Staff

Kimberly Maeyama, Ph.D.

Consulting Archeologist

Dr. Maeyama is a consulting archeologist for GRA, Inc. and URS Corporation, specializing in archeological informatics or the development of archeological data management strategies. Dr. Maeyama received her advanced degrees from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KULeuven) in Leuven, Belgium and has participated in several archeological projects in Israel, Spain, and Iraq where she served as the database manager and cultural objects analyst for the Regime Crimes Liaison Office, Iraq Mass Graves Team. Since 2004, Dr. Maeyama has supported a wide variety of Cultural Resource Management (CRM) projects as a staff and field archeologist, predominantly in California, providing support for field efforts of all phases, technical report writing and editing, and spatial data analysis using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Currently, Dr. Maeyama is working in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District office on the development of nation-wide cultural resources geospatial data strategy for presentation via an internally accessible Corps application.

Education

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Ph.D 2004	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven-Leuven, Belgium (KULeuven) Archaeology
M.A. 1997	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven-Leuven, Belgium (KULeuven) Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology
B.A. 1995	University of San Diego- San Diego, California Interdisciplinary Humanities
2009	University of California, Riverside- Riverside, California Professional Certificate in Geographic Information Systems

Employment History

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2009 – present	Geoarcheology Research Associates, Inc., Consulting Archaeologist.
2009 – Present	URS Corporation, Archaeologist.
2007 – 2008	Environmental Science Associates, Inc., Senior Associate I.
2007	Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica - Cuenca (ARHM-Cuenca), Forensic Archaeologist.
2006 – 2007	Regime Crimes Liaison Office/Iraq Mass Graves Investigation Team (MGIT), Database Manager/Cultural Analyst.
2004 – 2007	Applied Earthworks, Inc., Staff Archaeologist.

Selected Presentations and Presentations

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2008	Maeyama, K. Phase I Archaeological Assessment of Approximately 90 Acres for the Placerita Canyon Project, Los Angeles County (CA). Environmental Science Associates, San Diego, CA
2007	Smith, M. A., D. Z. C. Hines, N. J. Brighton, M. K. Trimble and C. S. Steele (editors) Forensic Investigation of Mass Grave KAR0024, Karbala Province, Iraq. United States Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District, Mandatory Center of Expertise for Archaeological Curation and Collections Management. Submitted to Department of Justice, Regime Crimes Liaison Office, United States Embassy Baghdad, Iraq.
2007	Trimble, M. K., N. J. Brighton, D. Z. C. Hines, M. A. Smith and C.S. Steele (editors) Forensic Survey Along the Tar-as-Saiyid, Karbala Province, Iraq. United States Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District, Mandatory Center of Expertise for Archaeological Curation and Collections Management. Submitted to Department of Justice, Regime Crimes Liaison Office, United States Embassy Baghdad, Iraq.
2004	Rust, James, K. Maeyama, and E. Hajic. Heritage Resource Survey of the Scarlet Area of the Brownstown Ranger District, Hoosier National Forest, Orange County, Indiana. 4G Consulting, St. Paul, MN.
2000	Maeyama, K. Information Systems, Spatial Analysis & Landscape Archaeology: Case-study application of system methodology on Middle Cypriot Cyprus, ASOR Annual Meeting in Nashville Tennessee (USA), November 14th-18th, 2000.
2000	Maeyama, K. Portable Archaeological Information System, Co-Presentation with Samuel D. Craig III at the Far-West Regional meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in Azuza, California (USA), April 22nd, 2000.
1999	Maeyama, K. "Database Design, Development and Implementation at Tel Harassim", in the Ninth Season of Excavation at Tel Harasim 1998, Preliminary Report 9, p. 15-25. Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv.