10/15/2001 Research
UC Researchers Return from the Caucasus
Fresh from the field: this first look from Azerbaijan and Georgia outlines
exciting prospects for IGCC’s Great Silk Road Survey, funded by the UC Office
of the President, National Geographic Society, and UCSD dept. of Anthropology.
Report includes color photos
of archaeological finds.
9/19/2001 Research
Pipeline to the Past Is a Gift From Oil to Archaeology
Istanbul-based New York Times correspondent Douglas Franz reports from
the field in Azerbaijan on IGCC’s Great Silk Road Survey. While assessing
field sites for this Innovation in International Cooperation (see UC researchers
and their counterparts from the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences find tantalizing
hints that a drowned 12th century port may lie just beneath the waters of
the Caspian Sea. The GSRS relies on support from a UC Office of the President
Science and Technology Grant.
6/30/2001 Research
Great Silk Road Survey Manager Profiled
Great Silk Road Survey program manager Jennifer Pournelle is profiled
in the Summer 2001 issue of SoSciT, UC San Diego’s Social Sciences magazine.
6/15/2001 Research
GSRS Concludes First Plenary in Ankara
Representatives from four participant nations met at the Middle East
Technical University to draft framework agreements for collaborative research
on climate change and society along planned Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil and
gas pipelines. The plenary achieved substantive agreement on the global
importance and urgency of the program. This ambitious multidisciplinary
program was launched with support from a UC Office of the President Science
and Technology Grant.
5/1/2001 Research
IGCC Launches Silk Road Project
The UC Office of the President Office of Research reports on IGCC’s innovative
plan to integrate research on the social impact of climate change with region-building
in the Caspian-Black-Mediterranean Sea triangle. The Great Silk Road survey
is funded in part by a UC Office of the President Science and Technology
grant
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