Marcy Rockman is an archaeologist/anthropologist who specializes in how human groups gather, share, remember, and transmit environmental information. In her current role as an American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow at the Environmental Protection Agency-National Homeland Security Research Center in Washington, D.C., she studies long-term patterns of risk perception and population response to both abrupt and longer-term environmental change and translates archaeological information into a form useful for federal-level discussions about adaptation and resilience. She has conducted fieldwork across the American West and in Europe and the Middle East.

Before her fellowship, Rockman worked in cultural resource management and environmental consulting in California and Arizona, as well as a research associate at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She was the lead editor of two volumes on archaeology and has published multiple scholarly chapters and journal articles.

Rockman has a bachelor's in geology from the College of William and Mary, and an master’s and Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Arizona.

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Related Resources by Marcy Rockman from the Natural Hazards Library

Landscape Learning in Relation to Evolutionary Theory in Macroevolution in Human Prehistory: Evolutionary Theory and Processual Arachaeology
Edited by Anna Marie Prentiss, Ian Kuijt, and James C. Chatters, 2010.

The Colonization of Unfamiliar Landscapes: The Archaeology of Adaptation
Co-edited with James Steele, New York: Routledge, 2003.