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 have worked in every western state in the United States, with their primary focus being on the archaeology of Colorado, New Mexico, North Dakota, Utah, Wyoming, and Oklahoma. 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.

Contacting our Staff

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Administration

Amy Allison

Amy Allison – Logistics Coordinator

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Amy Allison joined the team in 2024 as Alpine's Logistics Coordinator.

Jacki Mullen

Jacki Mullen, M.A., RPA – Director of Corporate Operations

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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. Jacki started at Alpine as a Project Director and conducted survey and excavation fieldwork throughout the Great Basin and Great Plains regions. She has a special interest in projectile point chronologies, the transition to the bow and arrow, and large-scale site database management. She now serves as Project Administrator, and is largely responsible for budget and proposal development, permit acquisition, technical editing, and project management.

Jessica Vergari

Jessica Vergari – Office Manager

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Jessica started with Alpine in 2020. She comes to us with over 10 years of administrative and office management experience. She is currently enrolled at Colorado Mesa University, taking accounting and human resources courses. She assists with project and corporate accounting, accounts payable and receivables, Federal and State taxes, and unemployment taxes.

Jessie Boyd

Jessie Boyd, M.A., RPA – Project Administrator

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Jessie was promoted to Project Administrator in 2025. She oversees the operations of Alpine's Oklahoma office and company wide permits. Jessie joined Alpine’s staff in 2016, specializing in site records management and curation. Jessie has been working as an archaeologist since 2010. She received her M.A. from the University of Wyoming in 2015, where her thesis research focused on survey bias on a regional scale using the expansive Wyoming Cultural Records Database. She received her B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Tulsa in 2010, with a minor in Art History and earned a Museum Studies Certificate. Her professional and research interests are prehistoric habitation structures and prehistoric hunter-gatherers of the Northern and Southern Plains.

Kelly Wheeler

Kelly Wheeler – Human Resource Manager

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Kelly has human resources experience with governmental entities in Colorado, Washington, and Arizona. She joined Alpine in 2023, shortly after her return “home” to western Colorado. Her responsibilities at Alpine include managing human resources, recruitment and providing logistics support for the many facets of staffing Alpine’s field projects. Kelly attended Front Range Community College in Westminster, Colorado, and earned her Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM) certified professional status in 2019.

Kiefer Thomas

Kiefer Thomas – Human Resource Manager

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Prior to starting at Alpine in 2025, Kiefer provided human resource support in the ski industry and grocery sector and trained and managed from 35 to 800 employees in the hospitality and grocery industries. He earned his A.A. from Colorado Mountain College and a B.A. from Colorado State. Currently, Kiefer is studying for his Professional in Human Resources Certification.

Kimberly Redman

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. 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.

Megan Carney Reed

Megan Carney Reed, M.A. – Production Coordinator and IT Specialist

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Megan began working with Alpine in 2009. Her areas of expertise include both anthropology and computers. She received her B.S. in Anthropology-Zoology from the University of Michigan in 2001 and her M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Washington in 2010. She also worked as a computer programmer from 1997 to 2005 and obtained a post-associate degree in Computer Information Systems in 2004 from Schoolcraft College. Her duties include office and computer administration and technical editing.

Principal Investigators

Charles Reed

Charles Reed, M.A., RPA

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Charlie began his career in archaeology in 2001, and has worked across the Intermountain West, Pacific Northwest, and western Great Plains. Charlie earned a B.A. in anthropology from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and an M.A. in archaeology from Washington State University. His professional interests include Southwestern and intermountain prehistory, social organization, and the use of new applications of GIS and drone photography to better analyze and display archaeological data. Charlie joined Alpine’s team in 2011.

Jeremy Omvig

Jeremy Omvig, M.A., RPA

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Jeremy has worked as an archaeologist across the continental United States since 1994, with primary experience in the western states of Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Arizona. He received his B.A. from the University of North Dakota and his M.A. from Northern Arizona University. He has extensive experience in both the private and public sectors, resulting in a strong background in archaeological compliance, consultation with project partners and stakeholders, and project management. His professional interests include cultural resources law and policy, lithic analysis, landscape archaeology, GIS, public archaeology, and hunter-gatherer regional adaptation. Jeremy worked for Alpine from 2009–2016 and returned to the team in 2024, after serving as a Colorado Area Archaeologist for eight years with the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service.

