QRC members lead and participate in a wide range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary research projects from the study of past earth climates and glaciations to shifts in the geographic distributions and evolution of vegetation and faunal communities, to the evolution and dispersals of the genus Homo and the increasing scales of human modification of earth environments through the Holocene. QRC provides a venue for meeting and collaborating with scholars across Quaternary disciplines. We are also fortunate to be able to provide seed funding and small grants for member research projects. We are especially happy to support grad student and junior scholar research activities, much of which leads to larger, external funding from agencies like the National Science Foundation.
Abstract: This proposal seeks QRC support to cover otherwise unfunded expenses to carry out an Indigenous archaeology youth camp with Sugpiaq teens on Kodiak, Alaska’s Sitkalidak Island in July 2023. This project represents an investment in community-based, interdisciplinary research and capacity building in Old Harbor, Alaska. It will support the career development of QRC Affiliate Member, Hollis Miller, and the ongoing commitments of QRC Member Ben Fitzhugh to strengthen community engaged research. Requested funding will also help two UW and two SUNY-Cortland undergraduate students to participate in the project. All four students have already participated in archaeological and zooarchaeological lab analyses of materials collected from the Ing’yuq archaeological site that will be the focus of the 2023 Camp, and they will now gain field experience at the same site.