With more than 35 years of experience in cultural resource management, Mr. Self provides the project direction and coordination necessary to complete even the most complex archaeological contract work. Mr. Self has, since 1973, served as USDA Forest Archaeologist on the Inyo National Forest (out of the Lee Vining District in eastern CA), as State Archaeologist in the Nevada State Historic Preservation Office, and as a Senior Scientist with Bechtel Corp., conducting and managing archaeological investigations and environmental studies on very large, complex infrastructure projects throughout the United States and in numerous foreign countries (Zhungheer Coal Mine, Inner Mongolia, China; Krsko Nuclear Power Plant, Slovenia (former Yugoslavia). He held a position as Environmental Planner with the City of San Francisco Planning Department for two years. Since 1988 he has served as President/CEO of William Self Associates, Inc., a full-service cultural resource consulting firm working on more than 800 projects in 15 states. He has been a member of the Registry of Professional Archaeologists since 1980, and has held or currently holds BLM and USFS permits for archaeological survey or testing on lands in California, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. He is widely experienced in all aspects of research, survey, testing, data recovery and analysis in historic and prehistoric archeology. He is intimately familiar with state and federal historic preservation regulations and has prepared Agreement Documents with numerous State Historic Preservation Offices for several projects. He has worked closely with dozens of Native American tribal groups and individuals throughout the western United States. Mr. Self is currently serving on the Board of the American Cultural Resources Association.

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Dr. Allan has more than 20 years experience in cultural resource management, involving historic, maritime, and prehistoric archaeology investigations. He is a Principal and Vice President of WSA, Inc. and directs operations in the company's California office. He has served as Principal Investigator on numerous projects in the San Francisco Bay area, including the 300 Spear Street Project, during which he oversaw the recovery of the intact post-Gold-rush era whaling ship Candace and the excavation of the Hare ship breaking yard - one of San Francisco's earliest entrepreneurial enterprises. He directed the Muni Metro Turnback Project, a $275M transit extension in downtown San Francisco that included excavation of a portion of the historic ship Rome from the project alignment, and the 400 Howard Street Project, during which the remains of San Francisco's first coal gasification plant were excavated. He has also served as the Principal Investigator for the WTA-Oyster Point Project, the remote sensing and underwater resource evaluation of the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge, Carquinez Bridge, Benicia Bridge and Richmond-San Rafael Bridge seismic retrofit projects for Caltrans and has conducted remote sensing archaeological investigations in San Francisco Bay on behalf of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He has supervised record searches, survey and reporting on over 100 projects in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, and Arizona, and most recently oversaw the excavation and documentation of one of the Bay Area's earliest shellmound sites. Dr. Allan is an adjunct professor in the Anthropology Department at Saint Mary's College of California, is a consultant to the California State Lands Commission on matters pertaining to the state's submerged cultural heritage, serves a Research Fellow of the Archaeological Research Facility at the University of California, Berkeley, and is a member of the National Park Service's Historical Landmarks Committee.

Dr. Ravesloot has more than 30 years experience in the archaeology and ethnography of the American Southwest and northern Mexico. As WSA Principal and Vice President in charge of the Tucson office, Dr. Ravesloot brings his extensive experience in large project management, data recovery, and Native American relations to WSA projects throughout the Southwest. He recently served for more than 12 years as the founding Director of the Cultural Resources Management Program for the Gila River Indian Community south of Phoenix. In that capacity he directed cultural resources studies for the Pima-Maricopa Irrigation project. In addition to serving as the Owner's Representative for the construction of the $10m Huhugam Heritage Center, he has authored or co-authored numerous journal articles, books and monographs on the prehistory of the Southwest, and serves as Visiting Scholar of the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona. Among other work, he is currently Principal Investigator on two important WSA projects: the El Paso to Phoenix Expansion Project, where WSA is involved in large-scale excavations at Cienega Creek and other sites, and the ADOT I-10 Widening Project from Phoenix to Casa Grande, through the Gila River Indian Community.

