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CURRICULUM VITAE William I. Woods Communication Address: Department of Geography, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA. Telephone: 785/864-5541. E-mail: [email protected]. Educational Background High School: Whitefish Bay High School, Whitefish Bay, Wl. Graduated 1965. Wichita State University, Department of Spanish, summer school, Taxco, Mexico, 1964. College Undergraduate: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1965-66. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1967-70. Bachelor of Arts (Anthropology) w/distinction 1970. Graduate: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1970-75, 86. Goethe Institut, Brilon, Germany, 1973. Master of Arts (Geography) 1973. Doctor of Philosophy (Geography) 1986. Dissertation Title: Prehistoric Settlement and Subsistence in the Upland Cahokia Creek Drainage. Advisor: Professor Clinton R. Edwards. Languages Successfully completed reading proficiency exams in German and Spanish at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Granted Certificate of German Language Ability from the Goethe Institut, Brilon, Germany. Research Interests Abandoned Settlements, Anthropogenic Environmental Change, Cultural Landscapes, Soils and Sediments, Traditional Settlement-Subsistence Systems, Amazonia. Honors and Awards 2013-Awarded Rip Rapp Award for contributions to geoarchaeology by the Geological Society of America. 2013-Awarded Honorary Doctorate in the Historical-Philosophical Faculty at Uppsala University, Sweden. 2009-Selected for Who’s Who in Social Sciences Education. 2008-Selected for Who’s Who in America. 2006-Carl O. Sauer Distinguished Scholar Award for outstanding Latin American scholarship by the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers. 2006-Robert McC. Netting Award, Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers. 2004-Co-authored volume Envisioning Cahokia: A Landscape Perspective (Northern Illinois University Press, DeKalb) received Book of the Year Award from the Illinois State

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  • CURRICULUM VITAE

    William I. Woods

    Communication Address: Department of Geography, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA. Telephone: 785/864-5541. E-mail: [email protected]. Educational Background High School: Whitefish Bay High School, Whitefish Bay, Wl. Graduated 1965.

    Wichita State University, Department of Spanish, summer school, Taxco, Mexico, 1964.

    College

    Undergraduate: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1965-66. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1967-70. Bachelor of Arts (Anthropology) w/distinction 1970. Graduate: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1970-75, 86. Goethe Institut, Brilon, Germany, 1973. Master of Arts (Geography) 1973. Doctor of Philosophy (Geography) 1986. Dissertation Title: Prehistoric Settlement and Subsistence in the Upland Cahokia Creek Drainage. Advisor: Professor Clinton R. Edwards.

    Languages Successfully completed reading proficiency exams in German and Spanish at the University of

    Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Granted Certificate of German Language Ability from the Goethe Institut, Brilon, Germany.

    Research Interests Abandoned Settlements, Anthropogenic Environmental Change, Cultural Landscapes, Soils and

    Sediments, Traditional Settlement-Subsistence Systems, Amazonia. Honors and Awards 2013-Awarded Rip Rapp Award for contributions to geoarchaeology by the Geological Society of

    America. 2013-Awarded Honorary Doctorate in the Historical-Philosophical Faculty at Uppsala University, Sweden. 2009-Selected for Who’s Who in Social Sciences Education. 2008-Selected for Who’s Who in America. 2006-Carl O. Sauer Distinguished Scholar Award for outstanding Latin American scholarship by the

    Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers. 2006-Robert McC. Netting Award, Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers. 2004-Co-authored volume Envisioning Cahokia: A Landscape Perspective (Northern Illinois University Press, DeKalb) received Book of the Year Award from the Illinois State

  • Historical Society. 1999-Paul Simon Outstanding Scholar Award, SIUE Graduate Faculty and the Graduate School. 1989-Honor Society of Sigma Xi. 1987-Researcher of the Year Award, SIUE Chapter of Sigma Xi. 1982-Co-Recipient of the Ninth Annual Research Scholar Award, SIUE Graduate School. 1975-Summer Research Fellowship, UWM Graduate School. 1974-Summer Research Fellowship, UWM Graduate School. 1973-Summer Research Fellowship, UWM Graduate School. 1970-Bachelor of Arts Degree with Senior Honors and Honors in the Major (Anthropology), UWM. 1970-Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. 1968-70-UWM College of Letters and Science Honors Program. 1969-Undergraduate Scholarship, UWM College of Letters and Science. 1968-Undergraduate Scholarship, UWM College of Letters and Science. 1964-National Merit Letter of Commendation. Certifications Section 405 Certified Professional Archaeologist for Prehistoric and Historic Projects, Illinois Historic

    Preservation Agency. Society and Professional Affiliations American Chemical Society, American Geographical Society, Association of American Geographers,

    British Society of Soil Science, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Geological Society of America; Society for American Archaeology.

    Professional Positions and Teaching Experience 2005-13-Professor, Department of Geography, The University of Kansas (KU). (Courses Taught: Human

    Geography; Global Environment and Civilization; Soils; Cultural Landscape; 1491; 1493; Amazonia, Anthrosols; Sustainability and Unsustainability; Environmental Studies Capstone Experience; Graduate Seminars).

    2005-13-Courtesy Professor, Department of Anthropology, KU. 2005-13-Core Faculty Member, Latin American Studies Program, KU. 2009-13-Core Faculty Member, Center for Global and International Studies, KU. 2005-13-Emeritus Professor, Department of Geography, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE). 2010-13-Guest Professor and Faculty Member, Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura (CENA),

    Universidade de São Paulo (Graduate Seminar: Biodiversidade e Conservação nos Trópicos: Técnicas Moleculares e Bioinformática).

    2009, 11-Guest Professor, Departement d‘Árchéologie et d’Histoire de l’Árt, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium (Graduate Seminar in Theory & History of Geoarchaeology with Case Studies from the Western Hemisphere).

    2011-Guest Professor, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University. 2011-Guest Professor, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. 2010-Guest Professor, Institute of Archaeology (Collegium Minus), Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland (Seminar on Geoarchaeology). 2009-Guest Professor, Escuela de Antropología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José.(Seminar in

    Geoarchaeology & Soils). 2005-08-Director, Environmental Studies Program, KU. 2008-Guest Professor, Wageningen Universiteit, The Netherlands (PhD Seminar, Long-Term Dynamics

    of Food and Human Development). 2005-Guest Professor, Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany (Umwelthistorische USA). 1994-2004-Professor, Department of Geography, SIUE (Courses Taught: Environments, Places, and

    People; Field Study of Environmental Problems; Field Study; Field School for Educators; Cultural Landscape; Latin America; Soils; Graduate Seminars in Cultural Geography, Physical Geography, and Regional Geography; Undergraduate and Graduate Internship, Independent

  • Study, and Thesis). 1985-2004-Director, Contract Archaeology Program, SIUE. 2000-04-Affiliated Faculty Member, Environmental Studies Program, SIUE. 1989-94-Associate Professor, Department of Geography, SIUE. 1987-89-Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Earth Science, SIUE. 1986-Guest Professor, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy (Archaeological Field Techniques). 1980-85-Lecturer, Department of Anthropology and the Environmental Studies Program, SIUE (Courses

    Taught: Introduction to Anthropology; Archaeological Mapping Techniques; Archaeology of the Midwest; Interdisciplinary Concepts of Environmental Analysis; Introductory and Advanced Archaeological Field School; Undergraduate and Graduate Independent Study).

    1976-85-Staff Archaeologist, Department of Anthropology, SIUE. 1983-Instructor, Belleville Area College, Belleville, IL (Cultural Anthropology). 1980-Instructor, Archaeological Training Seminar for US Army Corps of Engineers, Rend Lake, IL. 1979-Part-time Faculty, Jefferson College, Hillsboro, MO (Cultural Anthropology). 1977-Instructor, Archaeological Training Seminar for USDA Forest Service, SIUC, Carbondale, IL. 1975-Research Assistant, Department of Anthropology, UWM. 1970-71, 73-75-Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography, UWM (Physical, Cultural, and Soils

    Geography). 1972-73-Project Assistant, Department of Geography, UWM. 1969-Tutor, College of Letters and Science, UWM (Economics and Geography). 1968-Tutor, Experimental Program in Higher Education, College of Letters and Science, UWM

    (Anthropology and Economics). Field Experience 2011-Conducted field reconnaissance of the medieval pilgrimage route El Camino de Santiago in Northwestern Spain. W. Doolittle and W.I. Woods, Principal Investigators. 2010-Conducted geoarchaeological investigation of pre-Colonial geometric earthen structures (geoglifos) in Acre State, Brazil. Denise Schaan, Principal Investigator. 2008-09-Co-Directed archaeological soils investigations of tierras negras sites in southern & central Costa Rica. M. Sanchez Pereira and W.I. Woods, Principal Investigators. 2008-Conducted field reconnaissance of early European sites in Newfoundland and Labrador. W. Doolittle and W.I. Woods, Principal Investigators. 2003-05, 08-Co-Directed excavations and geoarchaeological investigations at the Walhain St. Paul site, Belgium. R. Brulet, B. Young, L. Verslype, and W.I. Woods, Principal Investigators. 2006-07-Conducted terra preta investigations at various sites in the Central Amazon under the auspices of the Projeto Amazônia Central, E.G. Neves, Principal Investigator. 1984-2003-Directed excavations and other field investigations at the Cahokia Mounds site, Madison and

    St. Clair counties, IL. W. I. Woods, et al., Principal Investigators. 1995-96, 2002-Directed terra preta soils investigations within the Lower Tapajós and Arapiuns drainages,

    Pará State, Brasil. W.I. Woods, Principal Investigator. 1984, 1999-2002-Directed excavation at the Meek site, Madison County, IL. W.I. Woods, Principal

    Investigator. 1992-94-Conducted geomorphological and soils investigations associated with the Xunantunich

    Archaeological Research Project, Belize. R. Leventhal and W. Ashmore, Principal Investigators. 1992-94-Directed site excavations in the Scott AFB Expansion Area, St. Clair County, IL. G. R. Holley

    and W. I. Woods, Principal Investigators. 1991-92-Directed geomorphological investigations for FAP-310, Madison County, IL. W. I. Woods,

    Principal Investigator. 1988-89-Directed site investigations at the Ecab site, Quintana Roo, Mexico. C. R. Edwards and W. I.

    Woods, Co-Principal Investigators. 1986-87-Directed archaeological controlled surface collection and soil testing at the San Vito site, Eboli,

    Italy. W. I. Woods and M. Mello, Principal Investigators. 1984-Directed excavation at the Wayne Fitzgerrell site, Franklin County, IL. W. I. Woods, Principal

    Investigator. 1982-84-Directed excavation at the Amalucan site, Puebla, Mexico. M. L. Fowler and W. I. Woods,

  • Principal Investigators. 1983-Directed site survey and testing at the Rend Lake Reservoir, Franklin and Jefferson counties, IL. W.

