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Benjamin Vining's research investigates human adaptation to prehistoric climate variability, with a particular focus on the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO).
His work has explored how ENSO-driven climate changes influenced vegetation productivity and agroecological niches in regions such as northwestern South America and northern Peru. Vining has also examined the temporal dynamics of material culture and societal changes in the Andes, specifically in relation to the Tiwanaku civilization and its post-collapse period.
Vining has received two NSF grants totaling $52,445. One grant supported doctoral dissertation research on human long-term adaptation to prehistoric ENSO-driven flooding, and the other was a doctoral dissertation improvement award for research on sustainable agricultural practices. He maintains an active lab website.
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- h-index: 8
- Publications: 22
- Citations: 256
Selected Publications
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Dating the ebb and flow of Tiwanaku and post-collapse material culture across the Andes (2025)
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Expanded agroecological niches and redistributed risks in northern Peru’s Chicama Valley during late-Holocene ENSO climate changes (2022)
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El Niño Southern Oscillation and enhanced arid land vegetation productivity in NW South America (2021)
Federal Grants 2 $52,445 total
Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: Sustainable Agricultural Practices
Doctoral Dissertation Research: Human long term adaptation to prehistoric ENSO-driven flooding
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- El Niño Southern Oscillation and enhanced arid land vegetation productivity in NW South America
- Expanded agroecological niches and redistributed risks in northern Peru’s Chicama Valley during late-Holocene ENSO climate changes
- El Niño Southern Oscillation and enhanced arid land vegetation productivity in NW South America
- Expanded agroecological niches and redistributed risks in northern Peru’s Chicama Valley during late-Holocene ENSO climate changes
- Expanded agroecological niches and redistributed risks in northern Peru’s Chicama Valley during late-Holocene ENSO climate changes
- Dating the ebb and flow of Tiwanaku and post-collapse material culture across the Andes
- Dating the ebb and flow of Tiwanaku and post-collapse material culture across the Andes
- Dating the ebb and flow of Tiwanaku and post-collapse material culture across the Andes
- Dating the ebb and flow of Tiwanaku and post-collapse material culture across the Andes
- Dating the ebb and flow of Tiwanaku and post-collapse material culture across the Andes
- Dating the ebb and flow of Tiwanaku and post-collapse material culture across the Andes
- Dating the ebb and flow of Tiwanaku and post-collapse material culture across the Andes
- Dating the ebb and flow of Tiwanaku and post-collapse material culture across the Andes
- Dating the ebb and flow of Tiwanaku and post-collapse material culture across the Andes
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