The
summer 2008 research adventures of Professor Rogers, Chris Hastings, Kevin Hurley, Charlie Simkin, Rebecca Grollman, James Grandner, and Darius Romero
Chris, Kevin, and Charlie are conducting archaeological geophysical surveys at a Bronze Age Village Site in Cyprus and an Iron Age Hill Top Fort in Azerbaijan.
Rebecca and James are examining student learning using two different instructional methods
Darius is doing the final data collection to understand positional errors encountered during magnetometer surveys. This is the last piece needed before we publish our results.
| 02-Jun-08 : | James continues his Spring Term 2008 work on analyzing student perceptions of the same course taught in two different modes. Kevin, Chris, and Charlie learn how to use the geophysical instruments |
| 03-Jun-08 : | Kevin, Chris, and Charlie learn how to use the geophysical instruments |
| 04-Jun-08 : | Our new suitcases arrived so we worked on figuring out how to pack all of the gear for flying |
| 09-Jun-08 : | Leaving Ithaca |
| 10-Jun-08 : | First day in Cyprus |
| 11-Jun-08 : | Putting in the grid |
| 12-Jun-08 : | First day of surveying |
| 13-Jun-08 : | More data coming in [note that we are not doing a lot of processing of the data (yet)] |
| 14-Jun-08 : | A day to make sense of things |
| 15-Jun-08 : | Surveying the Southwest part of the site |
| 16-Jun-08 : | More surveying the Southwest part of the site |
| 17-Jun-08 : | A day off spent in the mountains |
| 18-Jun-08 : | Establishing the grid at the Neolithic site Ayia Varvara |
| 19-Jun-08 : | Conducting surveys at Ayia Varvara |
| 20-Jun-08 : | Finishing up at Kalavasos-Ayios Demetrios |
| 21-Jun-08 : | Attending the CAARI (Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute) conference in Nicose |
| 22-Jun-08 : | Surveying at the Late Bronze age city of Maroni-Vournes |
| 23-Jun-08 : | One more unit surveyed at Maroni-Vournes |
| 24-Jun-08 : | Packing up and preparing to travel |
| 25-Jun-08 : | We've cancelled our trip to Azerbaijan so we're heading back to Ithaca |
| 26-Jun-08 --> 29-Jun-08 : | We took a long weekend away from each other. |
| 30-Jun-08 : | Unpacking gear and examining data |
| 01-Jul-08 --> 18-Jul-08 : | Processing lots of data and working on revisions to an article about 2004 surveys in New Mexico. |
| 21-Jul-08 --> 24-Jul-08 : | Helping Bodhi get a National Science Foundation proposal ready for submission. |
| 28-Jul-08 : | Setting up a survey grid at a Native American site on the lawn of a 19th century manor in New York and our first data. |
| 29-Jul-08 : | More data coming in and the resitivity meter pushes off it's mortal coil. |
| 30-Jul-08 : | We think we are seeing a Palisade. |
| 31-Jul-08 : | Oops, we accidently rotated the data 90 degrees. |
| 01-Aug-08 : | We surveyed the most units to date on our last day at the site. |