Kelsey Lowe

PERSON Kelsey Lowe
Kelsey
Occupation:	Senior Research Associate, Honorary Research Fellow and Senior Heritage Advisor
Title:	Doctor of Philosophy
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Known For:	Archaeological Geophysics, Geoarchaeology, GIS
Discipline:	Librarianship, Information Management and Curatorial Studies, Digital humanities
Sub Discipline:	Semantic Web, Ontology (information science), Information visualization, Remote Sensing, Photogrammetry, Humanities
Workplaces:	University of Southern Queensland, University of Queensland
Notable Ideas:	Wikidemia.info, The Global Rock Art Database, Rock Art Reference Model (RARM)
Education:	University of Queensland, University of Mississippi, Minnesota State University Moorhead
Doctoral Advisor:	Professor Jamie Shulmeister
Influences:	Aaron Swartz, Tim Berners-Lee, Edward Tufte, Ward Cunningham
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Web Links:	LinkedIn, Academic.edu, ResearchGate, ORCID
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Kelsey Lowe is an interdisciplinary researcher in landscape and environmental archaeology. She is currently an Australian Research Council (ARC) Senior Research Associate at the University of Southern Queensland working with the Archaeology of the Native Mounted Police Project [on the Frontier]. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow [Lowe] at the University of Queensland and a Senior Heritage Advisor at Extent [[1]].

Early Life and Education

Kelsey has over 17 years experience in archaeology, and specialises in archaeological geophysics, geoarchaeology and geographic information systems (GIS). She developed an interest in these methods early in her career and completed a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Minnesota State University Moorhead and a minor in Soil Science from North Dakota State University in 2003. She continued to utilise her interdisciplinary skills at the University of Mississppi where she completed a Master of Arts in Anthropology in 2005. After completing her Masters, Kelsey began a career in cultural resource management (CRM) in the southeastern USA where she developed skills relating to the management, preservation and protection of heritage sites with an emphasis on public outreach and community engagement. After working in CRM for six years, she decided to go back to university and completed a doctorate in Archaeology from the University of Queensland in 2014. Collectively Kelsey's PhD thesis examined the role of geophysical technologies to address fundamental issues in Australian archaeology with an emphasis on analysing sediment accumulation processes in rockshelters as a means of investigating early colonisation. Using magnetic susceptibility and ground-penetrating radar (GPR), she resolved questions about the onset of human occupation and its relationship to changing climatic regimes, how to identify burials in a geologically complex deposit and determine that shell matrix sites were repeatedly occupied.

Research Focus

Kelsey's interdisciplinary background, particularly with near-surface geophysics, geoarchaeology and environmental magnetism, provides her with a unique perspective at which to examine archaeological landscapes and how these were modified by both natural and cultural processes. Her primary research centres on the interplay of satellite remote sensing, archaeological geophysics, GIS and geoarchaeology to answer questions about human behaviour and their movement across the landscape.

Current Projects

Australian Focus

1. The Archaeology of the Native Mounted Police (NMP), Queensland
2. Madjebebe Rockshelter, North Australia
3. Gledswood Shelter 1, North Australia
4. Bentinck Island, Gulf of Carpentaria
5. Murrey River Basin Mounds, New South Wales
6. Warratyi Rockshelter, South Australia
7. Baker's Flat Historic Irish Settlement, South Australia
8. Willow Court Lunatic Asylum, Tasmania

International Focus

1. Yangon Urban Archaeology Project, Yangon, Myanmar (Co-Director)
2. Alampra Archaeological Mission Project (AAMP) for Alampra, Cyprus (Deputy Director)
3. Boncuklu and Kültepe-Kanesh Projects, Turkey
4. Malta Archaeology, Malta