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Staff profile
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Curriculum vitae
1998 | Intern, Nuclear Theory Group, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
1999 | B.A. in Physics, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa |
2001-2003 | Research Assistant. Electron Microprobe Lab, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota |
2002 | M.S., Interdisciplinary Archaeological Studies Program, University of Minnesota |
2003-Present | Research Fellow & Principal Analyst, Electron Microprobe Lab, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota |
2007 | Ph.D. candidate, Archaeology Program, Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota |
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Archaeological field work
2006 | Staff archaeologist at Tell Mozan Excavation, Syria |
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Academic Writings
1998 | Pion Absorption Cross Sections of Heavy Nuclei. Proceedings of the 1998 Research for Undergraduates (REU) Program, University of Illinois |
2002 | The Potential of Electron Microprobe Analysis in Provenance Studies of North American Native Copper Artifacts. M.S. thesis, University of Minnesota |
2002 | Electron Beams and Micro-scale Composition: The Electron Microprobe as an Archaeological Tool. University of Minnesota Archaeology Consortium Lunch Series |
2004 | Electron Microprobe Analysis of North American Native Copper. First Archaeological Sciences of the Americas Symposium, University of Arizona |
2004 | Consultation to Collaboration: Why Geologists Should Learn Archaeological Theory. University of Minnesota Archaeology Consortium Lunch Series |
2004 | From Consultation to Collaboration: Why Geologists Should Learn Archaeological Theory. Session #127: Archaeological Geology. Geological Society of America, 2004 Denver Annual Meeting |
2005 | An Electron Microprobe in the Classroom: A Remote-Access System for Education. Session #29: Inquiry-Based, Hands-On, Classroom Exercises, Lab Demonstrations, and Field Investigations in Geoscience Education. GSA North-Central Section |
2005 | Electron Microprobe Analysis of Artifacts: Where Physics Meets Archaeology. Grinnell College, Physics Department Seminar |
2005 | The History and Physics of Electron Microscopy and Microanalysis. Lawrence University, Physics Department Colloquium |
2005 | Blasting Stone Tools with Electron Beams: Crossroads of Archaeology and the Physical Sciences. Lawrence University, Science Hall Colloquium |
2006 | Relevance, History, and Frameworks in Teaching Instrumentation (or How I Learned to Stop Talking about Vacuum Systems and Discuss 1950s Russian Microprobe Designs). Invited, Session T53: Teaching Instrumentation to Geoscience Students: Course Design, Objectives, and Presentations. Geological Society of America, 2006 Philadelphia Meeting |
2007 | Humans: The Newest Geological Transport Process (or Looking for Obsidian in all the Wrong Places). Hard Rock Lunch seminar series, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota |
2007 | Electron Microprobe Analysis in 21st-Century Archaeology: Its Strengths, Weaknesses, and the Advancements Useful to Archaeologists. Archaeometric Methods, Archaeological Applications I. Society for American Archaeology, 72nd Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas |
2007 | Microanalytical Characterization of Native Copper Artifacts in Order to Differentiate Raw Material Sources. Invited, Session P-09: Metallurgy, History, and the Fine Arts. Microscopy & Microanalysis 2007, Annual Meeting of the Microscopy Society of America and the Microbeam Analysis Society, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida |
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Tasks at Mozan
2006 | Field Assistant, Laboratory Data Analysis |
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Data authored for the Urkesh Global Record
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