Staff
President and Principal Archeologist
Dr. Joseph Schuldenrein is Principal Archeologist and President of Geoarcheology Research Associates (GRA). A former Fulbright Fellow in Geology and Archaeology (Hebrew University, Israel) and Fellow of the Field Museum of Chicago, Dr. Schuldenrein received his Ph.D. in environmental archeology at the University of Chicago in 1983. His professional experience includes work across the entire Eastern Woodlands as well in all geographic areas west of the Mississippi River. Internationally he has consulted on projects in Central Europe, the entire Middle East, India and eastern and southern Africa. He is involved in research on Human Origins, early civilizations (South Asia) and site formation process in the Middle Atlantic region of North America and elsewhere. Dr. Schuldenrein has served as Principal Investigator on over 80 archeological and paleoenvironmental projects with a wide variety of clients in the federal, state, local and private sectors. He is the liaison between the Register of Professional Archeologists (RPA) and the Society for Archaeological Sciences (SAS), as well as past president of the Professional Archaeologists of New York City (PANYC). He has published widely in key professional journals including American Antiquity, Journal of Field Archaeology, Geoarchaeology, Journal of Archeological Sciences, and has contributed to numerous edited volumes.
In recent years, Dr. Schuldenrein has been extensively involved in large scale project management, attempting to integrate the various disciplines within CRM. He is also active in the Society for American Archaeology's drive to restructure educational priorities in higher education towards empirical and applied objectives. Dr. Schuldenrein has been a reviewer on numerous funding and granting panels and has appeared on television and radio to advance the exposure of professional archeology.
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Staff Archeologist
Dr. Mark Smith specializes in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and mapping applications for cultural resource surveys and excavations. He is the primary cartographic specialist for GRA and is trained in the use and application of various surveying systems (e.g., Total Station, GPS, etc.). Dr. Smith is also experienced in nautical archeology having received his M.A. in the subject at Texas A&M University and participated in underwater excavations off the coast of Turkey and in the Caribbean. His dissertation research at New York University entailed an analysis of settlement geography in the Punjab, Pakistan, during the Early Historic and Medieval Periods. Dr. Smith has field experience in the Eastern United States, the Eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East, South Asia and the Caribbean. He has directed CRM projects in the Northeast and recently he held the position of Field Director for the Regime Crimes Liaison Office Iraq Mass Graves Team.
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Staff Geoarcheologist
Mr. Aiuvalasit specializes in conducting investigations of the geological context, paleoenvironmental record, and site formation processes of archeological sites. Since 2001 Mr. Aiuvalasit has held a variety of positions for cultural resource firms, including lab director, staff archeologist, assistant lithic analyst, and field archeologist. He has authored both archeological and geoarcheological reports for cultural resource investigations in Texas, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York, and coauthored or presented papers on research conducted in Mexico, Texas, New Mexico, and New York. Currently he is completing the reports on geoarcheological studies at seven prehistoric data recovery investigations in upstate New York. He is listed in the Register of Professional Archaeologists (RPA), and is a member of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), Geological Society of America (GSA), and other local societies. He has current HAZWOPER and Confined Space Entry training. He received training at the University of Texas and Texas A&M University.
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Geoarcheologist
Recently retiring after a twenty six year career with the United States Geological Survey, Curtis Larsen now works as a geomorphologist for GRA on a project-by-project basis. While working for the USGS Curtis was involved in project management and research projects across the United States. Much of his research focused on understanding the relationship between climate change and sea level rise, particularly in the Mid-Atlantic and the Chesapeake Bay. Other significant work while with the USGS included studies of climate, lake levels and geomorphology of the Great Lakes. Prior to working for the USGS Curtis worked as a project manager for a cultural resource firm and undertook projects in the Southeast and the Great Lakes. His dissertation research while attending the University of Chicago was conducted in the Persian Gulf and the Eastern Arabian Peninsula and focused on long term human/landscape interactions in the Bahrain Islands. His research is published in The Journal of Coastal Research, Shore and Beach, Geoarcheology, Quaternary Science Reviews, The Journal of Great Lakes Research, numerous special publications and open file reports with the USGS, as well as in edited volumes and his dissertation by the University of Chicago Press. With GRA he applies his expertise to projects in off- and near-shore settings.
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Archeologist
Dr. Caroline Steele is a staff archaeologist for GRA. She received her training in Anthropology at the University of Chicago and State University of New York at Binghamton. Dr. Steele has worked for over 25 years in the Middle East and Levant. She is experienced in planning and directing archaeological excavations as well as managing and editing scholarly publications.
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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.
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Staff Archeologist
Suanna Selby Crowley is a Consulting Geoarcheologist with GRA, concentrating in the fields of pedology, geomorphology, and geoarcheology. Over the last 15 years, Dr. Crowley has pursued archaeological and geoarchaeological research in both prehistoric and historic contexts of the Old and New World. She has participated in research programs in Pakistan, Syria, Israel, and France. In the United States, she has worked in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southwest, and Great Basin. Her most recent domestic work concerned Holocene site formation processes along the Upper Susquehanna River in New York and the Upper Ohio River in Pennsylvania, as well as the preliminary geoarchaeological assessment of historic cultural materials from Central Park, New York City. Dr. Crowley has lectured at New York University and Columbia/Barnard University in Manhattan and at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts. She completed her doctoral dissertation in Anthropology at New York University in 2007.
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Mindy Montero
Office Manager