Dr. Karbula received his Ph.D. from University of Texas at Austin in 2000, and served for over ten years as Principal Archeologist and Program Manager for a diversified archeological and architectural history program in an environmental services firm in Austin, Texas. Beginning January 2008, he will serve as WSA Principal in charge of our Southern Region office in Austin, Texas. His responsibilities have included coordination with local, state, federal and SHPO regulatory staff under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and the Texas Antiquities Code. James has conducted projects for several federal agencies including the Ft. Worth District of the USACE, the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the United States Section International Boundaries and Water Commission (USIBWC). He is experienced in National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) compliance through the authorship of numerous chapters for TxDOT District Environmental Impact Statements, Environmental Assessments, and Categorical Exclusion documents (EIS, EA, CE).

James has functioned as Project Manager and Principal Investigator for over 45 Texas Antiquities Code Permits for archeological investigations in the form of surveys, testing, and data recovery projects in various regions of Texas (Phase I, II and III investigations). James has supervised successful testing and data recovery projects on a variety of Archaic and Late Prehistoric sites including burned rock midden and open occupation sites. James has conducted intensive mechanical field investigations in Texas deep terrace sites of the Clear Fork of the Trinity River (Tarrant Co.), San Antonio River (Bexar Co.), Onion and Barton Creeks (Travis Co.), Brushy and Berry Creeks (Williamson Co.). Dr. Karbula's historic archeological expertise includes functioning as Principal Investigator for several large, complex multi-block mechanical and hand excavations of mid-late 19th century urban and industrial sites for the City of Austin, Texas.

Dr. Estes has more than 20 years' experience in supervising archaeological projects including excavation, construction monitoring, artifact analysis, curation, and technical reporting. Dr. Estes began his archaeological career in 1986 working for the University of California, Berkeley at the site of Tel Dor, Israel. While there, he managed field crews in the excavation and artifact analysis at one of Israel's largest archaeological sites. Since 1996, Dr. Estes has served as Assistant Director and has been in charge of all fieldwork for the UC Berkeley team during their annual trip to the site. Dr. Estes joined WSA in 1995 and has since worked on projects including the Mid-Embarcadero Surface Roadway and F-Line Extension, the Four Seasons Hotel, One Embarcadero South, and 1045 Mission Street projects. Dr. Estes has served as project manager supervising field crews in construction monitoring, excavation, artifact analysis, and curation as well as preparing the technical reports for the Kramer Junction Pipeline Project in southern California, the Hercules Victoria, LLC, Residential Project in Hercules, California, and the San Francisco Museum Towers, 1st and Howard Streets, 560 Mission Street and 530 Chestnut Street projects in San Francisco. In addition to California, he has managed field crews in Arizona, Nevada and Utah, and is currently directing portions of the UNEV pipeline project fieldwork in Utah and Nevada. .

Dr. Price has more than 20 years of wide-ranging experience in archaeology and serves as Regional Project Director of WSA's Pacific Region office. She began her professional career as an archaeologist for the USDA Forest Service on the Unaka National Forest in Tennessee, has conducted research on early human archaeological evidence in southern France, has served as lithic analyst for a research expedition to Mongolia, and has taught archaeology at the University of California, Berkeley, at San Francisco State University, and the College of Marin. She has been a cultural resources management specialist in northern California for over 10 years, and served as a WSA Project Director for 5 years prior to becoming Regional Project Director. Dr. Price is experienced in the National Historic Preservation Act Section 106 and the California Environmental Quality Act Sections 15064.5 and 15126.4 review processes. She conducts and directs all aspects of archaeological field investigations, including survey and inventory, Native American consultation, burial treatment, data recovery, construction monitoring, research, as well as the production of multi-volume technical reports. Recent projects directed by Dr. Price include data recovery at the Bay Street retail center in the Emeryville Shellmound, the Canyon Oaks development, and Rossmoor detention basin; more than 600 prehistoric human burials were recovered and analyzed on these projects in consultation with local Native American representatives. She is currently involved in large transportation and water management projects subject to NHPA Section 106. Dr. Price has a technical expertise in lithic analysis and is 40-hr HAZWOPER certified.

