Selected Field Projects

Norway

1997 - present: Cultural resource management related maritime/underwater archaeological projects carried out by Tromsø University Museum involving survey and excavation in the three northernmost counties of Norway (ca. 1.5 months of fieldwork per year)

2005: Excavation of Norse and Sami archaeological features (boathouse and slab-lined pits) on Spildra, north Troms county (2 weeks).

2003-2004: Geophysical survey (2003) and test excavations (2003-2004) of Iron Age boathouse remains at Borg in the Lofoten Islands (4 weeks).

2001-2002: Waterborne geophysical survey and diver based underwater archaeological survey of Borgpollen, a brackish lake at Borg in the Lofoten Islands (6 weeks).

1998: Research excavation of submerged early medieval cultural deposits in the harbour at Storvågan, Lofoten, Nordland county (1 week)

1993-94: Excavation of Bronze Age to early Iron Age grave mounds and Mesolithic habitation site and reconnaissance survey in central Norway as part of the Tjeldbergodden Project directed by the University of Trondheim, Vitenskapsmuseet (3.5 months)

1991-1992: Large-scale excavation of Stone Age habitation sites at Slettnes, Sørøya, Finnmark directed by the Tromsø Museum (3 months)


Oceania

2002: Excavation of rock shelter sites on the island of Rota, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), conducted by International Archaeological Research Institute, Inc. (1 month).

2000: Archeological excavations on Babeldaob Island, Palau, western Micronesia with a team from the Australian National University (1 month).

1996: Intensive archaeological survey of a road corridor on Babeldaob Island, Palau conducted by International Archaeological Research Institute, Inc. (4 months).