Recent & Upcoming Talks | Nicolas Gauthier

The world’s Indigenous peoples are among those most dramatically affected by the increasingly rapid pace of global climate warming and …

Aug 27, 2020 12:00 AM Budapest

Mark Aldenderfer, Doug Bird, Kristina Douglass, Nicolas Gauthier, Scott Ingram, Beth Scaffidi

When droughts and floods struck ancient agrarian societies, complex networks of exchange and interaction channeled resources into …

Jan 30, 2020 12:00 AM Tempe

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Distance is a fundamental constraint on human social interaction. This basic principle motivates the use of spatial interaction models …

Apr 12, 2019 12:00 AM Albuquerque

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The difficulty of inferring health from skeletal remains is an enduring problem in bioarchaeology. The concept of “frailty” has emerged …

Apr 11, 2019 12:00 AM Washington, DC

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I present a simple mathematical model of a network of human settlements and natural ecosystems from urban studies, and assess the …

Apr 2, 2017 12:00 AM Atlanta

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How robust were agrarian social networks to drought? Social networks can absorb climate shocks by facilitating resource flows to …

Apr 2, 2017 12:00 AM Vancouver

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Earth system models are climate models capable of simulating land-atmosphere feedbacks and the complex biogeochemical and …

Apr 2, 2017 12:00 AM Washington, DC

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Earth system models (ESMs) are climate models capable of simulating land-atmosphere feedbacks and the complex biogeochemical and …

Jan 1, 2017 12:00 AM

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Jan 1, 2017 12:00 AM Boulder

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