Brian T. Wygal

Diplomas/Degrees

Diplomas/Degrees

Ph.D., University of Nevada, Reno (2009)

M.A., University of Alaska, Anchorage (2003)

B.S., Kansas State University (1998)

Recent Courses

Recent Courses

Archaeology

Rise And Fall Of Civilizations

Seminar In The Social Sciences Rise And Fall Of Civilization

Specialization/Interests

Specialization/Interests

Archaeology, Human Environmental Adaptations, Northern Cultures, Technological Organization, Anthropological Theory, Geographic Information Systems, Field Methods

Research Interests

Research Interests

Alaska archaeology, environmental archaeology, deglaciation and human colonization, human ecology, technological organization, First Americans

Articles

Articles

Rowe, A.G., C.P. Bataille, S. Baleka, E.A. Combs, B.A. Crass, D.C. Fisher, S. Ghosh, C.E. Holmes, K.E. Krasinski, F. Lanoë, T.J. Murchie, H. Poinar, B. Potter, J.T. Rasic, J. Reuther, G.M. Smith, K.J. Spaleta, B.T. Wygal, and M.J. Wooller (2024) A female woolly mammoth’s lifetime movements end in an ancient Alaskan hunter-gatherer camp. Science Advances 10, eadk0818. DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adk0818

Wygal, BT, KE Krasinski, JZ Metcalfe, D McMahan, CE Holmes, BA Crass, TA Wriston, S Shirazi, A Vershinina, and B Shapiro (2022) Archaeological Recovery of Late Pleistocene Hair and Environmental DNA from Interior Alaska. Environmental Archaeology: 1–16. DOI:10.1080/14614103.2022.2031836.

Surovell, TA, SA Allaun, BA Crass, JAM Gingerich, CE Holmes, RL Kelly, M Kornfeld, KE Krasinski, ML Larson, SR Pelton, and BT Wygal (2022) Late Date of Human Arrival to North America: Continental Scale Differences in Stratigraphic Integrity of pre-13,000 BP Archaeological Sites. PLoS One. 17(4):e0264092.

Wygal, BT, KE Krasinski, CE Holmes, BA Crass, and KM Smith (2022). Mammoth Ivory Rods in Eastern Beringia: Earliest in North America. American Antiquity 87(1):59-79. doi:10.1017/aaq.2021.63

Wygal, BT and KE Krasinski (2019) Post-Glacial Human Colonization of Southern Alaska: The Archaeology of Trapper Creek. Alaska Journal of Anthropology 17(1-2):77-101.

Wygal, BT (2018) The Peopling of Eastern Beringia and its Archaeological Complexities. Quaternary International, 466: 284-298.

Wygal, B. T., Krasinski, K. E., Holmes, C. E., & Crass, B. A. (2018). Holzman South: A Late Pleistocene Archaeological Site Along Shaw Creek, Tanana Valley, Interior Alaska. PaleoAmerica 4(1): 90-93.

Krasinski, KE, Wygal, BT, Wells, J, Martin, R, and Seager-Boss, F (2016), Detecting Late Holocene Cultural Landscape Modifications in the Susitna Valley, Southcentral Alaska, Boreal Forest with LiDAR Imagery. Journal of Field Archaeology, 41(3), 255-270.

Gómez Coutouly, YA, Colas Guére, C, Renard, CM, Krasinski, KE, Wygal, BT (2015), A Mid-Holocene Prehistoric Strike-A-Light from the Goodpaster Flats, Interior Alaska. Alaska Journal of Anthropology, 13(2), 71-86.

Gómez Coutouly, YA, Wygal, BT, Krasinski, KE, and Tedor, RM. (2015), A la Recherche des Premières Occupations Préhistoriques de l'Alaska: Programme International de Recherches Archéologiques dans la Vallée de la Tanana, Région Intérieure de l'Alaska (États-Unis). Les Nouvelles de l'Archéologie, 141, 6-12.

