Project Publications and Reports

Archaeology and Archaeometry

Fitzhugh, S. Colby Phillips, and Erik Gjesfeld. (in press) Ben,  Modeling Variability in Hunter-Gatherer Information Networks: An Archaeological Case Study from the Kuril Islands.   In, The Role of Information in Hunter-Gatherer Band Adaptations (tentative title, edited volume), R. Whallon, W. Lovis, R. K. Hitchcock (eds.).

Phillips, S.C. and R.J. Speakman (2009). Initial source evaluation of archaeological obsidian from the Kuril Islands of the Russian Far East using portable XRF. Journal of Archaeological Science, 36(6): 1256-1263.

Walsh, M. 2007, Subsistence and Resource Availability in Variably Isolated Insular Environments. Unpublished Undergraduate Honors Thesis.


Geology

MacInnes, B. T., Pinegina, T. K., Bourgeois, J., Razhigaeva, N. G., Kaistrenko,V. M., and Kravchunovskaya, E. A., (2009) Field survey and geological effects of the 15 November 2006 Kuril tsunami in the middle Kuril Islands.  Pure and Applied Geophysics 166(1-2):9-36.

MacInnes, B. T., J. Bourgeois, T. K. Pinegina, and E. A. Kravchunovskaya (in press)  Tsunami geomorphology: erosion and deposition from the 15 November 2006 Kuril Island tsunami. Geology (Journal of the Geological Society of America). Article ID G30172.

Steblov, Grigory M.; Kogan, Mikhail G.; Levin, Boris V.; Vasilenko, Nikolai F.; Prytkov, Alexander S.; Frolov, Dmitry I.  2008.  Spatially linked asperities of the 2006–2007 great Kuril earthquakes revealed by GPS.  Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 35, No. 22.

Levin, B.V., V. M. Kaistrenko, A. V. Rybin, M. A. Nosov, T. K. Pinegina, N. G. Razzhigaeva, E. V. Sasorova, K. S. Ganzei, T. N. Ivel'skaya, E. A. Kravchunovskaya, S. V. Kolesov, Yu. V. Evdokimov, J. Bourgeois, B. MacInnes, and B. Fitzhugh (2008) Manifestations of the Tsunami on November 15, 2006, on the Central Kuril Islands and Results of the Runup Heights Modeling. Doklady Earth Sciences, 2008, Vol. 419, No. 2, pp. 335–338.


Climate and Ecology

Reports

NSF Annual Reports:

The Kuril Biocomplexity Project – Third Annual Report 2007-2008. Report to the National Science Foundation in reference to NSF grant ARC-0508109. Ben Fitzhugh and Celia Bitz with contributions from various colleagues, especially co-PIs Anderson, Bourgeois, Etnier, and Holman; Russian contributors Rybin, Razhegaeva, Kogan, and Klitin; and RAs and other students J. Taylor, C. Phillips, M. Walsh, and W. Brown).  Unpublished report on-file with the Kuril Biocomplexity project. pp.17.

Kuril Biocomplexity Project: Second Annual Report 2005 - 2007. Report to the National Science Foundation in reference to NSF grant ARC-0508109.

The Kuril Biocomplexity Project – First Annual Report 2005-2006.  Report to the National Science Foundation in reference to NSF grant ARC-0508109.  Ben Fitzhugh (with contribution from various colleagues, especially co-PIs Anderson, Bitz, Bourgeois, Etnier, and Holman; Russian contributors Rybin, Kogan, and Klitin; and RAs James Taylor, Colby Phillips, and Will Brown).  Submitted: 19 January 2007. Unpublished report on-file with the Kuril Biocomplexity project. 34 pp.

Disciplinary Progress Reports:

 -- From the 2007 Expedition:

Fitzhugh, Ben, S. Colby Phillips, Michael Etnier, Shelby Anderson, James Taylor, Matt Walsh, Bre MacInnes, and Joanne Bourgeois. (2009)  Kuril Biocomplexity Project: Report of Archaeological Field Research in 2007, including Geological Descriptions of Archaeological Locales, with appendix by Olga Shubina and Igor Samarin.   Submitted to the Sakhalin Regional Museum, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia, 30 March, 2008.  Unpublished report on-file with the Kuril Biocomplexity project. 302 pp.

 -- From the 2006 Expedition:

Fitzhugh, B., M. Etnier, B. MacInnes, S.C. Phillips, and J.W. Taylor (2007), Report of archaeological field research in 2006, including geological descriptions of archaeological locales. Unpublished project report.

Bourgeois, Joanne, Tatiana Pinegina, Breanyn MacInnes, Elizabeth Martin, and Ekatarina Kravchunovskaya (2007) KBP Coastal Geology Report for 2006, including "Report of the 2006 Coastal Field Geology team, Kuril Biocomplexity Project" and "Brief Scientific Report Combined NSF and RFFE Geologic Research led by Tatiana Pinegina". Unpublished report on-file with the Kuril Biocomplexity project. Pp. 57.

Anderson, Patricia M., Anatoly V. Lozhkin, Pavel S. Minyuk, Alexander Yu. Pakhomov, and Tatiana B. Solomotkina. (2007)  Paleovegetation and Paleoclimate of the Central and northern Kuril Islands from Palynological Data:  Summary of 2006 Field Work and Initial Results. Unpublished report on-file with the Kuril Biocomplexity project. Pp. 54.