Clothes and bedding suitable to a wide range of conditions are recommended. Hat Sunscreen - at least SPF 15 Bug spray Sunglasses Pocketknife Clothing for 2 weeks. Laundromats are available in a small town nearby. As night temperatures are often cold, warm clothing to sleep in is essential. Field school participants leave directly from Condon Hall on the UO campus on the meeting date, so everything must be brought at that time.
Participants pack a lunch on the first day, to eat on the way to Fort Rock.
His archaeological experience spans some 22 years, beginning in l975, when as an undergraduate he was part of an archaeological survey conducted by the Museum of Natural History at UNLV for the Nevada State Highways Division. Ceramic analysis quickly became a primary interest, one that he continued to pursue until his move to Oregon in the mid-1980's. His doctoral dissertation, Site Structure and Chronology of 36 Lake Mojave and Pinto Assemblages from Two Large Multicomponent Sites in the Central Mojave Desert, Southern California , written under the direction of Dr. C. Melvin Aikens, was the product of these extensive investigations. He hired on with the Oregon State Museum of Anthropology, where he currently works as a Research Associate, in l987. He directs excavations related to highway construction projects in the Northern Great Basin and adjoining regions.