    I. Woods, Principal Investigator. 1981-83-Directed excavation at the St. Louis Arsenal, St. Louis, MO. W. I. Woods, Principal Investigator. 1981-82-Directed excavation at the Lawrence Primas site, Madison County, IL. W. I. Woods, Principal

    Investigator. 1981-82-Directed survey of the upland Cahokia Creek drainage, Madison County, IL. W. I. Woods,

    Principal Investigator. 1980-81-Directed archaeological soils investigations at six historic sites in southern Illinois. W. I. Woods,

    Principal Investigator. 1980-Directed excavation at the Sumac site, Franklin County, IL. S. G. Denny and W. I. Woods, Principal

    Investigators. 1979-Directed site survey and test excavations at the Rend Lake Reservoir, Franklin and Jefferson

    counties, IL. S. G. Denny, Principal Investigator. 1978-Directed excavation of the Julien site, St. Clair County, IL. S. G. Denny, Principal Investigator. 1977-78-Directed site survey along the Dupo-Waterloo Anticline, Monroe County, IL. S. G. Denny,

    Principal Investigator. 1976-77-Conducted site survey and soils research along the proposed FAP-410, Monroe, Randolph, and

    Perry counties, IL. S. G. Denny, Principal Investigator. 1975-Conducted site survey and soils research in the Puebla Valley, Mexico. M. L. Fowler, Principal

    Investigator. 1974-Conducted survey and soils research at prehistoric and historic sites in Argentina and Colombia. R.

    C. Eidt, Principal Investigator. 1973-Conducted abandoned settlement research in Germany, England, and Ireland. R. C. Eidt, Principal

    Investigator. 1971-72-Conducted archaeological soils research at the Aztalan site, Jefferson County, WI. R. C. Eidt,

    Principal Investigator. 1969-Conducted archaeological survey of the Milwaukee River Valley, W. McHugh, Principal Investigator. Service 2013-Editorial Board Member, Journal of Archaeology. 2013-Editorial Board Member, Journal of Ecosystem & Ecography. 2013-Editorial Board Member, PLOS ONE. 2011-13-Member, International Editorial Board, Contributions in New World Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology (Collegium Minus), Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. 2007-13-Member, Scientific Board of the Bulletin of the Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Belém, Brasil. 2006-13-Topic Editor (Soils), Encyclopedia of Earth. 2013-Official Collaborator, Projeto Caldeirão, Embrapa Amazônia, Manaus, Brasil. 2010-13-Official Collaborator, Projeto As Terras Pretas de Índio da Amazônia, Embrapa Amazônia,

    Manaus, Brasil. 1991-95, 97, 2000, 02, 05-13-Proposal reviewer, Archaeology Program, National Science Foundation. 1979-80, 82-83, 2009, 2013-Prepublication article reviewer for American Antiquity. 2013-Prepublication article reviewer, PLOS ONE. 2013-Prepublication article reviewer, Agriculture and Food Science. 2013-Prepublication article reviewer, Geology, Geophysics, & Environment. 2013-Prepublication chapter reviewer, Earthscan. 2005, 12-Proposal reviewer, The Leverhulme Trust, London, UK. 2012-Proposal reviewer, l’Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), France. 2012-Assessor for the United Kingdom Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC). 2012-Proposal reviewer, Geography and Spatial Sciences Program, National Science Foundation. 2012-Proposal reviewer, the University of Kansas-University of Costa Rica Collaborative Grants Review Committee, KU Office of International Studies. 2011-12-Prepublication article reviewer, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

  • 2001, 06, 08,10-12-Prepublication article reviewer, Human Ecology. 2012-Prepublication article reviewer, Geoderma. 2012-Prepublication article reviewer, Erdkunda. 2012-Prepublication article reviewer, Northeast Historical Archaeology. 2011-12-Promotion reviewer for Louisiana State University. 2012-Promotion and tenure reviewer, McNeese State University. 2012-Member, 2008-11-Member, International Editorial Board, Journal of Latin American Geography. 2011-Project Reviewer for the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estao de São Paulo (FAPESP). 2011-Promotion reviewer for Louisiana Tech University. 2011-Prepublication article reviewer, Archaeometry. 2011-Prepublication article reviewer, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 2011-Prepublication article reviewer, The Science of the Total Environment. 2011-Prepublication article reviewer, African Journal of Agricultural Research. 2010-11-Prepublication article reviewer, Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 2011-Prepublication article reviewer, Latin American Antiquity. 2011-Prepublication article reviewer, American Antiquity. 2011-Prepublication article reviewer, Journal of Field Archaeology. 2011-Prepublication article reviewer, Journal of Applied Geography. 2011-Prepublication article reviewer, The Professional Geographer. 1999, 2002-04, 06-10-Proposal reviewer, Geography and Regional Science Program, National Science Foundation. 2010-Local Organizer, 1st International Conference on Human Migration, University of Kansas, Lawrence. 2009-10-Prepublication article reviewer, Catena. 2008, 10-Prepublication article reviewer, Journal of Latin American Geography. 2010-Prepublication article reviewer, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 2010-Prepublication article reviewer, Diversity. 2010-Prepublication article reviewer, Economic Botany. 2010-Prepublication article reviewer, Environmental Science & Technology. 2010-Prepublication article reviewer, Geographical Review. 2010-Prepublication article reviewer, Journal of Field Archaeology. 2010-Panelist, USDA Global Change Programs, Sustainable Bioenergy Research: Carbon Sequestration and GHG Consequences, Washington, D.C.. 2010-Chair, Review Committee, 2010 U.S. Biochar Initiative Conference, Iowa City, IA. 2010-Member, Organizing Committee, Conference of the International Biochar Initiative 2010, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2010-Proposal reviewer, The Research Council of Norway. 2009-10-Member, Department of Geography, Faculty Affairs Committee, University of Kansas. 2007-09-Official Collaborator, Projeto Terra Preta, Embrapa Amazônia, Manaus, Brasil. 2009-Assessor for the United Kingdom Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). 2009-Reviewer, United Kingdom Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). 2009-Tenure and promotion reviewer for the University of Alabama. 2009-Technical consultant for the British Broadcasting Company. 2009-Technical consultant for National Geographic News. 1997, 2001, 05, 07-09-Proposal reviewer, Committee for Research and Exploration, National Geographic Society. 009-Prepublication article reviewer, Quaternary Science Review. 2009-Prepublication article reviewer, Historical Methods. 2007-09-Project contributor, The Humboldt Digital Library, The University of Kansas and Hochschule Offenburg. 1995, 2006, 08-Prepublication article reviewer, Geoarchaeology. 2006-08-Prepublication article reviewer, Geomorphology. 2007-08-Technical consultant for National Geographic Magazine. 2008-Technical consultant for the Canadian Broadcasting Company. 2008-Technical consultant for Plenty magazine. 2008-Technical consultant for Gruppe 5.

  • 2008-Technical consultant for National Geographic Channel documentary Lost Cities of the Amazon. 2008-Reviewer, International Mobility and Promotion of Female Scientists, Austrian Science Fund. 2008-Technical consultant for PBS documentary “Back to the Amazon” Jean-Michel Cousteau's

    Ocean Futures Society. 2008-Tenure and promotion reviewer for Colorado College. 2008-Prepublication article reviewer, Quarternary Science Review. 2008-Prepublication article reviewer, PEDOSPHERE. 2008-Prepublication article reviewer, Leonardo. 2007-Assessor for the United Kingdom Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). 2007-Expert Proposal Reviewer, Interdisciplinary Research and Education Fund (INREF), Wageningen University, The Netherlands. 2007-Reviewer, The MacArthur Fellows Program, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. 2007-Referee, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Early Career Fellowship Program Dissertation Completion Fellowships. 2007-External Grant Reviewer, Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies. 2007-Prepublication book reviewer, Springer-Verlag. 2007-Prepublication article reviewer, Geografiska Annaler B. 2007-Prepublicataion article reviewer, Biotropica. 2007-Prepublication article reviewer, Social Science Quarterly. 2007-Prepublication monograph reviewer, Kansas Geological Survey. 2007-Tenure and promotion reviewer for Louisiana State University. 2007-Technical proposal reviewer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center (ERCD). 2006-07-Fellowship Reviewer, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 2006-07-Reviewer for US Fulbright Student Fulbright Program. 2006-Assessor for the United Kingdom Arts & Humanities Research Council, Phase

    2 Funding for the University of Stirling Environmental History Research Centre “Environmental Choices: the Landscapes and Legacies of Energy Use.”

    2006-Merit Equity Reviewer, University of California, Los Angeles. 2006-Reviewer for Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program. 2006-Reviewer for Fulbright Brasilian Scholar Program. 2006-Native speaker dissertation revision, Universität Bayreuth, Germany. 2006-Graduate student reviewer, Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior,

    Ministério da Educação, Brasilia, D.F., Brasil. 2006-Faculty, University of Kansas Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, taught seminar “The Americas, Pre-1492.” 2005-06-Tenure and promotion reviewer for Michigan State University. 2004-06-Faculty research competition reviewer for The University of Texas. 2001-05-International Committee Chair, Terra Preta Nova (TPN) Group. 2005-Prepublication article reviewer for Soil Science Society of America Journal. 2005-Prepublication article reviewer for Journal of Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 1999-2001, 05-Prepublication article reviewer for Journal of Archaeological Science. 2005-Tenure and promotion reviewer for Cornell University. 2005-Promotion reviewer for Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. 2005-Member, Faculty Committee on Latin American Studies, KU. 2004-Prepublication article reviewer for Catena. 2004-Prepublication article reviewer for Illinois Archaeology. 2004-Tenure and promotion reviewer for Mississippi State University. 2004-Tenure and promotion reviewer for Stetson University. 2004-Promotion reviewer for The University of Texas. 2000-04-Member, US/ICOMOS Earthen Architecture Committee. 2000-04-Committee Member, Phi Kappa Phi Undergraduate Scholarship Committee, SIUE. 2003-Prepublication article reviewer for Caribbean Geography. 2000, 2002-03-Prepublication article reviewer/commentator for Science.

  • 1999-2003-Member, Conference on Illinois History Advisory Board. 2002-Book reviewer for Historical Geography. 1987-2002-Campus representative, Geological Society of America. 2001-Proposal reviewer, Ecosystem Studies Program, National Science Foundation. 2001-Prepublication article reviewer for Geoderma. 1999-2001-Member, Department of Geography, Personnel and Peer Review Committee, SIUE. 2000-Prepublication article reviewer for Naturwissenschaften. 2000-Prepublication article reviewer for American Archaeology. 1986, 99-Prepublication article reviewer for Journal of Field Archaeology. 1995-99-Chairman, Department of Geography, Library Committee, SIUE. 1996-98-Member, Three River Center for American Indian Studies Committee – SIUE with

    representatives of UMSL, the Missouri Historical Society, and Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site.

