Olo Be Taloha Lab

Translation: Elders of the past. Penn State Lab focusing on the environmental archaeology of Southwest Madagascar directed by @kgdouglass. Tweets by @archaedan

[Olo Be Taloha Lab @OBTlab]

Please consider supporting our #covid relief in southwestern Madagascar. The situation has become desperate very quickly and your donations will go directly toward delivering PPE and cleaning supplies to 35 communities.
French and English details in link.

https://t.co/bsfQSZhYZY

[Olo Be Taloha Lab @OBTlab]

Great contribution by members of our lab!

[WIOMSA @wiomsa]

Career Opportunity 📌

WIOMSA is seeking a Science-Policy Programme Manager to oversee the implementation of its newly launched SCALABLE Programme’s science-policy component.

Interested candidates are invited to submit their applications by 21st July 2023, 11:59 p.m. EAT. 🗓

[abibirogba @Harbiolar_0]

And this is finally out…reconstructing the archaeology and paleoecology of the tropical rainforest in Nigeria… thanks to @EmuobosaAk for this initiative and to the amazing team of scholars I worked with on this project..thanks to @pagesmagazine_ for publishing..

[Chiamaka Lauretta Mangut @chiamakanyanwu]

I am honored to receive a grant from Emergent Ventures of Mercatus Center Inc, for my Ph.D. research in Archaeobotany! Excited to delve into the world of ancient plant remains and uncover insights into past human history and climate adaptation. #PhDresearch #EmergentVentures"

[MPI-GEA Jena @MPI_GEA]

Charcoal and Cattle Correlate with Madagascar’s Megafaunal Extinctions - A new study suggests that human-caused changes in land use within the last millennia drove the extinction of Madagascar’s giant animals https://t.co/DnJS4FOZ3G

[IEE at Penn State @IEEPennState]

What happens to a community when a key resource disappears? In SW Madagascar, a tree of great importance in that region appears to be vanishing. On our latest podcast, @kgdouglass discusses her research regarding this phenomenon. https://t.co/9x1mMbDTy7

[abibirogba @Harbiolar_0]

First season of fieldwork on the coastal strip of Badagry was a monumental success. It was an amazing 3-week of intensive archaeological reconnaissance, survey and ethnography on the Badagry coast. This preliminary survey yielded evidence of remains of a ditch system that served

[Chiamaka Lauretta Mangut @chiamakanyanwu]

@OBTlab, @chiamakanyanwu
Doing archaeology on the beautiful Jos plateau.Good to be on the field again.

[Olo Be Taloha Lab @OBTlab]

Woo @LeanneNPhelps!!!

[Madagascar Biodiversity Center @mbc_madagascar]

Fantastic talk by @LeanneNPhelps @mbc_madagascar. Learned a lot about #fireregime in #Madagascar, she showed it is not that different from other tropical regions.

[Dylan Davis @DDavis_Arch]

I’m excited to announce that I will be an @NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow beginning in July! I’ll be continuing my work with @OBTLab and @kgdouglass at @columbiaclimate investigating the long-term ecological impacts of different socioeconomic strategies on Madagascar!

[Kristina Douglass @kgdouglass]

Congratulations, Abiola!!! Outstanding work!!! @OBTlab

[Columbia Climate School @columbiaclimate]

Archaeologist and anthropologist @kgdouglass has been appointed the first Columbia Climate School faculty hire, joining faculty from across @Columbia to train the next generation of leaders addressing #climatechange in first-in-the-nation graduate program. https://t.co/gmRwiGUKzu

[Kristina Douglass @kgdouglass]

Excited to continue our @OBTlab work and build new collaborations @columbiaclimate! I am also deeply grateful to my wonderful colleagues @PSU_Anthro, @IEEPennState and @PSULiberalArts for the tremendous support they have given me in my time at Penn State.

[Global Change Biology @GlobalChangeBio]

|| NEW RESEARCH ||
Madagascar's fire regimes challenge global assumptions about landscape degradation

📰 https://t.co/OtT8KLrZgR @LeanneNPhelps

[Dylan Davis @DDavis_Arch]

Some press coverage of our recent article on fire regimes on Madagascar (led by @LeanneNPhelps): https://t.co/6LdncDHHfB. The article is #openaccess and available along with links to code and data: https://t.co/av83ns4NBn

[IEE at Penn State @IEEPennState]

#InvestInOurPlanet "Traditional ecological knowledge held by Indigenous groups around the world is key to understanding resilience and cultural survival in the face of intensifying climate change," members of the @OBTlab write in a blog post.

Read more: https://t.co/9FVYD5nKRx

[Olo Be Taloha Lab @OBTlab]

WOOOOOO!!!

[Dylan Davis @DDavis_Arch]

Successfully defended my dissertation this morning!

[Olo Be Taloha Lab @OBTlab]

MAJOR CONGRATULATIONS to our newly minted DR. @DDavis_Arch!!!!!

[Olo Be Taloha Lab @OBTlab]

A+ work everyone!!!

[abibirogba @Harbiolar_0]

Thanks to @DDavis_Arch @OBTlab for this amazing work. Wiley Publishers recognition of most cited paper

[Dylan Davis @DDavis_Arch]

Our article on ethics and remote sensing was a #TopCitedArticle in @ARP_eds last year! You can read it here: https://t.co/4AaunfxAtR @OBTlab @PSU_Anthro (Free access at this link: https://t.co/UaAK2M4evM)