I am a Paleoclimate scientist and Holocene Archaeologist working in Mozambique and East Africa. My research interests include using stable isotopes, molluscan biodiversity, and biomarker analyses of lake cores, and archaeo-ethnohistorical archives to reconstruct climate. Currently my focus is on using these methods to reconstruct Holocene Indian Ocean Monsoon systems and to interpret how their intensification impacts coastal settlement and land use patterns in coastal sites in Mozambique. My areas of research interests include African Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Geochemistry, Paleoclimatology, Malacology, Sedimentology, Lake Coring, S-TEM and experimental biogeochemistry and microscopy, Isotopes, Biomarkers, Holocene Bead and Ceramics, and LCMS.
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Personal identification

Full name
Elena Skosey-LaLonde

Citation names

  • Skosey-LaLonde, Elena

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
0D17-ACBE-8DBB
ORCID iD
0000-0002-4214-6644

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Earth and Environmental Sciences - Geology
  • Humanities - History and Archaeology - Archaeology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English (Mother tongue)
Chinese (Mother tongue)
Portuguese Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1)
Swahili (generic) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Degree Classification
2017 - 2023
Concluded
 Department of Anthropology (Master)
Major in Anthropology
University of Connecticut, United States
2013/09 - 2017/05
Concluded
 Department of Geology (Bachelor)
Major in Geology
Cornell College, United States
"Assessing Southern Hemisphere behavior of the Indo-Pacific tropical rain belt during the late Holocene through stable isotope and U-Th analysis of a tropical Western Australian stalagmite." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2013/09 - 2017/05
Concluded
 Department of Anthropology (Bachelor)
Major in Archaeology
Cornell College, United States
"Sedimentary petrology and its potential as an analytical tool in archaeology: Determining influence of techno-functional properties of raw materials on prehistoric socio-behavioral evolution and procurement strategies." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/08 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal
Universidade do Algarve Centro de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2017/05 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal
Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2017/07 - 2023/05 Graduate Student and Teaching Assistant University of Connecticut, United States
University of Connecticut, United States

Grant

Designation Funders
2023/09/01 - 2025/08/31 Dispersals, resilience, and innovation in Late Pleistocene SE Africa
ERC-DISPERSALS
PhD Student Fellow
European Research Council
Ongoing