    1993-95-Member, School of Social Sciences Library Committee, SIUE. 1994-Manuscript reviewer, University of Texas Press. 1993- Prepublication reviewer for the initial volume of Illinois History Teacher. 1993-Book reviewer for The Victorian Periodicals Review. 1993-Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Geography Masters Program Review, SIUE. 1991-93-Campus Co-Advisor to the TRIBE-Amerindian Student Union, SIUE. 1990-92-Member, Cahokia Advisory Board; Chairman, Education and Research Committee 1991-92. 1991-92-Campus Advisor, Gamma Theta Upsilon, International Geographical Honors Society, SIUE. 1991-Chairman, Ad Hoc Semester Conversion Committee, Department of Geography and Earth Science,

    SIUE. 1991-Member, Graduate Committee, Department of Geography and Earth Science, SIUE. 1990-91-Member, Department of Computer Science Program Review Committee, SIUE. 1990-91-Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Geography and Earth Science Program Development, SIUE. 1988-90-Midwest Regional Counselor for the Cultural Ecology Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers. 1989-90-Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Earth Science Program Review, SIUE. 1990-Member, Committee to Design Supporting Services Building Annex, SIUE. 1988-89-Chairman, Grants Committee, Illinois Archaeological Survey. 1988-89-Chairman, Ad Hoc Committee on Geography Undergraduate and Graduate Program Review,

    SIUE. 1987-88-Member, CAPT Application/Design Committee, National Coalition for Applied Preservation

    Technology. 1987-89-Board Member, Central Mississippi Valley Archaeological Research Institute. 1987-Member, Advisory Council for Archaeometric Technology for the Anthropology Program, National

    Science Foundation. 1986-88-Board Member, Illinois Archaeological Survey. 1985-88-Board Member, Institute of Humanistic Studies; Treasurer 1987-88. 1984-86-Member, peer review panel, Prehistoric Site Evaluation of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Outer

    Continental Shelf Project, for the Minerals Management Service, US Department of the Interior. 1983-85-Member, Salerno Intercultural Exchange Committee, SIUE Graduate School. 1984-Presented monthly radio program entitled "The Archaeology of Metro-East," on WSIE-FM, SIUE. 1983-84-Chairman, San Vito Site Committee, SIUE Graduate School, SIUE. 1984-Chairman, Cahokia Committee, Illinois Archaeological Survey. 1983-Prepublication chapter reviewer for the American Chemical Society, Advances in Chemistry Series. 1983-Prepublication article reviewer for the Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology. 1982-Prepublication article reviewer for Historical Archaeology. 1979-Member, Task Force on Funding for the American Chemical Society, Subdivision on Archaeological

    Chemistry. Graduate Student Committees 2013-Examiner, Sanna Saunaluoma (PhD, Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki). 2013-Member, John Kelly (PhD, Department of Geography, KU).

  • 2012-Chair, Danielle Golon (MA, Department of Geography, KU). 2012-Member, Andrew Norris (MA, Department of Geography, KU). 2011-Chair, Lilian Rebellato (PhD, Department of Geography, KU). 2011-Chair, Trisha Jackson (PhD, Department of Geography, KU). 2011-Chair, Joe Wimmer (MA, Department of Geography, KU). 2010-Member, Nicholas Kessler (MA, Department of Anthropology, KU). 2009-Member, David T. McDermott (PhD, Department of Geography, KU). 2009-Co-Chairman, Jonathan Thayn (PhD, Department of Geography, KU). 2009-Member, Kristin Young (PhD, Department of Anthropology, KU). 2008-Co-Chairman, Ashley Zung (Master of Arts, Department of Geography, KU). 2008-Member, Phillip Edward Melton (PhD, Department of Anthropology, KU). 2008-Member, Christopher J. Fertig (MA, Department of Geography, KU). 2007-Member, Jared Beeton (PhD, Department of Geography, KU). 2007-Member, Heather Putnam (Master of Arts, Department of Geography, KU) 2004-Chairman, Ryan Gifford (Master of Sciences, Geographical Studies, SIUE). 2004-Chairman, Sara Loyet (Master of Sciences, Geographical Studies, SIUE). 2004-Member, Joseph M. McCann (PhD, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison). 2003-Chairman, Andrew Martignoni, Jr. (Master of Sciences, Geographical Studies, SIUE). 2003-Chairman, Trisha Voyles (Master of Sciences, Geographical Studies, SIUE). 2003-Member, Mary Wittry-Mason (Master of Sciences, Geographical Studies, SIUE). 2002-Chairman, Teresa Gerber (Master of Sciences, Geographical Studies, SIUE). 2002-Member, Kendra Siebert (Master of Sciences, Geographical Studies, SIUE). 2002-Member, Barrett Diest (Master of Sciences, Geographical Studies, SIUE). 2001-Chairman, James Chelsvig (Master of Sciences, Geographical Studies, SIUE). 2001-Member, Austin Avwunudiogba (Master of Sciences, Geographical Studies, SIUE). 2001-Member, Nancy Davis (Master of Sciences, Geographical Studies, SIUE). 2000-Member, Michael Boester (Master of Sciences, Geographical Studies, SIUE). 1999-Chairman, Mary Goodwin (Master of Sciences, Geographical Studies, SIUE). 1999-Chairman, Nicholas Novosel (Master of Sciences, Geographical Studies, SIUE). 1999-Chairman, Richard Marshall (Master of Sciences, Geographical Studies, SIUE). 1999-Co-Chairman, Laura Luecking (Master of Sciences, Biological Studies-Geographical Studies,

    SIUE). 1999-Member, John McGuire (Master of Sciences, Geographical Studies, SIUE). 1999-Member, Lawra Grabowski (Master of Sciences, Environmental Studies, SIUE). 1998-Chairman, Kerry Doyle (Master of Sciences, Geographical Studies, SIUE). 1997-Chairman, Traci Kueker-Murphy (Master of Sciences, Geographical Studies, SIUE). 1996-Member, Jennifer Ringberg (Master of Arts, Department of Anthropology, Northern Illinois

    University. 1996-Member, Steven Godar (Master of Sciences, Geographical Studies, SIUE). 1996-Member, Brian Colgate (Master of Sciences, Environmental Studies, SIUE). 1995-Chairman, Susan York (Master of Sciences, Geographical Studies, SIUE). 1995-Member, Chris Schwedtmann (Master of Sciences, Environmental Studies, SIUE). 1994-Member, Mikels Skele (PhD, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Washington University). 1994-Member, Jonathan Taylor (Master of Sciences, Geographical Studies, SIUE). 1993-Member, Rinita Dalan (PhD, Ancient Studies Program, University of Minnesota). 1993-Member, Robert Whittington (Master of Sciences, Environmental Studies, SIUE). 1993-Member, Donald Peters (Master of Sciences, Geographical Studies, SIUE). 1993-Member, Gerald Ellis (Master of Sciences, Geographical Studies, SIUE). 1992-Chairman, Timothy Grunewald (Master of Sciences, Geographical Studies, SIUE). 1992-Chairman, Chris Deluca (Master of Sciences, Environmental Studies, SIUE). 1992-Member, Judy Horton (Master of Sciences, Environmental Studies, SIUE). 1992-Member, Matthew Malick (Master of Sciences, Environmental Studies, SIUE). 1990-Chairman, Emily Brown (Master of Sciences, Geographical Studies, SIUE). 1990-Member, Lisa Reme (Master of Sciences, Geographical Studies, SIUE). 1989-Chairman, Bonnie Gums (Master of Sciences, Geographical Studies, SIUE). 1989-Chairman, Dale Schaefer (Master of Sciences, Geographical Studies, SIUE).

  • 1989-Chairman, Rinita Dalan (Master of Sciences, Environmental Studies, SIUE). 1989-Member, Clarence Buel (Master of Sciences, Geographical Studies, SIUE). 1988-Member, Jeff Meyer (Master of Sciences, Environmental Studies, SIUE). 1987-Chairman, Mikels Skele (Master of Sciences, Geographical Studies, SIUE). Consulting 1989-2013-Archaeological soils and environmental analysis, Rock River Laboratory, Inc. 2006, 09-10-Amazonian dark earth soils, The BBC. 2007-08-Technical consultant for PBS documentary “Back to the Amazon” Jean-Michel Cousteau's

    Ocean Futures Society. 2006-08-Cahokia Mounds UNESCO World Heritage Site Master Management Plan Development, Woolpert, Inc., for the State of Illinois. 2004-06-Dark earths and carbon sequestration, The Eprida Foundation. 2003-06-International collaborator, Embrapa, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Terra Preta Nova. Sistemas

    indígenas de manejo do solo como base para o desenvolvimento de manejo sustentável da fertilidade de solos na Amazônia.

    2002-Amazonian dark earth soils, DOX Productions Ltd. 2000-Cahokia site, Encyclopaedia Britannica. 2000-Black Sea sediments, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania. 1992-96-Archaeological soils, Xunantunich Archaeological Research Project, UCLA and the University of

    Pennsylvania. 1986-87, 93-Cultural resource assessment, R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates, Inc. 1989, 92-Archaeological soils, Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center, Inc. 1977, 80, 91-92-Archaeological soils, Archaeological Laboratory; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. 1990-Cultural resource assessment, Andrews Engineering, Inc. 1988-Cultural resource assessment, Mississippi River Transmission Corporation. 1988-Cultural resource assessment, Madison County Office, Soil Conservation Service. 1987-Archaeological soils, Argonne National Laboratory. 1986-87-Archaeological and geomorphological assessment, John Mathes and Associates, Inc. 1985-86-Archaeological soils, Program for Cultural Resource Assessment, University of Kentucky. 1978-82, 86-Archaeological soils, Center for Archaeological Investigations, SIUC. 1985-Cultural resource assessment, Archaeological Survey, University of Missouri-St. Louis. 1984, 95-Archaeological soils, Illinois Department of Law Enforcement. 1983-84-Cultural resource assessment, Center for American Archeology. 1983-Cultural resource assessment, DeMier Oil Company. 1982-Cultural resource assessment, Inland Steel Coal. 1981-Cultural resource assessment, Seiscom Delta United Company. 1980-81-Archaeological soils, American Resources Group, Ltd. 1980-Archaeological soils, Old Missouri Research Institute. 1975-Archaeological soils, Illinois Department of Transportation. Publications Books: Teixeira, Wenceslau G., Dirse C. Kern, Beáta E. Madari, Hedinaldo N. Lima, and William I. Woods, editors. 2010. As Terras Pretas de Índio da Amazônia: Sua Caracterização e Uso deste Conhecimento na Criação de Novas Áreas. Embrapa Amazônia Ocidental, Manaus. 421 p. Woods, William I., Wenceslau G. Teixeira, Johannes Lehmann, Christoph Steiner, Antoinette WinklerPrins, and Lilian Rebellato, editors. 2009. Amazonian Dark Earths: Wim Sombroek’s Vision. Springer, Berlin. 502 p. Glaser, Bruno, and William I. Woods, editors. 2004. Amazonian Dark Earths: Explorations in Space and Time. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. 216 p.

  • Dalan, Rinita A., George R. Holley, William I. Woods, Harold W. Watters, Jr., and John A. Koepke. 2003. Envisioning Cahokia: A Landscape Perspective. Northern Illinois University Press, DeKalb. 241 p. Lehmann, Johannes, Dirse C. Kern, Bruno Glaser, and William I. Woods, editors. 2003.

