You will be part of a Marie Curie Doctoral Network project, PacificPeopleForest, entitled History, Archaeology, and Botany of Pacific Islands: assessing the Long-Term Impacts of Early European colonialism on Peoples and Forests. Current definitions of native forests for the Mariana Islands tend to neglect the fact that they often consist of introduced species. There is a general lack of understanding of historic plant introduction and plant use on these Pacific islands, as well as a dismissal of the intimate intertwining of people and plants. Can we trace how plant use changed with European colonialism and the influx of non-native species? You will be responsible for tracing and dating key forest species with genomics methods to support historical and archaeological research. In addition, you will initiate the first pilot on isotope dendrochronology for the Marianas Islands (Pacific region).
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