Space weather is going to be a thing today - worth keeping an eye on for magnetic surveys and possible GPS issues!

Delighted to announce that I will be heading back to @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social Trimontium to work with the local community & @aocarchaeology.bsky.social to continue cutting edge geophysical surveys thanks to being selected as a Catalyst Project for RICHeS www.riches.ukri.org/news-and-eve...

What I was up to in September :) archaeoforensicsatbradford.teamapp.com/clubs/102370... Survey for the National Trust on Inner Farne- no puffins, but lots of cool archaeology and a new GuidelineGeo UAV GPR in the areas where puffin burrows meant we couldn't walk... #geophysics @nationaltrust.org.uk

Get yourself a partner that a) understands you are deadly serious when you say you want crumble and custard for dinner and b) knows that the most acceptable form of crumble is rhubarb #mylovelanguageispudding

My office for the week! Out on Inner Farne with the #RICHeS & @ukri.org funded University of Bradford Archaeological Sciences Mobile Geophysical Lab and @resandmag.bsky.social investigating the archaeology and paleoenvironment of the Island for the @nationaltrust.org.uk Super excited!

My hands are very sore and stiff and my concentration is wonky so I will likely not add much further today, apologies. The talks this afternoon continue the CRM/ sci coms and social value thread and then we'll go into the ISAP AGM which I can't post about anyway! #icap2025

Apologies for lack of posts (53rd paper of 58 since 09:00 on Tuesday!) - Kris Lockyear talking about 12 years of community geophysics in the UK. Did week long fieldschools following the National Parks Service school model - creating capacity across local archaeology groups #icap2025

Going into the final thematic session on CRM and social valorisation - Eileen Ernenwein giving a very personal paper about the publication and subsequent retraction of the Gunung Padang paper in Archaeological Prospection in 2023 - not going to comment much as it remains controversial #icap2025

Lieven Verdonck now going through semantic segmentation for GPR data using shallow machine learning - getting probabilistic surfaces of likelihood of belonging to user defined classes, which are then refined using thresholds, and then separated into objects using the #ilastik model #icap2025

(This is the point in #ICAP meetings where I try to sum up the major themes of the meeting. We're hearing from the cultural heritage management and community / heritage out reach side of things later on so I might wait until the break before the AGM to give a verdict for #icap2025)

Agnes - we need to turn expert knowledge into context/topological thick standardised descriptions - e.g. borrowing from geomorphometric languages; we need databases with datasets, we need them annotated and benchmarked and with metadata - YES YES YES ! #icap2025

Ethics also leading the way in Agnes' talk about automated dipole extraction in magnetic datasets... #icap2025

Melda has key questions for future work using machine learning in archaeology - the MAIA Cost Action she is part of is hoping to work on these challenges, and they are building open access tools for analysis and training datasets etc the legal challenges are high though as IP is complex #icap2025

Final day at #ICAP2025 and my posts today are going to be more sparse- sore hands (thanks body, not the time to be angry with me about travelling) and wanting to pay special attention this morning to the session on automated data interpretation and classification as it is right at the 1/2

Switched to my @aocarchaeology.bsky.social hat to present work I did in my job there,l with the Environment Agency on a Bronze Age barrow cemetery in the Nene Washes nr Peterborough- with thanks to AOC, the EA & Peterborough City Council for allowing me to share this developer led survey! #icap2025

Poster session part 1 and I have my Rual Life in Protohistoric Italy hat on, talking to people about the big picture results from 300+ geophysical investigations of rural Protohistoric sites in Northern Calabria with the Groningen Institute for Archaeology from 2011-13 #icap2025

And now @geoarchlady.bsky.social (Petra Schneidhofer) talking about seeing post- depositional changes within soils and archaeological deposits in GPR data, using the example of Odberg in Langendalen in Norway #icap2025

#ICAP2025 are back from lunch! Just one short session this afternoon before we break off for posters, the presentation of the conference beer (we are a) archaeologists and b) in Belgium: beer was an inevitability) and then a walking tour of the city so I'll be going quiet at about 15:00 local time.

Finally before lunch, Immo Trinks (not spelling it wrong this time!) also talking about innovative GPR stuff - this time the pain of doing GPR in forests (which the Bradford team also know well!) - Viking period cemetery in the woodland on Bornholm Island, Denmark #icap2025

Next Eric Nau from the GeoSphere / University of Vienna team presenting what happens when you attach a MIRA system to an autonomous vehicle with NIKU - the motivation for the robot surveyor is about scaling up the ability to cover large areas with motorised multichannel GPR. #ICAP2025

The next 3 talks are all about GPR, and the first is from Pierre-Lou Schang talking about GPR in building archaeology - using GPR GPR on standing walls and interior surfaces - this has been done since the 1990's for building management e.g. water ingress, but can also make discoveries #icap2025

Realised I didn't send the programme for this session- next is Angelos Plageras from my former temporary home, the GeoSatReSeArch Lab on Crete, looking at using EMI in shallow marine and littoral environments, which is also coincidentally the focus for my new job at University of Bradford! #ICAP2025

Back in session from tasty doughnuts/beignet at coffee & our Philippe presenting on behalf of the hosting team here at the University of Gent and the Prospect research group here, talking about their 3 channel EMI system- multichannel EMI is tricky as combining instruments results in noise #icap2025

The research team from the #UKRI and #AHRC funded #RICHeS Mobile Laboratory facility that I manage for Archaeological and Forensic Sciences at the University of Bradford were invited to showcase our work at the opening of the new HQ for the #RICHeS team last week: www.instagram.com/universityof...

