Tom Dawson
Biographic Data
| ID | 673541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Dawson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Dawson |
| SIGNATURE | DAWSON T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9229-7942 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Community Coastal Zone Assessment Surveys
Community Coastal Zone Assessment Surveys (CCZASs) conducted on the Scottish coast aim to characterize and assess the significance, condition, and vulnerability of coastal archaeology and to prioritize assets most at risk. Two key differences from earlier coastal zone assessment survey methods are the use of coastline vulnerability models to target fieldwork and the involvement of the public in the surveys. This article details the methodology us…
Of time and tide
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has documented wide-ranging changes to the world's coasts and oceans, with significant further change predicted. Impacts on coastal and underwater heritage sites, however, remain relatively poorly understood. The authors draw on 30 years of research into coastal and underwater archaeological sites to highlight some of the interrelated processes of deterioration and damage. Emphasising the need for clo…
Proposed Policy Guidelines for Managing Heritage at Risk Based on Public Engagement and Communicating Climate Change
The deterioration and loss of our historic environment due to natural erosive processes, exacerbated by climate change, already outpaces available resources for preservation and will accelerate over the coming century. While this process is divisive and destructive, it is also bringing together international collaborators who are developing more holistic approaches to addressing heritage at risk. In 2018, an intensive fieldtrip and series of work…
A Lockpick's Guide to dataARC
The North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO) community initiated dataARC to develop digital research infrastructures to support their work on long-term human-ecodynamics in the North Atlantic. These infrastructures were designed to address the challenges of sharing research data, the connections between those data and high-level interpretations, and the interpretations themselves. In parallel, they were also designed to support the reuse of…
Coastal heritage, global climate change, public engagement, and citizen science
Climate change is threatening an uncalculated number of archaeological sites globally, totaling perhaps hundreds of thousands of culturally and paleoenvironmentally significant resources. As with all archaeological sites, they provide evidence of humanity’s past and help us understand our place in the present world. Coastal sites, clustered at the water’s edge, are already experiencing some of the most dramatic damage due to anthropogenic climate…
The Newshot Island Boat Graveyard
A project by SCAPE, NAS, and local volunteers at Newshot Island on the Clyde near Glasgow has documented an important ships graveyard dating to the early 20th century. The vessels tell the story of the creation of the Clyde Navigation, represent a significant aspect of the river's history, and exemplify the technological and industrial development of the region. The survey and research revealed that the remains on site include the earliest diving…
Climate change and the deteriorating archaeological and environmental archives of the Arctic
Community Rescue
Erosion threatens coastal sites around the globe and Scotland has been pioneering a methodology of community action that brings local groups and professional together to work at sites before they are destroyed. This builds upon the Historic Scotland rapid coastal surveys and the follow-up analysis of collected data to prioritise action. Projects such as Shorewatch and the Scotland’s Coastal Heritage at Risk Project (SCHARP) have seen communities …
Learning from Loss
Heritage sites are constantly changing due to natural processes, and this change can happen fastest at the coast. Much legislation has been enacted to protect sites of historic interest, but these do not protect sites from natural processes. Change is already happening, and climate change predictions suggest that the pace will accelerate in the future. Instead of seeing the potential destruction of heritage sites as a disaster, we should embrace …
Chronostratigraphy of an Eroding Complex Atlantic Round House, Baile Sear, Scotland
A high-resolution chronostratigraphy has been established for an eroding Atlantic round house at Sloc Sàbhaidh (North Uist, Scotland), combining detailed OSL profiling and dating of sediments encompassing the main bracketing events associated with the monument, radiocarbon AMS dates on bone recovered from excavated features and fills within it, and TL dates on pottery and burnt clay. Concordant OSL and radiocarbon evidence place construction of t…
Eroding Archaeology at the Coast
Many thousands of archaeological sites are threatened by coastal erosion around the globe. The problem is particularly grave in Scotland, where a number of management strategies have been developed. Much of this work has been undertaken by Historic Scotland working in partnership with the SCAPE Trust and the University of St Andrews. This paper outlines the scale of the problem presented by coastal erosion, using recent work in the Western Isles …
A View from Scotland’s coast
Coastal erosion is one of the gravest natural threats to our shared heritage. Although climate change predictions suggest that things will worsen in the future, the problem is already with us. In Scotland, the SCAPE (Scottish Coastal Archaeology and the Problem of Erosion) Trust and the University of St Andrews have been working with the public for many years. Their latest project, SCHARP, works with the public to update previous surveys and to n…
