Professor Catherine West a 2018 – 2020 Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellows
Professor Catherine West is one of 12 Pardee Center Research Fellows for academic year 2018 – 2020. Fellowship comes with seed money for a two or three year interdisciplinary research project. The funds will assist Professor West with her Symposium on Circumpolar Climate Change, Resource Management, and Applied Archaeology. Read more about Professor West and […]
Professor West on BU Research today!
By Ian Evans Catherine West hadn’t planned on studying ancient rodents. When West, a research assistant professor in Boston University’s archaeology department, arrived on the small island of Chirikof in the Gulf of Alaska, she planned to study how the island’s bird population had changed over time. More specifically, West wanted to see what native […]
BU archaeology students in the news
Students in Professor Catherine West’s spring course – Archaeology 308: Archaeological Research Design and Materials Analysis – learned to do hands-on archaeological research using collections on loan from the Alutiiq Museum in Kodiak, Alaska. The goal of the course is to give students real archaeological experience as they move on to field school, lab-based research, […]
Professor Catherine West awarded a 3-year NSF Grant
Catherine West, Boston University Department of Archaeology Research Assistant Professor of Archaeology, has been awarded a 3-year National Science Foundation grant entitled “Collaborative Research: Archaeological and Paleoenvironmental Perspectives of Climate Change in the Aleutian Islands.” This project is in collaboration with the University of Alabama and Portland State University and the goal is to address […]
Professor Catherine West uncovers prehistoric fishing community
Archaeology Daily News article Led by Boston University professor Catherine West, the expedition excavated a handful of ancient garbage dumps, searching for animal bones. By comparing the bones in the 3,000-year-old middens to wildlife today, West will be able to establish how American and Russian visitors changed the island’s ecosystem.
Professor Catherine West inteview with SciGals
Catherine West is not looking to the future when it comes to climate change- she’s looking back. About 5,000 years back, at archeological evidence left behind by the Alutiiq people who once occupied Chirikof Island, Alaska. read more