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ADAM R. GIACINTO, M.A.
Mr. Giacinto graduated in 2011 from San Diego State University, California, with a M.A. degree in Anthropology. Adam's research interests include prehistoric hunter-gatherer and contemporary community identities as evidenced through the ethnographic and archaeological record. He has gained practical experience in archaeological and ethnographic field methods while conducting research in the Southwest, Mexico, and Eastern Europe. Mr. Giacinto brings specialized experience in site record form processing, site mapping, and site number allocation, gained while working at the South Coastal Information Center in 2008-2009. He currently works primarily with the ASM Planning and Research Collaborative designing a preservation-oriented standardized database and conducting site data and GIS analysis of the existing cultural resources surrounding Ancient Lake Cahuilla. In addition to these non-profit pursuits, Mr. Giacinto prepares site record forms and GIS-data for field projects, and conducts all manners of field work for ASM.
MATTHEW M. DeCARLO, B.A.
Mr. DeCarlo graduated in 2006 from University of California with a B.A. Degree in Anthropology. Matthew began doing professional archaeology in 2006 when he graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a B.A. in Anthropology and is now pursuing his M.A. in anthropology at CSU, Bakersfield. He has performed archaeological research and cultural resource management throughout California, including the San Joaquin Valley, the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the Tehachapi Mountains, the Eastern Mojave Desert, and the northeastern Sonoran Desert, as well as the Bennett Hills of southern Idaho. As Acting District Archaeologist for the U.S. Forest Service, he worked intensively with Federal regulations and special interest groups and has developed the ability to work collaboratively with various groups on multi-phase projects.
OLIVER N. PATSCH, B.A.
Mr. Patsch graduated from the University of Nevada with a B.A. in Anthropology in 1994. Mr. Patsch has worked in cultural resources management (CRM) for 16 years. He has served as field director for numerous projects including large, multi-jurisdictional pedestrian surveys, and testing and data recovery projects managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and United States Forest Service (USFS). As such, he is extremely familiar with federal regulations and processes. Mr. Patsch is also adept in recording both prehistoric and historic resources. His specialties include total station and GPS mapping, stratigraphic sediment profiling, macro botanical flotation, and Native American consultation.
KRISSTIN I. SIBLEY, B.A.
Ms. Sibley graduated from the University of Nevada with B.A. in Anthropology in 2005. Ms. Sibley has four years of experience in various manners of prehistoric and historic archaeology. Using source data from obsidian artifacts collected throughout Washoe County, Ms. Sibley’s research focuses on the question of mobility and the acquisition of obsidian. Ms. Sibley has been involved with survey, monitoring, testing, and data recovery projects throughout the Great Basin, and Eastern California. She is also involved in report writing, and the production of GIS graphics.
TONY TRI QUACH, B.A., RPA
In 2006 Mr. Quach graduated from the California State University, Long Beach, with M.A. in Anthropology. Mr. Quach has extensive experience in Cultural Resource Management. Tony has participated in archaeological fieldwork in the Pacific Coastal region of Guatemala, Western Belize, Western El Salvador, Easter Island, Eastern Washington, and the Mojave Desert. Mr. Quach is familiar with the operation of ground penetrating radar, magnetometer/gradiometer, conductivity, resistivity, and aerially blimp photography among other remote sensing techniques, such as the manipulation and use of satellite imagery, while conducting geophysical survey in the Mojave Desert, El Salvador, Guatemala and Easter Island. He has applied ARCGIS towards the study of surface artifact distribution of a subsection of the Mojave dunes in a pilot study of the taphonomic processes that creates slope gradients key towards the exposure of previously buried artifacts, as well as conducting geophysical survey of MCB Camp Pendleton to identify subsurface archaeological deposits.
STEVEN J. MOORE, B.A.
Mr. Moore has 21 years of experience in archaeological field survey and excavation. He has supervised excavation, survey and construction monitoring; participated in burial excavation; conducted testing and data recovery projects; conducted artifact analysis, cataloguing and curation; supervised lab processing and cataloguing; and assisted in writing technical reports. Mr. Moore has laboratory experience in lithic analysis, flotation and plant macrofossil analysis. He has also served as Teaching Assistant at two archaeological field schools in central California, instructed students in flotation and lithic analysis, and has four years of experience working as an archaeological technician for the U.S. Forest Service.
SANDY D. McDANIEL, B.A.
Sandy McDaniel is a BLM-permitted Field Director with approximately eight years of professional archaeological experience. He earned his B.A. degree from the University of Kentucky in 2004 and has been involved in more than 40 survey, monitoring, testing, and data recovery projects in the Great Basin, Snake River Plain, High Plains, Mojave Desert, Sonoran Desert, and Colorado Plateau regions of Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Wyoming, Arizona, and New Mexico in addition to the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern regions of the United States. Mr. McDaniel has held various state and federal permits in Nevada, Idaho, Utah, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Wyoming, and has worked as a Field Director on tribal lands in the Mohave Valley of Arizona. He has been involved in multiple energy projects, including wind and solar generation, transmission lines, natural gas pipelines, and has also been involved in land development projects, as well as geotechnical investigations.
Mr. McDaniel has experience writing technical reports for Section 106 compliance such as research designs, Class I reports, Class III inventory reports, site treatment plans, the cultural resources sections of NEPA documents including EAs and EISs, as well as construction-related documents such as Plan of Development (POD) and Construction Operation and Maintenance Plans for various projects.