    Amazonian Dark Earths: Origin, Properties and Management. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. 505 p. Woods, William I., editor. 1992. Late Prehistoric Agriculture: Observations from the Midwest. Studies in Illinois Archaeology No. 8. Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield. 240 p. Eidt, Robert C., and William I. Woods. 1974. Abandoned Settlement Analysis -Theory and Practice. Field Test Associates, Milwaukee. 159 p. Book Chapters: Woods, William I., William M. Denevan, and Lilian Rebellato. 2013. Population Estimates for Anthropogenically Enriched Soils (Amazonian Dark Earths). In Soils, Climate and Society: Archaeological Investigations in Ancient America, edited by John Wingard and Susan Hayes, pp. 1-20. University of Colorado Press, Boulder. Rebellato, Lilian, and William I. Woods. 2012. A Review of the Tupi Expansion in the Amazon. In Causes and Consequences of Human Migration: An Evolutionary Perspective, edited by Michael H. Crawford, pp. 436-448 Cambridge University Press. Young, Bailey K., Herbert Lasky, and William I. Woods. 2011. The Unfinished Career. In De Gallia: Raymond Brulet: historien, archeologue, gestionnaire et pedagogue, edited by Laurent Verslype and Fabienne Vilvorder, pp. 115-124.. Presses Universitaires de Louvain. Louvain-la-Neuve. Verslype, Laurent, Inès Leroy, William I. Woods, Bailey K. Young, and Paul F. Hudson. 2010. Approche interdisciplinaire de l’environnement du château de Walhain-saint-Paul (Brabant wallon). Actes du Colloque PREBel, edited by Isabelle Parmentier, pp. 1-10. Des Presses universitaires namuroises, Namur. Kämpf, Nestor, William I. Woods, Dirse C. Kern, and Tony J. Cunha. 2010. Classificação das Terras Pretas de Índio e Outros Solos Antrópicos Antigos. In As Terras Pretas de Índio da Amazônia: Sua Caracterização e Uso deste Conhecimento na Criação de Novas Áreas, edited by Wenceslau G. Teixeira, Dirse C. Kern, Beáta E. Madari, Hedinaldo N. Lima, and William I. Woods, pp. 88-102. Embrapa Amazônia Ocidental, Manaus. Kern, Dirse Clara, Nestor Kämpf, William I. Woods, William M. Denevan, Marcondes Lima da Costa, and Francisco Juvenal Lima Frazão. 2010. Evolução do Conhecimento em Terra Preta de Índio. In As Terras Pretas de Índio da Amazônia: Sua Caracterização e Uso deste Conhecimento na Criação de Novas Áreas, edited by Wenceslau G. Teixeira, Dirse C. Kern, Beáta E. Madari, Hedinaldo N. Lima, and William I. Woods, pp.72-81. Embrapa Amazônia Ocidental, Manaus. Sombroek, Wim, Dirse C. Kern, Tarcísio Rodrigues, Manoel da Silva Cravo, Tony Jarbas F. Cunha, William I. Woods, and Bruno Glaser. 2010. Terra preta e terra mulata: suas potencialidades agrícolas, sua sustentabilidade e suas reproduções. In As Terras Pretas de Índio da Amazônia: Sua Caracterização e Uso deste Conhecimento na Criação de Novas Áreas, edited by Wenceslau G. Teixeira, Dirse C. Kern, Beáta E. Madari, Hedinaldo N. Lima, and William I. Woods, pp.251-257. Embrapa Amazônia Ocidental, Manaus. Woods, William I. 2010. Mudanças causadas pelo homem no solo - uma ferramenta para entender o passado. In As Terras Pretas de Índio da Amazônia: Sua Caracterização e Uso deste Conhecimento na

  • Criação de Novas Áreas, edited by Wenceslau G. Teixeira, Dirse C. Kern, Beáta E. Madari, Hedinaldo N. Lima, and William I. Woods. Embrapa Amazônia Ocidental, Manaus. Woods, William I. 2010. Prefácio. In As Terras Pretas de Índio da Amazônia: Sua Caracterização e Uso deste Conhecimento na Criação de Novas Áreas, edited by Wenceslau G. Teixeira, Dirse C. Kern, Beáta E. Madari, Hedinaldo N. Lima, and William I. Woods. Embrapa Amazônia Ocidental, Manaus. Arroyo-Kalin, Manuel, Eduardo G. Neves, and William I. Woods. 2009. Anthropogenic Earths of the Central Amazon Region: Remarks on their Evolution and Polygenetic Composition. In Amazonian Dark Earths: Wim Sombroek’s Vision, edited by William I. Woods, Wenceslau G. Teixeira, Johannes Lehmann, Christoph Steiner, Antoinette WinklerPrins, and Lilian Rebellato, pp. 99-126. Springer. Berlin. Bozarth, Steven R., Eduardo Goés Neves, William I. Woods, and Lilian Rebellato. 2009. Phytoliths and Terra Preta: The Hatahara Site Example. In Amazonian Dark Earths: Wim Sombroek’s Vision, edited by William I. Woods, Wenceslau G. Teixeira, Johannes Lehmann, Christoph Steiner, Antoinette WinklerPrins, and Lilian Rebellato, pp. 85-99. Springer, Berlin. Rebellato, Lilian, William I. Woods, and Eduardo G. Neves. 2009. PreEuropean Continuity and Change in the Central Amazon. In Amazonian Dark Earths: Wim Sombroek’s Vision, edited by William I. Woods, Wenceslau G. Teixeira, Johannes Lehmann, Christoph Steiner, Antoinette WinklerPrins, and Lilian Rebellato, pp. 15-32. Springer. Berlin. Steiner, Christoph, Wenceslau G. Teixeira, William I. Woods, and Wolfgang Zech. 2009. Indigenous Knowledge about Terra Preta Formation. In Amazonian Dark Earths: Wim Sombroek’s Vision, edited by William I. Woods, Wenceslau G. Teixeira, Johannes Lehmann, Christoph Steiner, Antoinette WinklerPrins, and Lilian Rebellato, pp. 193-205. Springer, Berlin. Thayn, Jonathan, Kevin Price, and William I. Woods. 2009. Locating Ancient Anthropogenic Soils Under Amazonian Tropical Forests Using MODIS Time-Series Analysis. In Amazonian Dark Earths: Wim Sombroek’s Vision, edited by William I. Woods, Wenceslau G. Teixeira, Johannes Lehmann, Christoph Steiner, Antoinette WinklerPrins, and Lilian Rebellato, pp. 279-298. Springer, Berlin. Woods, William I. 2009. Fieldwork in The Counterfeit Paradise: Questions of Interpretation and Responsibility. In Ethics in the University: Reflections on Responsible Scholarship, edited by Joshua L. Rosenbloom, pp. 38-42. Office of Research and Graduate Studies, The University of Kansas, Lawrence. Woods, William I., and William M. Denevan. 2009. Discovery and Study of Amazonian Dark Earths: The PreSombroek Period (1870-1959). In Amazonian Dark Earths: Wim Sombroek’s Vision, edited by William I. Woods, Wenceslau G. Teixeira, Johannes Lehmann, Christoph Steiner, Antoinette WinklerPrins, and Lilian Rebellato, pp. 1-14. Springer, Berlin. Steiner, Christoph, Wenceslau G. Teixeira, William I. Woods, and Wolfgang Zech. 2007. Indigenous Knowledge about Terra Preta Formation. In Slash & Char as Alternative to Slash & Burn, edited by Christoph Steiner, pp. 35-44. Cuvillier Verlag, Göttingen. Woods, William I., and William M. Denevan. 2008. Discovery, Study, and Bibliography of Amazonian Dark Earths, 1870s-1970s. In Ethno- and Historical Geographic Studies in Latin America: Essays Honoring William V. Davidson, edited by Peter H. Herlihy, Kent Mathewson, and Craig S. Revels, pp. 283-298. Geoscience Publications, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. Glaser, Bruno, and William I. Woods. 2004. Preface. In Amazonian Dark Earths: Explorations in Space and Time, edited by Glaser, Bruno, and William I. Woods, pp. vii-viii. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. Glaser, Bruno, Wolfgang Zech, and William I. Woods. 2004. History, Current Knowledge, and Future Perspectives of Geoecological Research Concerning the Origin of Amazonian Anthropogenic Dark Earths (Terra Preta). In Amazonian Dark Earths: Explorations in Space and Time, edited by Bruno Glaser and

  • William I. Woods, pp. 9-17. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. Woods, William I. 2005. Die dunklen Erden Amazoniens. In Handbuch der Bodenkunde edited by Rainer Horn, Hans-Peter Blume, Peter Felix-Henningsen, Walter Fischer, Hans-Georg Frede, and Karl Stahr, Erg. Lfg. 8/05, 1-4. Uebersetzung V. Winiwarter. Ecomed Verlag, Landsberg. Madari, Beata, Wim G. Sombroek, and William I. Woods. 2004. Research on the Anthropogenic Dark Earth Soils of Amazônia: Could It Be a Solution for Sustainable Agricultural Development in the Amazon? In Amazonian Dark Earths: Explorations in Space and Time, edited by Bruno Glaser and William I. Woods, pp. 169-181. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. Woods, William I. 2004. Anthropogenic Soils and Sustainability in Amazônia. In WorldMinds: Geographical Perspectives on 100 Problems, edited by Donald G. Janelle, Barney Warf, and Kathy Hansen, pp. 287-293. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. Woods, William I., and Bruno Glaser. 2004. Towards an Understanding of Amazonian Dark Earths. In Amazonian Dark Earths: Explorations in Space and Time, edited by Bruno Glaser and William I. Woods, pp. 1-8. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. Kämpf, Nestor, William I. Woods, Wim G. Sombroek, Dirse Kern, and Tony Cunha. 2003. Classification of Amazonian Dark Earths and Other Ancient Anthropic Soils. In Amazonian Dark Earths: Origin, Properties and Management, edited by Johannes Lehmann, Dirse C. Kern, Bruno Glaser, and William I. Woods, pp. 77-102. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. Lehmann, Johannes, Dirse C. Kern, Bruno Glaser, and William I. Woods. 2003. Preface.

    Amazonian Dark Earths: Origin, Properties and Management, edited by Johannes Lehmann, Dirse C. Kern, Bruno Glaser, and William I. Woods, pp. xv-xvii. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.

    Woods, William I. 2003. Development of Anthrosol Research. In Amazonian Dark Earths: Origin, Properties and Management, edited by Johannes Lehmann, Dirse C. Kern, Bruno Glaser, and William I. Woods, pp. 3-14. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. Woods, William I. 2003. Soils and Sustainability in the Prehistoric New World. In Exploitation and Overexploitation in Societies Past and Present, edited by Brigitta Bensing and Bernd Herrmann, pp. 143-157. LIT VERLAG, Münster. Gennadiyev, A.N., K.R. Olson, S.S. Chernyanskii, R.L. Jones, J.M. Lang, and W.I. Woods. 2002. The Use of the Fly Ash for the Quantitative-Chronological Assessment of Soil Matter Mechanical Migration (By the Example of Cahokia Mounds, USA). In Landscape Geochemistry and Soil Geography, edited by N.S. Kasimov and M.I. Gerasimova, pp. 370-388. Faculty of Geography, Moscow State University Press. McCann, Joseph M., William I. Woods, and Donald W. Meyer. 2001. Organic Matter and Anthrosols in Amazonia: Interpreting the Amerindian Legacy. Sustainable Management of Soil Organic Matter, edited by R. M. Rees, B. Ball, C. Watson, and C. Campbell, pp.180-189. CAB, International, Wallingford, UK. Woods, William I., and Joseph M. McCann. 2001. El Origen y Persistencia de las Tierras Negras de la Amazonía. In Desarrollo Sostenible en la Amazonia: Mito o Realidad?, edited by M. Hiraoka and S. Mora, pp. 23-30. Editorial Abya-Yala, Quito, Ecuador. Holley, George R., Rinita A. Dalan, William I. Woods, and Harold W. Watters, Jr. 2000. Implications of a Buried Preclassic Site in Western Belize. In Mounds, Modoc, and Mesoamerica: Papers in Honor of Melvin L. Fowler edited by Steven R. Ahler, pp. 111-124. Illinois State Museum Scientific Papers Vol. 28. Springfield. Woods, William I. 2000. Monks Mound Revisited. In Preprints. Terra 2000. 8th International Conference on the Study and Conservation of Earthen Architecture, edited by N. Sterry, pp. 98

