Staff

Alpine’s professional staff has extensive experience in cultural resource consulting. Many of these individuals meet or exceed the qualifications established in the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards and Guidelines (48 FR Part IV). Alpine’s staff archaeologists have worked in every western state in the United States, with their primary focus being on the archaeology of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Each member of Alpine’s team has an excellent record for carrying research projects to completion. The responsibilities assigned to key personnel are those that most effectively utilize each person’s expertise and capabilities.

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Administration

KIMBERLY L. REDMAN, M.A., RPA — General Manager

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Kim Redman began her archaeological career in 1988, and worked in the western United States since 1995. She began at Alpine in 1998, with a three-year sabbatical as the Archaeological Officer for the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. This experience supplied an increased understanding of Native American perspective on archaeology and archaeological compliance, in addition to gaining extensive experience as a supervisor of an environmental compliance program. She has both field and lab experience, but now specializes in project management, business capabilities, and organizational matters. Her archaeological research interests focus on debitage analysis and its ability to shed light on mobility and technological organization. Prior to her employment at Alpine, Kim studied under Dr. Jeffrey Flenniken, completed her degree at Washington State University, and was a field archaeologist.

SUSAN M. CHANDLER, M.A., RPA — Project Administrator

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Susan Chandler has 35 years of experience on prehistoric and historic investigations in the western United States and El Salvador. She is one of the founders of Alpine Archaeological Consultants, and has served as its President since 1987. Her primary duties at Alpine include communication with clients, preparation of budgets and proposals, project management, quality control, and preparation of cultural resource sections of environmental and planning documents.

Senior Principal Investigators

RAND A. GREUBEL, M.A., RPA

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Rand Greubel has 26 years of archaeological experience in the Intermountain West and has directed a variety of field, analytic, and reporting projects for Alpine since 1989.  He has supervised large surveys and major archaeological excavations on prehistoric sites in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Wyoming and has also worked in Montana and North Dakota.  He has authored several articles published in regional archaeological journals; has presented papers at state, regional, and national conferences; and has written numerous cultural resource reports.  Rand’s professional research interests include Fremont and Ute archaeology, forager-farmer interactions in prehistory, the organization of lithic technology, and spatial patterning on hunter-gatherer sites.

JONATHON C. HORN, M.A., RPA

970-249-6761 ext. 14

Jonathon Horn has worked in archaeology in the western United States for 33 years. He is one of the founders of Alpine and is one of its principals. Although Jon is proficient in both historical and prehistoric archaeology, and serves as Principal Investigator on both types of projects, his main research interest is in historical archaeology. His main duties at Alpine are overseeing field projects, historic research, quality control, and preparation of reports and proposals.

ALAN D. REED, M.A., RPA

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Alan Reed, one the three founders of Alpine, has over 34 years of archaeological experience in the western United States. Alan serves as a Principal Investigator for projects pertaining mostly to prehistoric resources. He has authored over 100 reports while at Alpine. His primary duties include quality control, project management, and preparation of research designs, proposals, and reports.

Principal Investigators

MATTHEW J. LANDT, M.A., RPA

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Matthew Landt began working as an archaeologist in 1996 and has an array of archaeological experiences in Wyoming, Montana, Washington, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado as well as overseas. He has worked for Alpine since 2007. His M.A. thesis, received from Washington State University in 2004, focused on the application of ethnographic small mammal taphonomic data to Pleistocene archaeological assemblages. His professional research interests include the application of conservation biology theory to archaeological materials, prehistoric and historic environmental exploitation, processes of domestication and taphonomy, as well as shifting socioeconomic and subsistence strategies of transhumant pastoral and agro-pastoral people. He has authored several publications in regional and national archaeological journals and actively pursues the presentation of archaeological data to the general public .

JACK E. PFERTSH, M.A., RPA

970-249-6761 ext. 15

Jack Pfertsh has over 17 years of experience in the archaeological field, having worked in Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado with the majority of his work focusing on the latter two states. He joined Alpine’s staff in 1997 as a Project Director, where he has been responsible for site excavation, inventory, archaeological monitoring, and report preparation on three interstate pipeline projects and various other projects. Jack’s interests include an emphasis on Historical and Protohistoric-era archaeology. His specialties include historic site evaluation, documentation, and excavation; artifact analysis and research; archival research; and oral interviews. Although Mr. Pfertsh has a propensity for historic archaeology, he is equally proficient in the recordation, evaluation, and excavation of prehistoric resources.

