End Year Ongoing

Project Contact

Contact: George Hambrecht
Address College Park, Woods Hall
Postcode 0111
Telephone 301-405-1002
Email ghambrec@umd.edu

Project Content

BARC 2010 - 1 Paleoenvironmental Report
This report presents the preliminary results of the BHEP paleoenvironmental survey for the 2010 season.
BARC 2010 - 2 Ecology and Marine Biology Report
The preliminary report presents the results of the 2010 BHEP ecological and marine biological surveys.

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