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 ...

The Curonian Spit is located off the western coast of Lithuania in eastern Europe. The Curonian Spit is a 98 km long spit that separates the Baltic Sea from the Curonian Lagoon. The Curonian Spit is covered in very large ...

The preservation for Effigy Mound sites continues to be a concern. These landscape monuments and sacred sites remain poorly understood and require innovative, noninvasive, and nondestructive techniques for archaeological ...

The Algodones Erg [Sand Dune Field] is in the Sonoran Desert and span over 72420.5 meters in length and 9656 meters in width. It is a complex and understudied erg system with a rich geomorphic history and relationship to ...

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 ...

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 ...