Wygal, BT and Heidenreich, S. (2014), Deglaciation and Human Colonization of Northern Europe. Journal of World Prehistory, 27(2), 111-144.

Wygal, BT and Goebel, T (2012), Early Prehistoric Archaeology Of The Middle Susitna Valley, Alaska. Arctic Anthropology, 49(1), 45-67.

Wygal, BT and Goebel, T (2011), Deglaciation and the Archaeology of Trapper Creek, Southcentral Alaska. Current Research in the Pleistocene, 28, 188-191.

Wygal, BT (2010), Prehistoric Upland Tool Production in the Central Alaska Range. Alaska Journal of Anthropology, 8(1), 107-119.

Wygal, BT, Tyrrell, L. and Daniels, P. (2010), Prehistoric Upland Hunting Site. Denali National Park and Preserve, Fact Sheet.

VanderHoek, R, Wygal, BT, Tedor, R and Holmes, C (2007), Survey and Monitoring of Ice Patches in the Denali Highway Region, Central Alaska, 2003-2005. Alaska Journal of Anthropology, 5(2), 67-86.

Saleeby, B and Wygal, BT (2005), Old is Getting Older. Alaska Park Science, 4(2), 13-17.

Roper, D and Wygal, BT (2002), The Spatial Component of the Western Clovis Chronology. Current Research in the Pleistocene, 19, 76-78.

Chapters

Chapters

Reger, D. and B.T. Wygal. (2016) Prehistory of the Greater Upper Cook Inlet Region, pp. 15-16. In Shem Pete's Alaska: The Territory of the Upper Cook Inlet Dena'ina. J. Kari, J. Fall, S. Pete (eds.). University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks (invited).

Wygal, BT (2011). The Microblade/Non-Microblade Dichotomy: Climatic Implications, Toolkit Variability and the Role of Tiny Tools in Eastern Beringia. In Goebel, T and Buvit, I (Eds.). From the Yenisei to the Yukon: Interpreting Lithic Assemblage Variability in Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Beringia. (pp. 234-254). College Station: Texas A&M Press.

Conference Presentations

Conference Presentations

Wygal, BT, KE Krasinski, CE Holmes, BA Crass, JZ Metcalfe et al. (Apr-2023) Archaeological Recovery of Late Pleistocene Hair and Environmental DNA from Interior Alaska. Paper presented at the 88^th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Portland.

Wygal, BT, KE Krasinski, CE Holmes, BA Crass, M Pina, L Barber, C DeBlasio, J RuizDiaz, and E Holt (2023). Lithic and hearth analyses from the late Pleistocene Holzman site at Shaw Creek, Alaska at the 50th Annual Meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association, Anchorage.

Wygal, BT (2022) Reconciling Late Pleistocene Environmental Archaeology in Alaska with the Future of Humanity on Earth. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the European Association of Archaeologists, Budapest, Hungary.

Wygal, BT, KE.Krasinski, CE Holmes, BA Crass (2022) Mammoth Ivory Rods from the Middle Tanana Valley, Alaska.  Presented virtually for the Canadian Archaeological Association Annual Meeting, Edmonton.

Wygal, BT, KE Krasinski, CE Holmes, BA Crass, D Tullo, E Holt, KM Smith, D McMahan, JZ Metcalfe, S Shirazi, B Shapiro, J Ruiz Diaz, A Barrera, A Booth, and B Bernard (2020) The Holzman Site: Late Pleistocene Archaeology of Shaw Creek, Alaska. Poster presented at the 47^th Annual Meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association, Annual Meetings, Fairbanks.

Holt, EA, BT Wygal, KE Krasinski, BA Crass, and CE Holmes (2020) Site Formation Processes: A Statistical Analysis of Lower Component Lithic Data from The Holzman South Site, Shaw Creek Flats, Alaska. Poster presented at the 47^th Annual Meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association, Annual Meetings, Fairbanks.

