New web site: Paleo Indian Archaeology and Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Shorelines on DOD Installations (12/12/05)

CEMML is pleased to announce the initiation of a new web site entitled Paleo Indian Archaeology and Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Shorelines on DOD Installations, as part of a project at Fort Drum, New York, sponsored by the DOD's Legacy Resource Management Program. The project is headed by Dr. Laurie Rush, Cultural Resources Program Manager for the Environmental Division at Fort Drum, and is managed by Dr. James Zeidler, CEMML's Associate Director for Cultural Resources. Based on recently documented archaeological evidence for ancient boat building activity at the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary, both at Fort Drum, New York, and at San Clemente Island, California, the web site is aimed at disseminating this evidence to the widest possible audience in the hope of generating similar studies at other DOD installations, as well as non-DOD localities, throughout the United States. The web site is designed as a working document to be continuously expanded as new data and information are gathered. As such, it will serve as an on-going forum for discussion and information exchange on paleo boat building as new partners are identified from both the CRM and academic communities. The new web site can be accessed at the following URL: www.cemml.colostate.edu/paleo/index.htm. (10 December 2005).

 

Dr. Mark Prieksat joins CEMML as the Associate Director for Compliance and Cleanup Programs (11/05)

Dr. Prieksat has over 10 years of experience managing environmental cleanup and compliance projects. In addition, he has been involved in range cleanup operations and environmental management of military ranges. Dr. Prieksat’s work at CEMML focuses on specific program support areas to include: environmental cleanup (IRP, DERP, CERCLA or Superfund), military munitions response (MMRP), compliance cleanup (CC), pollution prevention (P2), environmental management systems (EMS), noise management (IENMP/ICUZ), hazardous waste/materials management (RCRA), solid waste management, drinking water (SDWA), storage tank management, toxic substances (TSCA – lead, asbestos, PCBs, radon), wastewater and storm water management (CWA, NPDES, SWP3), and watershed management. Several notable projects include management of white phosphorus cleanup at Eagle River Flats Impact Area for US Army Garrison, Alaska; consulting research at operational mine sites in the southwestern United States; investigation of uranium mill tailing remedial action (UMTRA) sites for the Department of Energy; and applied research on alternative landfill covers.