Faculty Projects

For individual faculty projects see faculty websites.

Departmental and Affiliated Research Groups & Programs

Agricultural GIS Users' Group (Ag-GIS)
http://wings.buffalo.edu/anthropology/AG-GIS/index.htm
A users group dealing with GIS (Geographic Information Systems) as applied to Agricultural problems.

Bonn Archaeological Software Program (BASP)
http://wings.buffalo.edu/anthropology/BASP/basp.html
A non-profit software project for and by archaeologists which has been developed cooperatively. It now includes more than 70 functions for seriation, clustering, correspondance analysis, and mapping tools.

Center for Cognitive Science
http://wings.buffalo.edu/cogsci/index.htm
Representation at the University at Buffalo of an academic and private-sector movement, named "cognitive science", that has been expanding over the last two decades both in the U.S. and abroad. This multi-disciplinary group investigates the nature of cognition, i.e., of intellective processes as exhibited either by the human mind or by computer. Most centrally, cognitive science is the study of how the mind works, both in its conceptual organization and in its computational and neural infrastructure.

Fort Niagara
http://fortniagara.buffalo.edu/
This project centers on the creation of a multi-component, interactive web site and on-line data base for archaeology at Fort Niagara.

Graduate Program in Evolution, Ecology and Behavior (EEB)
http://www.evolutionecologybehavior.buffalo.edu/
An interdisciplinary graduate program put together by a consortium of faculty from various departments including Anthropology, Biology, Geology, Psychology, and Geography. The program offers a certificate program for students in other departments, including Anthropology, in addition to its own PhD and MS degrees. Our goal is to promote interdisciplinary research and education in the study of evolution, ecology and behavioral ecology.

IGERT
http://www.geog.buffalo.edu/giscience/
An innovative interdisciplinary program designed for doctoral students in Anthropology, Geography, Geology, Philosophy, Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering, and Industrial Engineering. An emerging field that seeks to understand the nature of geographic information and its role in society, and to provide theoretical foundations for GIS and related technology. GIS constitutes a multi-billion dollar industry in the United States with many applications ranging from environmental health, national security, and basic science and engineering.

JD Holland Lithic Laboratory (Buffalo Museum of Science)
http://www.sciencebuff.org/collections/research-collections/
The laboratory houses an extensive comparative collection of well-provenienced geological samples of over 3000 lithic material types known to have been used prehistorically throughout North America.

National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA)
http://www.ncgia.buffalo.edu/
An independent research consortium whose primary mandate is to conduct basic research in geographic information science and its related technology.

Social Systems GIS Laboratory
http://wings.buffalo.edu/research/anthrogis/
A users group dealing with GIS (Geographic Information Systems) as applied to Anthropological problems. It is part of an interdisciplinary research group whose goal is to familiarize students with GIS.

Time and Memory Workshop
http://wings.buffalo.edu/anthropology/webstuff/projects/Time%20&%20Memory/index.html
A interdisciplinary reading and discussion group, visiting scholars series, and workshop, supported by the UB Humanities Institute.

UB Archaeology Survey
http://archaeologicalsurvey.buffalo.edu/
A not-for-profit research, contracting and applied archaeology institution within the Department of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. It has been engaged in Cultural Resource Management (CRM) projects for over 30 years.