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Adam Freeburg
freebs@u.washington.edu
Education
B. A., Anthropology, Penn State University
Graduate Student, Anthropology, University of Washington
Honors
- 2007 AAAS Pacific Division Rita Peterson Award in Science Education
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honor Society
- NSF IGERT Fellow
Research
I am interested in prehistoric human-environmental interaction. I focus on Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of North America. Most recently, I have asked geoarchaeological questions of beach formation on the northwest coast of Alaska in order to clarify Holocene use of a prograding shoreline. I am also interested in ethnoarchaeology and the insight modern human behavior can give to archaeological study.Presentations
Freeburg, A. Human Environmental Dynamics of Cape Krusenstern, Alaska: focusing on the Ipiutak problem. Colloquim presented at SILA, the Center for Greenland Research, National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. November 2008.
Freeburg, Adam, Sara Breslow, Julie Combs, Emma Flores, Steve Harrell, Tom Hinckley, Joanne Ho, Joyce LeCompte-Mastenbrooke, Eric Nassau, Alicia Robbins, Haldre Rogers, Patrick Shamberger and Lauren Urgenson, MCCE IGERT: An Experiment in International Interdisciplinary Graduate Education. AAAS, Pacific Division 88th Annual Meeting, Boise State University, Boise, ID June 17 - 21, 2007 New Humanities and Science Convergences. III: The Greening of the Disciplines (Awarded AAAS Pacific Division Rita Peterson Award in Science Education).
Life, Land, and Water on the Pampa de Chaparrí. Frances Hayashida and Adam Freeburg. Presented at Society for American Archaeology Meetings, Salt Lake City, UT. 2002
Mapping Ancient Canals with GIS. Adam Freeburg. Presented at Penn State Research Symposium, State College, PA. 2002
Experimental Carbonization of Helianthus Annuus. Adam Freeburg. Presented at Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History Research Symposium, Washington, D.C. 2002.
Highlights
2001-02 Proyecto Ynalche, Batan Grande, Peru. Member of international, multidisciplinary research team focusing on prehistoric socio-political systems of water management.
2002 Research Intern, National Museum of Natural History. Conducted experimental paleoethnobotanical research focused on change in sunflower achene morphology due to carbonization.
2006 GIS specialist, Kuril Biocomplexity Project. Assembled and processed topographic and bathymetric data to form basemap of agent based computer model of prehistoric human-environment interaction.
