Virtual Networking Roundtable for Students and Young Professionals

Saturday, April 9, 2022

10:00-1:50
Come practice your networking skills! Join us on zoom to meet and chat with Senior Professionals from around Washington Archaeology

Register here

Participants have a chance to win free registration for the 2022 Cultural Resources Protection Summit and gift cards! AWA membership is not required.

The zoom event opens at 10:00 AM for introductions and a few brief announcements and information. Starting at 10:30 AM the event will be divided into a series of 15-minute sessions with a lunch break. Each session will feature a different Senior Professional involved in Washington Archaeology. Check out the schedule and information below and attend as many sessions as you like. Bring your questions!

Drawings for our giveaways will be held during the lunch break from 12:05-12:35 so grab your lunch and come eat on camera with us!

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10:00-10:25
Opening

10:30-10:45
Shelby Anderson, Associate Professor, Anthropology Department, Portland State University

I am an Associate Professor in the Anthropology Department at Portland State University. My research interests include human eco-dynamics, historical ecology, food and cooking technologies, hunter-gatherer mobility and exchange systems, applied archaeology, public and community-based archaeology, and archaeology of the Arctic, Subarctic and Pacific Northwest.

10:50-11:05
Jamie Palmer, Acting Deputy Preservation Officer, Bureau of Land Management

I am an experienced archaeologist with a demonstrated history of working in the government administration industry. Currently I am an archaeologist at the Bureau of Land Management-Oklahoma Field Office in Norman, Oklahoma. I strive to manage cultural resources in a way that is practical, reliable, efficient, and creative while ensuring compliance with federal statutes and regulations. I encourage open dialogue among other resources specialists, and seek to build relationships through the use of partners, professional organizations, volunteers, mentoring and education. I am proud to manage a dynamic, field oriented cultural resource program that works to protect, curate, monitor, stabilize, interpret, and restore at-risk cultural resources, while meeting the demands of the multiple-use mission of the Bureau of Land Management.

11:10-11:25
Katherine Kelly, Lands Archaeologist, Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife

​Katherine Kelly is the WDFW Lands Archaeologist and the first archaeologist hired by the agency. She studied shell middens and coastal archaeology during her undergraduate work at the University of South Carolina and The Evergreen State College, before completing a Masters in Environmental Studies at TESC, with a focus on River Restoration and Landscape Archaeology.  She has also worked as a federal archaeologist, in academia, and as a private contractor.  Kat's current work focuses on program and policy development, as well as guiding responsible cultural resources management practices at a large state land-managing agency. WDFW just hired its second round of Archaeological Interns. These staff serve for a year at a paid position, assisting senior cultural resources specialists in project review, contract management, program development, resource documentation, and field work.  With the next few years, WDFW, along with other state agencies, are likely to hire additional cultural resources staff in response to increased project loads and regulatory requirements associated with Executive Order 21-02.

​11:30-11:45
Sara Palmer, State Lands Archaeologist, Washington State Department of Natural Resources

​Sara E. Palmer is a state lands archaeologist for the Washington State Department of Natural Resources and chairs the Washington State Committee on Geographic Names. She spends both her professional and personal time looking at cool things in the woods. Before coming to work at DNR, she spent fifteen years in Oregon and California as a consulting archaeologist and managing heritage nonprofits. She meets the Secretary of the Interior’s standards for archaeologists, historians, and architectural historians, and has been listed as a qualified archaeologist with SHPO offices in California, Oregon, and Washington. She won an Oregon Heritage Excellence Award in 2015. She lives in the Olympia area with her dog, her two teenage children, and a very naughty cat.

11:50-12:05
Kelly Bush, President and Principal Investigator, Equinox Research and Consulting

​Kelly Bush started her archaeological career in British Columbia, Canada in the mid-eighties and received her MA from Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington in 1997. She opened the Equinox Research and Consulting International Inc. (ERCI) office in Skagit County Washington in 2002 and has found that much of her work is in complex or challenging projects with a range of stakeholder interests. As President and Principal Investigator at ERCI Kelly has worked on nearly every type of cultural resources project you can imagine, including hundreds of archaeological and historic research projects, Traditional Cultural Properties studies, Historic Properties Management Plans, and other plans and agreement documents and provided cultural resources training to local governments, contractors, and project designers. She is a hobby farmer and a raiser of young people and loves to camp, swim, and spend time with her dogs Groot and Rocket. Her favorite part of work is developing teams, training archaeologists, and solving problems.

Kelly served as president of the Association for Washington Archaeology from 2019-2021. This has made her more keenly aware than ever that the CRM industry needs to partner with academia and tribes to nurture highly skilled and cultural aware archaeologists. Moreover, these partnerships are needed to raise the profile of CRM and showcase the value to communities that we provide in risk management and in telling their stories.

12:05-12:35
Lunch Break and giveaway drawings with prizes sponsored by Eppard Vision and Equinox Research and Consulting

12:35-12:50
​David Carlson, Project Archaeologist, CRC/Ph.D Candidate, University of Washington

12:55-1:10
John Blong, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Washington State University

1:15-1:30
Gretchen Kaehler, Snohomish County Archaeologist​

Bio coming soon

1:35-1:50
TBD