Wygal, BT. (Sept-2023) Late Pleistocene Archaeology of the Tanana Valley, Alaska. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the European Association of Archaeologists, Bellfast.

Wygal, BT (2019) Technological Complexities of the Peopling of Eastern Beringia, Session Title: Humans beyond arrowheads. Questioning the interpretative value of arrowheads and other tools for reconstructing people identities in prehistoric societies [Paleolithic/Mesolithic Interest Group]. European Archaeological Association Annual Meetings, Bern, Switzerland.

Wygal, BT and Kathryn E. Krasinski (2019). Post Glacial Human Colonization Of Southern Alaska: The Archaeology Of Trapper Creek. Paper presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association, Nome. 

Wygal, BT, KE Krasinski, CE Holmes, BA Crass, D McMahan, J Metcalfe, KM Smith, C Deblasio, J RuizDiaz, A Booth, A Barrera (2019). Late Pleistocene Mammoth Ivory Use in Interior Alaska. Poster presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association, Nome.

Krasinski, Kathryn E., Brian T. Wygal, Charles E. Holmes, & Barbara A. Crass (2018) Investigations of the Late Pleistocene occupations at Holzman, Shaw Creek, Interior Alaska. Poster presented 83rd Annual Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington D.C.

Wygal, Brian T.,  Kathryn E. Krasinski, Charles E. Holmes, & Barbara A. Crass (2018) Pleistocene Mammoth Ivory Use at the Holzman Site in Interior Alaska. Poster presented at the 45th Annual Meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association, Anchorage.

Wygal, BT (2018) Lithic Technologies of the First Alaskans. Paper presented at the 45th Annual Meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association, Anchorage.

Wygal, BT, KE Krasinski, CE Holmes, BA Crass, CM DeBlasio, ER Farrell, JA RuizDiaz, and KA Siegel (2017). Late Pleistocene Mammoth Ivory Use at the Holzman site in Interior Alaska. Poster presented at the 116th Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C.

Wygal, B.T. Technological Complexities of the Peopling of Eastern Beringia (2017). Paper presented at the 82nd Annual Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver. 

Wygal, B.T., K.E. Krasinski, C.E. Holmes and B.A. Crass. Introducing Holzman: Another Terminal Pleistocene Site along Shaw Creek in Interior Alaska (2017). Paper presented at the 44^th Annual Meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association, Fairbanks.

Wygal, B.T., K.E. Krasinski, C.E. Holmes and B.A. Crass (2016). Colonizing Beringia: Terminal Pleistocene Archaeology in the Tanana Valley, Alaska. Paper presented at the 115^th Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Minneapolis.

Shahinian, K, Bautista, A, Krasinski, KE, Wygal, BT (2016). Late Holocene Archaeological Site Analysis in the Susitna Valley of Alaska. In the Annual Meetings of the Northeastern Anthropological Association. Saratoga Springs, NY.

Wygal, BT, Krasinski, KE, Holmes, CE, Crass, BA, Wriston, T. (2016). Recent Discoveries in the Late Pleistocene Archaeology of the Tanana Valley, Alaska (Poster). In the Annual Meetings of the Northeastern Anthropological Association. Saratoga Springs, NY.

Wygal, BT, Krasinski, KE, Holmes, CE, Crass, BA, Wriston, T. (2016). The Holzman Site: A Newly Discovered Late Pleistocene Occupation in the Tanana Valley, Alaska. In the 43rd Annual Meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association. Sitka, AK.

Wells, J. Krasinski, KE, Wygal, BT, Seager-Boss, F, Martin, R. (2016). Detecting Late Holocene Cultural Landscape Modifications Using LiDAR Imagery in the Boreal Forest, Susitna Valley, Southcentral Alaska. In the 43rd Annual Meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association. Sitka, AK.

Wygal, BT and Krasinski, KE (2015). Lithic Production and Upland Hunting during the Younger Dryas in the Central Alaska Range, USA. In 21st Annual Meetings of the European Association of Archaeologists. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom.

