Kendal Jackson, Ph.D.

Post Doctoral Researcher

CONTACT

Office: CHE 110
Phone: (813) 629-1369
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EDUCATION

Bachelors, Anthropology, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg
Masters, Applied Anthropology, University of South Florida, Tampa
Doctorate, Applied Anthropology, University of South Florida, Tampa

Professional History

I am a geo-archaeologist working in both academic and compliance research settings. I integrate methods and theory from archaeology (the study of the human past) and earth sciences (paleontology, palynology, sedimentology, stratigraphy) to address complex historical-ecological research questions.

TeaChing

Undergraduate

Intro to Archaeology
Archaeological Field Methods
Sedimentary Environments

Graduate

Advanced Sedimentary Environments

RESEARCH

Research Area

Geoarchaeology, Historical Ecology, GIS, Palynology, Wetland-Science, Sedimentology

Research Description

My research is focused on understanding complex interactions between human societies and the environments they inhabit. Particularly, I study past human-environment interactions and how coupled human-natural systems change over time (decades-to-millennia). Because I am most interested in human-influenced ecologies, I specialize in the Holocene epoch, but I also work with late-Pleistocene depositional environments. I utilize various archaeological and earth-science methods, such as sediment coring, archaeological excavation, remote sensing, zooarchaeological and paleontological analyses, sedimentological analyses, and palynology (the study of fossil pollen and spores).

AWARDS

2020 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant ($22,249)
Geoarchaeology of Estuarine Seascapes (Award # 2024397)

2019 Florida Archaeological Council John W Griffin Student Research Award ($1000)
Estuarine Geoarchaeology in Safety Harbor Basin, Tampa Bay

2019 AWIARE/Levett Foundation Grant ($3540)
Geoarchaeology of Ancient Seascapes in Tampa Bay Estuary

2019 USF Graduate School Conference Travel Award ($500)
Of Marsh and Mangal: Political/Historical Ecology in Tampa Bay’s Coastal Wetlands

2018 PaleoWest Foundation Student Scholarship ($2000)
Between Land and Sea: Deep-Time Historical Ecologies of the Tampa Bay Estuary, Florida

2018 John Freeman Award ($400)
Department of Applied Anthropology, University of South Florida, Tampa
Historical Ecologies of the Safety Harbor Basin, Tampa Bay, Florida

2018 Student Paper Award, Florida Anthropological Society Annual Meeting (books)
Between Land and Sea: Deep-Time Historical Ecology of the Tampa Bay Estuary, Florida

2018 Florida Sea Grant Student Scholar Award ($1900)
Historical Ecology of the Safety Harbor Basin, Tampa Bay, Florida

2017 Little Salt Spring/Warm Mineral Springs Archaeological Society Student Award ($250)
Revisiting Stanley Mound: A Disturbed Sand Burial Mound in the Manasota Hinderland

2016 Society for American Archaeology, Geoarchaeology Interest Group Award ($500)
Archaeo-Palynology Research at Crystal River Site

2016 Florida Paleontological Society, Gary S. Morgan Student Research Award ($1000)
Archaeo-Palynology Research at Crystal River Site

2013 Florida Anthropological Society, Dorothy Moore Student Research Grant ($500)
Experimental Archaeology and Allometric research on Melongena corona at Weedon Island Preserve, Pinellas County, Florida

Journal Articles

Rogers, Jaime, R., and Kendal Jackson. (2024). Transformative Impacts of Sea Level Rise, Storm Surge, and Wetland Migration on Intertidal Native Shell-Bearing Sites in Florida’s Largest Open-Water Estuary, Tampa Bay, Florida, USA. Estuaries and Coasts https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-024-01329-8

Pluckhahn, Thomas J., Kendal Jackson, and Victor D. Thompson. (2023). The Effacement and Persistence of Tocobaga, a Native Florida Town. Historical Archaeology https://doi.org/10.1007/s41636-023-00435-x

Jackson, Kendal, Thomas J. Pluckhahn, Jaime A. Rogers, Ping Wang, and Victor Thompson (2023). Geoarchaeology and Coastal Morphodynamics of Harbor Key (8MA15): Indigenous Persistence at a Partially Inundated Shell Mound Complex in Tampa Bay, Florida. American Antiquity 88(4):531-553. https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.45

Jackson, Kendal, Ping Wang, Thomas J. Pluckhahn, Jaime A. Rogers, and Victor Thompson (2023). Stratigraphic Framework, Paleoenvironments, and Indigenous Terraforming of Inshore Estuarine Subbasins in Tampa Bay, Florida, USA. Journal of Coastal Research 39(5):779-815.

Hesterberg, Stephen, Kendal Jackson, and Susan Bell (2022). Climate Drives Cascading Regime Shifts Across Subtropical Estuarine Ecosystems. PNAS 119(3):e2121654119.

Pluckhahn, Thomas, J. Kendal Jackson, and Jaime A. Rogers (2022). “Let Us All Enjoy the Fish”: Alternative Pathways and Contingent Histories of Collective Action and Governance Among the Maritime Societies of the Western Peninsular Coast of Florida, USA, 100-1600 CE. Frontiers in Political Science 4:804084. DOI:10.3389/fpos.2022.804084.

Pluckhahn, Thomas J., Kendal Jackson, and Jaime A. Rogers (2021). Hidden in Plain Sight: Digital Documentation of Cockroach Key (8HI2), A First Millennium Native American Mound Complex on the Western Coast of Florida, USA. Studies in Digital Heritage 5(2):107-130.

Jackson, Kendal, Gregg R. Brooks, and Rebekka A. Larson (2021). Of Marsh and Mangrove: Coupled Biophysical and Anthropogenic Drivers of 20th Century Wetland Conversion in Tampa Bay Estuary, Florida (USA). Anthropocene 34:100295.

Jackson, Kendal, Thomas J. Pluckhahn, C. Trevor Duke (2020). Invisible Things Forgotten: A Multi-Proxy Study of Wetland Plant Use at a Precolumbian Village on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Journal of Ethnobiology 40(4):569-589.

Jackson, Kendal, Thomas J. Pluckhahn, Jeffrey T. Moates, and Kassie Kemp (2019). Revisiting Stanley Mound (8MA127): A Sand Burial Mound in the Central Peninsular Gulf Coast Interior. The Florida Anthropologist 71(2):95-109.

Jackson, Kendal and Thomas J. Pluckhahn (2019). A First Millennium AD Vegetation History from the Crystal River Site (8CI1), Florida. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 0:1-18. DOI: 10.1080/15564894.2018.1531958.

Jackson, Kendal, Elizabeth Southard, Sharlene O’Donnell (2018). Estimating Crown Conch (Melongena corona) Tissue Weight from Archaeological Shell Measurements: An Allometric Methodology for Coastal Historical Ecological Research. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 21:107-116.