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Michael Benedetti completed his PhD in Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2000. He is currently Full Professor in the Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and an Affiliated Researcher at the ICArEHB Center of the Universidade do Algarve. His expertise is in the areas of Physical Geography, Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology, Soil Science, and Geoarchaeology. His research investigates geomorphic responses to natural and anthropogenic environmental change. His recent projects have focused on late Quaternary sea level and climate change, landscape change in archaeological settings, and the influence of floods on sediment transport in large rivers.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Michael Benedetti

Citation names

  • Benedetti, Michael

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
8715-EE13-87BA
ORCID iD
0000-0002-2900-887X

Addresses

  • University of North Carolina Wilmington, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences. 601 South College Road, 28403, Wilmington, NC, United States (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Earth and Environmental Sciences - Physical Geography

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English
Education
Degree Classification
2000/06
Concluded
 Geography (Doctor of Philosophy)
University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
"Recent Floods Suspended Sediment Transport on the Upper Mississippi River" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
1993/06
Concluded
 Geography (Master)
University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
"Sediment budget response to land use change in the Big Jack Watershed, southwestern Wisconsin" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2000/08 - Current Full Professor (University Teacher) University of North Carolina at Wilmington, United States

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2011 - Current Affiliated Researcher Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal
1997 - 2000/06 Lecturer, Department of Geography University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/06/01 - 2025/05/31 Collaborative Research: Neanderthal adaptations to climate and environmental change during the Late Pleistocene in Westernmost Eurasia.
BCS- 2150662
Principal investigator
University of North Carolina at Wilmington, United States
 National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Sciences
Ongoing
2017 - 2021 Collaborative Research: Inquiry into the Origins of Modern Human Distributions
BCS-1725015
Principal investigator
University of North Carolina at Wilmington, United States
 National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences
Ongoing
2016 - 2019 Stone Age Vilankulos: Modern Human origins research south of the Rio Save, Mozambique
PTDC/EPH-ARQ/4168/2014
Researcher
Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2014 - 2017 Collaborative Research: Neanderthal and modern human response to environmental change at the Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition, Lapa do Picareiro, Portugal
BCS-1420453
Principal investigator
University of North Carolina at Wilmington, United States
 National Science Foundation
Concluded
2013 - 2015 Middle Stone Age archaeology and the origins of modern humans in southern Mozambique
3599-PPCDT/132176
Researcher
Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2011/07/15 - 2015 Collaborative Research: Human Responses to Late Pleistocene Coastal Environmental Change in Portuguese Estremadura
BCS-1118183
Principal investigator
University of North Carolina at Wilmington, United States
 National Science Foundation
Concluded
2005 - 2008 Late Pleistocene Coastal Adaptations in Central Portugal
BCS-1455145
BCS-0715279
Researcher
University of Louisville, United States
 National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Haws, Jonathan; Benedetti, Michael; Cascalheira, João; Bicho, Nuno; Carvalho, M.C.; Zinsious, B.K.; Ellis, M.G.; Friedl, L.. "Human occupation during the late Pleniglacial at Lapa do Picareiro (Portugal)". In Human Adaptations to the Last Glacial Maximum: The Solutrean and its Neighbors, edited by Schmidt, I.; Cascalheira, João; Bicho, Nuno; Weniger, G., 188-213. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.
    Published
