Maschner, Herbert D.G.

Maschner, Herbert D.G.
Organization(s): 
University of South Florida

Herbert Maschner is Executive Director of Center for Virtualization and Applied Spatial Technologies (CVAST) at the University of South Florida. He also holds tenured Professorships in the USF Department of Anthropology and the School of Geosciences. He serves as the Academic Editor of PeerJ, and on the Editorial Boards of the Journals Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage and Science and Technology of Archaeological Research (STAR); He is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and serves as the Society for American Archaeology representative to the AAAS. The recipient of over 13 million in grants, including PI on ˜$5.9 million from the National Science Foundation, he has published 2 monographs, 9 edited books, 108 articles, chapters, and reviews, and presented over 200 conference papers with abstracts.

Research Interests: 
using trans-disciplinary data to investigate human biocomplexity and the environment, resource and community sustainability, long‐term human impacts and interactions with marine and terrestrial ecosystems, human ecosystem engineering, Darwinian Theory and evolutionary psychology, warfare and inequality, and global historical ecologies
Home Page: 
Center for Virtualization and Applied Spatial Technologies
Publications: 
Virtual zooarchaeology: building a web-based reference collection of northern vertebrates for archaeofaunal research and education
Bottom-Up Forcing and the Decline of Steller Sea Lions (Eumetopias jubatus) in Alaska: Assessing the Ocean Climate Hypothesis
Research on Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS): Approach, Challenges, and Strategies
Vzap: an online comparative collection for archaeofaunal Research
A 4500 year time series of Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus): Archaeology, regime shifts, and sustainable fisheries
An Introduction to the Biocomplexity of Sanak Island, Western Gulf of Alaska
Changes in Northeast Pacific marine ecosystems over the last 4,500 years: Evidence from stable isotope analysis of bone collagen from archaeological middens
Fishtails, Ancestors, and Old Islanders: Chirikof Island, the Alaska Peninsula, and the Dynamics of Western Alaska Prehistory
CHANS Projects: 
Complex Ecosystem Interactions Over Multiple Spatial and Temporal Scales: The Biocomplexity of Sanak Island
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