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ABOUT US

Concerned Scientists, Students and Citizens

We are a group of international scientists, students, and citizens from as far a field as North America, Europe, the Near and Middle East. Our concern is with the impact of global climate change upon the lives of humanity during the next several decades. We come from many sciences ranging from archaeology, history, geomorphology, hydrology, and paleoecology. We are trying to see where we may be going by using what we have learned from the past and applying it to ecosystem models to predict future outcomes. We are also focusing our efforts on public education and developing solutions that can be applied to help people deal with their deteriorating environment.

THE PEOPLE

PETER WIGAND, EESEEMR’s CO-DIRECTOR

ANTONELLA DIMOTTA, EESEEMR’s Board Chair

HAKIMEH BARGAHI, EESEEMR’s CO-DIRECTOR

Ph.D. (Washington State University, 1985), 44 years of experience in western North America, Northeastern Africa and the Central and Eastern Mediterranean in the fields of archaeology, paleoecology, and paleoclimatology, and geomorphology. He has been shedding vital, new light on past processes in arid environments, while at the same time 

Ph.D. (Washington State University, 1985), 44 years of experience in western North America, Northeastern Africa and the Central and Eastern Mediterranean in the fields of archaeology, paleoecology, and paleoclimatology, and geomorphology. He has been shedding vital, new light on past processes in arid environments, while at the same time helping to solve some of the problems facing environmental resource managers and planners today. Using plant remains recovered from ancient packrat nests (middens) and cave and aquatic contexts, pollen and charcoal from carefully dated stratigraphic sequences, he has been able to record the dynamics of vegetation change, fire regimes, surface and groundwater fluctuation, and changes in surficial (erosion and deposition) processes on local and regional scales in the Intermountain American West. Currently, he is engaged in study of the causes of past and current landscape erosion in southern Italy. In western Iran, he has been examining the impact of landscape erosion on lake chemistry during the Holocene. This science has been presented at meetings in Denver, Athens, Rome, and Tehran. 

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HAKIMEH BARGAHI, EESEEMR’s CO-DIRECTOR

ANTONELLA DIMOTTA, EESEEMR’s Board Chair

HAKIMEH BARGAHI, EESEEMR’s CO-DIRECTOR

Ms. Bargahi, has 12 years of experience in the fields of historic archaeology, prehistoric archaeology, geoarchaeology and environmental archaeology  projects. She took part in several archaeological surveys and excavations in the central plain of Iran, and western and southern Iran, and southern Italy. She concentrated especially on the 

Ms. Bargahi, has 12 years of experience in the fields of historic archaeology, prehistoric archaeology, geoarchaeology and environmental archaeology  projects. She took part in several archaeological surveys and excavations in the central plain of Iran, and western and southern Iran, and southern Italy. She concentrated especially on the prehistory of  south western and central Iran.

Her focus  in prehistoric archaeology is  human evolution, and the early tool making traditions, and plant and animal domestication. In particular she has been very interested in how the domestication of plants and animals affected human diet, and culture, especially religion, social structure, and the arts, from the Neolithic onward. She conducted a systematic survey of the rich Neolithic and Chalcolithic site of Chahar Rustayi, which was identified and recorded in 2004 during a joint Iranian-English survey of the Persian Gulf coast led by Dr. R. A. Carter (University College London). Her research in Italy with an international team from the University of Nevada, Reno ( 2014, 2016) focused on Holocene landscape dynamics in the region lying on the Puglia and Basilicata border of the southern Mezzogiorno.

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ANTONELLA DIMOTTA, EESEEMR’s Board Chair

ANTONELLA DIMOTTA, EESEEMR’s Board Chair

ANTONELLA DIMOTTA, EESEEMR’s Board Chair

Italian PhD, Civil-Environmental Engineer with a MSc in Hydraulic Engineering and Violinist. 

