Search Our Scientific Publications & Authors

Nutrients 2020 Sep 22;12(9). Epub 2020 Sep 22.

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.

Background: Dietary patterns affect both human health and environmental sustainability. Prior research found a ten-unit course on food systems and environmental sustainability shifted dietary intake and reduced dietary carbon footprint among college students. This research evaluated the impact of a similar, more scalable one-unit taught at multiple universities. Read More

F1000Res 2020 24;9:769. Epub 2020 Jul 24.

School of Veterinary Science, The University of Queensland, Gatton, Queensland 4343, Australia.

Numerous successful therapies developed for human medicine involve animal experimentation. Animal studies that are focused solely on translational potential, may not sufficiently document unexpected outcomes. Considerable amounts of data from such studies could be used to advance veterinary science. Read More

R Soc Open Sci 2020 Apr 22;7(4):192016. Epub 2020 Apr 22.

BioArCh, Department of Archaeology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.

The introduction of pottery vessels to Europe has long been seen as closely linked with the spread of agriculture and pastoralism from the Near East. The adoption of pottery technology by hunter-gatherers in Northern and Eastern Europe does not fit this paradigm, and its role within these communities is so far unresolved. To investigate the motivations for hunter-gatherer pottery use, here, we present the systematic analysis of the contents of 528 early vessels from the Baltic Sea region, mostly dating to the late 6th-5th millennium cal BC, using molecular and isotopic characterization techniques. Read More

PLoS One 2019 20;14(11):e0224741. Epub 2019 Nov 20.

Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America.

In interior Eurasia, high mountain zones are crucial to pastoral subsistence, providing seasonally productive pastures and abundant wild resources. In some areas of northern Mongolia, mountainous tundra zones also support a low-latitude population of domestic reindeer herders-a lifestyle whose origins are poorly characterized in the archaeological record of early Mongolia. Traditionally, reindeer pastoralists make significant seasonal use of munkh mus (eternal ice) for their domestic herds, using these features to cool heat-stressed animals and provide respite from insect harassment. Read More

Schweiz Arch Tierheilkd 2015 Apr;157(4):171, 184