Meetings at the Margins
Prehistoric Cultural Interactions in the Intermountain West
_{Edited by DRI Research Professor, David Rhode}

Available now!

For more information and to order your copy, please go to the University of Utah Press website.

A Scientific Paper Authored by Ken Adams, Dave Rhode, and Colleagues is Selected as one of the Top Papers of the Last 25 years

According to the editors, Gary Huckleberry, Vance Holliday, and Rolfe Mandel, 17 papers were selected as representing some of the best examples of Paleoindian research published in Geoarchaeology since 1986. See the virtual issue via the Wiley Online Library.

Nuclear Testing Artifacts Become Part of U.S. Cultural Archive

Underground bunker entrance

According to a recent EM News Flash, "The Nevada National Security Site’s (NNSS) historic Smoky site may soon join a long list of former nuclear testing locations eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places.  The Desert Research Institute (DRI) is currently working alongside the Nevada Site Office to determine the eligibility of Smoky and a number of other Environmental Management (EM) sites slated for cleanup and/or closure". Read the EM News Flash featuring cultural resources expert, Dr. Colleen Beck (DRI).

DEES Scientists Share Expertise at Mars and the Mojave Festival
Death Valley National Park

Mars detail. Click for full picture. Image credit: NJPL/NASA/-NAI

Drs. Henry Sun and Alison Murray recently traveled to Death Valley National Park in California to share their expertise with park visitors. Henry Sun gave a talk entitled "Life in Rocks" where he described the many organisms that live inside rocks (endolithic organisms) and how they are protected from the harsh climates where they reside. Alison Murray talked one-on-one with visitors about her research as a molecular biologist, focusing on her work in Antarctica and life in extreme environments.

Death Valley is one of many locations on earth that has been used as an analog to study conditions as they may exist on Mars and in other extraterrestrial locations.

DEES Researcher participates in FEMA-sponsored forum

Ted Hartwell

Ted Hartwell, Program Manager for DRI’s Community Environmental Monitoring Program (CEMP), was invited to participate in a working group on public communications at the FEMA-sponsored forum, “National Improvised Nuclear Device Response and Recovery Forum", July 12-14, 2011, in Arlington VA.