Antonella Dimotta was born in Italy in 1986. She received her PhD, Winter of  2019. She comes from the Italian National Research Council and University of Basilicata (School of Agricultural School Forestry, Food and Environmental Sciences). She re

Italian PhD, Civil-Environmental Engineer with a MSc in Hydraulic Engineering and Violinist. 

Antonella Dimotta was born in Italy in 1986. She received her PhD, Winter of  2019. She comes from the Italian National Research Council and University of Basilicata (School of Agricultural School Forestry, Food and Environmental Sciences). She received her PhD in the Program of Land, Environmental and Forestry Science. Her PhD thesis focused on Applied Geomorphology (GEO/04) and Agricultural and Environmental Economics (AGR/01): SOIL EROSION INTERDISCIPLINARY OVERVIEW: Modelling Approaches, Ecosystem Services Assessment and Soil Quality Restoration: Applications and Analyses in the Basilicata region (Italy). 

In 2017, she spent over 6 months - at the Spanish National Research Council (Centro de Edafologìa y Biologìa del Segura (CEBAS) – Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientìficas (CSIC)) in Murcia (Spain) under the guidance of Dr. Joris de Vente (senior researcher). Dr Dimotta's interest in landscape issues comes from her own background in the coastal fruit groves of Gulf of Taranto.  Her research has centered around soil erosion processes as they have been affected by land use and climate change, and further exogenous factors. She has applied the Soil and Water Conservation Research Group’s experience matured at the CEBAS-CSIC (Spain) and in Italy with different environmental modelling and assessment approaches. 

Her PhD on Applied Geomorphology and Agricultural and Environmental Economics comes from her strong interest in trying to observe, analyze and understand the most important factors (geological, hydro-geological, territorial and environmental vulnerability) that affect the landscape, agricultural economics, and the soil, and the well-being and human health and quality of life. Her PhD Thesis dealt with soil erosion process and its correlated different impacts, on- and off-site, with precise insights and analyses about the incidence of climate change on soil erosion modelling approaches’ development at a global scale. Moreover, she developed a potential solution aimed at restoring a soil affected by erosion through the composting application. Her answer to the Land Use and Soil Conservation Policies focuses on the need for applying a Circular Economy-based approach revised by her own idea of the compost utilization, as a smart green-therapy to try making soil more resilient. 

She is an extremely gifted violinist, having received her Violin Diploma in 2010 at the Conservatorio Statale di Musica “E.R.Duni” in Matera (Italy). In addition, her instrumental skills include the viola and piano. Her passions include composing music for the violin, piano and viola. Her further interests consist of medicine, photography and art. Recently she has begun research into the links between global change and increased skin cancer rates in human populations.

Potenza, Italy and Dublin, Ireland. April 2019 

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AARON JEWELL, EESEEMR PROJECT MANAGER

MICHELLE DONAHUE, EESEEMR’s PROGRAM MANAGER

ANTONELLA DIMOTTA, EESEEMR’s Board Chair

A highly recommended Project Manager with over 15 years of experience, working within the private, public and NGO sectors. He now works as a Permaculture project manager, designer & teacher developing holistic solutions for regenerative environmental projects, trying to connect people living in cities closer with nature, their food and th

A highly recommended Project Manager with over 15 years of experience, working within the private, public and NGO sectors. He now works as a Permaculture project manager, designer & teacher developing holistic solutions for regenerative environmental projects, trying to connect people living in cities closer with nature, their food and the available green spaces around us all.  In the Madrid, Spain, area, he consulted with the farm owners to develop new strategies, concepts and lifestyle changes to be more resilient moving forward, and helped to enhance existing businesses while providing a more holistic solution. He studied with the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia on a 70-acre farm in the subtropical region of New South Wales in Australia. Living off the grid on a holistic regenerative farm. Working with some of the best practitioners of Permaculture around the world. He has also taken an intense living soil certified course, covering all aspects of living soil. The Teacher was Paul Taylor a well renowned teacher with over 20 years experience teaching and providing soil solutions in all types of climates.