Mr. Strother has ten years of professional archaeological experience working throughout California. With a strong academic background in human and non-human osteology, Eric has served as WSA's principal Human Osteologist since 2001. During that time, he has worked on numerous small and large projects in northern California, including the Hercules Victoria Residential Project in Hercules, the Bay Street Project in Emeryville, the Canyon Oaks Project in Pleasanton, the Rossmoor Basin project in Walnut Creek, and the Jay Paul Company's Moffett Towers project in Sunnyvale. These projects have involved excavation and analysis of more than 800 prehistoric human burials. He has also conducted faunal analysis on many of these projects, and has authored technical sections on human osteology in numerous multi-volume technical reports. Eric has also taught Physical Anthropology and Field Archaeology at California State University, East Bay, and assisted Sonoma County law enforcement with forensic assessments. His current research involves skeletal evidence of violence in central California prehistory.

Dr. Farnsworth has over 30 years of experience in archaeology and has conducted archaeological investigations in California, Louisiana, the Bahamas, Jamaica, England and France. He is a specialist in historical archaeology with research interests in Native American culture change since European contact, the development of African-American cultures in the New World, as well as British, French and Spanish colonial cultures. The development of American life in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is another of his major interests. Dr. Farnsworth spent five years as the curator of archaeological collections for UCLA's Fowler Museum of Cultural History, and worked extensively as a private archaeological consultant in Southern and Central California, before joining the faculty of Louisiana State University for seventeen years, rising to the rank of Professor and Department Chair. He has written numerous articles and book chapters as well as authoring and editing several books and monographs. Dr. Farnsworth has been a member of the Register of Professional Archaeologists since 1987 and has carried out archaeological research projects in conjunction with the California Department of Parks and Recreation, Louisiana State Parks Department, the Louisiana State Archives, the Bahamas National Trust, and the Bahamian Government, in addition to work for the private sector and historic preservation groups.

Mr. Fino has seven years of experience in developing geographic information system-based maps for use in the assessment and analysis of technical issues, to facilitate project decisions (e.g., on pipeline routing through archaeologically sensitive areas), and as essential graphical components of WSA's technical reports. As a GIS Specialist, Nazih develops maps using field-generated GPS data, and prepares GIS/GPS-based maps for use in project reports and other project documents. He has conducted GIS/GPS mapping for archaeological Area of Potential Effect (APE) Maps on over 600 miles of pipeline projects, including the East Line Expansion Project, El Paso to Phoenix Expansion Project, and the UNEV Pipeline project; this work occurred throughout the southwest and intermountain west areas. Nazih received a Master of Archaeology degree from Jordan University (Amman) in 1997, and in 2005, received a Master of Urban Planning degree from San Jose State University (CA), with an emphasis in GIS planning applications, computer urban design, environmental, land use and urban planning. Prior to working at WSA, he gained experience in geographic information systems development while working in the Data Management Division of the City Planning Department of the City of San Jose, California.

Mr. Boley has 10 years of CRM contract and academic experience in the archaeology of the American Southwest, primarily in the Sonoran Desert. As a crew member at large-scale excavations of Hohokam villages in the Phoenix Basin, he familiarized himself with the excavation and documentation of many types of prehistoric features, including mortuary and architectural features. During Michael's graduate school training at the University of Arizona, he taught undergraduates both excavation techniques and the material culture and culture history of the Hohokam. He most recently served as assistant field director/crew chief on the extensive data recovery portion of the SFPP, L.P. East Line Expansion Project excavations at Cienega Creek in southern Arizona. Michael's primary research interests are in lithic analysis and the movement of goods through prehistoric trade networks. His M.A. thesis, an obsidian sourcing study, combined these interests.

Mr. Rawson obtained his M.A. in Archaeology at Sheffield University in the United Kingdom. Before coming to America in 2000, Paul gained seven years experience in Paleolithic research and contract archaeology throughout the U.K. Since moving to the southwest, he has accumulated an additional seven years experience in CRM contract archaeology on both historic and prehistoric field projects in southern Arizona, formerly serving as crew chief for the Gila River Indian Community home site archaeological testing program. Paul's recent WSA projects have included NHPA Section 106 studies and data recovery on pipelines, fiber-optic cables and private developments throughout southern Arizona. He recently served as field director on the extensive data recovery portion of the SFPP, L.P. East Line Expansion Project excavations at Cienega Creek in southern Arizona.

