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Thomas H. McGovern

Thomas H. McGovern

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
46
Citations
6148
World Ranking
3696
National Ranking
1766

Overview

Thomas H. McGovern is affiliated with Hunter College in the United States. Their work spans multiple disciplines including Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Arts and Humanities, focusing on subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, History, and Archeology. The scientist's main research topics cover Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Marine and Environmental Studies, and Historical and Archaeological Studies, with an emphasis on Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies.

Recent publications demonstrate a combination of environmental science and historical research. Notable papers include:

  • Past Answers to Present Concerns. The Relevance of the Premodern Past for 21st Century Policy Planners: Comments on the State of the Field (2024), published in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
  • Secrets of the Vikings Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings Neil Price Basic Books, 2020. 624 pp. (2020), published in Science

Thomas H. McGovern frequently collaborates with several co-authors. Among the most common collaborators are:

  • Rowan Jackson
  • Andrew Dugmore
  • Steven Hartman
  • Benjamin D. Trump
  • Carole L. Crumley

The scientist's work appears predominantly in venues concerned with interdisciplinary climate and environmental studies as well as high-impact journals such as Science and Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change.

Best Publications

  • Supply chain management: A strategic issue in engineer to order manufacturing

    C Hicks;T McGovern;C.F Earl

  • Norse Greenland Settlement: Reflections on Climate Change, Trade, and the Contrasting Fates of Human Settlements in the North Atlantic Islands

    Andrew J. Dugmore;Christian Keller;Thomas H. McGovern

  • Interdisciplinary investigations of the end of the Norse western settlement in Greenland

    L. K. Barlow;J. P. Sadler;A. E. J. Ogilvie;P. C. Buckland

  • Applying lean principles to the design of healthcare facilities

    Chris Hicks;Tom McGovern;Gary Prior;Iain Smith

  • Social science perspectives on drivers of and responses to global climate change.

    Andrew K. Jorgenson;Shirley Fiske;Klaus Hubacek;Jia Li

  • The Norse landnám on the North Atlantic islands : an environmental impact assessment.

    Andrew J. Dugmore;Mike J. Church;Paul C. Buckland;Kevin J. Edwards

  • Climate challenges, vulnerabilities, and food security.

    Margaret C. Nelson;Scott E. Ingram;Andrew J. Dugmore;Richard Streeter

  • Cultural adaptation, compounding vulnerabilities and conjunctures in Norse Greenland

    Andrew J. Dugmore;Thomas H. McGovern;Orri Vésteinsson;Jette Arneborg

  • Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe

    Laurent A F Frantz;Laurent A F Frantz;James Haile;Audrey T Lin;Amelie Scheu

  • Bioarchaeological and Climatological Evidence for the Fate of Norse Farmers in Medieval Greenland

    Paul C. Buckland;T. Amorosi;L. K. Barlow;Andrew J. Dugmore

  • A Typology of UK Engineer-to-Order Companies

    Christian Hicks;Tom McGovern;Christopher Earl

  • Was it for walrus? Viking Age settlement and medieval walrus ivory trade in Iceland and Greenland

    Karin M. Frei;Ashley N. Coutu;Konrad Smiarowski;Ramona Harrison

  • Fuel resource utilisation in landscapes of settlement

    Ian A. Simpson;Orri Vésteinsson;W.Paul Adderley;Thomas H. McGovern

  • Northern Islands, human error, and environmental degradation: A view of social and ecological change in the Medieval North Atlantic

    Thomas H. McGovern;Gerald Bigelow;Thomas Amorosi;Daniel Russell

  • Raiding the Landscape: Human Impact in the Scandinavian North Atlantic

    Thomas Amorosi;Paul Buckland;Andrew Dugmore;Jon H. Ingimundarson

  • A functional model of supply chains and waste

    C. Hicks;O. Heidrich;T. McGovern;T. Donnelly

  • The Role of Climate in Settlement and Landscape Change in the North Atlantic Islands: An Assessment of Cumulative Deviations in High-Resolution Proxy Climate Records

    Andrew J. Dugmore;Douglas M. Borthwick;Mike J. Church;Alastair Dawson

  • They did not Live by Grass Alone: the Politics and Palaeoecology of Animal Fodder in the North Atlantic Region

    Tom Amorosi;Paul C. Buckland;Kevin J. Edwards;Ingrid Mainland

  • Regional zooarchaeology and global change: Problems and potentials

    Thomas Amorosi;James Woollett;Sophia Perdikaris;Thomas McGovern

  • The Vikings were not the first colonizers of the Faroe Islands

    Mike J. Church;Símun V. Arge;Kevin J. Edwards;Philippa L. Ascough

  • Cows, harp seals, and churchbells: Adaptation and extinction in Norse Greenland

    Thomas H. McGovern

  • Social science perspectives on drivers of and responses to global

    Andrew K. Jorgenson;Shirley Fiske;Klaus Hubacek;Jia Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew J. Dugmore
Andrew J. Dugmore University of Edinburgh
David J. Hunter
David J. Hunter Newcastle University
Kevin J. Edwards
Kevin J. Edwards University of Aberdeen
Keith Dobney
Keith Dobney University of Sydney
Greger Larson
Greger Larson University of Oxford
Jon P. Sadler
Jon P. Sadler University of Birmingham
Torben C. Rick
Torben C. Rick National Museum of Natural History
Daniel G. Bradley
Daniel G. Bradley Trinity College Dublin
Hendrik-Jan Megens
Hendrik-Jan Megens Wageningen University & Research
Martien A. M. Groenen
Martien A. M. Groenen Wageningen University & Research

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