MICHELLE DONAHUE, EESEEMR’s PROGRAM MANAGER

MICHELLE DONAHUE, EESEEMR’s PROGRAM MANAGER

MICHELLE DONAHUE, EESEEMR’s PROGRAM MANAGER

Ms. Donahue has 20+ years of professional and technical project management experience dealing with all aspects of Geospatial Technology, Cultural Resource Management (CRM), and Real Property Management. She is a certified Scrum Master and SAFe Agile SPC. Her experience includes working for both private and government agencies such as the 

Ms. Donahue has 20+ years of professional and technical project management experience dealing with all aspects of Geospatial Technology, Cultural Resource Management (CRM), and Real Property Management. She is a certified Scrum Master and SAFe Agile SPC. Her experience includes working for both private and government agencies such as the U.S. Forest Service (U.S.F.S.), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and various tribal communities. She has worked in such diverse areas as geospatial information system (GIS) management and GeoBase programs, utilities and engineering services management, U.S.F.S. District Cultural Resource Management as well as private archaeological contracting. 

Her experience includes large utilities conversion projects from CAD to GIS for the U.S. Air Force, management, marketing, and support of GIS programs, analyzing client needs, documentation (management plans and professional presentations), utilizing strong technical, research, and problem-solving skills, outlining the benefits of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to customers as well as providing instruction, and integration of GIS into various projects and organizations.

Ms. Donahue has managed both private and government CRM projects working closely with tribal elders facilitating the following: NEPA, ARPA, NAGPRA, SHPOs, THPOs, CEQ, EIS, SIA, Section 106, the National Register, and Executive Order 11593. She completed a National Register Nomination for the Seal Beach archaeological Midden (WA State) which was the first successful nomination for Region 6 of the U.S.F.S..

Michelle is experienced with survey and mapping grade GPS and post-processing tools, RDBMS design, development, management and implementation, and needs analysis to implement a Geospatial Information System.

She is a member of URISA (GISP) as well as the Arizona Professional Land Surveyor's Association and a Washington State Certified Teacher. 

In her spare time, she works tirelessly to create and promote permacultural infrastructure on her property learned from growing up on a ranch in eastern Washington state where her great grandparents homesteaded.  Michelle is also a professional musician.

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Our Advisory Board

A sustainable ecosystem flow chart generated by the Strawberry Moon Farm people.

Dr. RICHARD WEBB

Dr. RICHARD WEBB

Dr. RICHARD WEBB

Richard was a Senior Research Officer with An Foras Forbartha and is a Past President of the Irish Landscape Institute. He is a past director of CAAS Environmental Services. He managed his own practice in landscape architecture, environmental consultancy and community development, and worked with local authorities and communities througho

Richard was a Senior Research Officer with An Foras Forbartha and is a Past President of the Irish Landscape Institute. He is a past director of CAAS Environmental Services. He managed his own practice in landscape architecture, environmental consultancy and community development, and worked with local authorities and communities throughout Ireland. Richard was previously a technical advisor on the Irish Aid community forestry project in the Sudan and a landscape project manager He has been a lecturer in eco-design and management on the TUD MSc. in Sustainable Development. Currently Richard is a member of An Taisce and initiated National Tree Week and the Tree Council.. Richard's breadth of environmental experience is demonstrated by the fact that he also served on the British Antarctic Expedition in the early 1970s.