  • 104. James & James Ltd., London. Woods, William I., Joseph M. McCann, and Donald W. Meyer. 2000. Amazonian Dark Earth Analysis: State of Knowledge and Directions for Future Research. In Papers and Proceedings of the Applied Geography Conferences, edited by F. Andrew Schoolmaster, Vol. 23, pp. 114-121. Applied Geography Conferences, Inc., Denton. Woods, William I., and Joseph M. McCann. 1999. The Anthropogenic Origin and Persistence of Amazonian Dark Earths. In Yearbook 1999 - Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Vol. 25, edited by Cesar Caviedes, pp. 7-14. University of Texas Press, Austin. Holley, George R., William I. Woods, Rinita A. Dalan, and Harold W. Watters, Jr. 1997. Appendix 6: Current Research (1990-95). In The Cahokia Atlas: A Historical Atlas of Cahokia Archaeology (Revised Edition), by Melvin L. Fowler, pp. 231-235. Studies in Archaeology No. 2. Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program, Urbana. Woods, William I., and George R. Holley. 1997. Appendix 5: Current Research (1984-89). In The Cahokia Atlas: A Historical Atlas of Cahokia Archaeology (Revised Edition), by Melvin L. Fowler, pp. 225 230. Studies in Archaeology No. 2. Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program, Urbana. Woods, William I., Christy L. Wells, Harold W. Watters, Jr., and Donald W. Meyer. 1996. Cautions on the Use of Soil Data for Prehistoric Reconstructions: A Belizean Example. Papers and Proceedings of the Applied Geography Conferences, Vol. 19, edited by F. Andrew Schoolmaster and John A. Harrington, pp. 209-217. Applied Geography Conferences, Denton, Texas. Woods, William l. 1995. Comments on the Black Earths of Amazonia. Papers and Proceedings of the Applied Geography Conferences, Vol. 18, edited by F. Andrew Schoolmaster, pp. 159-165. Applied Geography Conferences, Denton, Texas. Emerson, Thomas E., and William I. Woods. 1993. Saving the Great Nobb: Preservation through Passive Management. In Highways to the Past: Essays in Illinois Archaeology in Honor of Charles J. Bareis, edited by Thomas E. Emerson, Dale McElrath, and Andrew J. Fortier, pp. 100-107. Illinois Archaeological Survey, Urbana. Lopinot, Neal H., and William I. Woods. 1993. Wood Overexploitation and the Collapse of Cahokia. In Foraging and Farming in the Eastern Woodlands, edited by C. Margaret Scarry, pp. 206-231. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. Wells, Christy L., William I. Woods, and George R. Holley. 1993. The Doyle Site: A Late Mississippian Keyhole Structure. In Highways to the Past: Essays in Illinois Archaeology in Honor of Charles J. Bareis, edited by Thomas E. Emerson, Dale McElrath, and Andrew J. Fortier, pp. 291-296. Illinois Archaeological Survey, Urbana. Woods, William I. 1993. ICT-11 Phase 11 Testing. In The Archaeology the Cahokia Mounds ICT-11: Testing and Lithics, pp. 1-40. Illinois Cultural Resources Study No. 9. Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield. Woods, William I. 1993. A Study of Prehistoric Settlement-Subsistence Relationships in Southwestern Illinois. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Pedo-Archaeology, edited by J. E. Foss, M. E. Timpson, and M. W. Morris, pp. 175-184. Special Publication 93-03. The University of Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station, Knoxville. Woods, William I., and George R. Holley. 1991. Upland Mississippian Settlement in the American Bottom Region. In Cahokia and the Hinterlands: Middle Mississippian Cultures of the Midwest, edited by Thomas E. Emerson and R. Barry Lewis, pp. 46-60. University of Illinois Press, Urbana.

  • Emerson, Thomas E., and William I. Woods. 1990. The Slumping of the Great Knob: An Archaeological and Geotechnic Case Study of the Stability of a Great Earthen Mound. In 6th International Conference on the Conservation of Earthen Architecture: Adobe 90 Preprints, edited by Neville Agnew, Michael Taylor, and Alejandro Alva Balderramma, pp. 219-224. The Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles. Holley, George R., Neal H. Lopinot, Rinita A. Dalan, and William I. Woods. 1990. South Palisade Investigations. Illinois Cultural Resources Study No. 14. Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield. 119 pp. Woods, William I. 1990. Symposium: The Evidence for Late Prehistoric Agriculture in the Midwestern United States. In 46 Congreso International de Americanistas: Textos y Documentos, compiled by Jan Lechner, pp. 30-31. Centrum voor Studie en Documentatie van Latijns Amerika, Amsterdam. Holley, George R., Neal H. Lopinot, William I. Woods, and John E. Kelly. 1989. Dynamics of Community Organization at Prehistoric Cahokia. In Households and Communities: Proceedings of the 21st Annual Chacmool Conference, edited by Scott MacEachern, David J. W. Archer, and Richard D. Gavin, pp. 339-349. The Archaeological Association of the University of Calgary. Woods, William I., and George R. Holley. 1989. Appendix 3: Current Research at the Cahokia Site (1984-89). In The Cahokia Atlas: A Historical Atlas of Cahokia Archaeology, by Melvin L. Fowler, pp. 227-232. Studies in Illinois Archaeology No. 6. Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield. Woods, William I. 1987. Maize and the Late Prehistoric: A Characterization of Settlement Location Strategies. In Emergent Horticultural Economies of the Eastern Woodlands, edited by William F. Keegan, pp. 273-292. Occasional Paper No. 7. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Woods, William I. 1987. Archaeological Investigations at the St. Louis Arsenal. In Nineteenth Century Historic Archaeology in Illinois, edited by Thomas E. Emerson and Charles L. Rohrbaugh, pp. 263-288. Illinois Cultural Resources Study No. 2. Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield. Woods, William I. 1984. Soil Chemical Investigations in Illinois Archaeology: Two Example Studies. In Archaeological Chemistry - III, Advances in Chemistry Series No. 205, edited by Joseph B. Lambert, pp. 67-77. American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C. Williams, Kenneth R., and William I. Woods. 1981. Big Muddy River Unit (IX). In Predictive Models in Illinois Archaeology: Report Summaries, edited by Margaret Kimball Brown, pp. 107 117. Illinois Department of Conservation, Springfield. Woods, William I. 1980. The Significance of Tunnel Erosion to Archaeology. In Proceedings of the Applied Geography Conference, Vol. 3, edited by John W. Frazier and Bart J. Epstein, pp. 195-204. The Department of Geography, SUNY-Binghamton, and the Department of Geography, Kent State University. Articles and Monographs: Scalenghe, Riccardo, Giacomo Certini, William I. Woods. n. d. The Impact of Warfare on the Soil Environment. Earth-Science Reviews. Accepted for publication. Woods, William I. 2012. Los Moticulos de Cahokia. Revista Cronopio 36 Edicion, edited by Juan Zuluaga,

  • Woods, William I. 2012 La Amazonía Anthropogénica. Revista Cronopio 33 Edicion, edited by Juan Zuluaga.

    Thayn, Jonathan B., Kevin P. Price, and William I. Woods. 2011. Locating Amazonian Dark Earths (ADE) Using Vegetation Vigor as a Surrogate for Soil Type. International Journal of Remote Sensing 32(3):1-17.

    Fraser, James, Wenceslau Teixeira, Newton Falcão, William I. Woods, Johannes Lehmann, and André Braga Junqueira. 2011. Anthropogenic Soils in the Central Amazon: From Categories to a Continuum. Royal Geographical Society, Area 43(3):264-273.

    Dull, Robert A., Richard J. Nevle, William I. Woods, Dennis K. Bird, Shiri Avnery, and William M. Denevan. 2010. The Columbian Encounter and the Little Ice Age: Abrupt Land Use Change, Fire, and Greenhouse Forcing. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 100(4):755-771. Herrmann, Bernd, and William I. Woods. 2010. Neither Biblical Plague Nor Pristine Myth. A Lesson from Central European Sparrows. The Geographical Review 100(2):176-186. Verslype L., B. Young, D. Best, W.I. Woods, P. Hudson. 2007. Walhain/Walhain-Saint-Paul: le château. Chronique de l'Archéologie wallonne 13:30-32. Woods, William I. 2007. Amazonian Dark Earth Symposium and Associated Bio-Char Workshop. International Union of Soil Sciences Newsletter 14:24-25. Woods, William I. 2007. Cahokia Mounds. Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Olson, K.R., R.L. Jones, A.N. Gennadiyev, S. Chernyanskii, W.I. Woods, and J.M Lang. 2006. Fly-ash Distribution to Assess Erosion and Deposition in an Illinois Landscape. Soil and Tillage Research 89(2):155-166. Verslype L., I. Leroy, A. Defgnée, W.I. Woods, and B.K. Young. 2006. Walhain/Walhain-Saint-Paul : le château et sa basse-cour. Synthèse des campagnes 2003-2004. Chronique de l'Archéologie wallonne 13:33-36. Woods, William I. 2006. Amazonia, 11,000+ B.C. to A.D. 1491. The Geographical Review. 96(3):496-499. Woods, William I., Newton P. S. Falcão, and Wenceslau G. Teixeira. 2006. Biochar Trials Aim To Enrich Soil for Smallholders. Nature 443:144. Olson, K.R., R.L. Jones, A.N. Gennadiyev, S. Chernyanskii, W.I. Woods, and J.M. Lang. 2005. Tillage Induced Erosion on a Mound at Cahokia Archaeological Site. Soil Survey Horizons 46:146-160. Verslype L., Leroy I., Young B.K., Woods W.I., and A. Defgnée. 2005. Walhain, Walhain-saint-Paul, Le château. Archéologie d 'un patrimoine paysager et monumental, dans J. Maquet, dir., Le patrimoine médiéval de Wallonie, Namur, pp. 379-381. Lovell, W. George, Henry F. Dobyns, William M. Denevan, William I. Woods, and Charles C. Mann. 2004. 1491: In Search of Aboriginal America. Journal of the Southwest 46(3):441-461. Verslype L., I. Leroy, W.I. Woods, and B.K. Young. 2004. Walhain/Walhain-saint-Paul: la basse-cour du château. Chroniques de l 'Archéologie wallonne 12:20-21.

    Woods, William I. 2004. Population Nucleation, Intensive Agriculture, and Environmental Degradation: The Cahokia Example. Agriculture and Human Values 21:151-157.

  • Woods, William I., and Bailey K. Young, Jr. 2004. Landscape Transformation: The Making of a Medieval Outer Bailey (Walhain, Belgium). AVISTA Forum Journal 14(1):66-67. Olson, Kenneth R., Robert L. Jones, Alexander N. Gennadiyev, Sergey Chernyanskii, William I. Woods, and J. M. Lang. 2003. Soil Catena Formation and Erosion of Two Mississippian Mounds at Cahokia Archaeological Site, Illinois. Soil Science 168 (11):812-824.

