Rate My Professor Katherine Adelsberger

Adelsberger's publications include 'Desert pavement development and landscape stability on the eastern Libyan Plateau, Egypt' (Geomorphology, 2009), 'Paleolandscape and paleoenvironmental interpretation of spring-deposited sediments in Dakhleh Oasis, Western Desert of Egypt' (Catena, 2010), 'Geochemical and mineralogic characterization of Middle Stone Age tools of Laetoli, Tanzania' in Paleontology and Geology of Laetoli (2011), 'Basin-scale reconstruction of the geological context of human settlement: an example from the lower Mississippi Valley, USA' (Quaternary Science Reviews, 2008), and 'Sedimentology' in Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology (2017). She has received the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2003-2008), Geological Society of America Student Research Grant (2007), Claude C. Albritton, Jr. Award (2007), Douglas C. Kellogg Award (2007), Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research (2006), and multiple Knox College grants including Faculty Research Grants (2016-2017) and NSF Major Research Instrumentation Grant (2014). Adelsberger teaches geoarchaeology, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, and geographic information systems. She serves on the Public Relations Committee of the Geological Society of America Archaeological Geology Division and the Kellogg Award Committee of the Society for American Archaeology, and holds memberships in the American Geophysical Union, American Quaternary Association, Geological Society of America, Society for American Archaeology, Phi Beta Kappa, and Sigma Xi. Her contributions advance understandings of landscape history, water management strategies, and soil dynamics in archaeological and modern contexts.