Gust is a Registered Professional Archaeologist and a Qualified Principal Paleontologist with more than 30 years’ experience in cultural resources management and consulting in California.  She manages the majority of all company projects, and has a reputation for professional work, regulatory compliance, and client satisfaction.  She earned a bachelor’s degree in anthropology (Physical) from the University of California at Davis and master’s degree in anatomy...

Dr. Sikes is a Registered Professional Archaeologist with over 15 years’ experience as a principal investigator and project manager.  She has completed hundreds of projects and technical reports in compliance with federal, state, and local regulations and agencies throughout California and has additional experience in the Great Basin (Nevada and Utah), Wyoming, and East Africa. She also has produced dozens of cultural resources sections for EIRs, EISs, EAs, ISs, and developed...

Melinda Horne has more than 30 years’ of experience in prehistoric archaeology and cultural resources management.  Her areas of expertise include the prehistory of California and the Great Basin, archaeological method and theory, prehistoric settlement patterns, predictive modeling, land-use planning, facility siting, environmental impact analyses, and synthetic analyses, proposal preparation, contract coordination and budgeting, planning and directing field research.  With...

Ms. Pierce brings 20 years of professional Geospatial Science application experience as well as both professional and academic environmental and archaeological applied GIS project experience. She earned her master’s degree in Environmental Affairs from Clark University with an emphasis in water resource management.  With two years of Geology at Oneonta State University in New York, she transferred to The School for International Training, in Brattleboro, Vermont to earn her...

Kim Scott is a qualified geologist and paleontologist with more than 14 years’ of experience.  She supervises all paleontology fieldwork and fossil preparation, oversees Cogstone safety programs, and has authored numerous paleontology reports.  Scott earned a bachelor’s degree in geology, with a paleontology emphasis, from the University of California at Los Angeles.  She has personal expertise in stratigraphy, management of and participation in paleontological...

Wirths is a certified California Professional Geologist (#7588) with more than two years’ experience in paleontological survey, monitoring, and excavation. At Santa Barbara City College, he gained experience with the excavation, preparation, and curation of vertebrate fossils. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Earth Sciences at University of California, Santa Cruz. As an undergraduate, he studied early Cambrian faunal assemblages and environments as well as invertebrate classification...

Morrill is a professional archaeologist with more than 15 years of experience in California. Morrill meets the Secretary of Interior Standards for archaeology and is certified in many counties. He earned his Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Anthropology from the University of California at Los Angeles. Morrill is a veteran field director, capable of coordinating large crews in all phases of archaeological investigation. He spent five years as a contracted Cultural Resource...

Tria Belcourt is a Registered Professional Archaeologist, whose education and experience exceeds federal and state professional standards. Belcourt received her bachelor’s degree in anthropology from University of California at Los Angeles, where her studies focused on historical archaeology in East Africa and Panama. She received her master’s degree from the University of Florida, where her thesis utilized GIS technology to examine the spatial distribution of ceramic artifacts...

Wilson is a qualified archaeologist with over seven years’ of professional cultural resources management experience pertaining to infrastructure, transportation, and development projects. He has performed numerous cultural resources inventories, testing for sub-surface artifacts and site boundaries, and has led both excavation and mitigation monitoring efforts in a supervisor capacity throughout the Pacific Northwest, California, and as well as North and South Dakota. He holds a...

Martinez is a qualified archaeologist and cross-trained paleontologist with almost 20 years of cultural resources experience. She has a Master’s in Anthropology with a concentration in Archaeology from Harvard University and a Bachelor’s in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania .  She is completing her Ph.D. in Anthropology (expected June 2010) at Harvard University.  Her experience includes all typical field and laboratory activities, supervision...

Amy Glover is a qualified archaeologist and cross-trained paleontologist.  She specializes in historic archaeology and artifact identification.  With more than four years’ experience in the field, she is well-versed in record searches, monitoring, surveying, excavating, and preparing impact assessments and mitigation reports.  Glover earned a bachelor’s degree in biological anthropology from the University of California at Riverside and later developed her curation...

Valasik is a qualified archaeologist with both professional and academic archaeological field and research experience. She earned her master’s degree in anthropology from Kent State University and completed a thesis entitled “An Examination of Collector bias and Ohio Paleoindian Projectile Point Distributions.” She earned her bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Ohio State University, where she was selected as a Field and Laboratory Assistant to excavate and process...

Ms. Richards is a qualified paleontologist with extensive research, field, and laboratory experience. Richards completed her Bachelor’s degree in Earth and Space Science at the University of Washington, where she studied bone microstructure in ornithishian and theropod dinosaurs. She earned her Master’s degree in Biological Sciences with a paleontology focus at Marshall University. Her graduate studies consisted of an analysis of plesiosaur body shape and its implications on...

Janell Mort is a qualified archaeologist and cross-trained paleontologist, with more than five years’ experience as a dual monitor at Cogstone.  Mort earned her master’s and bachelor’s in anthropology at California State University, Fullerton.  Mort has also worked in the Paleoethnobotany Lab with Dr. Virginia Popper at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California,  Los Angeles.  In addition, she participated in field work and...

Lindsay Porras is a qualified archaeologist and cross-trained paleontologist, with over three years’ of professional and academic training in prehistoric and historic archaeological fieldwork.  She earned her bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the University of Nevada, Reno, with a minor in cultural anthropology.  Andrews has completed over 16 hours of intensive paleontological field training, and has served as a dual (archaeological/paleontological) monitor for...

Teri Humphrys is a qualified archaeologist with experience in field survey, monitoring, excavation, lithic analysis, faunal analysis, soil sampling and recording. Humphrys obtained her Bachelor of Science in anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2003. She is currently completing her master’s in anthropology, with emphasis in archaeology, at California State University, Fullerton. Humphrys has completed a multiple of internships as an archaeo-faunal analyst and...