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A+ work everyone!!!

MAJOR CONGRATULATIONS to our newly minted DR. Dylan Davis!!!!!

WOOOOOO!!!

#InvestInOurPlanet "Traditional ecological knowledge held by Indigenous groups around the world is key to understanding resilience and cultural survival in the face of intensifying climate change," members of the Olo Be Taloha Lab write in a blog post. Read more: iee.psu.edu/news/blog/indi…

Some press coverage of our recent article on fire regimes on Madagascar (led by Leanne N. Phelps): eurekalert.org/news-releases/…. The article is #openaccess and available along with links to code and data: doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16…

Archaeologist and anthropologist Kristina Douglass has been appointed the first Columbia Climate School faculty hire, joining faculty from across Columbia University to train the next generation of leaders addressing #climatechange in first-in-the-nation graduate program. news.climate.columbia.edu/2022/05/24/col…

Excited to continue our Olo Be Taloha Lab work and build new collaborations Columbia Climate School! I am also deeply grateful to my wonderful colleagues Penn State Anthropology, IEE at Penn State and Penn State College of the Liberal Arts for the tremendous support they have given me in my time at Penn State.

|| NEW RESEARCH || Madagascar's fire regimes challenge global assumptions about landscape degradation 📰 bit.ly/3MzFxON Leanne N. Phelps

Congratulations, Abiola!!! Outstanding work!!! Olo Be Taloha Lab

I’m excited to announce that I will be an U.S. National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow beginning in July! I’ll be continuing my work with @OBTLab and Kristina Douglass at Columbia Climate School investigating the long-term ecological impacts of different socioeconomic strategies on Madagascar!

Woo Leanne N. Phelps!!!

What happens to a community when a key resource disappears? In SW Madagascar, a tree of great importance in that region appears to be vanishing. On our latest podcast, Kristina Douglass discusses her research regarding this phenomenon. iee.psu.edu/news/podcast/g…

First season of fieldwork on the coastal strip of Badagry was a monumental success. It was an amazing 3-week of intensive archaeological reconnaissance, survey and ethnography on the Badagry coast. This preliminary survey yielded evidence of remains of a ditch system that served

Olo Be Taloha Lab, Chiamaka Lauretta Mangut Doing archaeology on the beautiful Jos plateau.Good to be on the field again.

Charcoal and Cattle Correlate with Madagascar’s Megafaunal Extinctions - A new study suggests that human-caused changes in land use within the last millennia drove the extinction of Madagascar’s giant animals buff.ly/3VaCJvu

I am honored to receive a grant from Emergent Ventures of Mercatus Center Inc, for my Ph.D. research in Archaeobotany! Excited to delve into the world of ancient plant remains and uncover insights into past human history and climate adaptation. #PhDresearch #EmergentVentures"

And this is finally out…reconstructing the archaeology and paleoecology of the tropical rainforest in Nigeria… thanks to Orijemie Emuobosa Ak for this initiative and to the amazing team of scholars I worked with on this project..thanks to Pages Magazine for publishing..

Career Opportunity 📌 WIOMSA is seeking a Science-Policy Programme Manager to oversee the implementation of its newly launched SCALABLE Programme’s science-policy component. Interested candidates are invited to submit their applications by 21st July 2023, 11:59 p.m. EAT. 🗓

Great contribution by members of our lab!