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Andrew Pigniolo is the President of Laguna Mountain Environmental, Inc. He serves as Principal Investigator/Project Manager and Archaeological Field Director for projects, and is directly responsible for all projects. Laguna Mountain currently employs three full-time senior archaeologists, four full-time associate archaeologists, two full-time temporary archaeologists, a full-time lab manager, a graphic artist and GIS specialist, and an office manager. |
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Mr. Andrew R. Pigniolo, M.A., RPA Mr. Pigniolo received his M.A. in Anthropology, with an emphasis in Archaeology, from San Diego State University in 1992. He has been a member of the Register of Professional Archaeologists (RPA) since 1992 and is on the County of San Diego and County of Riverside lists of qualified archaeological consultants. He is also qualified for work in the City of San Diego. As Principal Archaeologist/Ethnohistorian at Laguna Mountain, Mr. Pigniolo manages and conducts cultural resource investigations involving compliance with NHPA, NEPA, and other federal regulations, and with CEQA and other state and local laws. Mr. Pigniolo has more than 32 years of experience as an archaeologist, and has conducted more than 850 projects throughout southern California and western Arizona. He has authored numerous technical reports and prepared cultural resources sections of many EAs, EISs, and EIRs for Federal, state, and local review. Mr. Pigniolo has been involved with a variety of local government contracts and Federal work. Mr. Pigniolo has received HAZWOPPER training and holds an active card for hazardous material work. Mr. Pigniolo has experience conducting cultural resource investigations for a wide variety of development and resource management projects including tribal economic development projects, water resource facilities, transportation projects, commercial and residential developments, military installations, geothermal power projects, and landfills. He has conducted the full range of technical studies including archaeological overviews, surveys, test excavations, historical research, ethnographic research, evaluations of significance for National Register eligibility, data recovery programs, and monitoring projects. Mr. Pigniolo works closely with the Native American community in southern California and maintains good working relationships with a variety of community members. Mr. Pigniolo also has extensive experience in the field of biology in southern California, and conducts specialized botany studies. Mr. Pigniolo has taken numerous field botany classes at San Diego State University, California State University Fullerton, the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden, and the San Diego Natural History Museum focused specifically on regional plant identification. He has more than 24 years of botanical field experience and has participated in biological surveys for the County of San Diego, City of San Diego, U.S. Navy, and the San Dieguito River Joint Powers Authority. Mr. Pigniolo maintains an herbarium of reference plant specimens to aid in species identification. For more than 8 years, Mr. Pigniolo has held a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service permit to conduct Quino Checkerspot butterfly habitat assessments and adult surveys. In addition, he has also conducted numerous Hermes Copper butterfly surveys and assessments.
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Principal Investigator, Project Manager Mr. Case received his M.A. in Anthropology, with an emphasis in Archaeology, from San Diego State University in 1982. He has been RPA certified since 1999, and is on the County of San Diego and County of Riverside lists of qualified archaeological consultants. He is also qualified for work in the City of San Diego. As a Principal Investigator/Project Manager at Laguna Mountain, Mr. Case manages and conducts cultural resource investigations involving compliance with NHPA, NEPA, and other federal regulations, and with CEQA and other state and local laws. Mr. Case has more than 30 years of experience as an archaeologist, and has participated in more than 200 projects throughout southern California and western Arizona for public and private sector clients. He has authored numerous technical reports and prepared cultural resources sections of many EAs, EISs, and EIRs for Federal, state, and local review. |
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City of San Diego Qualified Archaeological Monitor Mr. Aguilar received his B.A. in Anthropology, with an emphasis in archaeology, from the University of California, San Diego in 2001. He completed his Master's degree in Anthropology at San Diego State University in 2010 with emphsis in osteoarchaeology, receiving the Outstanding Graduate Student award. Mr. Aguilar has more than nine years of experience as an archaeologist, and has participated in more than 50 projects in the southern California region. Mr. Aguilar has also spent five field seasons in Oaxaca, México, conducting skeletal analyses, paleoenvironmental surveys, and archaeological excavations. He has conducted archaeological investigations for a wide variety of development and resource management projects including transportation projects, military installations, commercial and residential developments, and utility monitoring. Mr. Aguilar has served in a variety of archaeological positions including field supervisor, osteological analyst, archaeological surveys, test excavations, data recovery programs, and various monitoring projects. As a Senior Archaeologist at Laguna Mountain, he oversees various activities in the field and provides office and laboratory support for cultural resource projects. |
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Ms. Serr received her B.A. in Anthropology from San Diego State University, summa cum laude, with Distinction in her major in 1978. She has more than 30 years of experience as an archaeologist, laboratory supervisor, and technical illustrator. She has been involved in archaeological investigations in southern California and far western Washington, but her focus is primarily within San Diego County. Carol performs supervision of laboratory procedures and personnel, analysis of prehistoric artifacts and marine shellfish remains as well as historic refuse collections. Her work also involves preparing summary and detailed data tabulations, and contributing the artifact description sections of technical reports. Her field experience includes over 15 years of fieldwork including supervising surveys and testing and data recovery excavations, for which she produced technical reports. Carol has supervised laboratory procedures and artifact analyses of recovered collections since 1993, with a specialty in both flaked and ground stone artifact analysis. As a technical illustrator for more than 14 years, she illustrated a wide range of prehistoric and historic artifacts, and documented pictographs, rock alignments, and milling features. She has been a teaching assistant for several stone tool-making workshops. She also has 10 years of experience processing historic materials, and has been involved with researching twentieth century bottle making companies and the markings they used on their containers with an emphasis on date code marks. She is a contributing author on over 20 bottle mark articles published in several magazines and a 2009 Historical Archaeology journal issue (copies of these can be accessed through the Society of Historical Archaeology bottle webpage: www.sha.org/bottle/References.htm). Ms. Serr has served on the Board of Directors for both the San Diego County Archaeological Society and Spring Valley Historical Society for more than 10 years; and is newsletter editor for the latter.
