{"id":70361,"date":"2013-12-03T12:47:58","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T17:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=70361"},"modified":"2017-11-03T14:31:18","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T18:31:18","slug":"bates-climate-project-shetland-islands-environmental-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/12\/03\/bates-climate-project-shetland-islands-environmental-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates-directed climate project in Shetland Islands wins environmental award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Bates-directed archeological project in the Shetland Islands has won an environmental award from the Shetland government and environmental organizations.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_70363\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/12\/IMGP0293-web-broo-shetlands.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70363\" class=\"size-large wp-image-70363\" alt=\"In the Shetland Islands, a Bates-directed archaeological dig, funded by the National Science Foundation, involves geologists, anthropologists, historians and biologists who are discovering the fate of a township named Broo that was buried in sand during the17th century Little Ice Age. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/12\/IMGP0293-web-broo-shetlands-600x400.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/12\/IMGP0293-web-broo-shetlands-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/12\/IMGP0293-web-broo-shetlands-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/12\/IMGP0293-web-broo-shetlands.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-70363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the Shetland Islands, a Bates-directed archaeological dig, funded by the National Science Foundation, involves geologists, anthropologists, historians and biologists who are discovering the fate of a township named Broo that was buried in sand during the 17th-century Little Ice Age.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Presented Nov. 14, the award recognizes achievements in sustainability, innovation and best practice by the Shetland Islands Climate and Settlement Project, a collaborative research effort led by Gerald Bigelow, a lecturer in archeology at Bates, who attended the award ceremony hosted by the Shetland Amenity Trust.<\/p>\n<p>The award praised the climate and settlement project in several areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>fostering ties with elementary schools in both Maine and the Shetland Islands;<\/li>\n<li>offering site visits for local schoolchildren;<\/li>\n<li>creating research collaborations with local archivists and community groups;<\/li>\n<li>and sharing project findings through public talks, radio interviews and conference presentations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The multi-institution project seeks to understand the historical relationships among climate, the environment and human activity in the Shetland Islands. It won a $619,000 National Science Foundation award in 2010.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_70362\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/12\/Gerald-Bigelow-600x420.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70362\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-70362 \" alt=\"Gerald Bigelow is a lecturer in history.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/12\/Gerald-Bigelow-600x420-300x210.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/12\/Gerald-Bigelow-600x420-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/12\/Gerald-Bigelow-600x420.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-70362\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gerald Bigelow is a lecturer in archeology and the principal investigator for a NSF grant of $619,000 that funds the Shetland Islands Climate and Settlement Project.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The project&#8217;s field research looks specifically at Broo, a township whose economy and landscape were devastated as the Little Ice Age, generally considered to have lasted from the 1300s to the 1800s, reached its coldest period.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The 17th century was one of the coldest periods in the Little Ice Age,&#8221; Bigelow says. &#8220;The 1690s, when our site was last occupied, is thought to have been the coldest decade in the last 1,000 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the township became buried in sand.<\/p>\n<p>Studying ways people adapted to past environmental change is relevant to current and future global change, Bigelow says, and\u00a0 informs future management strategies for northern coastal environments.<\/p>\n<p>The project includes researchers who represent four U.K. and four U.S. colleges and universities.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. institutions are Bates, the University of Maine, the University of Southern Maine and City University of New York.<\/p>\n<p>The U.K. institutions are the University of Stirling, University of Edinburgh, University of Bradford and the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, closely allied with the University of Glasgow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bates-directed archeological project in the Shetland Islands has won an environmental&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":70363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[4,130,232],"tags":[10838,10841,165],"class_list":["post-70361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-life","category-collaboration","category-environment-sustainability","tag-climate-change","tag-geology","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70361"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95646,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70361\/revisions\/95646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}