Conference Presentations

2019. Copeland, S.R., Creating Bioavailable strontium isotope baselines in Africa. European Association of Archaeologists Conference, Bern, Switzerland, September 7, 2019.

2017. Copeland, S.R., Bioavailable strontium isotopes ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr: How should they be measured? European Association of Archaeologists Conference, Maastricht, the Netherlands, Aug.31 2017.

2017. Copeland, S.R., Amanda B. White, Samuel R. Loftin, Leslie A. Hansen, Benjamin J. Sutter, David A. Bruggeman. Modeling erosion risks for archaeological sites in New Mexico using GIS and RUSLE (the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation). Poster presentation. Society for American Archaeology Conference, Vancouver, Canada, March 30 - April 2, 2015.

2015. Madsen, A.L., Copeland, S.R., Cvinar, A.E., Purtzer, L.C., Holtkamp, D., Payne, J.E., Ancestral Pueblo site distribution data from Los Alamos National Laboratory on the Pajarito Plateau. Poster presentation. Society for American Archaeology Conference, San Francisco, April 15-19, 2015

2015. Copeland, S.R., Cawthra, H., Cowling, R., Lee-Thorp, J., le Roux, P., Fisher, E., Marean, C. Testing the Paleo-Agulhas Plain Migration Ecosystem hypothesis with serial isotope analysis of fossil fauna. Society for American Archaeology Conference, San Francisco, April 15-19, 2015.

2014. Copeland, S.R. Testing the Migration Hypothesis with Sr, C, and O isotopes from fossil teeth. Paleoscapes II Workshop for the Pinnacle Point Project, George, South Africa, July 6-10 2014.

2012. Copeland, S.R., Reed, D., Blunenschine, R., Njau, J., Sponheimer, M., Richards, M. Tracking ancient animal movements in northern Tanzania using strontium isotopes. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Portland, OR, April 2012. Poster presentation.

2012. de Ruiter, D.J., Sponheimer, M., Copeland, S.R., Lee-Thorp, J.A., Berger, L.R., le Roux, P. Strontium isotope ratios of mammalian fossils from Malapa, South Africa. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Portland, OR, April 2012.

2011. Copeland, S.R., Sponheimer, M., Lee-Thorp, J.A., de Ruiter, D.J., Richards, M. Strontium isotopes from early hominin sites in South Africa can provide new insights in paleoecology and taphonomy. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Minneapolis, MN, April 2011.

2010. Copeland, S.R., Richards, M., Lee-Thorp, J.A., Neveling, J., Grimes, V., Grine, F. Isotopic evidence for the diet and geographic origins of the 36,000-year-old Hofmeyr skull. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Albuquerque, NM, April 2010.

2009. Copeland, S.R., Lee-Thorp, J.A., Sponheimer, M., le Roux, P.J., de Ruiter, D.J., Richards, M.P. Strontium isotope ratios in fossil teeth from South Africa: assessing laser ablation MC-ICP-MS methodology and diagenesis. U.K. Archaeological Sciences Meeting, Nottingham, U.K., Sept. 2009.

2009. Lee-Thorp,J., Copeland, S.R., Sponheimer, M., de Ruiter, D., Le Roux, P. A consideration of diagenesis in teeth from the South African fossil hominin sites based on strontium isotopes. 6th Bone Diagenesis Meeting, Bonn, Germany, September 2009.

2008. Copeland, S.R., Sponheimer, M., Lee-Thorp, J.A., de Ruiter, D., Le Roux, P., Grimes, V., Codron, D., Codron, J., Richards, M. Strontium isotope ratios in environmental samples, modern animals, and fossils from the Sterkfontein Valley, South Africa. Strontium Isotope Workshop, Boulder, Colorado, September 2008.

2008. Grimes, V., Copeland, S.R., Sponheimer, M., le Roux, P., Lee-Thorp, J., de Ruiter, D. and Richards, M. Strontium isotope ratios of modern and fossil teeth measured by solution and laser ablation PIMMS. International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology, York, U.K. September 2008.

2008. Copeland, S.R., J.A. Lee-Thorp, M. Sponheimer, D. de Ruiter, P. Le Roux, V. Grimes, D. Codron, J. Codron, M. Richards. New strontium isotope evidence for hominin residence and ranging in the Sterkfontein Valley, South Africa. Paleoanthropology Society, Vancouver, BC, March 2008.

2008. Sponheimer, M., Lee-Thorp, J.A., Copeland, S.R. Oxygen isotopes and landscape use in Africa. Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC, March 2008.

2008. Copeland, S.R., Sponheimer, M., Lee-Thorp, J.A., Grimes, V., Richards, M. Strontium isotope ratios across a South African landscape: a basis for interpreting hominin land-use. Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, March 2008.

2008. Grimes, V., Copeland, S.R., Sponheimer, M., le Roux, P., Lee-Thorp, J., de Ruiter, D. and Richards, M. Strontium isotope ratios of modern and fossil teeth measured by solution and laser ablation PIMMS. European 9th Workshop on Laser Ablation, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2008.

2007. Copeland, S.R., M. Sponheimer, D.J. de Ruiter, J. Lee-Thorp, P. Le Roux, M. Richards. Strontium isotope ratios of bedrock, soils, plants, and animals in Sterkfontein Valley, South Africa. UK Archaeological Sciences, Cambridge University, U.K. August 2007.

2007. Copeland, S.R., Habitats and wild resources for early hominins, chimpanzees, and baboons. Palaeoanthropology meets Primatology, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Cambridge University, U.K., April 17-19, 2007.

2006. Copeland, S.R. Plant foods in “arid” versus “moist” savannas, and the relevance of chimpanzees as ecological models for early hominins. Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 2006. Chair of session: General Topics in Paleoanthropology.

2003. Copeland, S.R. Relating vegetation structure to hominid plant resource availability based on an actualistic study in modern East African savannas. Paleoanthropology Society, Tempe, AZ, April 2003.

2000. Copeland, S.R. Modern analog perspectives on vegetation structure and resources in the Early Pleistocene Olduvai Basin. Society for American Archaeology, Philadelphia, April 2000. Co-chair of session: Research in Paleoethnobotany.

1999. Copeland, S.R. Establishing resolution in paleohabitat reconstructions with relevance to hominid adaptations. American Society of Physical Anthropologists, Columbus, Ohio, April 1999.

1999. Copeland, S.R. Improving vegetation resolution in paleoenvironmental reconstructions using “modern” plant ecology (with a case study at Olduvai Gorge). Rutgers Anthropology Graduate Student Conference: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Anthropology, New Brunswick, New Jersey, March 1999.

1998. Deocampo, D.M., Ashley, G.M., Copeland, S.R. Springs and streams in an East African closed basin: controls on biological communities in Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania. Geological Society of America, Toronto, November 1998.

1995. Copeland, S.R. The role of plant foods in Plio-Pleistocene hominid ecology. Rutgers Anthropology Graduate Student Conference: Contemplating Food. New Brunswick, New Jersey, March 1995.