The English Coast
Airborne multi‐spectral prospection for buried archaeology in mobile sand dominated systems
Much of the UK's potential archaeological resource is under threat from coastal erosion. Undiscovered sites are often lost or damaged by erosion before rescue excavation can take place. This project tested the use of multispectral remote sensing for detecting archaeological features in mobile sand‐dominated systems, which are common on the western and northern coasts and islands around the UK. Airborne multispectral data were collected for a numb…
Addendum to Daily changes in Ventilatory Capacity in Smokers and Non-smokers
Daily changes in ventilatory capacity in smokers and in non-smokers
A smoker is defined as an individual who has smoked on average at least one cigarette per day for at least a year; a non-smoker is defined as an individual who has never smoked in his life
Climate change and the deteriorating archaeological and environmental archives of the Arctic
A Lockpick's Guide to dataARC
The North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO) community initiated dataARC to develop digital research infrastructures to support their work on long-term human-ecodynamics in the North Atlantic. These infrastructures were designed to address the challenges of sharing research data, the connections between those data and high-level interpretations, and the interpretations themselves. In parallel, they were also designed to support the reuse of…
Of time and tide
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has documented wide-ranging changes to the world's coasts and oceans, with significant further change predicted. Impacts on coastal and underwater heritage sites, however, remain relatively poorly understood. The authors draw on 30 years of research into coastal and underwater archaeological sites to highlight some of the interrelated processes of deterioration and damage. Emphasising the need for clo…
Airborne multi‐spectral prospection for buried archaeology in mobile sand dominated systems
Much of the UK's potential archaeological resource is under threat from coastal erosion. Undiscovered sites are often lost or damaged by erosion before rescue excavation can take place. This project tested the use of multispectral remote sensing for detecting archaeological features in mobile sand‐dominated systems, which are common on the western and northern coasts and islands around the UK. Airborne multispectral data were collected for a numb…
Eroding Archaeology at the Coast
Many thousands of archaeological sites are threatened by coastal erosion around the globe. The problem is particularly grave in Scotland, where a number of management strategies have been developed. Much of this work has been undertaken by Historic Scotland working in partnership with the SCAPE Trust and the University of St Andrews. This paper outlines the scale of the problem presented by coastal erosion, using recent work in the Western Isles …
The Newshot Island Boat Graveyard
A project by SCAPE, NAS, and local volunteers at Newshot Island on the Clyde near Glasgow has documented an important ships graveyard dating to the early 20th century. The vessels tell the story of the creation of the Clyde Navigation, represent a significant aspect of the river's history, and exemplify the technological and industrial development of the region. The survey and research revealed that the remains on site include the earliest diving…
Chronostratigraphy of an Eroding Complex Atlantic Round House, Baile Sear, Scotland
A high-resolution chronostratigraphy has been established for an eroding Atlantic round house at Sloc Sàbhaidh (North Uist, Scotland), combining detailed OSL profiling and dating of sediments encompassing the main bracketing events associated with the monument, radiocarbon AMS dates on bone recovered from excavated features and fills within it, and TL dates on pottery and burnt clay. Concordant OSL and radiocarbon evidence place construction of t…
A View from Scotland’s coast
Coastal erosion is one of the gravest natural threats to our shared heritage. Although climate change predictions suggest that things will worsen in the future, the problem is already with us. In Scotland, the SCAPE (Scottish Coastal Archaeology and the Problem of Erosion) Trust and the University of St Andrews have been working with the public for many years. Their latest project, SCHARP, works with the public to update previous surveys and to n…
Daily changes in ventilatory capacity in smokers and in non-smokers
A smoker is defined as an individual who has smoked on average at least one cigarette per day for at least a year; a non-smoker is defined as an individual who has never smoked in his life
Addendum to Daily changes in Ventilatory Capacity in Smokers and Non-smokers
Airborne multi‐spectral prospection for buried archaeology in mobile sand dominated systems
Much of the UK's potential archaeological resource is under threat from coastal erosion. Undiscovered sites are often lost or damaged by erosion before rescue excavation can take place. This project tested the use of multispectral remote sensing for detecting archaeological features in mobile sand‐dominated systems, which are common on the western and northern coasts and islands around the UK. Airborne multispectral data were collected for a numb…
The English Coast
A View from Scotland’s coast