Ms. Arrigoni has five years of professional experience working as an archaeologist and historian throughout California. Aimee's academic work focused on the 19th-century history of northern California. Specifically, she has researched the post-gold rush settlement that shaped the future demographics, land use, and economy of the region surrounding the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition, her work focused on the way in which settlers interacted with local Native Americans during this period of dramatic transition. Her recent experience includes field work and analysis associated with the Canyon Oaks Project in Pleasanton, where she conducted lab analysis of several hundred late 19th and early 20th century historic artifacts, including those of Euro-American and Chinese origin. She has also recently analyzed the collection of over 800 gold rush-era and maritime artifacts associated with early settlement in San Francisco as part of the 300 Spear Street project. In early 2007 she managed the data recovery excavations, analysis and technical reporting associated with the 400 Howard Street project, the site of the first coal gasification facility in San Francisco; she is also working on the site of the new California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, once home to the 1894 Midwinter Expo.

Mr. Krueger obtained his BS with a dual major in archaeology and human osteology from the University of New Mexico. His graduate work for his MA at Northern Arizona University involved examination of micro-flake scars on a Basketmaker III lithic collection as a means of determining usewear. George has extensive archaeological experience throughout the Southwest, including block surveys for the US Forest Service, and fiber optic and pipeline surveys as part of various CRM projects throughout Arizona, Nevada, Colorado and Utah. He has served as both crew member and crew chief on numerous large-scale excavations of Hohokam sites in southern Arizona, and has conducted archaeological monitoring of construction as part of NHPA Section 106 compliance in Utah and Arizona.

Ms. Diaz de Valdes received her MA from the University of Arizona and has over five years of experience in Southwestern archaeology with an analytical focus in zooarchaeology. Her MA focused on the identification and interpretation of the ritual use of animals by prehistoric Puebloan groups. While in graduate school, she gained valuable field experience as a crew chief for the Homol’ovi Research Program through the Arizona State Museum, during which time she also served as the faunal analyst for the project. She has also been involved in a cultural affiliation study for the Tonto National Monument and carried out an interdisciplinary literature review pertaining to affiliated tribes, preparing a report for use by park management. Her research interests include social and ritual organization, paleoenvironmental reconstruction and conservation applications of archaeological data. .

Trevor Self received his BA from St. Mary's College in California in 2006, majoring in Spanish and Political Sciences, and is fluent in Spanish, having spent much of his college education at the University of Carlos III in Madrid, Spain. He spent several years working intermittently for WSA in the Orinda office, gaining valuable experience in historic archaeological excavation, including the exposure and recovery of the 19th century ship Candace in downtown San Francisco. He assisted with removal of scores of prehistoric human burials at both the Rossmoor Basin site in Lafayette and the Canyon Oaks site in Pleasanton, and has exposed prehistoric house floors and other features as part of excavation. He has conducted archaeological survey in several states, recording sites and features as part of the work. He attended the archaeological field school at Tel Dor in Israel (directed by Dr. Allen Estes of WSA), gaining considerable experience in many areas of archaeology. He began using the Trimble GeoXT GPS and Leica Total Station on several survey and excavation projects, and, in conjunction with his intimate familiarity with mapping and other software, has taken over responsibility as Cartographic Coordinator for WSA out of the Southwest Region office. He uses ArcGIS, Expert GPS, Map Publisher, several Adobe products, and other software to manipulate data as it arrives from the field, allowing maximum use of the information for geospatial planning and illustration purposes.

Dr. Yoder received a dual history/anthropology BA and shortly thereafter a secondary teaching license from Weber State University. This was followed by an MA from Brigham Young University and a PhD from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has seven years of experience in the Great Basin and Southwest having conducted excavation and archaeological survey in Utah, Idaho, and Nevada. This includes such diverse experiences as coordinating and overseeing the excavation of multiple Archaic and Formative sites for housing and development projects in southern Utah (Sand Hollow II), testing of a historic Mormon fort (Fort Harmony) in south-central Utah, to the recovery of Late Prehistoric human remains from Nevada. Dr. Yoder has taught anthropology courses at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and at Brigham Young University and is currently an editor of the peer reviewed journal Utah Archaeology. He is proficient with the analysis of multiple data sets with some of his most current research including architecture and mobility among the Fremont, the early use of ground stone and adoption of small seed processing on the Colorado Plateau, Basketmaker and Puebloan footwear, and the use of soft-X ray radiography for examining perishable artifacts. In addition to his technical report writing he has published in such resources as the Journal of Archaeological Science, the Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology, Kiva, and Utah Archaeology.

