Ariana is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage. Her 2017 PhD dissertation was titled, Sustained Prehistoric Exploitation of a Marshall Islands Fishery: Ichthyoarchaeological Approaches, Marine Resource Use, and Human-Environment Interactions on Ebon Atoll. Ariana’s research focuses on the factors that influence long-term reef health, the dialogue between human foraging and fisheries population dynamics and ecology, the influence of ENSO and other climatic factors on the biogeography of migratory fish species over millennia, and the application of historical ecology to inform modern fisheries management and conservation agendas. She has been involved in field- and laboratory-based projects across the Pacific, including: American Samoa, Hawaiʻi, Henderson Island, Marquesas Islands, Marshall Islands, and the Tuamotus.
Publications
Giovas, C., Lambrides, A., Fitzpatrick, S., & Kataoka, O. (2017). Reconstructing prehistoric fishing zones in Palau, Micronesia using fish remains: a blind test of inter-analyst correspondence. Archaeology in Oceania, 52(1), 45–61.
Harris, M., Lambrides, A., & Weisler, M. (2016). Windward vs. leeward: inter-site variation in marine resource exploitation on Ebon Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 6, 221-229.
Lambrides, A., & Weisler, M. (2015). Applications of vertebral morphometrics in Pacific Island archaeological fishing studies. Archaeology in Oceania, 50, 53-70.
Lambrides, A., & Weisler, M. (2015). Assessing protocols for identifying Pacific Island archaeological fish remains: the contribution of vertebrae. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 25(6), 838-848.
Lambrides, A., & Weisler, M. (2016). Pacific Islands ichthyoarchaeology: implications for the development of prehistoric fishing studies and global sustainability. Journal of Archaeological Research, 24(3), 275-324.
Lambrides, A., & Weisler, M. (in press). Late Holocene Marshall Islands archaeological tuna records provide proxy evidence for ENSO variability in the western and central Pacific Ocean. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology.
Lambrides, A., Weisler, M., & Charleux, M. (2018). New taxonomic records and regional trends for the Marquesan prehistoric marine fishery, Eiao Island, Polynesia. Journal of Pacific Archaeology, 9(1), 44-62.
Weisler, M., Lambrides, A., Quintus, S., Clark, J., & Worthy, T. (2016). Colonisation and late period faunal assemblages from Ofu Island, American Samoa. Journal of Pacific Archaeology, 7(2), 1-19.
Conferences and Colloquia
Harris, M., Smith, T., Lambrides, A., James, E., Woo, K., & Basiaco, A. (2014). Is transparency or standardisation more important in zooarchaeological analysis? Paper presented at the UQ-UWA Zooarchaeology Symposium, Brisbane, Australia.
Harris, M., Weisler, M., & Lambrides, A. (2015). Small is not necessarily bad: 2000 years of sustained habitation on Ebon Atoll, Marshall Islands. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Lambrides, A., Harris, M., & Simpson, D. (2014). Refining methods in Micronesian and Polynesian archaeology at the University of Queensland. Paper presented at the School of Social Science Working Paper in Archaeology, Brisbane, Australia.
Lambrides, A., & Weisler, M. (2011). One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish: New methods for speciating archaeological fish vertebrae and the implications for reconstructing Pacific prehistory. Paper presented at the School of Social Science Postgraduate Conference, Brisbane, QLD.
Lambrides, A., & Weisler, M. (2013). A critical assessment of protocols for identifying archaeological fish remains: The use of vertebrae and its contribution towards improving subsistence studies in Oceania. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology 78th Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI.
Lambrides, A., & Weisler, M. (2014). Archaeological fish bone remains provide baseline ecological data for Ebon Atoll, Southern Marshall Islands. Paper presented at the Micronesia in Focus: Symposium, Canberra, Australia.
Lambrides, A., & Weisler, M. (2014). Assessing marine resource sustainability over two millennia using archaeological fish bones from the Marshall Islands. Paper presented at the UQ-UWA Zooarchaeology Symposium, Brisbane, Australia.
Lambrides, A., & Weisler, M. (2014). Investigating prehistoric fishing practices and resource sustainability over two millennia on the remote Ebon Atoll, Southern Marshall Islands, Micronesia. Paper presented at the 12th International Conference of Archaeozoology, San Rafael, Argentina.
Lambrides, A., & Weisler, M. (2015). Investigating resource sustainability during two millennia of occupation on Ebon Atoll, Marshall Islands: The ichthyoarchaeological evidence. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Lambrides, A., & Weisler, M. (2016). Fishing on Ebon Atoll, Marshall Islands: Local and regional archaeological perspectives on the late Holocene western and central Pacific Ocean tuna fishery. Paper presented at the School of Social Science Postgraduate Conference, Brisbane, Australia.
Grant, Funding, and Awards
2012-2016 Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship
2014 School of Social Science Fieldwork Bursary, The University of Queensland
2014 School of Social Science Conference Bursary, The University of Queensland
2014 UQ-UWA Bilateral Research Collaboration Awards: Methodological and Quantitative Approaches to Australasian Zooarchaeology and Taphonomy. Listed PIs in order: Manne, T, Balme, J., Dortch, J., Faulkner, P., Weisler, M., Thompson, J., Faith, T., Price, G., Harris, M., James, E., Lambrides, A., Smith, T., Monks, C., Paterson, A., Veth, P. and Asmussen, B.
2013 School of Social Science Travel Bursary, The University of Queensland
2013 Donald Tugby Postgraduate Archaeological Research Prize
2011 Best paper at the School of Social Science (The University of Queensland) Postgraduate Conference
2010 The University of Queensland Abroad Travel Grant
2009 & 2010 The University of Queensland Dean’s Commendation for High Achievement
Fieldwork
St Lawrence, Queensland (2 weeks, July 2013)
Ebon Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands (12 weeks, Nov 2011 – Feb 2012)
Molokaʻi Island, Hawaiʻi (4 weeks, Nov – Dec 2010)