Stephen Anderson

Experience

1. Principal Archaeologist

   Tetra Tech

   Dec 2010 — Present · Lakewood, CO, US

   Principal archaeologist for projects in the Intermountain West, Southwest, Great Plains, Midwestern Plains, and the Pacific Northwest. Experience working on archaeological projects in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Oregon, New Mexico, Arizona, Idaho, Utah, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Arizona, California, Arkansas, Nebraska, Nevada, Texas, Illinois, Oklahoma, Alaska, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana and Kansas. Experience working on US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), US Forest Service (USFS), National Park Service (NPS), and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) projects. Responsibilities include developing cost estimates and scopes of work for archaeological proposals. Manages a staff of 40 plus archaeologist. Responsible for the supervision and coordination of the Tetra Tech, Inc. western states survey/excavation crews, managing GIS data and plan map graphics for site forms and reports, and writing technical reports. Areas of specialty and academic research include anthropological archaeology; peopling of the Americans; paleo- and archaic archaeology; cattle grazing impacts; river corridor archaeology; Great Plains archaeology; Great Basin archaeology, Wyoming historic coal mining; Grand Canyon and Southern Arizona mining; Montana copper mining; abandoned mine reclamation assessments; Fremont and Ancestral Puebloan Cultures; World War II training facilities, Pacific Northwest archaeology of the Columbia Plateau and Aleutian Islands Alaska. Currently permitted as a Principal Investigator in Wyoming (BLM and State), Colorado (BLM and State), Utah (BLM and State), Idaho (BLM), Oregon (BLM and State), Washington (BLM), Montana (BLM and USFS), California (BLM), North Dakota (BLM and State), Alaska (State), Indiana (State and Federal), Nevada (BLM and State), and USFS Region 2.

Education

• Northern Arizona University

  Master of Arts (M.A.), Anthropology

  2005 — 2007

• Western Wyoming Community College

  Anthropology

  1995 — 1998

• Utah State University

  Bachelor's of Science, Anthropology

  2002 — 2004

Skills

• Field Work
• Nepa
• Cultural Resource Management
• Environmental Compliance
• Archaeology
• Environmental Permitting
• Mitigation
• Arcgis
• Gps
• Anthropology
• Environmental Consulting
• Project Management
• Gis
• Environmental Impact Assessment
• Mine Reclamation