Krasinski, KE, Wygal, BT, and Seager-Boss, F. (2015). Mobility and Remoteness in the Middle Susitna, Alaska. In the 21st Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom.

Seager-Boss, F, Theodore, A, Krasinski, KE, Wygal, BT, and Martin, R. (2015). Knik-Fairview Community Archaeology at Cottonwood Creek, Alaska. In the 80th Annual Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology. San Francisco, CA.

Martin, R, Krasinski, KE, Wygal, BT, Seager-Boss, F. and Wells, J. (2015). Application of LIDAR in New Site Discoveries, Susitna Valley, Alaska. In the 80th Annual Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology. San Francisco, CA.

Wygal, BT, Krasinski, KE, and Seager-Boss, F. (2015). Stages of Human Colonization in Southcentral Alaska. In 42nd Annual Meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association, Anchorage. Anchorage.

Wells, J, Krasinski, KE, Martin, R, Wygal, BT, and Seager-Boss, F. (2015). Detecting Cultural Landscape Modifications in the Alaska Boreal Forest with LiDAR Imagery. In 42nd Annual Meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association. Anchorage.

Wells, J, Krasinski, KE, Martin, R, Wygal, BT, and Seager-Boss, F. (2015). Using GIS to Identify Archaeological Features in the Subarctic Boreal Forest (Poster). In 42nd Annual Meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association. Anchorage.

Krasinski, KE, Wygal, BT, and Seager-Boss, F. (2015). The Effect of Remoteness on Mobility in Southcentral Alaska. In 42nd Annual Meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association. Anchorage.

Wygal, BT & Krasinski, KE (2014). Cultural Implications for the Prehistoric Human Colonization of Southern Alaska. In 113th Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Washington D.C..

Krasinski, KE, Wygal, BT & Seager-Boss, F (2014). The Diachronic Nature of Social and Economic Remoteness in the Middle Susitna, Alaska. In 113th Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Washington D.C..

Krasinski, KE, Seager-Boss, F, Taormina, K & Wygal, BT (2014). Late Holocene Land Use in the Middle Susitna River Valley, Alaska (Poster). In 79th Annual Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology. Ausitn, TX.

Rieger, K & Wygal, BT (2014). The Extinction of Neandertal in the Caucasus. In the Northeastern Anthropological Association Conference. Potsdam, NY.

Mitchell, D, Krasinski, KE, Wygal, BT, & Gómez Coutouly, YA. (2014). Site Discovery and Lithic Analyses from the Middle Tanana Valley, Alaska. In the Northeastern Anthropological Association Conference. Potsdam, NY.

Wells, J, Wygal, BT, Krasinski, KE & Seager-Boss, F (2014). Adelphi Archaeological Survey and Excavations in the Susitna Valley, Alaska. In the Northeastern Anthropological Association Conference. Potsdam, NY.

Wygal, BT, Krasinski, KE, Seager-Boss, F, & Wells, J. (2014). The Early to Middle Prehistoric Archaeology of Trapper Creek, Alaska: Expanded Excavations and Recent Results (Poster). In 41st Annual Meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association. Fairbanks, AK.

Krasinski, KE, Wygal, BT, Gómez Coutouly, YA, & Mitchell, D (2014). The Archaeology of the Goodpaster-Volkmar Region, Middle Tanana Valley, Alaska: An International Collaboration (Poster). In 41st Annual Meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association. Fairbanks, AK.

Rieger, K & Wygal, BT (2014). On the Extinction of Neandertal in Eurasia. In 41st Annual Meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association. Fairbanks, AK.

Mitchell, D, Krasinski, KE, Wygal, BT, & Gómez Coutouly, YA (2014). Archaeological Survey of the Volkmar and Goodpaster River areas of the Middle Tanana Valley, Alaska. In 41st Annual Meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association. Fairbanks, AK.

Wells, J, Wygal, BT, Krasinski, KE, & Seager-Boss, F (2014). Middle Susitna Valley Archaeological Survey Report from Project Years 2011-2013. In 41st Annual Meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association. Fairbanks, AK.