Archaeologists

MARTHA BRIGHT, B.A. – Staff Archaeologist

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Martha Bright has experience as an archaeologist in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Nevada, and Oregon as well as in southwestern Germany working on a variety of excavation and survey projects. She received her B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs in 2007 and joined Alpine’s team in 2009. Her undergraduate thesis provides a neuropsychological perspective on therianthropic Upper Paleolithic ivory figurines from central Europe with a focus on the cognitive implications of potential parietal lobe expansion and improvements in conceptual thinking. Aside from cognitive archaeology, Martha’s research interests also include various aspects of western North American history and prehistory, specifically the intricacies of prehistoric social structure and seasonal mobility, as well as historic period intergroup exchange between Native Americans and European settlers.

SARA MILLWARD, M.A. – Project Director

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Sara Millward, who joined Alpine’s staff as a Project Director in 2011, has worked as an archaeologist in the Mid-Atlantic, Southwest, and Intermountain West regions. She received her B.A. in Archaeology from Hamilton College and her M.A from Eastern New Mexico University, where her thesis research focused on an economic analysis of thermal features in Southeastern New Mexico. Her professional interests include prehistoric subsistence strategies, landscape archaeology, thermal features, and public archaeology.

JACLYN MULLEN, M.A., RPA – Project Director

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Jacki Mullen has a broad background in cultural resource management, having worked throughout the United States, including the Southwest and Intermountain West regions.  She received her B.A from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and M.A. from Northern Arizona University.  Her Master’s thesis focused on the distribution of Early and Late Paleoindian sites in southeastern Wisconsin using GIS spatial analysis.  Ms. Mullen’s professional interests include lithic studies, cartography and GIS spatial analysis, archaeological methods, early prehistoric populations, and artifact illustration.  She joined Alpine’s staff as a Project Director in 2009.

JENN L. MUELLER, M.A., RPA – Project Director and Faunal Analyst

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Jenn Mueller, who joined Alpine’s staff in 2007, has 12 years of experience as a North American archaeologist with diverse experience in Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.  She received her M.A. from Washington State University, where her thesis research focused on the social organization of the middle range Chacoan (Pueblo II) community of Cox Ranch Pueblo.  Regionally, she has served as a crew chief for extensive block surveys and seismic projects.  Her professional interests include the Protohistoric era, prehistoric social organization and leadership strategies, diet breadth, mobility, faunal analysis, bone tools, and historic ranching and mining land use.  Her conservation-minded approach is sensitive to the impacts of archaeology on modern indigenous groups.

JEREMY OMVIG, M.A., RPA – Project Director

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Jeremy Omvig has worked as an archaeologist across the continental United States since 1994, with primary experience in the western states of Arizona, Wyoming, New Mexico, Colorado, and Nevada.  His professional interests include lithic analysis, landscape archaeology, GIS, public archaeology, and hunter-gatherer regional adaptation in the Plains, Intermountain West, and Great Basin.   He received his B.A. from the University of North Dakota and his M.A. from Northern Arizona University, where his thesis focused on a GIS analysis of symbolic sites across the Great Plains.  Jeremy joined Alpine’s team in 2009.

MIKE PROUTY, B.A. – Staff Archaeologist

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Mike Prouty worked as a field archaeologist before joining Alpine’s team in 2009.  He received his B.A. in History with a minor in Anthropology from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs in 2006.  In his career as an archaeologist, he has worked on infrastructure development projects in Colorado, Illinois, Montana, Nebraska, Utah, and Wyoming and has gained experience in a diverse array of archaeological time periods, ranging from the excavation of potential Mississippian mounds to recording mining towns in southwestern Colorado.  His professional interests include historical archaeology, specifically Expansion period in the American West, and northern Plains prehistoric archaeology.

CHARLES REED, M.A., RPA – Project Director

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Charles Reed began his career in archaeology in 2001, and has worked in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Oregon and Washington. He received his B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2005, and his M.A. from Washington State University in 2010. His M.A. thesis examined the potential correlation between the replacement of the atlatl by the bow and arrow in the prehistoric southwest and increases in group size and social organization, specifically examining increases in the effectiveness of coalitional punishment. His professional interests include lithic analysis, Southwestern prehistory, GIS, and prehistoric social organization. Charles joined Alpine’s team in 2011.