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Haws, Jonathan A.; Benedetti, Michael M.; Bicho, Nuno; Gonçalves, Célia; Cascalheira, João; Raja, Mussa; Zinsious, Brandon; et al. "STONE AGE ARCHAEOLOGY AND QUATERNARY LANDSCAPES IN SOUTHERN MOZAMBIQUE". Paper presented in Geological Society of America, 2016.
    10.1130/abs/2016am-286535
Conference paper
  1. Skosey-LaLonde, Elena; Gomes, Ana; Raja, Mussa; Martins, Maria João; Zinsious, Brandon; Connor, Simon; Haws, Jonathan A.; et al. "Biogeochemical analysis of newly dated lacustrine cores: a first look at Quaternary paleoenvironment in coastal Mozambique". Paper presented in South Africanist Archaeology Association, Oxford, 2020.
  2. Haws, Jonathan A.; Bicho, Nuno; Cascalheira, João; Gonçalves, Célia; Raja, Mussa; Benedetti, Michael M.; Gomes, Ana; et al. "Later Stone Age archaeology in the Limpopo river basin: new evidence from the site of Txina Txina (Massingir, southern Mozambique)". Paper presented in Union Inertationale des Sciences Prehistoriques et Protohistoriques, Paris, 2018.
  3. Skosey-LaLonde, Elena; Gomes, Ana; Bicho, Nuno; Moura, Delminda; Oliveira, Sonia; Raja, Mussa; Zinsious, Brandon; et al. "Projeto “InMOZ”: Como contar uma história sonre a evolução do ambiente?". Paper presented in Semana Ciência e Technologia, Centro Ciência Viva (CCV) do Alvarge, Faro, 2018.
  4. Gomes, Ana; Raja, Mussa; Bicho, Nuno; Haws, Jonathan A.; Moura, Delminda; Achimo, Mussa; Zinsious, Brandon; et al. "Alteracoes Paleoambientais em Mocambique". Paper presented in As Ciências Sociais e Humanas e o Desenvolvimento em África, Faro, 2018.
  5. Skosey-LaLonde, Elena. "Developing a Lithostratigraphic Profile of Triangle Pond, San Salvador, Bahamas". Paper presented in Cornell College Student Symposium, Mt. Vernon, 2017.
  6. Gomes, Ana; Skosey-LaLonde, Elena; Zinsious, Brandon; Gonçalves, Célia; Bicho, Nuno; Raja, Mussa; Cascalheira, João; Haws, Jonathan A.. "Environmental changes on the Mozambican coast, during the Holocene". Paper presented in IX Iberian Quaternary Meeting, Faro, 2017.
  7. Skosey-LaLonde, Elena. "17 Years on a Beach". Paper presented in Cornell College Student Symposium, Mt. Vernon, 2016.
Conference poster
  1. Skosey-LaLonde, Elena; Gomes, Ana; Martins, Maria João; Connor, Simon; Raja, Mussa; Zinsious, Brandon; Matias, Roxane; et al. "Biogeochemical analysis of newly dated lacustrine cores: a first look at Quaternary paleoenvironment in coastal Mozambique". Paper presented in European Geosciences Union, 2020.
  2. Gomes, Ana; Connor, Simon; Martins, Maria João; Zinsious, Brandon; Gonçalves, Célia; Moura, Delminda; Skosey-LaLonde, Elena; et al. "Modern environment characterization of interdunal lakes in Inhambane province (SE Mozambique) as an analogue to understand past environmental changes". Paper presented in European Geosciences Union, 2020.
  3. Skosey-LaLonde, Elena; Hartman, Gideon. "Experimental evidence for chemical and structural alteration of bone carbonate-apatite crystals during diagenesis using S-TEM EDS and FT-IR analyses.". Paper presented in Paleoanthropology Society, 2020.
    10.1063/1.55827
  4. Gomes, Ana; Skosey-LaLonde, Elena; Zinsious, Brandon; Mussa, Raja; Connor, Simon; Martins, Maria João. "Sedimentological, Geochemical, and Biological proxies for Paleoenvironmental and Paleoclimate changes in Southeastern Mozambique". Paper presented in Proceedings of the 36th International Geological Congress, 2020.
  5. Bicho, Nuno; Cascalheira, João; Haws, Jonathan A.; Horta, Pedro; Raja, Mussa; Andre, Lino; Gomes, Ana; et al. "Later Stone Age archaeology in the Oliphant River Valley, Limpopo, Southern Mozambique: the site of Txina Txina". Paper presented in East African Association of Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, 2019.
  6. Gomes, Ana; Moura, Delminda; Bicho, Nuno; Connor, Simon; Raja, Mussa; Haws, Jonathan A.; Achimo, Mussa; et al. "Southern Hemisphere climate changes studies: a contribution for climate risk management and resilience". Paper presented in 4th European Climate Change Adaptation Conference, 2019.
  7. Mussa, Raja; Bicho, Nuno; Haws, Jonathan A.; Cascalheira, João; Skosey-LaLonde, Elena; Zinsious, Brandon; Carvalho, Milena; et al. "Deciphering sediments in archaeological context: Inferences on the Palaeoenvironmental changes and the site formation processes in the Middle and Late Stone Age, Txina-Txina, Massingir (Mozambique)". Paper presented in Paleoanthropology Society, 2019.
  8. Skosey-LaLonde, Elena; Reeves, Jonathan; Douglas, Matt; Braun, David; Ndiema, Emanuel. "A Characterization of Site Formation Processes at FxJj34". Paper presented in Society for American Archaeology 84th Congress, 2019.
  9. Skosey-LaLonde, Elena; Gomes, Ana; Zinsious, Brandon; Raja, Mussa; Bicho, Nuno; Haws, Jonathan A.. "Survey of raw material sources in the machampane river valley, Massingir Mozambique: preliminary geochemical analysis". Paper presented in Union Inertationale des Sciences Prehistoriques et Protohistoriques, 2018.
  10. Gomes, Ana; Skosey-LaLonde, Elena; Zinsious, Brandon; Gonçalves, Célia; Bicho, Nuno; Raja, Mussa; Cascalheira, João; Haws, Jonathan A.. "Paleoenvironmental reconstructions on the Mozambique coast as a tool to understand human evolution: from modern analogues to borehole interpretation". Paper presented in European Geosciences Union, 2017.
  11. Gomes, Ana; Skosey-LaLonde, Elena; Zinsious, Brandon; Gonçalves, Célia; Bicho, Nuno; Raja, Mussa; Cascalheira, João; Haws, Jonathan A.. "Diatoms from Mozambique: a tool for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions and to understand human evoluton". Paper presented in European Geosciences Union, 2017.
  12. Gomes, Ana; Skosey-LaLonde, Elena; Zinsious, Brandon; Gonçalves, Célia; Bicho, Nuno; Raja, Mussa; Cascalheira, João; Haws, Jonathan A.. "Diatoms from Mozambique: a tool for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions and to understand human evolution". Paper presented in Past Global Changes, 5th Open Science Meeting, 2017.
Report
  1. Skosey-LaLonde, Elena. 2017. Maceral and Mineral Characterization of modern deposition in an evaporate pond: a multivariable analysis of unconsolidated material from the Triangle Pond inlet, San Salvador, The Bahamas.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Skosey-LaLonde, Elena. "Assessing Southern Hemisphere behavior of the Indo-Pacific tropical rain belt during the late Holocene through stable isotope and U-Th analysis of a tropical Western Australian stalagmite". Degree, Cornell College, 2017.