Speaker: Dr. Nicolas Gauthier
Assistant Curator
Florida Museum of Natural History
University of Florida
Thursday, February 3, 2022
2:50-3:50 PM (Period 8)
Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom
University of Florida
Abstract:
Researchers and policy makers urgently require insights into how societies have adapted to—or failed to adapt to—climate change across regions, cultures, and time periods. Archaeological and paleoenvironmental data are crucial for expanding our view of 20th century Western experience to the full scope of human history, yet they are largely inaccessible to those working on contemporary climate challenges. In this talk, I show how state-of-the-art computational methods from geography, ecology, and climatology can help synthesize legacy cultural and natural history data and make them usable by contemporary Earth system scientists.
Biography: Dr. Gauthier is an Assistant Curator for the Florida Museum of Natural History, using AI methods to study bio/cultural diversity. He is also an Affiliate Faculty with the Department of Geography.
All are welcome to attend.
For more information, email Dr. Jane Southworth at jsouthwo@ufl.edu