  2. Haws, Jonathan A.; Funk, C.L.; Daniels, J.M.; Benedetti, Michael; Bicho, Nuno. "Paleolithic landscapes and seascapes of Portuguese Estremadura". In Trekking the Shore: Changing Coastlines and the Antiquity of Coastal Settlement, edited by Bicho, Nuno; Haws, Jonathan A.; Davis, L.. New York, United States: Springer, 2011.
Journal article
  1. Carvalho, Milena; Jones, Emily Lena; Ellis, M. Grace; Cascalheira, João; Bicho, Nuno; Meiggs, David; Benedetti, Michael; Friedl, Lukas; Haws, Jonathan. "Neanderthal palaeoecology in the late Middle Palaeolithic of western Iberia: a stable isotope analysis of ungulate teeth from Lapa do Picareiro (Portugal)". Journal of Quaternary Science 37 2 (2021): 300-319. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3363.
    Open access • Published • 10.1002/jqs.3363
  2. Jonathan A. Haws; Michael M. Benedetti; Sahra Talamo; Nuno Bicho; João Cascalheira; M. Grace Ellis; Milena M. Carvalho; et al. "The early Aurignacian dispersal of modern humans into westernmost Eurasia". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2020): 202016062-202016062. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2016062117.
    10.1073/pnas.2016062117
  3. Jonathan A. Haws; Michael M. Benedetti; Caroline L. Funk; Nuno F. Bicho; Telmo Pereira; João Marreiros; J. Michael Daniels; et al. "Late Pleistocene Landscape and Settlement Dynamics of Portuguese Estremadura". Journal of Field Archaeology (2020): 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2020.1733780.
    10.1080/00934690.2020.1733780
  4. Michael M. Benedetti; Jonathan A. Haws; Nuno F. Bicho; Lukas Friedl; Brooks B. Ellwood. "Late Pleistocene site formation and paleoclimate at Lapa do Picareiro, Portugal". Geoarchaeology (2019): https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21735.
    10.1002/gea.21735
  5. Taylor, Audrey K.; Benedetti, Michael M.; Haws, Jonathan A.; Lane, Chad S.. "The hydrogen isotopic compositions of sedimentary mid-chain n-alkanes record ecological change at a Portuguese paleowetland". Quaternary International 532 (2019): 23-33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2019.09.009.
    10.1016/j.quaint.2019.09.009
  6. Bicho, Nuno; Cascalheira, João; Andre, Lino; Haws, Jonathan; Gomes, Ana; Gonçalves, Célia; Raja, Mussa; Benedetti, Michael. "Portable art and personal ornaments from Txina-Txina: a new later stone age site in the Limpopo River Valley, southern Mozambique". (2018): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/11511.
    10.15184/aqy.2018.95
  7. Denniston, Rhawn F.; Houts, Amanda N.; Asmerom, Yemane; Wanamaker Jr., Alan D.; Haws, Jonathan; Polyak, Victor J.; Thatcher, Diana L.; et al. "A stalagmite test of North Atlantic SST and Iberian hydroclimate linkages over the last two glacial cycles". (2018): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/12551.
    10.5194/cp-14-1893-2018
  8. Taylor, Audrey K.; Benedetti, Michael M.; Haws, Jonathan A.; Lane, Chad S.. "Mid-Holocene Iberian hydroclimate variability and paleoenvironmental change: molecular and isotopic insights from Praia Rei Cortiço, Portugal". Journal of Quaternary Science 33 1 (2017): 79-92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3000.
    10.1002/jqs.3000
  9. Spencer, Jessica; Jones, Kaylee B.; Gamble, Douglas W.; Benedetti, Michael M.; Taylor, Audrey K.; Lane, Chad S.. "Late-Quaternary records of vegetation and fire in southeastern North Carolina from Jones Lake and Singletary Lake". Quaternary Science Reviews 174 (2017): 33-53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.09.001.
    10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.09.001
  10. Ghoneim, Eman; Dorofeeva, A.; Benedetti, M.; Gamble, D; Leonard, L.; AbuBakr, M. "Vegetation Drought Analysis In Tunisia: A Geospatial Investigation". Journal of Atmospheric & Earth Science 1 1 (2017): 1-9. http://dx.doi.org/10.24966/aes-8780/100002.
    10.24966/aes-8780/100002
  11. Bicho, Nuno Gonçalo Viana Pereira Ferreira; Haws, Jonathan; Raja, Mussa; Madime, Omar; Gonçalves, Célia; Cascalheira, João; Benedetti, Michael; Pereira, Telmo; Aldeias, Vera. "Middle and late stone age of the Niassa region, Northern Mozambique. Preliminary results". (2016): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/9431.
    10.1016/j.quaint.2015.09.059