Coastal erosion is one of the gravest natural threats to our shared heritage. Although climate change predictions suggest that things will worsen in the future, the problem is already with us. In Scotland, the SCAPE (Scottish Coastal Archaeology and the Problem of Erosion) Trust and the University of St Andrews have been working with the public for many years. Their latest project, SCHARP, works with the public to update previous surveys and to n…
Eroding Archaeology at the Coast
Many thousands of archaeological sites are threatened by coastal erosion around the globe. The problem is particularly grave in Scotland, where a number of management strategies have been developed. Much of this work has been undertaken by Historic Scotland working in partnership with the SCAPE Trust and the University of St Andrews. This paper outlines the scale of the problem presented by coastal erosion, using recent work in the Western Isles …
Community Rescue
Erosion threatens coastal sites around the globe and Scotland has been pioneering a methodology of community action that brings local groups and professional together to work at sites before they are destroyed. This builds upon the Historic Scotland rapid coastal surveys and the follow-up analysis of collected data to prioritise action. Projects such as Shorewatch and the Scotland’s Coastal Heritage at Risk Project (SCHARP) have seen communities …
Learning from Loss
Heritage sites are constantly changing due to natural processes, and this change can happen fastest at the coast. Much legislation has been enacted to protect sites of historic interest, but these do not protect sites from natural processes. Change is already happening, and climate change predictions suggest that the pace will accelerate in the future. Instead of seeing the potential destruction of heritage sites as a disaster, we should embrace …
Chronostratigraphy of an Eroding Complex Atlantic Round House, Baile Sear, Scotland
A high-resolution chronostratigraphy has been established for an eroding Atlantic round house at Sloc Sàbhaidh (North Uist, Scotland), combining detailed OSL profiling and dating of sediments encompassing the main bracketing events associated with the monument, radiocarbon AMS dates on bone recovered from excavated features and fills within it, and TL dates on pottery and burnt clay. Concordant OSL and radiocarbon evidence place construction of t…
The Newshot Island Boat Graveyard
A project by SCAPE, NAS, and local volunteers at Newshot Island on the Clyde near Glasgow has documented an important ships graveyard dating to the early 20th century. The vessels tell the story of the creation of the Clyde Navigation, represent a significant aspect of the river's history, and exemplify the technological and industrial development of the region. The survey and research revealed that the remains on site include the earliest diving…
Climate change and the deteriorating archaeological and environmental archives of the Arctic
Coastal heritage, global climate change, public engagement, and citizen science
Climate change is threatening an uncalculated number of archaeological sites globally, totaling perhaps hundreds of thousands of culturally and paleoenvironmentally significant resources. As with all archaeological sites, they provide evidence of humanity’s past and help us understand our place in the present world. Coastal sites, clustered at the water’s edge, are already experiencing some of the most dramatic damage due to anthropogenic climate…
Proposed Policy Guidelines for Managing Heritage at Risk Based on Public Engagement and Communicating Climate Change
The deterioration and loss of our historic environment due to natural erosive processes, exacerbated by climate change, already outpaces available resources for preservation and will accelerate over the coming century. While this process is divisive and destructive, it is also bringing together international collaborators who are developing more holistic approaches to addressing heritage at risk. In 2018, an intensive fieldtrip and series of work…
A Lockpick's Guide to dataARC
The North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO) community initiated dataARC to develop digital research infrastructures to support their work on long-term human-ecodynamics in the North Atlantic. These infrastructures were designed to address the challenges of sharing research data, the connections between those data and high-level interpretations, and the interpretations themselves. In parallel, they were also designed to support the reuse of…
Of time and tide
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has documented wide-ranging changes to the world's coasts and oceans, with significant further change predicted. Impacts on coastal and underwater heritage sites, however, remain relatively poorly understood. The authors draw on 30 years of research into coastal and underwater archaeological sites to highlight some of the interrelated processes of deterioration and damage. Emphasising the need for clo…
Community Coastal Zone Assessment Surveys
Community Coastal Zone Assessment Surveys (CCZASs) conducted on the Scottish coast aim to characterize and assess the significance, condition, and vulnerability of coastal archaeology and to prioritize assets most at risk. Two key differences from earlier coastal zone assessment survey methods are the use of coastline vulnerability models to target fieldwork and the involvement of the public in the surveys. This article details the methodology us…
Archaeology (12 works) · Geography (10 works) · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology (8 works) · Conservation Techniques and Studies (7 works) · Environmental planning (7 works) · Environmental resource management (7 works) · Geology (7 works) · Climate change (6 works) · Cultural heritage (5 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (5 works)