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), 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 of William Self Associates, Inc., a full-service cultural resource consulting firm working on more than 800 projects in 12 states. He has been a member of the Registry of Professional Archaeologists since 1980, and currently holds BLM and USFS permits for archaeological survey or testing on lands in California, Arizona, Utah and Nevada, and has held previous permits in Oregon and Washington as well. 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 19 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 UT 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. .

Ms. Leezer has over 10 years of experience in numerous academic and cultural resource management projects in Texas, as well as Belize and Mexico. She received her MA from the University of Texas (San Antonio) where she conducted thesis work examining feasting activities among ancient Maya commoners through an analysis of ceramic artifacts. Her interests also extend to the historic archeology of antebellum plantations. Ms Leezer served as the Principal Investigator/Project Manager for a data recovery project of the Levi Jordan Plantation State Historic Site in Brazoria County Texas. Results from the data recovery investigations were used for the long-term stewardship, interpretation and management of the site. She has served as Project Archeologist and Project Manager for several prehistoric and historic cultural resource management projects in Texas. She has worked with Native American tribes, landowners, municipal, state, and federal agencies to identify sensitive cultural resources and worked with these groups to negotiate mitigation or remediation strategies to minimize potential impacts under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and the Texas Antiquities Code. Ms. Leezer has conducted projects under the jurisdiction of the US Corp of Engineers and the Texas Department of Transportation. She is experienced in National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) compliance through the authorship of chapters for TxDOT District Environmental Impact Statements, Environmental Assessments, and Categorical Exclusion documents (EIS, EA, and CE).

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. Medeiros has five years experience in Southwestern archaeology as a graduate student at the University of Arizona. During her graduate studies, she gained experience in both excavation and artifact analysis as a crew chief and ground stone analyst for the Homol'ovi Research Project through the Arizona State Museum. As a Ph.D. candidate, her research interests focus on the development and spread of flatbread (e.g., tortillas, piki bread) cuisine during late Southwestern prehistory, archaeological concepts of technology, ground stone analysis, and gender and identity studies. Although Melanie's graduate school career has primarily been focused in the Southwest, she has also conducted archaeological survey and excavation in the Goshute Valley and at Bonneville Estates Rockshelter (both in Nevada), which allowed her to acquire experience in Paleo-Indian archaeology and flaked stone analysis. Prior to attending graduate school in Arizona, she studied the archaeology of both Italy and Turkey as an exchange student. Melanie joined WSA, Inc. as a Senior Archaeologist and Ground Stone Analyst. She also serves as QA/QC Manager, and as editor of technical reports and publications prepared by WSA's Tucson office.

Dr. Baker has over twenty years of experience in archaeology and has conducted extensive archaeological investigations in the greater Southwest, as well as Mayan sites in Belize. Since 2002 Dr. Baker has been working as a project director throughout Arizona, including directing data recovery programs at Agua de la Mision, a Sedentary Phase Hohokam village located south of Tucson, at the Watson Lake site, a Prescott culture site (in Prescott), and at the Rio de Flag dumpsite, a large historic site in Flagstaff, Arizona. While in Belize, Dr. Baker's research concentrated on reconstructing the ancient Mayan agricultural landscape and understanding ancient agricultural economies. In addition to directing fieldwork, Dr. Baker is an experienced flake and ground stone analyst, and has HAZWOPER 40-hr certification.

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. As a University of Arizona Ph.D. candidate, 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 in Madrid, Spain. He spent several years working intermittently for WSA in Orinda, 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 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, 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.

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.