J. Scott Cardinal

CRSP Principal Investigator
518-486-2096

M.A., 2011, University at Albany

B.A., 1993, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Research interests include: spatial and quantitative analysis of archaeological assemblages and stratigraphy, inferential data mining, data normalization, computer applications in archaeology, archaeological theory and epistemology, philosophy of social science, social theory, complex systems dynamics, emergence of social and institutional complexity, computational modeling and social simulation, and cultural evolution.

Publications

2006

Geyer, G., Landing, E., 2006. Morocco Field Excursion 2006. Ediacaran-Cambrian Depositional Environments and Stratigraphy of the Western Atlas Regions, in: Geyer, G., Landing, E. (Eds.), Morocco 2006. EdiacaranCambrian Depositional Environments and Stratigraphy of the Western Atlas Regions. Explanatory Description and Field Excursion Guide. , , pp. 47-112.

2005

Landing, E., 2005. Ancient Life, in: Eisenstadt, P., Moss, L. (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of New York State. Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY, pp. 83-86.
Landing, E., 2005. Geology and Plate Techtonics, in: Eisenstadt, P., Moss, L. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of New York State. Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, New York, pp. 632-636.
E. Landing 2005, Early Paleozoic Avalon — Gondwana Unity: An Obituary — Response to ’Palaeontological Evidence Bearing on Global Ordovician-Silurian Continental Reconstructions’ by R. R. Fortey and L. R. M. Cocks, Earth-Science Reviews 69, 169-175. 10.1016/j.earscirev.2004.10.002
E. Landing 2005, Fabulous Fossils-The State Museum’s Trilobites. Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum 1, 8-9

2004

G. Geyer, E. Landing 2004, A Unified Lower-Middle Cambrian Chronostratigraphy for West Gondwana, Acta Geologica Polonica 54, 233-273.
E. Landing 2004, Fossils and "Deep Time" In New York, New York State Museum Educational Leaflet The University of the State of New York, Albany, NY
E. Landing 2004, Precambrian-Cambrian Boundary Interval Deposition and the Marginal Platform of the Avalon Microcontinent, Journal of Geodynamics 37, 411-435. 10.1016/j.jog.2004.02.014
Landing, E., Westrop, S., 2004. Environmental Patterns in the Origin and Evolution and Diversification Loci of Early Cambrian Skeletalized Metazoa: Evidence from the Avalon Microcontinent, in: Lipps, J., Wagoner, B. (Eds.), Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Biological Revolutions. Paleontological Society, , pp. 93-105.

2003

E. Landing 2003, Self-Taught American Scientist. New York Archives 2, 13-15