Research and Projects:

Here are links to information about some of the research and projects that ESS Lab people are working on, or have completed. As of January 2012, only a few of these links are live, but the rest should come online soon.

• Paleotempestology in the South Texas area
• Paleolimnological/geoarchaeological/paleographic work around Marmara Golu in central western Turkey
• Holocene coastal geomorphic and paleoenvironmental evolution of the Akliman Valley and Sarikum Lake, Sinop area, Black Sea coast of Turkey
• Holocene paleoclimate and abrupt climate change events in the Mediterranean using speleothems
• Paleo studies of drought in the South Texas area
• Paleo hypoxia/anoxia of coastal bays and estuaries along the South Texas coast
• Paleo studies of recent South Texas "crater lakes" (they exist, really!!!)
• Besonen Ph.D. research—development of a high-resolution record of hurricane and other large storm activity in Massachusetts and southern New England over the last millennium
• Besonen M.S. thesis research—The Middle and Late Holocene Geology and Landscape Evolution of the Lower Acheron River Valley, Epirus, Greece
• EMAP I—Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Paleoclimatology Project, Phase I (Lake Gramousti and Rezina Marsh, Epirus, Greece)
• EMAP III—Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Paleoclimatology Project, Phase III (Lake Kournas, Crete, Greece)
• Tell Leilan Project, northeast Syria