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WHO WE ARE

MEET OUR TEAM

Co-PIs

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Keith Prufer

Project Director, UNM Anthropology and Center for Stable Isotopes

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Doug Kennett

Co-PI, UCSB Environmental Anthropology

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Emily Moes

Co-PI, UT San Antonio Anthropology, Bioarchaeology and Osteology

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Mark Robinson

Co-PI, University of Exeter, Archaeology and Paleoecology

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Amy Thompson

Co-PI Assistant Professor, UT Austin, Archaeology

Our Team

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Nadia Neff

PhD Candidate, UNM, Bioarchaeology, Stable Isotope Analysis

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Erin Ray

PhD Candidate, UNM, Biogeochemistry, Isotope Analysis

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Monica Warner

Graduate Student, UNM, Bioarchaeology, Stable Isotope Analysis

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Paige Lynch

PhD Candidate, UNM, Foresnsic Anthropology, Stable Isotope Analysis

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Lexi O'Donnell

Assistant Professor, UNM School of Public Health, Biological Anthropology and Osteology

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Saige Young

Undergraduate, UNM,  Bioarchaeology, Stable Isotope Analysis

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Esteban Rangel

Graduate Student, UNM, Bioarchaeology, Mortuary Archaeology

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Alex Tierney

Former student and current lab technician,  Bioarchaeology, Stable Isotope Analysis

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James Chaves

Graduate Student, UNM, Archaeology and Stable Isotope Analysis

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Brandon Stranger

Undergraduate, UNM, Biological Anthropology

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Willa Trask

POW/MIA Accounting Agency

Forensic Anthropologist

 Collaborators

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Osbjorn Pearson

Professor, UNM, Osteology and Biomechanics

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Heather Edgar

Professor, UNM, Bioarchaeology and Forensics

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Anna Novotny

Professor, Texas Tech University, Bioarchaeology

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Heather Thakar

Professor, Texas A&M Paleobotany and Stable Isotope Analysis

  Belizean Collaborators

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Oligario Sho

Santa Cruz Village

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Silvestre Rash

Hicattee Village  

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Jose Mes 

Santa Cruz Village 

OUR PARTNERSHIPS.

At ROOTS, we believe in the power of collaboration and synergy. Our partnerships with include research institutions, academic organizations, and conservation entities. Working together allows usto amplify the impact of our work and extend the frontiers of research and conservation . 

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OUR
FUNDERS
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Contact Us

ROOTS is based at the University of New Mexico Center for Stable Isotopes Human Ecology and Radiocarbon Laboratory. 

Website design: Citlali (Alex) Tierney

LAB ADDRESS

Physics & Astronomy and Interdisciplinary Science building (PAIS) 

210 Yale Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87106

PHONE

EMAIL

kmp_at_unm.edu

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