    Olson, Kenneth, R., Robert, L. Jones, Alexander, N. Gennadiyev, Sergey Chernayanskii, and William I. Woods. 2003. Soil Formation on Monks Mound. Soil Survey Horizons 44(3):73-85. Gennadiyev, A.N., K.R. Olson, S.S. Chernyanskii, R.L. Jones, and W.I. Woods. 2002. Quantification of Soil Erosion Rates within the Indian Mounds Area in Illinois, the United States. Eurasian Soil Science 35:S8-S17. Olson, K.R., R.L. Jones, A.N. Gennadiyev, S. Chernyanskii, and W.I. Woods. 2002. Soil Formation on a Mississippian Mound in Illinois, USA. 17th World Congress of Soils Science, pp. 265.1-265.11. Bangkok, Thailand. Olson, Kenneth R., Robert L. Jones, Alexander N. Gennadiyev, Sergey Chernyanskii, William I. Woods, and J. M. Lang. 2002. Accelerated Soil Erosion of a Mississippian Mound at Cahokia Site in Illinois. Soil Science Society of America Journal 66:1911-1921. Sombroek, Wim G., Dirse C. Kern, Tarcício Rodrigues, Manoel da Silva Cravo, Tony Jarbas, William I. Woods, and Bruno Glaser. 2002. Terra Preta and Terra Mulata: Pre-Columbian Amazon Kitchen Middens and Agricultural Fields, Their Sustainability, and Their Replication. 17th World Congress of Soil Science. Bangkok, Thailand. Grabowski, Lawra A., James L. J. Houpis, William I. Woods, and Kevin A. Johnson. 2001. Seasonal Bioavailability of Sediment-Associated Heavy Metals along the Mississippi River Floodplain. Chemosphere 45(4-5):643-651. Woods, William l. 1994. Midwest Archaeological Conference. Society for Archaeological Sciences Bulletin 17(1):7-8. Brown, Alan J., James M. Collins, Bonnie L. Gums, George R. Holley, Mikels Skele, Christy L. Wells, and William I. Woods. 1987. Recent Archaeological Investigations by Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville (May 1985-May 1986). Illinois Archaeological Survey Newsletter 1 (1 -2):2-7. Pauketat, Timothy R., and William I. Woods. 1986. Middle Mississippian Structure Analysis: The Lawrence Primas Site (11-Ms-895) in the American Bottom. The Wisconsin Archeologist 67(2):104-127. Weymouth, John W., and William I. Woods. 1984. Combined Magnetic and Chemical Surveys of Forts Kaskaskia and de Chartres Number 1, Illinois. Historical Archaeology 18(2):20-37. Woods, William I. 1982. Analysis of Soils from the Carrier Mills Archaeological District. In The Carrier Mills Archaeological Project: Human Adaptations in the Saline Valley, Illinois, Vol. 2, edited by Richard W. Jefferies and Brian M. Butler, pp. 1381-1407. Research Paper No. 33. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Woods, William I. 1977.The Quantitative Analysis of Soil Phosphate. American Antiquity 42(2):248-252. Woods, William I. 1975. The Analysis of Abandoned Settlements by a New Phosphate Field Test Method. The Chesopiean 13(1, 2):1-45.

  • Reviews: Woods, William I. 2013. Review of Cahokia: Ancient America’s Great City on the Mississippi, by Timothy R. Pauketat (Viking, New York, 2009). Southeastern Geographer 53(2):235-237. Woods, William I. 2002. Review of Cultivated Landscapes of Native North America, by William E. Doolittle (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000). Historical Geography 30:185-187. Woods, William I. 1993. A Review of The Underdraining of Farmland in England During the Nineteenth Century by A.D.M. Phillips (Cambridge University Press, New York, 1989). Victorian Periodicals Review 26(1):55. Woods, William I. 1974. A Review of The Peasant Urbanites: A Study of Rural-Urban Mobility in Serbia by Andrei Simic (Seminar Press, New York, 1973). Geoforum 19:94. Published Reports: Woods, William l. 1988. Soils and Sediment Analyses. In Excavations at the Hansen Site (15 Gp-14) in Northeastern Kentucky, by Stephen R. Ahler, pp. 80-92. University of Kentucky Program for Cultural Resource Assessment, Lexington. Woods, William l. 1988. Soil Chemical Investigations at Five Historic Sites in Illinois. Illinois Cultural Resources Study No. 4. Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield. Billeck, William T., Elizabeth Benchley, Robert Mierendorf, and William I. Woods. 1987. Final Report of Archaeological Site Evaluation Studies at Three Prehistoric Sites 11-Ca-31, 11-Ca-40, and 11-Ca-87 at Commonwealth Edison's Carroll County Station. Carroll County, Illinois. Report of Investigations No. 87. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Archaeological Research Laboratory. Wells, Christy L., William I. Woods, and Neal H. Lopinot. 1986. Archaeological Investigations at the Garden Site (11-Fk-65) and the Misty Winemiller Site (11-Fk-144), Wayne Fitzqerrell State Park. Rend Lake Reservoir, Franklin County, Illinois. Illinois State Museum, Quaternary Studies Program Technical Report 86-250-14. Springfield. Woods, William I. 1986. Appendix B. Analysis of Sediments. In Archaeological Excavations at the Fitzgibbons Site, Gallatin County, Illinois, by Cathy A. Robinson, pp. 191-196. Research Paper No. 53. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Williams, Joyce A., William I. Woods, F. Terry Norris, Timothy R. Pauketat, and Daniel S. Eibeck. 1985. Archaeological Investigations at the St. Louis Arsenal Site. St. Louis District Cultural Resource Management Report No. 22. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District. Pauketat, Timothy R., Christy L. Wells, and William I. Woods. 1984. Cultural Resource Assessments and Testing of Specified Sites in the Rend Lake Project Area. Franklin and Jefferson Counties, Illinois. St. Louis District Cultural Resource Management Report No. 9. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District. Pauketat, Timothy R., Christy L. Wells, William I. Woods, and Neal H. Lopinot. 1984. Cultural Resource Data Recovery at Archaeological Site RL-51, Rend Lake, Illinois. St. Louis District Cultural Resource Management Report No. 16. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District. Koldehoff, Brad, Christy L. Wells, and William I. Woods. 1983. A Cultural Resource Survey of Ten Proposed Dry Detention Basins in the Harding Ditch Area of St. Clair County, Illinois. St. Louis District

  • Cultural Resource Management Report No. 2. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District. Wells, Christy L., Brad Koldehoff, and William I. Woods. 1983. A Cultural Resource Survey at Six Proposed Dry Detention Basins in the Cahokia Canal Area of Madison County, Illinois. St. Louis District Cultural Resource Management Report No. 3. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District. . Woods, William l. 1983. A Cultural Resource Survey of a Proposed Dry Detention Basin in Cape LaCroix Creek Watershed, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. St. Louis District Cultural Resource Management Report No. 1. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District. Fowler, Melvin L., Prudence Precourt, Gerald C. Cone, Gregory James, and William I. Woods. 1980. Archaeological Investigations in the Valley of Puebla, Mexico: The Puebla Preclassic Project of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Report of Investigations No. 35. Archaeological Research Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Other Publications: Woods, W.I. and W.M. Denevan. Amazonian Dark Earth Research: The Beginnings. Extended abstracts for plenary paper delivered at the 3rd International Biochar Conference, IBI 2010: Progressing from Terra Preta do Índios to the Whole World, 13 September 2010, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Woods, William I. 2009. Photograph published as cover of Woods, William I., Wenceslau G. Teixeira, Johannes Lehmann, Christoph Steiner, Antoinette WinklerPrins, and Lilian Rebellato, editors. 2009. Amazonian Dark Earths: Wim Sombroek’s Vision. Springer, Berlin. Woods, William I. 2008. Photographs published in PBS documentary entitled “Back to the Amazon” produced by Jean-Michel Cousteau's Ocean Futures Society and shown April, 2008. Woods, William I. 2008. Photograph published in Whitford, Ben. Smoking Grass: An Ancient Technique for Enriching Soil Could Revolutionize Farming and Curb Climate Change, Plenty 23:33-34. Woods, William I. 2004. Photographs published in Lewino, Frédéric. Le mystère de la terre noire. Le Point 1672:86-87. Woods, William I. 2002. Photograph published in Mann, Charles C. The Forgotten People of Amazonia. Science 297:921. Woods, William I. 2002. Photographs and co-authored map published in Mann, Charles C. The Real Dirt on Rainforest Fertility. Science 297:920, 922-923. Professional Papers and Presentations Woods, W.I, Agriculture on the Hollow Continent AD 1000-1800. Presented at the 109th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 9 April 2013, Los Angeles, CA. Woods, W.I..The Geotechnology of Cahokia’s Monks Mound. Presented and the 44th Annual Geotechnical Engineering Conference, 8 November 2012, Lawrence, KS. Woods, W.I. Discussant. New Perspectives to Paleoenvironmental Change and Geoarchaeology. Persented at the 108th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 24 February 2012, New York, NY. Woods, W.I. Man-Made Black Carbon Soils. Presented to the Faculty and Graduate Students of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 9 September 2011, Uppsala, Sweden.

  • Woods, W.I. Soils and Archaeology: A Personal Review. Seminar presented to the Faculty and Graduate Students of the Department of Archaeology, Uppsala University, 7 September 2011, Uppsala, Sweden. Woods, W.I. Amazonian Dark Earths and Biochar. Presented to The Interreg IVB North Sea Region Programme, “Biochar Climate Saving Soils” Project, 7 September 2011, Uppsala, Sweden. Woods, W.I. The Archaeology of the Lower Tapajós Region. Presented to the Amazonian Project Group (Uppsala University, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, & the Gothenburg Museum), 8 September 2011, Uppsala, Sweden. Woods, W.I. Amazonian Dark Earths: A Review. World Historical Ecology Network Seminar (WHENS), Uppsala University, 6 September 2001, Uppsala, Sweden. Woods, W.I. New Developments in Amazonian Prehistory. Presented at the 107th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 13 April 2011, Seattle, WA. Rebellato, L. and W.I. Woods. The Tupi Expansion into Central Amazonia. Presented at the 107th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 13 April 2011, Seattle, WA. Woods, W.I., L. Rebellato, and W.M. Denevan. Amazonian Dark Earth Research. Keynote address presented at the Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory, 23 October 2010, Drew University, Madison, NJ. Woods, W.I. Population Nucleation and Environmental Degradation. Paper presented at the 2010 Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers Great Plains-Rocky Mountain Division, 9 October 2010, Lawrence, KS. Woods, W.I., W.M. Denevan, and L. Rebellato. Population Estimates for Anthropologically Enriched Soils (Amazonian Dark Earths). the Sociedade de Arqueologia Brasileira, Encontro Internacional de Arqueologia Amazônica, 14 September 2010, Manaus, Brazil. Woods, W.I. and W.M. Denevan. Amazonian Dark Earth Research: The Beginnings. Plenary paper delivered at the 3rd International Biochar Conference, IBI 2010: Progressing from Terra Preta do Índios to the Whole World, 13 September 2010, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Woods, W.I., W.G. Teixeira, and L. Rebellato. Solos Antropogênicos da Amazônia: o estado da arte das pesquisas sobre Terra Preta. Paper presented at the Simposio Internacional. Arqueologia da Amazônia Ocidental: Perspectivas Interdisciplinares, 21 July 2010, Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil. Woods, W.I., and W.M. Denevan. Amazonian Dark Earth Research. Plenary paper delivered at the U.S. Biochar Initiative, 29 June 2010, Ames, IA. Woods, W.I. The Landscape Approach to the 20/21st Gallery. Gallery lecture. University of Kansas Spencer Museum of Art, 25 April 2010, Lawrence, KS. Woods, W.I., B.K. Young, I. Leroy, L. Verslype, and P. Hudson. Geoarchaeological Investigations of a Medieval Castle and Outer Bailey (Walhain, Belgium). Presented at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 16 April 2010, St. Louis, MO. Woods, W.I. War and the Tortured Landscape. Gallery lecture presented in association with the exhibition Machine in a Void: World War One and the Graphic Arts. University of Kansas Spencer Museum of Art, 26 March 2010, Lawrence, KS. Woods, W.I. The Upper Belize River Valley (Geomorphology, Resistivity, Excavation). Presented at the Institute of Archaeology (Collegium Minus), Jagiellonian University, 13 March 2010, Krakow, Poland.