Jonathon Horn

Jonathon C. Horn, M.A., RPA

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Jonathon has worked in archaeology in the western United States for 35 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.

Matthew Landt

Matthew J. Landt, M.A., RPA

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Matt is an experienced Principal Investigator with a demonstrated history of completing large multijurisdictional interstate projects and small grant-funded neighborhood assessments. He began working as an archaeologist in 1996 and joined Alpine in 2007. Having worked across the Great Plains and the Intermountain West, Matt is permittable on public lands from Montana to Texas and Nevada to Nebraska. Matt is currently responsible for mentoring staff through 20,000+ years of history in the West while maintaining project budgets and coordinating with all stakeholders and agencies.

Michael Prouty

Michael Prouty, M.A., RPA

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Michael has worked as an archaeologist within the western United States since 2007, with the majority of his experience in Colorado, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming. He received his B.A. in history from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs in 2006, and his M.A. in anthropology from San Diego State University in 2015. His thesis focused on settlement patterns during the early Spanish period in the greater San Diego, California area. His professional interests include historical archaeology, specifically contact and expansion period in the American West, Great Basin and Northern Plains prehistoric archaeology, ground stone use during prehistory, and GIS applications to archaeology.

Sara Millward

Sara Millward, M.A., RPA

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Sara, 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.

Archaeologists

Abbie Harrison

Abbie L. Harrison, M.A., RPA – Laboratory Supervisor & Project Archaeologist

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Abbie 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.

Andrea Shiverdecker

Andrea Shiverdecker, PhD – Project Archaeologist

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Andrea joined Alpine in 2025 as a Project Archaeologist. She received her B.A. in Anthropology from Northern Kentucky University in 2018, M.A in Public History from Northern Kentucky University in 2021, and her PhD in Anthropology/Archaeology from the University of Montana in 2024. Andrea has worked as an archaeologist since 2017 through the public and private sectors. Her public work gave her experience in federal cultural resource management for the National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, and the Forest Service. She has a passion for curation and historic archaeology to include mining and historic architecture. Her dissertation focused on a Montana historic mining town and the undiscovered past of its variable population of inhabitants of Chinese and African American miners.

Andrew Reinhard

Andrew Reinhard, PhD, RPA – Staff Archaeologist

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Andrew joined Alpine in 2025 and has over 30 years of experience as an archaeologist, archaeological publisher, and cultural software developer. He has worked in North and South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico, Minnesota, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Greece, Italy, and the United Kingdom. He earned his BA from the University of Evansville, MA from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and PhD from the University of York (UK), all in archaeology. Described as a "digital archaeologist in the physical world and a physical archaeologist in the digital world," he created the discipline of Archaeogaming and led the excavation of the "Atari Burial Ground" in Alamogordo, New Mexico. His three monographs on digital archaeology are published by Berghahn Books.

Blake Renjilian

Blake Renjilian, B.A. – Staff Archaeologist

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Blake joined Alpine in 2024 and has been working as an archaeologist since 2023. He graduated with a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2023. While completing his degree, Blake's research focused on the prehistoric archaeology of the Great Plains, including an excavation of an Oneta cultural complex. Since then, he has worked in various regions across the United States, including the Rocky Mountains, Western, and Southwest regions. Blake’s passion for archaeology is driven by a strong commitment to honoring indigenous history and culture, as well as a deep desire to understand ancient civilizations.

Charlie Seevers

Charlie Seevers, B.A. – Staff Archaeologist

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Charlie joined Alpine in 2024 and has worked as an archaeologist since 2023. He graduated with a B.A. in Applied Anthropology from Colorado Mesa University in 2022. While pursuing his B.A., Charlie's focus was on the prehistoric archaeology of the Southwest and Mountain West. Charlie's work experience includes excavation data recovery in the Great Basin, pedestrian survey in the Great Basin and Mountain West, and shovel test survey in the Great Plains and Southeast. Charlie demonstrates an observable passion for understanding the past and has a broad interest in both prehistoric and historic archaeology.