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DONAL COLEMAN

Dr. RICHARD WEBB

Dr. RICHARD WEBB

Donal is a proponent of Pope Francis' encyclical on the environment and human ecology, "Laudato Si". He sees environmentalism as part of the human role as stewards of the earth. His own Japanese garden reflects the peace and reflection that he derives out of nature. He has become an ardent supporter of educating the public about the clima

Donal is a proponent of Pope Francis' encyclical on the environment and human ecology, "Laudato Si". He sees environmentalism as part of the human role as stewards of the earth. His own Japanese garden reflects the peace and reflection that he derives out of nature. He has become an ardent supporter of educating the public about the climate change crises. Donal's interest in the environment arises out of his understanding that a deteriorating earth will lead to the collapse of national economies, famine, wars, and the forced migration of millions of people. His interest in global peace and understanding is highlighted by his membership in SERVAS, Servas is an international, non-governmental peace association with consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council. 

ANNE TALBOT

Dr. RICHARD WEBB

ANNE TALBOT

Anne is a citizen environmentalist. She has taken it upon herself to understand the relationships between human activities and the environmental destruction they can cause. Her personal activism tries to address what individuals should be doing to reduce their carbon foot print. She exemplifies what one person should be doing to become pa

Anne is a citizen environmentalist. She has taken it upon herself to understand the relationships between human activities and the environmental destruction they can cause. Her personal activism tries to address what individuals should be doing to reduce their carbon foot print. She exemplifies what one person should be doing to become part of the global change solution. Her garden is a demonstration of a proactive environmentalist can do to heal the environment, it is a pollinator paradise, and her pond is a microcosm of an Irish lake. In the past she has taken up a beekeeping project when a swarm of bees appeared in her garden. 

OUR POOL OF COLLABORATING SCIENTISTS: PALEO-DATA

PETER WIGAND

DOMENICO CAPOLONGO

HAKIMEH BARGAHI

Quaternary Paleoecology; Prehistoric Mediterranean Archaeology; EESEEMR, Dublin, Ireland; Great Basin & Mojave Paleoenvironmental Research & Consulting, Reno, Nevada, U.S.A., Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada, USA

HAKIMEH BARGAHI

DOMENICO CAPOLONGO

HAKIMEH BARGAHI

Prehistoric and Historic Archaeology Europe and the Near and Middle East; Experienced in both Field Work and Laboratory Analysis ; EESEEMR, Dublin, Ireland.

DOMENICO CAPOLONGO

DOMENICO CAPOLONGO

DOMENICO CAPOLONGO

Geomorphology; Impact Assessment; Modelling and Simulation; Department of Earth and Geo-Environmental Sciences, Università deli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy.

MANUEL PALACIOS-FEST

MANUEL PALACIOS-FEST

MANUEL PALACIOS-FEST

Paleolimnology; Paleoclimate Reconstruction; Ostracod Expert; Terra Nostra Earth Sciences Research, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.

FABIO SCARCIGLIA

MANUEL PALACIOS-FEST

MANUEL PALACIOS-FEST

Sedimentology; Pedology; Stratigraphy; Climate Change; Land Use; Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Science, Università della Calabria,  Rende, Italy.

SOMAYEH ZAHABNAZOURI

MANUEL PALACIOS-FEST

SOMAYEH ZAHABNAZOURI

Aeolian geomorphology; Desert Ecology; Education and Local Community Involvement; Founder Lut Desert NGO; EESEEMR, Dublin, Ireland.

KHADIJEH ALINEZHAD

MINA RAESI SARBIZAH

MINA RAESI SARBIZAH

Palynology; Environmental and Prehistoric Archaeology;  Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany. 

MINA RAESI SARBIZAH

MINA RAESI SARBIZAH

MINA RAESI SARBIZAH

Historian; Recent and Medieval Mediterranean and Near and Middle Eastern History; Historical Climate Data Collection; EESEEMR, Dublin, Ireland.

MARYAM JAFARZADEH

MINA RAESI SARBIZAH

MARYAM JAFARZADEH

Ethnobotany, Preservation of Azeri Botanical Traditions; Sustainable Native plant community Design; Teaching Economic Use of Native Plants; EESEEMR, Dublin, Ireland.

