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Crystal McMichael
PhD student
Email: cmcmicha@fit.edu
Research Project
Pre-Columbian human occupation in the Amazon Basin
Research interests
I received my bachelor’s degree in Biology at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, GA in 2002. My undergraduate research
focused on biomonitoring for water quality and ecosystem health. I am interested in past human occupation in the Amazon lowlands. My
current research focuses on how human occupation of this area differs spatially before and after European contact, and how fire history
affects the Amazonian landscape.
Publications
Bush, M.B., M. R. Silman, C. McMichael, and S. Saatchi. 2008. Fire, climate change and biodiversity in Amazonia: a Late-Holocene perspective. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B. Get a copy