Don Merritt

Don Merritt, M.A. – Senior Project Archaeologist

Don joined Alpine in the spring of 2025. He began working as an archaeologist in 2007. Don received both his B.A. and M.A. in Anthropology/Historical Archaeology from the University of Montana. His thesis is on the contact period site of Fort Owen in Montana where he gained an appreciation of the complexities of the interactions of Native tribes in the 19^th Century. He has worked in Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, and Oregon. Don has experience in both the private and public sectors, resulting in a strong background in archaeological compliance, consultation with project partners and stakeholders, and project management. Previously he worked as a museum curator for both Utah and Oregon State Parks encompassing about 10 years where he processed and analyzed hundreds of thousands of artifacts between them. Don also worked for the Bureau of Reclamation prior to coming to Alpine and thoroughly enjoyed the compliance aspect. Don’s professional interests include cultural compliance, historic archaeology focusing on mining, Chinese sites, the contact period (1800-1880), and public archaeology.

George Dombrowski

George Dombrowski, B.A. – Project Archaeologist

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George has been working professionally as an archaeologist since 2007. He graduated from Western State College of Colorado in 2008 with B.A. in Anthropology. His previous experience includes working for federal agencies, private firms, and academic institutions. George’s research interest is primarily focused on hunter gatherer archaeology in the Intermountain West and the Great Plains. Since 2008 George has worked in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Iowa, and New Mexico.

Hannah Blija

Hannah Blija, B.A. – Project Archaeologist

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Hannah joined the Alpine team in May 2024 as a Staff Archaeologist. She received his B.A. degree in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2019 and is currently working to complete her M.A. through Adams State University. Hannah has worked as an Archaeologist since 2018, in Wisconsin, New Mexico, Colorado, Nebraska, and California.

Jena Sadd

Jena Sadd, M.A., RPA – Project Archaeologist

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Jena joined Alpine in 2019 and has over 10 years of archaeological experience. She has worked throughout Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Texas, New Mexico, South and North Dakota, Florida, West Virginia, Virginia, Georgia, and Maine. Mrs. Sadd received her bachelor’s degree in Anthropology with an emphasis in Great Basin archaeology from Colorado State University in 2008; she attended the American University of Cairo in 2010 studying Ancient Egypt in preparation for her master’s. In 2014 Mrs. Sadd received her master’s degree in Research Egyptology. Her research interests include Old Kingdom pottery, the social structures of the intermediate periods of Ancient Egypt, landscape archaeology, and Historic mining towns of western America.

Joey Stahl

Joey Stahl, B.A. – Senior Project Archaeologist

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Joey joined Alpine’s staff in 2020 and has 10 years of archaeological experience since receiving his B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Texas San Antonio in 2010. He has worked throughout the United States including the Great Basin, Southwest, Plains, Southeast, and Northeast regions, as well some fieldwork in Puerto Rico and India. He has worked for both private firms and the U.S. Forest Service on all phases of fieldwork including surveys and mitigation projects. His research interests include historical archaeology, specifically in the western United States.

John Hueffed

John Hueffed, M.A. – Staff Archaeologist

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John joined Alpine in 2025 as a Staff Archaeologist. John received his B.A. in Anthropology at the University of South Alabama in 2011 and his M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Oklahoma in 2023. John has primarily worked in the Eastern and Southeastern United States in all phases of fieldwork. His interests include prehistoric archaeology, specifically prehistoric ceramics.

Jordan Kluver

Jordan Kluver, B.A. – Senior Project Archaeologist

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Jordan, who joined Alpine in 2018, has worked as an archaeologist since 2010. In that time, he has worked in different regions, states, and climates while conducting each phase of archaeological fieldwork. He received a B.S. in Anthropology from Iowa State University in 2010. He is currently enrolled at Adams State University, earning a M.A. in Cultural Resource Management.

Kate Moreland

Kate Moreland, B.A. – Project Archaeologist

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Kate has been working in archaeology, museums, and science outreach education since 2005. She has been with Alpine Archaeology since 2024. Kate’s main focus of expertise has been on the Great Plains, and most recently, specializes in the study of expedient tools, processing zones, and landscape use in association with communal kill sites. Since 2021, she’s led a nonprofit that provides paleontological, geological, and archaeological field experiences to the public, and brings archaeology education to indigenous youth in South Dakota. Her field experience spans the west through New Mexico, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, South Dakota, Montana and Utah. She graduated with her B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2007.

