Honorary Fellow
Offices: 349 Birge | 1113 AOS
Email: mjeraj (at) wisc.edu
Phone: 608-262-0775
Education
PhD Environmental Science, Polytechnic Nova Gorica, Slovenia
MS Biology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
BS Biology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Research Interests
Environmental history, especially reconstruction of past vegetation, landscape, climate and hydrological regime, on regional and local scale; human settlement history and human impact on the environment such as agricultural practices and forest clearance; and integrated approaches of palaeoecological and archaeobotanical studies to better understand long-term co-evolutionary interactions between people and their environments.
Current Projects
1) European Late Glacial and Holocene vegetation and climate history, 2) beginning of agriculture in Europe, 3) human ecodynamics of the Hawaiian ecosystem, 4) impact of early settlers on the environment, 5) ethnobotanical values of archaeobotanical remains, and 6) the use of wood in archaeological contents.
