Senior Archaeologist and Corporate Vice-President

M.A., Anthropology, Portland State University, 2008
B.A., Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, 1990

Paul has regularly assisted clients ranging from federal agencies to local or state entities and private firms with Section 106, NEPA and Section 404 compliance. He has directed hundreds of cultural resource projects, including large and small-scale inventory surveys and NRHP eligibility testing and data recovery excavations at numerous precontact and historic-era sites. He has prepared cultural resource sections for environmental assessments and environmental impact statements, and designed archaeological monitoring plans. Paul has extensive professional experience with reservoirs, waste treatment and power transmission projects and specializes in management plans, contexts, and research designs, archaeological districts and multiple property nomination forms. He has assisted clients in complying with SEPA and is familiar with DAHP requirements, having surveyed, tested, and excavated numerous sites in Washington.

Paul’s particular focus is on the prehistory of the Columbia Plateau, the Portland Basin and Southeast Washington, where his research interests include hunter-gatherer settlement and subsistence patterns, landscape approaches to archaeology, research design development and archaeological field methods. He is a past Director-at-Large for the Association for Washington Archaeology, a member of Sigma Xi, and a research associate at Portland State University.