James W. Taylor
jamest42@u.washington.edu

Education

BA with Distinction, Anthropology, University of Washington, 2004
Doctoral Student of Archaeology, University of Washington

Honors

NSF IGERT Fellow
Mary Gates Scholar
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention

Research

Paleoenvironmental reconstruction and marine radiocarbon calibration for the Shelikof Strait region of Kodiak, AK utilizing modern and archaeological shellfish (USA)

Participant in the Kuril Biocomplexity Project: Human Vulnerability and Resilience to Subarctic Change (Russia)

Engaged in pilot research reconstructing late Holocene environmental conditions in Wallacia (East Timor)

Publications

Strong Biological Controls on Sr/Ca in Aragonitic Marine Bivalve Shells (Gillikin et al 2005)

The Little Ice Age and the Koniag Tradition of Kodiak, Alaska: Geochemical and Isotopic Analyses of Saxidomus giganteus. (Taylor 2004)

Detecting the Little Ice Age on the Kodiak Archipelago: An Isotopic Analysis of Saxidomus giganteus (Taylor et al 2004)