Last before coffee is Ben Fores with a combined team lead by INRAP, who has pointed out that gravimetry is not technically a new field, but that perhaps its application in archaeological prospection remains novel #icap2025

Gregory Tsokas now taking us to Greece, and the use of 3D ERT for site monitoring. He's presenting on behalf of Prodromos Louvaris, his PhD student at the University of Thessaloniki, as this forms part of his work optimising ERT collection and the jacobian matrices used for inversion. #icap2025

Next Roman Krivanek looking at an overview of field measurement of MS, and the limits and advantages of a variety of bits of kit in comparison with the Multi-Kappa instrument from GF Instruments - www.gfinstruments.cz/index.php?me... #icap2025

Thursday at #ICAP2025 and we're kicking off the New Methods and Innovations with a keynote from Andreas Stele and the team from LMU Munich / Gent University and Bavarian State Heritage service going over their adoption of UAV based magnetometry - lots of useful technical information and quality data

Signing off for the day again. Off to do my bi-annual geek out about my niche subject over a tasty veggie dinner with my international community of fellow prospection nerds :) I've not attended this conference in person since 2017 and I missed everyone so much! #icap2025

Last paper before the conference breaks up for the formal dinner will be Klaus Locker and co from GeoSphere talking about visualising the invisible at manor house sites in the Baltic region #icap2025

Casandra Brasoveanu presenting her work on LBA (1600-1100 BC) Noua culture ashmound sites in NE Romania at Arheoinvest Center, Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, using integrated non destructive methods #icap2025

Julien Thiesson presenting work by a large consortium at the medieval mound of Nids using geoarchaeological geotechnical methods. In the flat plain of the Loiret area - raised flat topped mound 2-3.85m above local area with a ditch, prehistoric to current remains present on the mound. #icap2025

Michel Dabbas next talking about whether we can arrive at 3D interpretation of sites without excavation using integrated data - using the Gallo-Roman site of Plantades in Salviac, Lot, France #icap2025

Kicking off the session that opens the data integration thread, Piotr Wroniecki talking about Dimensional Ontology as a Foundation for Methodology of Integrated Non-Invasive Archaeological Surveys - or as he puts it, coping with uncertainty (perhaps the title of my entire career) #icap2025

Final paper before coffee is from Christelle Sanchez looking at 5 years of incorporation of survey data into excavation at Verdun-sur-le-Doubs with a large combined team. These surveys are conducted on topsoil-cleaned trenches on site #icap2025

Next Maksym Mackiewicz & prospection results from the medieval fortified sites in SE 'Greater Poland' - working with NGO Fundacja Archeolodzy.org - 17 sites chosen, mainly 10th-11th C from early Polish state built as dense network of fortified sites & some smaller later 'knightly houses' #icap2025

Back to Scandinavia now, Ellinor Hedberg will present her research on iron age ring forts on Oland in Sweden - in the context of climate, conflict and crisis. Oland is an island in the Baltic sea - 20 ringforts from 200-700CE, called 'borg' #icap2025

Slightly late back from lunch, but starting back into the multimethod prospection thread of the conference with Peter Milo from University of Brno speaking about prospection at the site of Pliska in Bulgaria - a 'megasite' #icap2025

Back to Norway with Lars Gustavsen for some theory and talking about relational landscape theory focusing on the Viksletta landscape and paleolandscape looking at the wider landscape around the ship burial at Gjellestad www.vikingtidsmuseet.no/english/rese... #icap2025

(one paper to go, aware I am making less and less sense, apologies - the full extended abstracts are all available as volume 49 (1) of the journal Archeosciences -revue d'archeometrie at journals.openedition.org/archeoscienc...) #icap2025

Heading south to Kreuttal microregion and Doris Jetzinger and colleagues what the sediment archive there can tell us about landscape histories - 4D nature of landscapes - 3 spatial dimensions plus time dimensions. PhD research to write landscape biography of microregion #icap2025

Going geographically up and up in date too - Arne Able Stamnes talking about project using GPR for high resolution investigation of chronological changes in coastlines and landscapes in areas of isostatic re-bound. Has implications for understanding present coastal changes too #icap2025

More northern german lakes - Tina Wunderlich presenting on behalf of Erica Corradini about mesolithic sites on the Duvensee, which was a lake in a dead ice hole that later became a peat moor. Talk will focus on old SW shorelineun-dated and subboreal 'woonplatz' - occupation sites #icap2025

Back from coffee (& delicious madeleines) to continue in paleoenvironments - Stine Detjens talking about her PhD work looking at environmental reconstructions of late Palaeolithic landscapes in northern Germany- is red ochre a factor? Were there accessible outcrops in the late pleistocene? #icap2025

Picked up the publication this morning, it is a brick! A good brick :) #icap2025

Closing the first session with Tomasz Herbich updating us all on his work in Egypt over the last two years #icap2025

Next up, @geofizzjim.bsky.social (Jimmy Adcock) changing scales and taking us to an #ISAP fund project at the WHS of Poverty Point - huge earthwork site variously interpreted as a meeting place, trading place or something else based on finds #ICAP2025

Next is Victor Cartelle, speaking about the FWO work on the Flanders coast south of Doggerland and the Testerep project looking at 5,000 of coastland landscape evolution - modelling paleolandscapes and the processes affecting them #icap2025

Nice to see Hans Peeters, a former GIA/RUG colleague of mine and his work in the SPLASHCOS COST Action being referenced by Vince! research.rug.nl/en/publicati... www.splashcos.org #icap2025

ICAP Day 2 and the keynote is Bradford's very own Prof. Vince Gaffney, opening the landscapes and paleoenvironments session, summarising 20 years+ of research into the submerged landscapes of northern Europe and elsewhere - Doggerland is of course at the fore #ICAP2025