Taormina, KA, Krasinski, KE, Wygal, BT, & Seager-Boss, F (2013). Site Structure at Chunilna Village: An Athapaskan Salmon Storage Site in Chase, Alaska. In 40th Annual Meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association. Anchorage, AK.

Gundel, A, Krasinski, KE, Wygal, BT, & Tedor, RM (2013). Patterns in Middle Holocene Lithic Production at Volkmar Lake, Alaska. In 40th Annual Meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association. Anchorage, AK.

Wygal, BT, Krasinski, KE, & Seager-Boss, F (2013). Do Recent Discoveries at Trapper Creek Suggest an Earlier Occupation of the Middle Susitna Valley? (Poster). In 40th Annual Meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association. Anchorage, AK.

Wygal, BT (2012). The Microblade/Non-Microblade Dichotomy: Climatic Implications, Toolkit Variability, and the Role of Tiny Tools in Eastern Beringia. In 77th Annual Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology. Memphis, TN.

Hernandez, N, Krasinski, KE, and Wygal, BT (2012). Discovering Chronology: Results of the 2011 Adelphi Archaeological Field School in the Susitna Valley, Alaska. In 39th Annual Meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association. Seattle, WA.

Krasinski, KE, Wygal, BT and Tedor, RM (2012). New Lacustrine Archaeological Localities at Volkmar Lake, Tanana Valley, Alaska. In 39th Annual Meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association. Seattle, WA.

Wygal, BT (2012). Cold Case: Archaeological Interpretations for Post-Glacial Adaptations in Southcentral Alaska. In 39th Annual Meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association. Seattle, WA.

Wygal, BT (2011). Testing the Mammoth Refugium Hypothesis in the Central Alaska Range. In 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Sacramento, CA.

Wygal, BT (2011). Middle to Late Holocene Cultural Continuity or Hiatus in the Susitna Valley? In 38th Annual Meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association. Fairbanks, AK.

Wygal, BT (2010). Archaeological Exploration in Denali National Park and Preserve. In 18th Annual Arctic Conference. Bryn Mawr, PA.

Wygal, BT (2010). Modeling Seasonality from Assemblage Variability in Central and Southcentral Alaska. In 37th Annual Meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association. Anchorage, AK.

Wygal, BT (2009). "Modeling Seasonality From Assemblage Variability In Central And Southcentral Alaska". In 17th Annual Arctic Conference, Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado. Boulder.

Wygal, BT (2009). "Archaeological Survey of Denali National Park and Preserve: Assessments, Models, and Hypotheses". In 36th Annual Meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association. Juneau.

Wygal, BT (2009). "Analogous Scenarios: Deglaciation and the Human Colonization of Northern Europe". In 36th Annual Meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association. Juneau.

Coffman, SC and Wygal, BT (2008). "Early Holocene Lithic Reduction from the Bull River and Costello Creek Area of Denali National Park". In 35th Annual Meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association. Anchorage.

Wygal, BT (2008). "Results of the 2007 Archaeological Survey of Denali National Park and Preserve". In 35th Annual Meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association. Anchorage.

Wygal, BT (2007). "Microblade/Non-Microblade Dichotomy in Southcentral Alaska". In 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Austin.

Wygal, BT (2007). "Microblade/Non-Microblade Dichotomy in Southcentral Alaska". In 34th Annual Meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association. Fairbanks.

Wygal, BT and Goebel, T (2006). "Early Holocene Colonization of Southcentral Alaska". In 33th Annual Meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association. Kodiak.

Wygal, BT and Seager-Boss, F (2005). "Early Holocene Colonization of Southcentral Alaska". In 13th Annual Arctic Conference. University of California-Davis.

VanderHoek, R, Wygal, BT, Holmes, C, McMahan, D, and Tedor, R (2005). "Ice Patch Atlatls, Frost Boils, and Historic Trails: The OHA 2004 Field Season in the Denali Blocks, Denali Highway Region, Alaska". In 32th Annual Meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association. Anchorage.

