ARLEEN GARCIA-HERBST, M.A., RPA

Senior Archaeologist

aherbst@asmaffiliates.com

EDUCATION

• In Progress Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Anthropology
• 2000 M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Anthropology
• 1996 B.A. (Cum Laude), University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Ms. Garcia-Herbst has 16+ years of experience in archaeological research, fieldwork, and publication in the American Southwest (California, Arizona, Colorado and Nevada), and Argentina. Ms. Garcia-Herbst is currently working on her Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with a research focus on the flaked stone technology used by foragers during the Mid- to Late Holocene in coastal Southern Argentina, and is A.B.D. with an expected graduation in 2009. She has several years of supervisory experience and is able to plan projects, write funding proposals, survey and sample, gather, organize and analyze data, as well as summarize and publish results in print and digital formats. She also has analytical expertise in lithic technology, specifically flaked and ground stone analysis, and stone raw material geochemical sourcing using Laser-Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry. She has received three research grants, totaling $13,600, which has supported her dissertation research projects.

With 3+ years of experience working as an RPA-registered cultural resource management professional, she provides oversight for the initiation, development, completion and review of research, cultural resource studies, field data collection/surveys, Phase I, II and III Assessments, and mitigation studies. She has special technical expertise in relation to compliance with Section 106 and 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), as well as compliance with State historic preservation and archaeological resources regulations under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).

Ms. Garcia-Herbst currently serves as a Principal Investigator at ASM. In this role, she is responsible for the design, conduct and reporting of projects focusing on the identification, assessment, and data recovery of prehistoric and historical cultural resources for compliance with local, state, and federal environmental requirements. She has prepared work plans, obtained fieldwork permits, conducted record searches and sacred lands searches, organized travel, supervised field staff, directed fieldwork, prepared technical reports, graphics and maps, as well as mentored junior staff.