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UC 'pottery whisperer' gives talk at national conference

January 3, 2020

University of Cincinnati classics professor Kathleen Lynch is a ceramics specialist who has worked at sites in Italy, Greece, Albania and Turkey. This year, she received a Getty Scholar fellowship to study Athenian pottery and its relationship to Persia, Greece and Rome. She gave the opening night lecture this week to the Archaeological Institute of America, the world’s largest and oldest archaeological association, during its annual conference Washington, D.C. Her address titled “Conversations with a Pot Whisperer: Archaeological Ceramics and the Stories They Tell” kicked off the annual conference of archaeologists from around the world.

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UC study finds tipping point in deforestation

January 6, 2020

University of Cincinnati geography professor Tomasz Stepinski used high-resolution satellite images from the European Space Agency to study landscapes in 9-kilometer-wide blocks across every inch of the planet between 1992 and 2015. He found that deforestation occurs comparatively slowly in these blocks until about half of the forest is gone. Then the remaining forest disappears very quickly.