Photo: Associate Professor, Geography and Anthropology Director, Quaternary Isotope Paleoecology Laboratory Director, Center for Archaeological Sciences Coordinator, Georgia Museum of Natural History Internship Program Contact info Email: sepbirch@uga.edu Office: Geography-Geography & Geology Building 103 Anthropology-Baldwin Hall 265A Lab-Geography & Geology Building 318 Research Interests: I have a joint appointment in Geography and Anthropology and direct the Quaternary Isotope Paleoecology Lab. My research is focused on human adaptation and resilience to climate change and natural resource unpredictability in prehistory, and how our understanding of past human response to environmental change informs current thinking about these issues. I combine archaeology and biogeochemistry to investigate changes in diet, mobility, and settlement systems in the period spanning the end of the last ice age to the arrival of farming. My other research interests include the initial domestication of livestock, diffusion of domesticates across Eurasia, the transition from hunting to herding, seasonality and human mobility, multispecies archaeology, and advancing methodologies in zooarchaeology and stable isotope analysis. I am an active advocate of open access publishing and online data and research sharing. I co-founded and moderate the blog TrowelBlazers, which highlights women in the fields of archaeology, paleontology, and geology. I am also an editor-in-chief of the open access journal for Quaternary science, Open Quaternary. Google Scholar Page Quaternary Isotope Paleoecology Lab CV: Pilaar Birch CV July 2021 public.pdf (337.67 KB) Education Education: Ph. D. (2012), University of Cambridge, Archaeology M. Phil. (2009), University of Cambridge, Archaeological Science B. Sc. (2008), Rutgers University, Evolutionary Anthropology and Paleoecology Grant Support Grants: [11] National Science Foundation. "Ancient Agrarian Responses to Environmental Stress across the Mediterranean, Levant to Sardinia” Co-PI with Patricia Fall and Steven Falconer et al. (total awarded $189,763; $55,377 to Pilaar Birch) 2021-2023 [10] National Science Foundation. “Neotoma Paleoecology Database, a Multi-Proxy, International, Community-Curated Data Resource for Global Change Research” Co-PI with Jack Williams et al. ($53,989 to Pilaar Birch) [9] National Science Foundation.