  • Woods, W.I. Pre-European Water Control in the Valley of Mexico and the Puebla-Tlaxcala Basin. Presented at the Institute of Archaeology (Collegium Minus), Jagiellonian University, 13 March 2010, Krakow, Poland. Woods, W.I. Dark Earths, Settlement, and Populations in Precolonial Amazonia. Presented at the Institute of Archaeology (Collegium Minus), Jagiellonian University, 12 March 2010, Krakow, Poland. Woods, W.I. Cahokia: The Rise and Fall of a PreColumbian American Civilization. Presented at the Institute of Archaeology (Collegium Minus), Jagiellonian University, 12 March 2010, Krakow, Poland Woods, W.I and L. Rebellato. Eating their Way across Amazonia: The Tupi Expansion. Presented at the 1st International Conference on Human Migration, University of Kansas, 2 March 2010, Lawrence, KS. Woods, W.I. and L. Rebellato. Dark Earths, Settlement, and Populations in Precolonial Amazonia. Presented to the Environmental Studies Program and Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, 15 January 2010, New Orleans, LA. Woods, W.I. Amazonian Dark Earth: Implications for Pre-Columbian Settlement/Subsistence in the Region. Presented at the Department of Geography Seminar, University of Texas-Austin, 4 December 2009. Austin, TX. Woods, W.I. Cultivated Landscapes of South America, AD 1000-1800. Presented at the First World Congress of Environmental History, 4 August 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark. Woods, W.I. Terra Preta and Amazonia. Presented to the Human Ecology Division, Lund University, 3 August 2009, Lund, Sweden. Steiner, C. and W.I. Woods. Estado da Arte das Terras Pretas de Índio no Âmbito Mundial. Presented at the Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da da Ciência, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Grupo de Trabalho Terra Preta Nova, 14 July 2009, Manaus, Brazil. Kern, D., W.I. Woods, W.M. Denevan, N. Kämpf, and F.J. Lima Frazão-MPEG, Distribuição das Terras Pretas de Índio na Amazônia. Presented at the Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da da Ciência, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Grupo de Trabalho Terra Preta Nova, 14 July 2009, Manaus, Brazil. Teixeira, W.G., W.I. Woods, C. Steiner, O. Cubas, and R. Santana Macedo. Multi-Method Analyses of Soil Carbon in Central Amazon Soil Samples from A Anthropic Horizons of Amazonian Dark Earths and Soil To which Fresh Carbon Was Added. Presented at the International Workshop on Black Soils and Black Sediments – Archives of Landscape Evolution – Distribution, Formation, Degradation, and Properties, 3 May 2009, Dresden, Germany. Woods, W.I., L. Rebellato, W.G. Teixeira, and N.P.S. Falcão. Terra Preta Nova. Presented at the 69th Annual Meeting of The Society for Applied Anthropology, 21 March 2009, Santa Fe, NM. Rebellato, L., and W.I. Woods. Continuity and Change in pre-Columbian Amazonia: Implications of a Case Study. Presented at the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers Meeting, 9 January 2009, Granada, Nicaragua. Woods, W.I., M. Sanchez Pereira, S.P. Horn, L. Rebellato, and A. Alvarado. Costa Rica’s Anthropogenic Tierras Negras?? Presented at the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers Meeting, 9 January 2009, Granada, Nicaragua. Doolittle, W.E., and W.I. Woods. Northern Mists Visited. Presented at the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers Meeting, 8 January 2009, Granada, Nicaragua.

  • Woods, W.I. Amazonian Dark Earths and Their European Counterparts, Presented to the Faculty of the School of Agriculture, Perugia University, 18 December 2008, Perugia, Italy. Woods, W.I. South American Agricultural Systems 1100, 1500 AD. Presented at the Swedish Institut, 12 December 2008, Rome, Italy. Verslype, L., I. Leroy, A. Defgnée, W. I. Woods, B. K. Young, P. K. Hudson, and D. W. Meyer. Approche historique, archéologique et environnementale des aménagements paysager et bâti du chateau de Walhain (Walhain-saint-Paul, XI-XIXe s., Brabant wallon, Belgique). Presented at the Premières Rencontres d’Histoire de l’environnement en Belgique, 12 December 2008, Namur, Belgium. Teixeira, W.G., and W.I. Woods. Terra Preta de Índio – Myths and Facts about the Anthropic Soils in the Amazon Basin. Presented at the V Congreso de Arqueologia en Colombia Patrimonio, Paisaje y Sociedad, 20 November 2008, Bogotá, Colombia. Woods, W.I. Pre-colonial Culture and Nature in Lowland Amazonia: Counterfeit Paradise or Bountiful Garden? Presented at the Nature & Culture Seminar, KU Hall Center for the Humanities, 14 November 2008, Lawrence, KS. Woods, W.I. Shifting Cultivation in PreEuropean Amazonia???? Presented at the World Archaeological Congress, 4 July 2008, Dublin, Ireland. Rebellato, L., E.G. Neves, W.G. Teixeira, and W.I. Woods. Site Formation Processes at Hatahara and Their Implications for Understanding the Archaeology of the Central Amazon Region. Presented at the World Archaeological Congress, 1 July 2008, Dublin, Ireland. Verslype, L.R., B.K. Young, W.I. Woods, P.F. Hudson, I. Leroy, A. Defgnée, and D.W. Meyer. Presented at the World Archaeological Congress, 1 July 2008, Dublin, Ireland. Woods, W.I. Discussant. Presented at the Symposium World Archaeological Congress, 1 July 2008, Dublin, Ireland. Woods, W.I. Cahokia: The Rise and Decline of a PreColumbian Civilization. Presented at Georg August Universität Göttingen, 27 June 2008, Göttingen, Germany. Woods, W.I. Anthrosols and Amazonia. Presented at the University of Costa Rica, 15 May 2008, San Jose, Costa Rica. Woods, W.I. Rise & Decline of PreColumbian Civilizations. Presented in PhD Seminar “Dynamics of Food and Human Development” at Wageningen University, 17 February 2008, Wageningen, The Netherlands. Woods, W.I. Terra Preta: The Rise and Fall of Human Societies. Presented at Wageningen University, 14 February 2008, Wageningen, The Netherlands. Woods, W.I. Indian Dark Earths Point the Way to Successful Soil Management. Presented at the AgriEnergy Seminar, 23 January 2008, Mendota, IL. Woods, W.I. Terra Preta and Population in Amazonia. Presented in the Anthropology Seminar, University of Kansas, 30 November 2007, Lawrence, KS. Woods, W.I. Geoarchaeological Investigations at Walhain Castle, Wallonia, Belgium. Presented at the Pre1500 Seminar, The University of Kansas Hall Center for the Humanities, 13 November 2007, Lawrence, KS. Woods, W.I. What is Terra Preta? The Promise It Holds for Soil Improvement. Presented at Wise Traditions 2007, The 8th Annual Conference of the Weston A. Price Foundation, 11 November 2007,

  • Chantilly, VA. Woods, W.I. Anthrosols and Site Formation Processes. Presented at the Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura, Universidade de São Paulo, 1 November 2007, Piracicaba, Brazil. Woods, W.I. Chemical Streams and Human Settlements. Presented at Seminário Terras Pretas de Índio - As Terras Pretas de Índio da Amazônia Central: Estado da Arte e Pesquisas de sua Gênese, Embrapa Amazônia Ocidental, 19 July 2007, Manaus, Brazil. Woods, W.I. Mounds Means More: The Joint UNM-SIUE 1995 Cahokia Field School. Presented at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 27 April 2007, Austin, TX. Woods, W.I., W.M. Denevan, E.G. Neves, and L. Rebellato. Population Estimates for Terra Preta Sites in Amazonia. Presented at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 26 April 2007, Austin, TX. Woods, W.I., N.P.S. Falcão, E.G. Neves, L. Rebellato, C. Steiner, and W.G. Teixeira. Terra Preta Soils: Diachronic Considerations of Amazonian Land-Use. Presented at the 103rd Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 21 April 2007, San Francisco, CA. Arroyo-Kalin, M., E.G. Neves, W.I. Woods, R. Bartone, E.P. Lima, L. Rebellato, C.P. Morães, C.A. da Silva and A. Rapp-Py Daniel. Mix and grow? Assessing the Geoarchaeological Significance of Terras Pretas in the Central Amazon Region. Presented at the Developing International Geoarchaeology 2007 conference, 19 April 2007, Cambridge, UK Woods, W.I. The Geoarchaeology of Monks Mound. Presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Joint South-Central and North-Central Sections of the Geological Society of America, 13 April 2007, Lawrence, KS. Sexton, J.L., Y.K. Griffin, W.I. Woods, and A.J. Martignoni, Jr. Geophysical Surveying on the Southern Terrace of Cahokia’s Monks Mound. Presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Joint South-Central and North-Central Sections of the Geological Society of America, 13 April 2007, Lawrence, KS. Woods, W.I., R.D. Mandel, and W.C. Johnson, Co-Organizers. Geoarchaeological and Geomorphological Explorations in the Midcontinent: In Honor of Wakefield Dort, Jr. Symposium presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Joint South-Central and North-Central Sections of the Geological Society of America, 13 April 2007, Lawrence, KS. Woods, W.I. What Diamond and Meggers Missed: The Human Capacity for Positive Environmental Change: The Anthrosol Example. Inaugural lecture presented in The Clarissa Kimber Professor Emeritus Lecture Series, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University, 23 March 2007, College Station, TX. Woods, W.I. Occupation Nucleation and the Development of Amazonian Dark Earths. Presented at the Department of Anthropology Colloquium, Tulane University, 2 March 2007, New Orleans, LA. Woods, W.I. What’s Wrong with Success? Diamond’s Problems with Soil Management. Presented at the American Society for Environmental History 2007 Conference, 1 March 2007, Baton Rouge, LA. Woods, W.I. Organizer. Roundtable: Jared Diamond’s Collapse. Presented at the American Society for Environmental History 2007 Conference, 1 March 2007, Baton Rouge, LA. Woods, W.I., B.K. Young, L. Verslype, P. Hudson, I. Leroy, A. Defgnée, and D.W. Meyer. The Built Environment of a Medieval Castle and Outer Bailey (Walhain, Belgium). Presented at the 119th Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, 24 October 2006, Philadelphia, PA.