Mr. O’Mack has over 25 years of experience in archaeology and historic preservation. Before settling in Tucson in 1998, he worked as an archaeologist and ethnohistorian on a wide variety of projects in Mexico, Central America, and the U.S. Midwest. Since 1998, he has specialized in the history and historic archaeology of Arizona and New Mexico, with a particular focus on the multicultural history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His recent projects have included studies of ranching history in southern Arizona, field documentation of historical-period irrigation systems in Arizona and New Mexico, historic context development for the archaeological remains of Hispanic settlements in New Mexico, an oral-historical study of a Mexican pottery-making community in southern California, and in-depth archival research on a nineteenth-century cemetery in downtown Tucson. Mr. O'Mack is actively involved in numerous Pima County On-Call contract projects throughout southern Arizona.

Ms. Stinchcomb received her fundamental archaeological training under the direction of Dr. James Hatch at the Pennsylvania State University. She obtained her M.A. in Cultural Resource Management at California University of Pennsylvania. Erin worked for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as an archaeological technician on several projects and served as a GIS database analyst for two years. In 2004 she began working for a cultural resource management firm near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she remained an archaeology project manager for three and a half years. During that time she worked on numerous projects in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, and Maryland. Erin has also completed debitage analysis and designed databases for several projects, most recently analyzing the debitage of a Middle Woodland site located in the heart of the Hardyston Jasper Quarry District in Pennsylvania; she also designed a database to manage multiple censuses in order to identify developmental trends in Pennsylvania farmsteads.

Ms. Cook received her Postgraduate Bachelor of Arts (honors) from the University of Queensland, Australia. Her postgraduate thesis focused on theories of culture change and their relevance for interpreting contact-period sites. She has seven years experience working in Cultural Resources Management in Australia and the U.S. Ms. Cook has worked on a variety of prehistoric and historic sites throughout California, including prehistoric burial sites, large occupation sites and coastal shell mounds, a gold rush period site in downtown San Francisco, the site of a Chinese garden in the Mission District, and the site of the Indian neophyte residences near Mission Dolores. While working at WSA, Ms. Cook has managed projects involving preparation of Caltrans required documents for road improvements, environmental impact reports, and technical reports.

Ms. Wygant received her B.S. from Kent State University with a major in archaeology. During this time, she participated in the University of Arizona Summer Field School in Pinedale, Arizona. She obtained her M.A. from the University of Arizona in 2007. Her thesis focused on the exchange of copper bells, macaws, and shell objects throughout the American Southwest and northern Mexico. In graduate school, she participated in the Proyecto Arqueológico Ceibal-Petexbatun, excavating Maya ruins in Guatemala. While at WSA, she has undertaken field research, curation, and many aspects of report preparation, including creating maps from data gathered in the field and illustrating artifacts.

Dr. McKee received B.A. degrees in Anthropology and Geology from the University of Colorado, an M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Colorado, and a PhD in Anthropology from University of Arizona. He has considerable experience in the prehistory of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Costa Rica. That experience includes directing crews in excavation and analysis at the Cerén site in El Salvador, a UNESCO World Heritage site. He has published extensively on his research in Central America. Dr. McKee is Senior Archaeologist at WSA’s Tucson office and is the Lab Director in that office. Prior to joining WSA in 2007, he worked in cultural resource management in the Great Plains, Southeast, Southwest, and Great Basin. Since joining WSA, Dr. McKee has completed fieldwork and technical reporting for several small surveys in southern Arizona, and has worked on laboratory analysis and reporting on the Kinder Morgan Energy Partners’ El Paso-to-Phoenix Expansion Project, as well as conducting fieldwork, laboratory analysis, and write up for the Salt Lake City-to-Las Vegas UNEV Pipeline Project.

