Marketing Coordinator

Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Washington, 2008
M.A., Anthropology, University of Washington, 2001
B.S.E., Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, 1995

Jennie has worked as an archaeologist in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska for over twenty years. She has applied her archaeology background to marketing and proposal efforts in the cultural resources management sector and was thrilled to join WillametteCRA in 2023 to continue this work.

Her doctoral research focused on understanding the antiquity of driftwood harvesting in Kodiak, Alaska, through the analysis of archaeological charcoal. She conducted archaeological field investigations, driftwood surveys, and ethnographic interviews with Native Alaskan driftwood gatherers to better understand this critical resource.

In 2014, Jennie founded Salix Archaeological Services LLC (SALIX), a Seattle-based company dedicated to the analysis of botanical materials from archaeological sites. This work has supported radiocarbon dating programs and cultural resources investigations for municipal, state, federal, Tribal, and academic clients throughout the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Projects include wood and charcoal analyses for the Bear Creek Paleoindian Site, the Tse-whit-zen Village Site, and the Green River s.dəxʷìł canoe, among many others. Jennie was introduced to WillametteCRA after serving as a subconsultant on several projects and continues to operate SALIX independently.

Jennie has published numerous, peer-reviewed articles and contributed to collaborations on the topics of geochronology, marine reservoir effects, and fuelwood harvesting, based on research in the Gulf of Alaska, western Washington, the Kuril Islands, and Montenegro. She is proud to serve as an Archaeology Curatorial Associate with the Burke Museum in Seattle and is a member of the Society for American Archaeology and the Association for Washington Archaeology.