Alyssa Loyless '17 wins Fulbright

Alyssa Loyless, Dartmouth class of 2017 Geography/Anthropology major, has received the Fulbright Award to study the peripheral temple sites and cultural features of Sambor Prei Kuk, Cambodia.

Alyssa will be creating realistic 3D models in order to digitally preserve the brick temples of Sambor Prei Kuk for future use by researchers and succeeding generations of archaeologists. She will also be mapping and analyzing the core of the urban area using GIS. This research builds on the work she is conducting during her current Master's dissertation at the University of York on remotely mapping the cultural features, such as temples and housing settlements, of Sambor Prei Kuk using lidar data collected from the Cambodian Archaeological Lidar Initiative.