Wygal, BT and Seager-Boss, F (2005). "Holocene Peopling of Southcentral Alaska: New Evidence from Trapper Creek". In 32th Annual Meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association. Anchorage.

Wygal, BT and R Gal (2004). "The Last Day Site (XMH-497): A Notched Projectile Point and Microblade Technology in the Early Holocene of Northwest Alaska". In 31st Annual Meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association. Whitehorse.

Wygal, BT (2003). "The Earliest Alaskans and the Earliest Americans Theme Study". In 30th Annual Meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association. Fairbanks.

Invited Presentations

Invited Presentations

Wygal, B.T. (2020-Oct) Late Pleistocene Archaeology of Alaska. Explorations in Archaeology, Anthropology Graduate Studies Invited Lecture Series, University of Kansas, Lawrence. Attended by 35.

Wygal, B.T. and K.E. Krasinski (2020-Sept) A Mammoth Discovery: Ice Age Archaeology of Alaska. Anthropology Club Invited Lectures. A World-Wide Virtual Presentation from Adelphi University.  Attended by 198 people. 

Wygal, B.T., K.E. Krasinski, C.E. Holmes and B.A. Crass. (2017-November) A Mammoth Discovery. Pleistocene Archaeology of Alaska. Sacred Heart University, Fairfield.

Wygal, BT (2015, September). Beyond Typologies: New Interpretations of Artifact Diversity and Land Use in Post-Glacial Alaska. Symposium on Forging of Cultures in the Circumpolar North – A Comparative Perspective, Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus, Denmark.

Wygal, BT (2015, April). Three Phases of Initial Human Colonization in Southern Alaska. 80th Annual Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, CA.

Wygal, BT (2014, October). Human Colonization of Alaska & Beyond. 4th Annual Archaeology Festival, Montauk Historical Society, Montauk, NY.

Wygal, B.T. (2014, June) Middle Susitna Valley Archaeology. Public Presentation at the Northern Susitna Institute, Talkeetna, Alaska.

Wygal, BT & Krasinski, KE (2014, April). Late Glacial Exploration and Colonization of the Last Beringian Frontier. 79th Annual Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, TX.

Wygal, BT (2013, October). By Land or Sea? Human Colonization of Southern Alaska. The Paleoamerican Odyssey: A Conference Focused on First Americans Archaeology, Santa Fe, NM.

Wygal, BT (2009, June). Recent Archaeological Discoveries in Denali National Park and Preserve. Murie Science and Learning Center, Denali Park, AK.

Wygal, BT (2008, March). Following the Ice? Early Holocene Adaptations in Southcentral Alaska. 73rd Annual Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Wygal, BT and Krasinski, KE (2006, November). The Archaeology of Southcentral Alaska. Center for the Study of the First Americans, Texas A&M University, sponsored by International Quaternary Association and National Science Foundation, College Station, TX.

Grants

Grants

2016-2018. Chickaloon Village Traditional Council of Alaska Contract Award. Survey and Inventory of Upper Matanuska Watershed Cultural Resources, co-PI contract with J. Winnstaffer and K.E. Krasinski.

2015-2016. Faculty Development Grant, Adelphi University. Emergence of Social Inequality at the Fish Creek Archaeological Site in Southcentral Alaska, co-PI with K.E. Krasinski.

2013-2015. Research Grants for Archaeological Missions in the Americas, French Ministry of Foreign Areas. Searching for the First Occupation of North America in the Tanana Valley of Alaska (in French) co-PIs with Y.A. Gomez Coutouly, and K.E. Krasinski. In cooperation with the Paris West University Nanterre La Défense.

2012-2014. Alaska State Historic Preservation Officer Historic Preservation Grant. Archaeological Survey and Inventory of Public Lands in the middle Susitna River Valley, Southcentral Alaska co-PI with F. Seager-Boss and K.E. Krasinski. In cooperation with the Matanuska-Susitna Borough Cultural Resources Division.

