The Cape Kolka strandplain is located along the northern tip of Latvia, situated between the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Riga. The strandplain has been prograding due to excess sediment being carried northwards through ...

The Nagliai Nature Reserve protects a large aeolian (wind-blown) dune field known as the “Dead” dunes which over time has buried four villages and two old cemetery sites. Dead (Mirusios), or Gray (Pilkosios) dunes are large ...

People know that the Holocaust was devastating to Europe’s Jewish population, but the true scope of the Holocaust is not always fully comprehended. Larger countries like Germany and Poland were greatly impacted, but so ...

The Kuršių Nerija National Park is one of five national parks in Lithuania. The Park was established in 1991 to protect the unique environments of the Curonian Spit and Curonian Lagoon and is also recognized by UNESCO as ...

Nearly 4,000 potential hillforts exist throughout the Baltic region. Hillforts served multiple purposes, including defensive forts to protect against attack, wooden castles, and settlements. A ground penetrating radar (GPR) ...

The Algodones dune field, is located south-east of the Salton Sea in Southern California. The dune field is divided into two sections composed of a protected wilderness area (north) and a larger area of public land (south), ...

Ground penetrating radar (GPR) surveys were conducted at the former Krošinskių Manor, located in Rokiškis, Lithuania, searching for remnants of the manor complex. The manor belonged to the Krošinskių family, who ruled the ...

The Trakas-Pempiškis woods, located to the south of Rokiškis, Lithuania, is the site of a mass execution of an estimated 28 Svėdasai Jews in the summer of 1941. During WWII, 95 percent of the Jewish population in Lithuania ...

Shortly after the Nazi occupation of Lithuania in June of 1941, they began to round up the country’s Jewish population as part of the Nazi’s “Final Solution”. At Fort IX as many as 45,000 Jews and Communists were killed ...

A ground penetrating radar (GPR) grid was collected to locate a Holocaust mass burial site in the Trakas-Pempiškis woods of Rokiškis, Lithuania. The survey, shot with a pulseEKKO Pro GPR system and 500 MHz antennae, consisted ...