Kendal Jackson, Ph.D.
Post Doctoral Researcher
CONTACT
Office: CHE 110
Phone: (813) 629-1369
Email
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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.