Linda writes: “I retired from the Israel Nature and Parks Authority in April 2014, but remain in Israel as a permanent resident in Israel. Since then I became active in two archaeological projects as a staff ecologist and landscape archaeologist. The first project is Tel es-Safi/biblical Gath, where I am analyzing the ancient plant and animal remains in comparison with modern flora, fauna, and habitats. The second project is the Gadara Region Project centered on Tall Zira’a in Jordan. During May I was in Umm Qais, ancient Gadara, testing flotation methods to extract ancient seeds from soil samples collected in Tall Zira’a. I am now a Senior Fellow at the German Protestant Institute of Archaeology in Jerusalem (GPIA) which runs this project, and will be doing habitat mapping of the Gadara Region during the coming year.”