Ms. Applegate received her B.A. in Anthropology from Northern Arizona University. After working in Ghana, West Africa as a Peace Corps Volunteer, she returned to Arizona and has been working with WSA since 2007. She excavated at the Cienega Creek site in southeastern Arizona during the data recovery phase of the East Line Expansion Project and was an assistant crew chief on the Transwestern Pipeline Phoenix Expansion Project. She has conducted lithic debitage analysis and processed flotation samples in the Tucson lab, as well as assisting in report preparation. She will serve as the Utah field lab coordinator for the Holly UNEV pipeline project.

Ms. Simpson received her B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Arizona. She has 14 years of administrative support experience, and has specialized in office support for cultural resource management firms for the past seven years. She was Special Staff Assistant in the Pima County Cultural Resources and Historic Preservation Office for three years, followed by a year as Senior Administrative Assistant for SWCA Environmental Consultants, and a year as Right of Way Staff Agent for Tierra Right of Way Services. Ms. Simpson has also logged over 100 hours of volunteer service with the Arizona Site Steward program run by the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office. She currently serves as Executive Assistant for WSA’s corporate office, working extensively with accounting, report production, and the coordination of field crews.

Damon received his academic training in Anthropology and Geography at Texas State University, was awarded a BA in Anthropology in 2003, and a Master's degree in Geography specializing in Geographic Information Science in 2008. His Master's research involved applications of spatial statistics in a Geographic Information System environment to model archaeological site location on land managed by the Department of Defense. He has applied location-based technologies to the management of cultural resources in Texas and New Mexico for over 6 years. His experience involves working on projects with federal and state lands and resource management agencies including the National Park Service, US International Boundary Water Commission, Department of Defense, Texas Parks and Wildlife, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, and Texas Department of Transportation. He has made contributions to projects including cultural resource preservation and monitoring, corridor studies integrating geologic, biological, cultural, and socio-economic factors using GIS for the NEPA compliance process, environmental constraints analysis, education and public outreach, immigration, and water quality. Damon joined WSA, Inc. in 2008, serving the southern US from the Austin office as a GIS Analyst and Staff Archaeologist, where he manages the implementation of a full range of GIS/GPS and cartographic related products and services that support staff operations both in the field and during technical report development.

Melanie A. Medeiros, MA, received her BA in Archaeology and Classical Studies from Cornell College in 2003, and her MA in Anthropology (Archaeology) from the University of Arizona in 2005. In 2006/2007, she held an appointment as the Technical Editor for the Arizona State Museum Archaeological Series, during which time she help to bring two volumes of the series to publication. Although Melanie specializes in the prehistory of the Southwest, having served as a crew chief and ground stone analyst for the Homol’ovi Research Program from 2003 through 2006, she has also conducted excavation and survey in the Goshute Valley and at the Bonneville Estates Rock Shelter (both in Nevada), which allowed her to acquire experience in Paleoindian archaeology and flaked stone analysis. Melanie joined the WSA team in May 2007, initially performing the record search and authoring the Class I report for the ADOT I-10 Widening Project from SR 202L to Junction I-8. Melanie also completed the review and revision of the extensive data recovery report for Kinder Morgan’s East Line Expansion Project, and she is currently involved in preparing and revising the data recovery report for Kinder Morgan’s El Paso-to-Phoenix Expansion Project. She also has contributed to the preparation and editing of the Class III survey report for the Nevada segment of the UNEV project and is co-author of the Class III survey report for the Utah segment of the same project. Melanie is currently pursuing her doctorate in Anthropology at the University of Arizona; her primary research interests include ground stone analysis and the development of foodways/cuisine and archaeological definitions of technology and analysis frameworks for prehistoric technologies.

Mr. Milliken attended Vanderbilt University, and received his B.A. from Towson University in Ancient History. He then studied at the American University of Rome, where he focused on archaeological theory pertaining to the Middle East and Europe. Mr. Milliken has participated on several excavations in Europe and the Middle East, and has also excavated on his native island of Sardinia. He served as a volunteer for the U.C. Berkeley excavations at Tel Dor, Israel, in 2005, and returned as a unit supervisor in 2006, where he supervised excavation, led artifact analysis, and assisted in Field School direction. Upon his return to the U.S., Mr. Milliken moved to Las Vegas, Nevada where he worked on the Gold Butte Project and recorded over 175 archaeological sites in southeast Nevada. He subsequently moved to Tucson, Arizona where he joined WSA in 2007 and participated on the SFPP, L.P. El Paso to Phoenix Expansion Project. He most recently served as an assistant crew chief on the data-recovery effort for the Transwestern Phoenix Expansion Pipeline Project in northern Arizona. Mr. Milliken is currently working in coordination with Pima County Cultural Resources and Historic Preservation Office on several projects throughout the Tucson Basin, on the UNEV Pipeline project from Salt Lake City to Las Vegas, and on large block-surveys on National Forests and elsewhere in Arizona.