2012-2013. Faculty Development Grant, Adelphi University. Prehistoric Human Ecology at the Volkmar Lake and Goodpaster River regions of the Tanana Valley, Alaska.

2010-2011. Instructional Technology Grant, Adelphi University. Wilderness Archaeology in Southcentral Alaska.

2010-2011. Faculty Development Grant, Adelphi University. Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Economic Adaptations in Southcentral Alaska.

2006-2009. Department of Interior, National Park Service. Comprehensive Survey of Denali National Park and Preserve.

2006. Academy for the Environment Research Grant, University of Nevada, Reno. Early Holocene Colonization of Southcentral Alaska, co-PI with T. Goebel.

2005. National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs, Arctic Social Sciences. The Early Holocene Colonization of Southcentral Alaska, #0520559, co-PI with T. Goebel.

2005. Alaska Humanities Forum Research Grant #S05-05, The Prehistoric Colonization of Southcentral Alaska.

Theses Advised

Theses Advised

Graduate Students Supervised

2012-2014 Alyssa Brown, M.S. Environmental Studies, Adelphi University, Committee Member.

Senior Theses Advised

2021-2024 MacKenzie Pina, Archeochemistry of the Holzman Site, Honors College, Adelphi University, Committee Chair.

2018-2021 Julio RuizDiaz, Human Paleoecology of the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene of the Greater Tanana Valley, Alaska circa 22-9ka, Honors College, Adelphi University, Committee Chair.

2017-2018 Carolina Medina, Relationship between Social and Economic Vulnerability and Climate Impact: Case Study of Riverine/ Coastal Communities in Bangladesh, Interdisciplinary Studies, Adelphi University, Committee Chair.

2014-2015 Ashley Corbeil, Honors Thesis, Environmental Studies, Adelphi University Committee Reader.

Honors and Accomplishments

Honors and Accomplishments

2014 Omicron Delta Kappa, National Leadership Honor Society, 11th Annual Academic Adviser Recognition Award student nominated)

Professional Activities

Professional Activities

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

2017-present Co-Editor Alaska Journal of Anthropology, Alaska Anthropological Association.

2014 Co-Chair and Organizer. Papers on Environmental Archaeology. Symposium presented at the 42nd Annual Meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association, Anchorage

2013 Co-organizer/chairperson. Greater Beringian Archaeology. Poster Symposium to be presented at the Paleoamerican Odyssey: A Conference Focused on First Americans Archaeology, October 17-19 in Santa Fe, New Mexico

2012 Chairperson. General Session Arctic & Subarctic Archaeology. Symposium presented at the 77th Annual Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Memphis

2009 Co-organizer/chairperson. Humans & their Environment: Technology & Subsistence in Arctic & Subarctic Landscapes. Symposium presented at the 36th Annual Meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association, Juneau

2008 Organizer/chairperson. The Archaeology of Alpine & Montane Environments. Symposium presented at the 35th Annual Meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association, Anchorage

2002 Co-organizer. American Quaternary Association, Biennial Conference & Interior Alaska Paleoindian Site Tour, Anchorage

JOURNAL MANUSCRIPT REVIEWS
Alaska Journal of Anthropology, Alaska Anthropological Association
American Antiquity, Society for American Archaeology
Arctic, University of Calgary, Alberta
Arctic Anthropology, University of Wisconsin Press
Journal of Field Archaeology, Manley Publishing
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, Elsevier
Current Research in the Pleistocene, Center for the Study of the First Americans, TAMU
Journal of Field Archaeology, Manley Publishing
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, Elsevier
Paleoamerica, Center for the Study of the First Americans, TAMU
Quaternary International, International Union for Quaternary Science
Journal of Coastal and Island Archaeology, Routledge

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Society of American Archaeology
Alaska Anthropological Association
American Quaternary Association
European Association of Archaeologists