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Salinas Cow Manure Project
This is a fun paper that shows how even some of the worst conditions for GPR, can prove to be important with results that the client said were important. One of the very worst GPR projects of all time with collection in the rain and the ground wet cow manure.
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GPR mapping to reconstruct a Late Classic Period Compound Wall, Chichen Itza, Mexico
by Lawrence Conyers and Denisse Argote | Integrating a lidar relief map with GPR subsurface mapping, accompanied by locating known and inferred surface structures allowed for the reconstruction of a Late Classic Period walled compound. It was found that this enclosure is not perfectly rectangular, was partially dismanteled in the past, added on to in some places, and in some areas almost completely destroyed during the construction evolution of this city. The compound contained the Casa Colorada as its predominant temple within its walls, but also other structures of unknown function. In Post Classic time the compound walls were used…
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There Is A Coming Crisis In Peer Reviewed Publications In Our Field
There is a coming crisis with peer reviewed publications in our field. The symptoms have been apparent for about 6 or 7 years and are now becoming obvious. Those of us who came from the academic realm have always relied on well-established publications to “show our worth” and achievements necessary for promotion and tenure decisions. The number of articles that one published, total pages, and the “impact factors” of the journals are usually all taken into account to measure an individual researcher’s achievements, as well as that of an academic department and in some cases a university as a whole.…