Modelling: Climate, Erosion, and Fluvial

ANTONELLA DIMOTTA

ANTONELLA DIMOTTA

ANTONELLA DIMOTTA

Climate/Landscape Modelling; Mitigation and Restoration Cost Assessment; Role of Global Warming on Increasing Pandemic Diseases; EESEEMR, Dublin, Ireland.

MARINA ZINGARO

ANTONELLA DIMOTTA

ANTONELLA DIMOTTA

Fluvial Geomorpology; Fluvial Modelling; Remote Sensing; Flood Monitoring; Archaeology;  Department of Earth and Geo-Environmental Sciences, Università deli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy.

SEPIDE BAHRAMI

ANTONELLA DIMOTTA

SEPIDE BAHRAMI

Machine Learning and Data Mining; Fluvial Flood Modelling; Neural Network; Flood Hazard Assessment;  EESEEMR, Dublin, Ireland. 

PERMASCAPE DESIGN , PERMASCAPE IMPLEMENTATION

AARON JEWELL

BERNHARD LUCKE

AARON JEWELL

Permaculture Landscape Design and Education; Permascape Solutions, Dublin, Ireland.

RICHARD WEBB

BERNHARD LUCKE

AARON JEWELL

Permaculture Design and Education; Permascape Solutions, Dublin, Ireland.

BERNHARD LUCKE

BERNHARD LUCKE

YOUSEF SOLTANPOUR

Environment/Sustainable Development; Environmental Impact Assessment; Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Friedrich-Alexander Universität, Erlangen, Nürenberg, Germany.

YOUSEF SOLTANPOUR

YOUSEF SOLTANPOUR

YOUSEF SOLTANPOUR

Structural Geology: Assessment of Landscape Stability for contouring, and terracing; for groundwater retention and erosion control; EESEEMR, Dublin, Ireland. 

SHERMAN SWANSON

YOUSEF SOLTANPOUR

ANTONELLA MARSICO

Riparian Habitat Ecology and Management; Department of Agriculture, Veterinary and Rangeland Sciences and the Nevada Agricultural Experimental Station, University of Nevada, Reno.

ANTONELLA MARSICO

YOUSEF SOLTANPOUR

ANTONELLA MARSICO

Remote Sensing and Erosion Monitoring; Department of Earth and Geo-Environmental Sciences, Università deli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy.

SPECIAL FOCUS

ELHAM SHAIFEIAN

JOHANN ENGELBRECHT

MANSOOREH MAJIDI

PhD student at KIT University, Germany. Forest and rangeland ecology; remote sensing; climate impact; tree-ring analysis. From Ramsar, Iran, and has worked in the oak woodlands of the Zagros Mountains, and in the forests of south Germany.

MANSOOREH MAJIDI

JOHANN ENGELBRECHT

MANSOOREH MAJIDI

Structural Geologist who has been investigating the possibility of determining if there are geochemical signals in spring deposits of pending earthquakes. She is also investigating the unique nature of isolated  volcanic features.

JOHANN ENGELBRECHT

JOHANN ENGELBRECHT

JOHANN ENGELBRECHT

Aeolian Dust Analysis and Source Identification; DEES, Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada, U.S.A.

COMPANY MODEL

The structure of this company is unique. We have a core staff whose goal is to gather like-minded scientists to address issues in specific projects related to the impact of climate change and human impact. Most of our collaborating scientists are independent agents.


We consist of both long-career and beginning career scientists. We also have an almost equal  balance of men and women. We also come from a great diversity of backgrounds, both urban and rural, and from a great variety of climates and landscape. We are a microcosm of this planet, and of the people who are being impacted by global change. We believe that these diverse backgrounds will bring a great array of experiences together in the science we do. 


So that we don't contribute to the global carbon burden, we fly as little as possible,  but  conduct many of our tasks via the internet using Zoom, with only occasional in person group sessions.


Two years ago we suggested that this would be the model for new research businesses, and now as the result of the pandemic it is the new paradigm.

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