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Rachel Quist

Rachel Quist is an archaeologist working in the Great Basin of the Western United States.She has specific expertise in cultural resource management, prehistoric technology, lithic toolstone, procurement, geomorphology of the Bonneville Basin, and public history projects. She may be contacted through her website at www.rachelquist.com.
A map showing grayscale relief and a quaternary fault scarp.

How Archaeologists and Geomorphologists Can Work Together to Understand the Quaternary

December 21, 2022January 5, 2012 by Rachel Quist

Archaeologists and geomorphologists are some of the best suited professions for interdisciplinary research into the Late Quaternary period.

Categories Physical Geography Tags archaelogy, Danger Cave, geomorphology, Jukebox Cave
Pleistocene lakes and rivers from 15,000 years ago of the Mojave Desert. Source: USGS, 2004

Ancient Pluvial Lakes of North America and What They Can Tell Us about Climate Change

August 12, 2020December 2, 2011 by Rachel Quist

Datasets of paleoenvironmental variability contained in a variety of pluvial lakes is a treasure-trove of past climate which can provide a firm baseline for current debates and studies regarding current hypothesis of present-day climate change.

Categories Climatology Tags climate change, climatology, Great Basin, pluvial lakes
Ptolemy's World Map from Geographia (~150 CE), reproduced in the 15th Century.

Ptolemy’s Geographia

October 13, 2020November 30, 2011 by Rachel Quist

Ptolemy was not only a geographer but a mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, and even a poet.

Categories Maps and Cartography Tags Geographia, Greek cartographers

Geography Careers

May 20, 2021November 15, 2011 by Rachel Quist

“Well, I guess you can always teach.”  If this is the response you get from friends and family when you talk about your chosen field … Read more

Categories Geography Career Tags Bureau of Labor Statistics, careers, fields of geography, Geography, geography career, geography jobs, gis career
Bristlecone pine forest in Great Basin National Park. Photo: USGS, public domain.

Island Biogeography of the Great Basin

August 12, 2020November 11, 2011 by Rachel Quist

The theory of island biogeography is one of the explanations as to why speciation occurs.

Categories Biogeography Tags biodiversity, Biogeography, Great Basin, island biogeography
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