R. DAVID SATTERWHITE, B.A. – Staff Archaeologist

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David Satterwhite joined Alpine’s staff in 2011 as a project archaeologist. He earned his B.S. in Anthropology from Middle Tennessee State in 1998. David has 8 years of experience in North American archaeology with wide range of experience working in Tennessee, Washington, Oregon, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado. His primary professional interests include lithic analysis, lithic resource procurement, Archaic-period hunter-gatherer adaptations in the Great Basin, and Numic expansion into the Great Basin.

JOHN ZACHMAN, B.A. – Staff Archaeologist

970-249-6761 ext. 32

John Zachman began his career in Cultural Resource Management in 1994 with the Museum of New Mexico’s Office of Archaeological Studies followed by a position with the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture / Laboratory of Anthropology as an assistant curator in the Archaeological Research Collections.  After leaving the museum he went on to conduct archaeological fieldwork in Colorado, Montana, Utah, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, Guam, and overseas in Micronesia and Cambodia.  His interests include lithic analysis, patterns in lithic resource procurement, prehistoric social organization, prehistoric agricultural strategies, and prehistoric maritime migration in the Pacific.  John began working for Alpine in 2006 and rejoined Alpine’s team in 2009.

Specialists

STEPHANIE DUDASH, M.S. — GIS Director

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Stephanie Dudash joined Alpine’s staff in 2008.  Stephanie developed her GIS skills over the prior 10 years working for the United States Geological Survey and the City of Montrose, CO.  She brings us her experience in landscape spatial analysis, extensive knowledge of relational geodatabases, and cartography.  She holds an M.S. in Geology from Northern Arizona University and has geologic experience in Quaternary geology and geomorphology and metamorphic petrology and structure.

SETH FRAME, A.A. – GIS Specialist

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Seth Frame has a degree from Southwestern Michigan College. He has worked as a GIS specialist since 2004 and has been an archaeological mapping specialist since 2005. He joined Alpine’s staff in 2009.

ABBIE HARRISON, M.A. – Staff Archaeologist and Macrobotanical Specialist

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Abbie L. Harrison joined Alpine’s staff in 2007, specializing in the identification and interpretation of plant materials, including wood charcoal, from archaeological contexts. She received her B.S. degree in Anthropology from Iowa State University and her M.A. degree in Anthropology from the University of Oklahoma. Her thesis examined macrobotanical remains from the Pueblo Alto trash mound in Chaco Canyon. Abbie has archaeological experience throughout the Midwest, Southwest, High Plains, and Intermountain West regions of the United States. She has also worked on archaeological projects in Crete and Chihuahua, Mexico. Her research interests include anthropogenic ecology, domestic and ritual plant use, prehistoric subsistence, and sustainable agriculture.

BARBARA LOCKWOOD, B.S. – Artifact Laboratory Manager and GIS Specialist

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Barbara Lockwood is a professional archaeologist with 17 years of experience.  She was the Curation Laboratory Supervisor at Washington State University prior to joining Alpine’s team in 1999, where she has worked as both a field archaeologist and as a laboratory archaeologist. She currently manages Alpine’s artifact laboratory and is also proficient in GIS mapping of archaeological sites.

IRAIDA A. RODRIGUEZ, M.A., RPA – GIS Specialist and Staff Archaeologist

970-249-6761 ext. 28

Iraida A. Rodriguez has been a part of Alpine’s team since 2008.  She received her B.A. in Anthropology from Binghamton University, State University of New York and her M.A. in Managing Archaeological Sites from the Institute of Archaeology, University College-London.  Her Master’s thesis focused on the purpose of UNESCO’s World Heritage List and effects in the management of world heritage sites.  She has worked as an archaeologist in Europe, the east coast, the Midwest, and the western United States.  She received training in GIS during her graduate studies as well as with the National Park Service and continues under the direction of Alpine’s GIS Director.

TERRI VOGLEIN – Site Records Manager

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Terri Voglein began work as Alpine’s Site Records Manager in July of 2008.  Her 18 years of working with computer analysis and database applications has contributed to the meticulous production and maintenance of site forms published by Alpine.  Terri works closely with the archaeologists to ensure the site records accurately represent their survey results.

Office Staff

DEBBY EDWARDS – Office Manager

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Debby Edwards has served as Alpine’s Office Manager since 1993. Her duties include personnel management and project and corporate accounting.

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