Speakers-2018
Speakers-2018
We are pleased to announce that the following speakers will be featured at this conference.
Kovarovic, Fire
- Full Name: Fire Kovarovic
- Position: Associate Professor of Human Evolution
- Degree: Anthropology
- School: Durham University: Durham, United Kingdom
- Website: https://www.dur.ac.uk/anthropology/staff/academic/?id=7521
Dr. Fire Kovarovic is a palaeoecologist and palaeoanthropologist interested in everything mammalian. Her work ranges from reconstructing hominin environments in Africa to developing analytical approaches for using mammalian remains in palaeoecological studies, including ecomorphology and community analysis. She also co-directs the “Bones of Ol Pejeta: Neotaphonomic and Ecological Survey” (BONES) project at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya, a long-term study investigating neotaphonomic signatures in mammal death communities in natural habitats
Chritz, Kendra
- Full Name: Kendra Chritz
- Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
- Specialty: Human Origins Program, Department of Anthropology,
- School: Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History: Washington D.C.
- Website: http://www.klchritz.com/
Dr. Kendra Chritz is an isotope geochemist who studies human-environment interactions in fossil, archaeological and historic records. Her research explores the reciprocal interactions between people and the ecosystems they live in: the environmental context of human cultural and biological evolution, long term effects of anthropogenic land use change and disturbances, and urban ecology.
Rector, Amy
- Full Name: Amy Rector
- Position: Assistant Professor
- Specialty: Anthropology
- School: Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, Virginia, USA
- Website: http://wp.vcu.edu/arverrelli/
Dr. Amy Rector’s primary research includes reconstructing paleoecological contexts for early human evolution in eastern and southern Africa, as well as identifying and analyzing fossil mammal communities to characterize their biogeographic and ecological affinities through space and time.
Scott, Robert S.
- Full Name: Robert S. Scott
- Position: Associate Professor
- Specialty: Anthropology
- School: Rutgers New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
- Website: https://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~robertsc/
Dr. Rob Scott is an evolutionary anthropologist focused on how our lineage and close relatives (the hominins) survived and responded to changes in ecology, environment, and climate. Specifically, his research emphasizes the influence of diet and dietary change in human evolution. He is the co-developer of key methods for quantifying dental microwear for use in reconstructing ancient diets.
Peppe, Dan
- Full Name: Dan Peppe
- Position: Associate Professor
- Specialty: Terrestrial Paleoclimatology Research Group, Geosciences
- School: Baylor University Waco, Texas, USA
- Website: http://sites.baylor.edu/daniel_peppe/
Dr. Dan Peppe’s research is focused on reconstructing ancient climates and ecosystems through time in North America and East Africa, and on developing paleoclimate and paleoecological proxies. To do this, he integrates methods in paleobotany, paleoclimatology, ecology, stratigraphy, sedimentology, and paleomagnetism. Results from his research help address questions aimed at understanding the underlying dynamics between environmental, biotic, and climatic change through time.