  12. MINCKLEY, T. A.; HAWS, J. A.; BENEDETTI, M. M.; BREWER, S. C.; FORMAN, S. L.. "Last interglacial vegetation and climate history from the Portuguese coast". Journal of Quaternary Science 30 1 (2015): 59-69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2758.
    10.1002/jqs.2758
  13. Conyers, L.B.; Daniels, J.M.; Haws, J.A.; Benedetti, M.M.. "An Upper Palaeolithic Landscape Analysis of Coastal Portugal Using Ground-penetrating Radar". Archaeological Prospection 20 1 (2013): 45-51. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84874958427&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1002/arp.1439
  14. Pereira, T.; Benedetti, M.M.. "A model for raw material management as a response to local and global environmental constraints". Quaternary International (2013): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84877147120&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.quaint.2013.04.011
  15. Ghoneim, E.; Benedetti, M.; El-Baz, F.. "An integrated remote sensing and GIS analysis of the Kufrah Paleoriver, Eastern Sahara". Geomorphology 139-140 (2012): 242-257. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84856001866&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.10.025
  16. Benedetti, M.M.; Cordova, C.E.; Beach, T.. "Soils, sediments, and geoarchaeology: Introduction". Catena 85 2 (2011): 83-86. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79951956425&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.catena.2010.09.008
  17. Haws, J.A.; Benedetti, M.M.; Funk, C.L.; Bicho, N.F.; Daniels, J.M.; Hesp, P.A.; Minckley, T.A.; et al. "Coastal wetlands and the Neanderthal settlement of Portuguese Estremadura". Geoarchaeology 25 6 (2010): 709-744. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79951946324&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1002/gea.20330
  18. Benedetti, M.M.; Haws, J.A.; Funk, C.L.; Daniels, J.M.; Hesp, P.A.; Bicho, N.F.; Minckley, T.A.; Ellwood, B.B.; Forman, S.L.. "Late Pleistocene raised beaches of coastal Estremadura, central Portugal". Quaternary Science Reviews 28 27-28 (2009): 3428-3447. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-70450252070&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.09.029
  19. Rauscher, S.A.; Pal, J.S.; Diffenbaugh, N.S.; Benedetti, M.M.. "Future changes in snowmelt-driven runoff timing over the western US". Geophysical Research Letters 35 16 (2008): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-56449124114&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1029/2008GL034424
  20. Benedetti, M.M.; Daniels, J.M.; Ritchie, J.C.. "Predicting vertical accretion rates at an archaeological site on the Mississippi River floodplain: Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa". Catena 69 2 (2007): 134-149. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-33846620176&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.catena.2006.05.002
  21. Benedetti, M.M.; Raber, M.J.; Smith, M.S.; Leonard, L.A.. "Mineralogical indicators of alluvial sediment sources in the Cape Fear River Basin, North Carolina". Physical Geography 27 3 (2006): 258-281. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-33750407270&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.2747/0272-3646.27.3.258
  22. Benedetti, M.M.. "Controls on overbank deposition in the Upper Mississippi River". Geomorphology 56 3-4 (2003): 271-290. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0348165911&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/S0169-555X(03)00156-9
Distinctions

Award

2016 Research Reassignment
University of North Carolina at Wilmington, United States
2016 Support for Undergraduate Research and Creativity Award (SURCA)
University of North Carolina at Wilmington, United States
2014 Chancellor's Teaching Award
University of North Carolina at Wilmington, United States
2010 International Travel Award
University of North Carolina at Wilmington, United States
2008 Charles L. Cahill Award
University of North Carolina at Wilmington, United States
2003 Cooperative Ecosystems Study Unit Project
National Park Service Southeast Region, United States
2003 Center for Marine Science Research, Pilot Project
University of North Carolina at Wilmington, United States

Other distinction

2019 Visting Scholar Travel Funding
Západoceská univerzita v Plzni, Czech Republic
2010 Marisco Visiting Scholar
University of Denver, United States
2008 Association of American Geographers Research Grant
Association of American Geographers, United States