Dr. Gabler received B.A. degrees in Anthropology/Archaeology and Mathematics from Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pennsylvania. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology, specializing in archaeology and ecological anthropology, from the University of Arizona. He has worked on projects in Pennsylvania, New Mexico, and Arizona, ranging from archaic and early agricultural periods in scope through the recent historical period. Prior to joining WSA in 2009, he conducted survey and excavation in northern New Mexico with the Los Alamos National Laboratory Cultural Resources Team from 2004-2009, using these data to produce his dissertation. His dissertation research focused on the changing settlement pattern, land use, and demography of the Ancestral Puebloans on the Pajarito Plateau, specifically around Los Alamos and the northern portion of Bandelier National Monument. During this time he also assisted in editing reports for the Ironwood Forest National Monument, Mission Santa Ana de Cuiquiburitac, and Sanford Ranch projects for the Bureau of Land Management in Tucson, Arizona.

Dr. Charlotte Sunseri received her doctorate from the University of California Santa Cruz. Her dissertation, Spatial Economies of Precontact Exchange in the Greater Monterey Bay Area, California investigated subsistence, territoriality, and exchange during the Medieval Climatic Anomaly (AD 800-1250). The project involved primary research, original zooarchaeological analyses, supervision of undergraduates’ lithic analyses, and development of a specific GIS model for data interpretation.

Dr. Sunseri’s experience in California prehistoric archaeology field and laboratory skills will compliment the other technical services we offer at present. She is a broadly-trained field archaeologist with a materials specialty in zooarchaeology and experience with GIS-based spatial analysis, lithic analysis, and statistical analysis. She spent four summers doing excavation and survey, including 16 weeks as supervisor for Texas A&M-Corpus Christi’s field school. She has recently completed zooarchaeological research contracts for the California Department of Parks and Recreation and the University of California Santa Cruz.

Drew Bailey has a B.A. in anthropology from the University of Massachusetts Boston, and is currently a graduate student in the California State University Eastbay anthropology M.A. program. Mr. Bailey specializes in historical archaeology, and is currently researching his thesis on the industrial development of San Francisco following the Gold Rush. He has worked on numerous historic and prehistoric excavations in New England, and California, participated in the removal of approximately 150 prehistoric burials in the San Francisco Bay Area, acted as a crew chief during Cal State Eastbay excavations at the Alviso Adobe in Pleasanton, California, and taken part in archaeological surveys throughout California, Utah, and Nevada. Mr. Bailey has worked on WSA projects for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, and Kinder Morgan, prepared countless technical reports, and is familiar with CEQA, NEPA and NHPA Section 106 reporting standards. He is skilled in the use of Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and has received ESRI certification in the use of ArcGIS. He is OSHA 24-Hr HAZWOPER certified.

Ms. Lippel received her BA from San Jose State University in 2005, with an emphasis in archaeology. During this time, she attended an intensive field school at the Cahokia Mounds World Heritage Site in Illinois. As part of her curriculum, she contributed to the Coast Miwok community by volunteering at the Marin Museum of the American Indian, and at the Kule Loklo village in the Point Reyes National Seashore. In addition to this, she has four years of field experience working throughout Northern California and the San Francisco Bay Area on various historic and prehistoric sites. She has assisted in the removal of prehistoric human remains at the Moffett Towers site near Sunnyvale, and at a housing development site near Brentwood. She served as field monitor for Novato's City Hall historic renovation project, where recently a late 19th century time capsule was discovered. While working for WSA, she assisted with site testing for the Transwestern Pipeline expansion project and data recovery for the EPX Pipeline Cienega Creek site, both in Arizona, and survey and excavation for the UNEV pipeline project in Utah.