Great news for GIAP (ICAC) in the last Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) call from the European Union! The computational team will expand with a new project that aims at reconstructing the Roman transport network, and we are glad that our colleagues in Institut des Sciences de l’Évolution – Montpellier (ISEM UMR 5554), were awarded an…
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We welcome PhD candidate Alessia Brucato, from the University Bari Aldo Moro – Department of Ricerca e Innovazione Umanistica and the Instituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale (ISPC) of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche (CNR), who will be staying with us for 6 months to train on the application of the computational methods developed in GIAP…
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Call for contributions to the Special Issue in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology entitled: Natural Resource Exploitation in Mountain Environments: New Theoretical and Methodological Approaches Deadline for submission of manuscripts: 28th of June 2023 Extended to 30th September 2023 (previous expression of interest to the guest editors is expected, see emails below). Mountain researches of the last five…
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New research led by GIAP members develops an algorithm for the rapid mapping and almost-real-time monitoring of threats and potential site damage by agricultural expansion and encroachment. A new research article published in Remote Sensing presents an integrated workflow that combines Big Earth Data and spatial analysis in Google Earth Engine to provide an efficient…
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As part of the 2023 Conference Series of the Centre d’estudis d’Altafulla “Altafulla (Catalonia): past, present and future of a historic territory” (Altafulla: passat, present i futur d’un territori històric), Maria Jesús Ortega, associated researcher of GIAP, will give the conference “The historical landscape of Altafulla” (El paisatge històric d’Altafulla), today, Friday January 27, at…
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Dr. Faidon Moudopoulos edited the digital bibliography ‘(IN)VISIBLE: the Bibliography on the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Zagori‘ (in Greek), the last deliverable of the project that marks its end. The project aimed at investigating the intangible cultural heritage of Zagori (Greece) through the historical archives of the local communities. It used as a case study…
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Open call for postdoctoral positions! We are looking for a postdoc to work with the team of our I+D+i project “TranScapes: Transported Mediterranean landscapes: diachronic integrated study of socio-environmental interactions and land-use changes at both sides of the Mediterranean“. Please contact Josep Maria Palet (jpalet@icac.cat) & Alfredo Mayoral (amayoral@icac.cat) if you’re interested. We look forward…
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Today in the afternoon, Hèctor A. Orengo (ICREA research professor) is giving a talk in the conference 3rd International Conference on Geology: Emerging Methods & Applications (GEM-2023). Title: ”Big multi-temporal geospatial data and the large-scale analysis of South Asia’s past landscapes”Session: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Earth Science AbstractThe last few years have seen an…
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We are glad to welcome Maria Suárez Moreno, who is visiting us for a week to train in the use of various algorithms for palaeo-river detection, developed by Hèctor A. Orengo (ICREA research professor at ICAC). Among these algorithms, there are the MSRM (Orengo and Petrie 2018), the SMTVI (Orengo and Petrie 2017) and other…
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This month, we welcomed 2 new postdoctoral researchers, Drs. Laura Strolin and Faidon Moudopoulos, and we celebrate that Dr. Arnau Garcia-Molsosa started his Ramón y Cajal fellowship with GIAP, after finishing his Beatriu de Pinós-Marie Curie cofund project (also in GIAP, from 2020-2022). Dr. Arnau Garcia-Molsosa Dr. Garcia completed his PhD on the Archaeology of…
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