Dr. Jade D Alpoim Guedes

Biography

Jade d'Alpoim Guedes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. She is an environmental archaeologist and ethnobiologist who employs an interdisciplinary research program to understand how humans adapted foraging practices and agricultural strategies in new environments, developing resilience in the face of climatic and social change. Her primary research focus is on Asia, where she has worked extensively in China, with interests extending to Nepal, Thailand, and Pakistan. Her methodologies include archaeobotany, paleoclimate reconstruction, and computational modeling. She closely collaborates with crop scientists to examine potential landraces of traditional crops such as millet, wheat, barley, and buckwheat in modern agricultural systems. d'Alpoim Guedes seeks to answer critical questions regarding human adaptability to climate change, optimal areas in the world, and strategies that have proven resilient over millennia.

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