{"id":9528,"date":"2015-06-02T14:45:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T18:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/?post_type=profile&p=9528"},"modified":"2024-08-06T16:29:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T20:29:51","slug":"west","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/profile\/west\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine F. West"},"content":{"rendered":"

Curriculum Vitae<\/a><\/p>\n

Website<\/h4>\n

http:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/zooarchlab<\/a><\/p>\n

Areas of Interest<\/h4>\n

zooarchaeology; environmental archaeology; stable isotope analysis; archaeology of the Arctic and Subarctic; archaeology in ecology and conservation<\/em><\/p>\n

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Excavations and Fieldwork<\/h4>\n

Catherine West’s research focuses on two questions in archaeology: \u00a01) what are the effects of Holocene climate change and resource availability on prehistoric subsistence in Arctic and Subarctic ecosystems, particularly in coastal Alaska; and 2) how can we apply the archaeological record to contemporary environmental issues? \u00a0To address these ideas, West uses zooarchaeological and stable isotope data in the context of historical ecology and evolutionary ecology to clarify the long-term relationship between hunter-gatherers and the environment. \u00a0These research projects derive from contemporary concerns about the long-term effects of landscape change, invasive species introductions, and changing climate in northern regions. \u00a0West’s current field projects include survey and excavation on Alaska’s Kodiak Island, Chirikof Island, and the Aleutian Islands,\u00a0and\u00a0has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, and the National Geographic Society.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Representative Publications<\/h4>\n

2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b><\/span>West, Catherine F.<\/span><\/b>, Erik Gjesfjeld, Shelby Anderson,<\/b>and Ben Fitzhugh. Human Behavioral Ecology and the Complexities of Arctic Foodways. <\/i><\/span>In Human Behavioral Ecology at the Coastal Margins: Global \u00a0 Perspectives on Coastal and Maritime Adaptations<\/i>, edited by Heather Thakar and Carola Flores-Fernandez. University Press of Florida.\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 West, Catherine F<\/b>., Michael A. Etnier, Meghan Parlow, Steven Barbeaux, and Alexei Orlov. Siz\u00a0 distribution of Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus<\/i>) in the North Pacific Ocean over 6 millennia. Quaternary \u00a0<\/i><\/span>Research <\/span><\/i>108:43-63.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

2017\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 West, Catherine F.,<\/b> Meghan Burchell, and C. Fred T. Andrus. <\/span>Shellfish and Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction in Island and Coastal Settings: Variability, Seasonality, and Sampling. In Zooarchaeology in Practice<\/i>, edited by Christina M. Giovas and Michelle LeFebvre, pp. 191-208. Springer, New York.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

2017\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 West<\/b>, Catherine F<\/b>., Courtney A. Hofman, Steve Ebbert, John Martin, Sabrina Shirazi, Samantha Dunning, and Jesus Maldonado. Integrating archaeology and ancient DNA to address invasive species colonization in the Gulf of Alaska. Conservation Biology <\/i>31(5): 1163-1172. <\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

2015\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 West<\/b>, Catherine F.<\/b> and Christine A. France. Human and Canid Dietary Relationships: Comparative Stable Isotope Analysis from Kodiak Island, Alaska. Journal of Ethnobiology <\/i>35(3): 519-535.\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

2015\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 West<\/b>, Catherine F<\/b>. and Kayla N. Jarvis. Osteometric Variation in Domestic Dogs (Canis familiaris<\/i>) from the Kodiak Archipelago, Alaska. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology <\/i>25: 289-298. Published online \u00a0\u00a0 in 2012. doi:10.1002\/oa.2293. \u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

2012\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 West<\/b>, Catherine F<\/b>., Stephen Wischniowski, and Christopher Johnston. Pacific Cod (Gadus macrocephalus<\/i>) Otoliths as a Paleothermometer: Otolith Oxygen Isotope Reconstruction in the Gulf of Alaska. Journal of Archaeological Science<\/i> 39(10): 3277-3283.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

2009\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 West<\/b>, Catherine Foster<\/b>. <\/span>Kodiak Island\u2019s Prehistoric Fisheries: Human Dietary Response to Climate Change and Resource Availability.\u00a0 Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology<\/i> 4(2): 223-239. \u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10500,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/9528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10500"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/9528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17975,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/9528\/revisions\/17975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}