  • Woods, W.I. Success or Collapse: Is It Still Our Choice? Presented at the University Forum, ECM Center, 6 September 2006, Lawrence, KS. Woods, W.I. Human Influences to Soils at Occupation Sites. Presented at the Seminário da Amazônia 2006, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, 9 August 2006, Manaus, Brasil. Woods, W.I. Terra Preta Nova: A Tribute to Wim Sombroek. Presented at the World Congress of Soil Science, 13 July 2006, Philadelphia, PA. WinklerPrins, A., and W.I. Woods, Co-organizers. Amazonian Dark Earth Soils (Terra Preta and Terra Preta Nova): A Tribute to Wim Sombroek. Symposium presented at the World Congress of Soil Science, 13 July 2006, Philadelphia, PA. Woods, W.I., and W.M. Denevan. Terra Preta Research: The pre Sombroek and Sombroek Periods. Presented at the World Congress of Soil Science, 13 July 2006, Philadelphia, PA. Woods, W.I., and D.C. Kern. Societal Complexity and Anthrosols in Amazonia: A Critical Synergy. Presented at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 27 April 2006, San Juan, PR. Woods, W.I. Black Earth Formation Processes: Implications for Anthropogenic Environmental Change in Amazonia. Presented at The Andean World Conference: Environment, Identity and Nation Building, 24 February 2006, Lawrence, KS. Madari, B.E., T.J.F. Cunha, E.H. Novotny, W.I. Woods, D.M.P.B. Milori, L. Martin-Neto, V.M. Benites, W.T.L. Silva, W.G. Teixeira, L.M.K. Antony, N.P.S. Falcão, D.C. Kern, and G.A. Santos. Understanding Indian Black Earths: A Pedological and Agronomic Approach. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 18 February 2006, St. Louis, MO. Petersen, J.B., E.G. Neves, W.I. Woods, M. Arroyo-Kalin, and R.N. Bartone. Terra Preta do Indio, or Amazonian Dark Earth: The Archaeological Past and Human Origins. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 18 February 2006, St. Louis, MO. Woods, W.I., moderator. Amazonian Dark Earths (Terra Preta): Past, Present, and Future, K. Mathewson and W.I. Woods, symposium co-organizers. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 18 February 2006, St. Louis, MO. Woods, W.I. Soils and the Human Sciences: Interpretation of the Past. Presented at the 6th Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Chapter of the International Humic Substances Society, 18 November 2005, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Woods, W.I. Carbon Sequestration and Agriculture: An Example from the Past. Presented at the Environmentally Sustainable Development: Working Together for People, Prosperity and Peace Lectures, The Dole Institute of Politics, 14 November 2005, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. Woods, W.I. 11,000+ B.C. to 1491 A.D. Amazonia: What Does Mann Say? Presented at the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers Meeting, 28 October 2005, Morelia, Mexico. Woods, W.I. Amazonian Dark Earths: Shouldn’t Be, But Are. Presented at the Kansas State University, Department of Geology Seminar Series, 30 August 2005, Manhattan, KS. Petersen, J.B., E.G. Neves, and W.I. Woods. Tropical Forest Archaeology in Central Amazonia: Landscape Transformation and Sociopolitical Complexity. Presented at the 21st International Congress of Caribbean Archaeology, 26 July 2005, Trinidad.

  • Kern, D.C., N. Kämpf, W.I. Woods, W.M. Denevan, M.L. Costa, and F.J.L. Frazão. Evolução do conhecimento em trra Preta do Índio. Presented at the XXX Congresso Brasileiro de Ciência do Solo, 19 July 2005, Recife, Brazil. Verslype, L., I. Leroy, W.I. Woods, A. Defgnée, and B.K. Young. Het kasteel van Walhain-saint-Paul landschapsarcheologie: Archeologie van een monument. Presented at the Ename Expertisecentrum Voor Erfgoedontsluiting, 3 June 2005, Ename, Belgium. Woods, W.I. Explorations into Amazonian Dark Earths. Lecture presented at the Illinois State Museum, 13 April 2005, Springfield, IL. Woods, W.I., B.K. Young, and L. Verslype. The Built Environment of a Medieval Outer Bailey (Walhain, Belgium). Presented at the 101st Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 7 April 2005, Denver, CO. Petersen, J.B., E.G. Neves, and W.I. Woods. Tropical Archaeology in the Central Amazon: Socio-Political Complexity and Landscape Transformation. Presented at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 31 March 2005, Salt Lake City, UT. Woods, W.I. Investigations into a Medieval Outer Bailey (Walhain, Belgium). Colloquium sponsored by the KU Department of Geography, 16 February 2005, Lawrence, KS. Woods, W.I. Discussant at an Expert Workshop on “Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Abrupt Climate Change: Positive Options and Robust Policy” sponsored by the United Nations Foundation, 1 October 2004, Paris, France. Woods, W.I. Archaeological Pedology and Stratigraphy: The Walhain Site Example. Presented at the Centre de recherches d’archéologie nationale (CRAN), Université Catholique de Louvain, 9 July 2004, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Woods, W.I. The Sustainable Future of Agriculture with Carbon Utilization. Presented at the Energy and Agricultural Carbon Utilization: Sustainable Alternatives to Sequestration Conference, 11 June 2004, Athens, GA. Denevan, W.M., and W.I. Woods Discovery and Awareness of Anthropogenic Amazonian Dark Earths (Terra Preta). Presented at the Energy and Agricultural Carbon Utilization: Sustainable Alternatives to Sequestration Conference, 10 June 2004, Athens, GA. Woods, W.I. Amazon Dark Earths: Past, Present, Prospect. Lecture presented to the Department of Geography, University of Kansas, 7 June 2004, Lawrence, KS. Woods, W.I. From Katzer to Terra Preta Nova: A Century of Research on Amazonian Dark Earth. Presented at the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers Meeting, 20 May 2004, Antigua, Guatemala. Woods, W.I., and B.K. Young. Landscape Transformation: The Making of a Medieval Outer Bailey (Walhain, Belgium). Presented at the 39th International Congress on Medieval Studies, 7 May 2004, Kalamazoo, MI. Woods, W.I. Anthropogenically Enriched Soils in the Amazon Region. Presented at the Department of Geography Colloquium Series, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 20 February 2004, Urbana, IL. Olson, K.R., R.L. Jones, A.N. Gennadiyev, S. Chernyanskii, W.I. Woods, and J.M. Lang. Tillage Induced Erosion on a Mound at Cahokia Archaeological Site, Illinois. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Agronomy-Crop Science Society of America-Soil Science Society of America, 5 November 2003, Denver, CO.

  • Woods, W. I. Anthropic Soils and the Environmental History of Amazônia. Presented at the World Environmental Soil History Conference, 20 August 2003, Wasan Island, Ontario, Canada. Glaser, B., and W. I. Woods. Molecular Archaeometric Methods and the Origin of Amazonian Dark Earths: Possibilities and Limitations. Presented at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 13 April 2003, Milwaukee, WI. Herrmann, Bernd, and William I. Woods. Between Pristine Myth and Biblical Plague: Passenger Pigeons, Sparrows and the Construction of Abundances. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Environmental History, 27 March 2003, Providence, RI. Woods, W. I., N. Kämpf, W. G Sombroek, D. C. Kern, and T. Cunha. Amazonian Dark Earths: Questions of Classification. Presented at the 99th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 5 March 2003, New Orleans, LA. Woods, W. I. Time, Space, and 1491. Presented at the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers Meeting, 6 January 2003, Tucson, AZ. Woods, W. I. The Black Earths of the Amazon. Presentation sponsored by the Walsh School of Foreign Service and the Georgetown University Center for Environment, Georgetown University, 29 October 2002. Sombroek, W. G., D. C. Kern, T. Rodrigues, M. da Silva Cravo, T. Jarbas, W. I. Woods, and Bruno Glaser. Terra Preta and Terra Mulata: Pre-Columbian Amazon Kitchen Middens and Agricultural Fields, Their Sustainability, and Their Replication. Presented at the 17th World Congress of Soil Science, 16 August 2002, Bangkok, Thailand. Olson, K.R., R.L. Jones, A.N. Gennadiyev, S. Chernyanskii, and W.I. Woods. Soil Formation on a Mississippian Mound in Illinois, USA. Presented at the 17th World Congress of Soil Science, 15 August 2002, Bangkok, Thailand. Woods, W. I. International Coordinator, I Workshop Internacional de Terra Preta Antropogênica, 13-19 July 2002, Manaus, Brazil. Woods, W. I. Development of Anthrosol Research. Presented at the I Workshop Internacional de Terra Preta Antropogênica, 13 July 2002, Manaus, Brazil. Woods W. I. Economic Raise and Ecologic Fall of Cahokia: The Ecological Limitations of an Indian Metropolis in 14th Century Illinois. Presented at the Zoologisch-Anthropologisches Colloquium in Verbindung mit dem Umweltgeschichtlischen Colloquium, Georg August Universität Göttingen, 6 May 2002, Göttingen, Germany. Woods, W. I. Cahokia’s Soils. Presented in the Geoecology Seminar, Universität Bayreuth, 2 May 2002, Bayreuth, Germany. Woods, W. I. Perspectives on Terra Preta Soils. Presented at the 98th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 22 March 2002, Los Angeles, CA. Banerjee, S. K., Rinita A. Dalan, E. A. Oches, and W. I. Woods. Magnetic Memory of Pedogenesis: Climatic and Microbial Proxies? Presented at the VI International Symposium and Field Workshop on Paleopedology, 8 October 2001, Mexico City, Mexico. Woods, W. I. Em Busca do Entendimento das Terras Pretas Amazônicas. Presented at the XI Congresso da Sociedade de Arqueologia Brasileira, 24 September 2001, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

  • Woods, W. I., D. W. Meyer, and J. M. McCann. Amazonian Dark Earth Analysis. Presented at the 222nd Annual Meeting of the American Chemical Society, 27 August 2001, Chicago, IL. Woods, W. I. Soils and Sustainability in the Prehistoric New World. Plenary paper presented at the 2001 Intercongress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, 20 July 2001, Göttingen, Germany. Woods, W. I. Towards an Understanding of Amazonian Dark Earths. Presented at the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers Meeting, 13 June 2001, Benicassím, Spain. Woods, W. I., and Bruno Glaser, Co-Organizers. Symposium entitled “Terra Preta,” presented at the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers Meeting, 13-14 June 2001, Benicassím, Spain. Woods, W. I., and C. L. Wells. Bubble Boys and Powerscapes. Presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 20 April 2001, New Orleans, LA. Woods, W. I. Monks Mound: A View from the Top. Presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 19 April 2001, New Orleans, LA. Woods, W. I. Discussant and Co-Chair. Symposium entitled “Soils in Cultural Context: Northern Europe,” presented at the 97th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 3 March 2001, New York, NY. Woods, W. I. The Dark Earths of Amazônia. Comstock Fund Lecture presented at Minnesota State University Moorhead, 30 January 2001, Moorhead, MN. Martignoni, A. J., Jr., and W. I. Woods. Web-Based Conversion of Grid Coordinates from Euclidian to Spherical Geometry. Presented at the 23rd Annual Applied Geography Conference, 13 October 2000, Tampa, FL. Woods, W. I., J. M. McCann, and D. W. Meyer. Dark Earth Analysis: State of Knowledge and Directions for Future Research. Presented at the 23rd Annual Applied Geography Conference, 12 October 2000, Tampa, FL. Woods, W. I. Cahokia: The Rise and Fall of America’s Only Prehistoric City. Presented at the School of Archaeology and Paleoecology, Queen’s University, 20 September 2000, Belfast, UK. McCann, J. M, and W. I. Woods. Managing Lower Amazonian Landscapes: Past, Present, and Future. Presented at the 50th International Congress of Americanists, 14 July 2000, Warsaw, Poland. Woods, W. I. Cahokia and the Consequences of Nucleation. Presented at the 50th International Congress of Americanists, 12 July 2000, Warsaw, Poland. Woods, W. I. Monks Mound Revisited. Presented at Terra 2000, 8th International Conference on the Study and Conservation of Earthen Architecture, 12 May 2000, Torquay, England. Woods, W. I., S. R. Smith, and A. J. Martignoni, Jr. Recent Research on Monks Mound and New Interpretations of its Construction. Public lecture presented at the Cahokia Mounds Interpretive Center, 19 March 2000, Collinsville, IL. Woods, W. I., D. W. Meyer, and J. M. McCann. Black Earth Analysis: A Call for Cooperation. Presented at the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, CLAG 2000 Conference, 6 January 2000, Austin, TX. Woods, W. I. Chairman of a Session entitled "Soils, Sediments, and Shoreline