Laurelyn Memmott

Laurelyn Memmott, M.A., RPA – Project Archaeologist

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Laurelyn joined Alpine’s staff in 2023, after six months as a seasonal archaeologist. She has been a practicing archaeologist since 2017, with work in Mexico, Belize, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Utah, Texas, Washington, and Colorado. She graduated from the University of New Mexico with a B.A. in Anthropology and from Humboldt State University with an M.A. in Applied Anthropology. Her research topic concerned weaponry used by the allies of the Coronado Expedition during the Tiguex War.

Pete Davis

Pete Davis, B.A. – Project Archaeologist

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Pete has been working as an archaeologist since 2016 and has been working for Alpine since 2018. Pete earned his B.A. in Southwest Studies from Ft. Lewis College in 2005 and has worked in the Colorado Plateau, Rocky Mountain, and Great Basin regions. His research interests include the archaeology of west-central Colorado during the Formative and Protohistoric eras.

Renee Collins

Renee L. Collins, M.A., RPA – Project Archaeologist

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Renee joined Alpine in 2021. Renee has worked as an archaeologist since 2011 and has nine years of experience within the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau regions. She received her B.A. from the University of California, LA and her M.A. from Northern Arizona University.

Sam Fresher

Sam Fresher, B.A. – Staff Archaeologist

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Sam joined Alpine in 2023. Sam has worked as an archaeologist since 2022, after a successful career as a attorney. He received his B.A. from Colby College and is completing his M.A. at New Mexico Highlands University.

Data Services Department

Aaron Goldman

Aaron Goldman, B.A. – GIS Specialist

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Aaron began his archaeological career in 1998, and has since participated in fieldwork in the Northeast, Southwest, and Intermountain West as well as Belize and Mexico. Aaron received his BA in Anthropology from the State University of New York at Albany in 2000. After joining Alpine in 2011 as an assistant crew chief, he has since had the opportunity to become part of Alpine’s GIS department.

Jesse Clark

Jesse Clark, B.A. – Senior GIS Specialist

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Jesse received his B.A. degree in Anthropology from the University of Hawai´i and a postgraduate education in archaeology, GIS, and spatial analysis at Washington State University. He held positions as an Archaeological Technician and Staff Archaeologist for cultural resource management companies for several years before pursuing an occupation in GIS. Jesse joined Alpine in 2023 with over a decade of practical experience in geospatial data collection, management, analysis, and mapping with GNSS equipment and GIS software. His interests include geospatial data model design, cartography, and geostatistical analysis of indigenous material culture and land use.

Kota Fleming

Kota Fleming, M.A. – Site Records

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Kota joined Alpine’s staff in 2024, specializing in site records management. She received her M.A. from George Mason University in 2022 where her thesis research focused on the bioarchaeology of violence in the Ancestral Southwest. She received her B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Arizona in 2018, with a minor in Medieval studies. Her professional and research interests are Skeletal Trauma, Archaeology of Violence, Forensic Anthropology, Osteology, Bioarchaeology of the Southwest, Mongolia, Ancient Egyptian Art and Archaeology, archaeological database research, and artifact curation.

Laura Steele

Laura Steele, M.A. – Site Records

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Laura joined Alpine’s staff in 2024, specializing in site records management.Laura received her B.A. in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology from Cornell University in 1996 and worked as a manager at the Aegean Dendrochronology Project at Cornell until 1998. She received her M.A. in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology from U.C. Berkeley in 2000, training as an ancient architectural specialist in the field with Berkeley projects at Çatalhöyük, Turkey, and at Tel Dor, Israel. After teaching ancient archaeology, history, and literature in university classrooms for two decades, she began working in U.S. cultural resources management in 2021. Her research interests include archaeometry, absolute chronology, Neolithic architecture and society in the eastern Mediterranean, comparative mythology, and ancient gender and sexuality.

Meghan Grizzle

Meghan Grizzle, M.A., RPA – GIS Specialist

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Meghan joined Alpine in 2022. Meghan has worked as an archaeologist in Wyoming, Montana, Jordan, Croatia, and New Zealand in both academic/research-based projects as well as in a CRM context since 2015. She received her B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Wyoming in 2016, and earned a Museum Studies Certificate. She received her M.A. in Museum Studies from the University of Kansas in 2019, where her thesis research focused on the gap between fieldwork and repository and the need for a standardized collections management system pertaining to archaeological collections. She also earned a Graduate Certification in GIS from the University of Wyoming in 2021.