Ms. Baron earned her B.A. in Anthropology from California State University, Northridge in 1992 after beginning her fieldwork experience in 1986. She performed the bulk of her field and lab work in Los Angeles and Ventura counties, where she specialized in Pacific Coast shell speciation and shell bead analysis. She has been a crew chief on several projects, and was a field director in Simi Valley where she directed excavation of the largest earth oven site found in that area. She recently became qualified as a monitor for City of San Diego projects. She has participated in a wide variety of development and resource management projects, including mortuary assessments, inventory of the cross forest OHV Trail System for the USDA Forest Service in Angeles National Forest, historical bottle analysis, stone tool analysis, and Channel Island surveys and test excavations. She co-authored the cultural resources report for the Old Town Calabasas Master Plan, in which she composed the Calabasas historical time line that is used in their city charter. She worked in the lab at the George C. Page Museum-La Brea Tar Pits, and recently worked in the paleontology lab at the San Diego Natural History Museum where she was given the task of identifying bird bones on a Late Pliocene project. She is a member of the Ocean Beach Historical Society. Ms. Alette van den Hazelkamp GIS Specialist and Graphic Artist City of San Diego Qualified Archaeological Monitor
Ms. van den Hazelkamp has a M.A. in Human Geography and Planning from the University of Utrecht, Netherlands as well as a B.A. in Earth Sciences. She has over four years experience in using GIS for spatial analysis and project impacts planning. Ms. van den Hazelkamp also has experience in performing archival research and cultural history inventories. She has participated in archaeological fieldwork at Neolithic, Middle Age, and seventeenth century defensive work sites in Europe. She specializes in drawing stratigraphic profiles, and for over two years at Laguna Mountain has also performed water-screening, both historic and prehistoric artifact sorting, and identifying marine shell for two large coastal San Diego excavation projects. She recently became qualified as a monitor for City of San Diego projects. Mr. Nathanial Yerka Associate Archaeologist Mr. Yerka received his B.A. in Anthropology in 1999 from the University of California, San Diego with a concentration in Archaeology and emphasis in prehistoric metal working in the Southern Levant. He participated in UCSD's archaeological field school in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan where he later served as field supervisor for Dr. Thomas E. Levy, leading the pedestrian survey and assisting in the mapping of archaeological sites. Mr. Yerka has over eight years experience as an archaeologist, is on the City of San Diego's list of qualified archaeologists, and has worked on more than 50 projects throughout California and Nevada. He has participated in a range of cultural resource studies including archaeological surveys, Bureau of Land Management fire rehabilitation surveys, test excavations, data recovery programs, and various monitoring projects. Mr. Yerka provides valuable field, laboratory and office support for Laguna Mountain. In addition to his archaeological study, in 2009 Mr. Yerka received his J.D. from Glendale University, College of Law.
Associate Archaeologist Ms. Hall received her B.A. in Anthropology from San Diego State University in 2010. She worked with collections in SDSU's Collections Management lab. Ms. Hall has done fieldwork in the San Diego area, including excavation of the historic Whaley House cistern/well located in Old Town and data recovery excavation at CA-SD-46 for the North Ocean Beach Gateway project. She assisted with the washing and sorting of the recovered material, and cataloged the CA-SD-46 collection for Laguna Mountain. Currently she is working towards completing a certificate of performance in GIS.
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