Dr. Michelle de Gruchy
@mwdegruchy.bsky.social
Landscape archaeologist. Research interests: archaeology of Mesopotamia, past mobility, and cultural property protection.
The United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT)'s Humanitarian Emergency Mapping service is activated following Hurricane Melissa, including for cultural heritage 🏺 The live web map is here: unosat.org/products/4210 and location-specific maps/reports are being published here: unosat.org/products/
UNOSAT
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October 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT)'s Humanitarian Emergency Mapping service is activated following Hurricane Melissa, including for cultural heritage 🏺 The live web map is here: unosat.org/products/4210 and location-specific maps/reports are being published here: unosat.org/products/
What are some good publications for getting started with reflectance spectroscopy of heavy metals in soils?
January 28, 2025 at 10:56 AM
What are some good publications for getting started with reflectance spectroscopy of heavy metals in soils?
If you went to college:
1. What was your career goal when you started?
2. Your initial major?
3. If you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. What do you do now, professionally?
1. Archaeologist
2. Archaeology
3. No change - archaeology
4. Archaeologist
1. What was your career goal when you started?
2. Your initial major?
3. If you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. What do you do now, professionally?
1. Archaeologist
2. Archaeology
3. No change - archaeology
4. Archaeologist
If you went to college:
1. What was your career goal when you started?
2. Your initial major?
3. If you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. What do you do now, professionally?
1. Get paid for writing.
2. Journalism
3. English
4. Marketing/Communications consultant and part-time author.
1. What was your career goal when you started?
2. Your initial major?
3. If you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. What do you do now, professionally?
1. Get paid for writing.
2. Journalism
3. English
4. Marketing/Communications consultant and part-time author.
If you went to college
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. Photo Archivist
2. History / Fine Art Double
3. MBA in Marketing/Org Design
4. Business Transformation and IT PM
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. Photo Archivist
2. History / Fine Art Double
3. MBA in Marketing/Org Design
4. Business Transformation and IT PM
January 23, 2025 at 5:57 AM
If you went to college:
1. What was your career goal when you started?
2. Your initial major?
3. If you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. What do you do now, professionally?
1. Archaeologist
2. Archaeology
3. No change - archaeology
4. Archaeologist
1. What was your career goal when you started?
2. Your initial major?
3. If you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. What do you do now, professionally?
1. Archaeologist
2. Archaeology
3. No change - archaeology
4. Archaeologist
New article! A team of us have developed a methodology (and script - see supplementary materials) for incorporating archaeological and palaeoenvironmental data into a model of past land use that is suitable for climate modelling 🧪🏺https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109142
December 18, 2024 at 9:18 AM
New article! A team of us have developed a methodology (and script - see supplementary materials) for incorporating archaeological and palaeoenvironmental data into a model of past land use that is suitable for climate modelling 🧪🏺https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109142
Did you know the UN Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) 🛰️ has a Humanitarian Emergency Mapping Service that can provide satellite analysis in the event of a humanitarian emergency and can be activated by humanitarian NGOs? unosat.org/services
November 11, 2024 at 9:30 PM
Did you know the UN Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) 🛰️ has a Humanitarian Emergency Mapping Service that can provide satellite analysis in the event of a humanitarian emergency and can be activated by humanitarian NGOs? unosat.org/services
Reposted by Dr. Michelle de Gruchy
Oh now this is very cool - your name spelt out in landscape images, from NASA! landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...
August 31, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Oh now this is very cool - your name spelt out in landscape images, from NASA! landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...
I recently returned from a trip to Iraq where I attended two conferences and visited various places. The first conference was on countering extremism and terrorism and included a session on cultural heritage. The second conference was the 5th edition of an annual archaeology conference [1/?]
March 15, 2024 at 1:52 PM
I recently returned from a trip to Iraq where I attended two conferences and visited various places. The first conference was on countering extremism and terrorism and included a session on cultural heritage. The second conference was the 5th edition of an annual archaeology conference [1/?]
On the Way in Upper Mesopotamia. Travels, Routes and Environment as a Basis for the Reconstruction of Historical Geography edited by Adelheid Otto and Nele Ziegler, with a chapter by Katleen Deckers and I on the importance of terrain is available open access here: epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/109051/
On the Way in Upper Mesopotamia
epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de
February 3, 2024 at 8:48 AM
On the Way in Upper Mesopotamia. Travels, Routes and Environment as a Basis for the Reconstruction of Historical Geography edited by Adelheid Otto and Nele Ziegler, with a chapter by Katleen Deckers and I on the importance of terrain is available open access here: epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/109051/