SRI is happy to celebrate Mary Todd, a Geospatial Specialist in our Tucson office, who this month submitted the final version of the capstone project for her Masters of Science degree in Geographic Information Systems and Technology at the University of Arizona. Congratulations, Mary, on this milestone! Mary joins several other SRI Geospatial Specialists who recently received Masters degrees in GIS, including Cassandra Hall in our Tucson office and Davey Adams in our Redlands office. Overall,...

Congratulations to John Douglass of SRI for receiving two Presidential Recognition Awards at the annual Society for American Archaeology (SAA) meeting for his work on ethics on behalf of the society. Since 2018, he has co-chaired a task force planning revisions to the Society’s Principles of Ethics and subsequently was a member of a task force collecting data from membership on what it felt was important to consider. Jeff Altschul, co-founder of SRI and former owner, was the co-chair of...

Congratulations to Terry Majewski, who at the recent annual Society for American Archaeology meeting in New Orleans was celebrated by her former students and fellow colleagues in a session honoring her long service as not only a CRM professional, but as a professor at the University of Arizona. Her students and colleagues wanted to give a shout out to Terry for the mentoring and support she has offered over a long career. Congratulations to Terry on this honor!

SRI’s Mary Todd, GIS technician and MS-GIST (Geographic Information Systems Technology) student at the University of Arizona, recently completed The Historic Butterfield Overland Trail in Arizona StoryMap. In January 2023, the President signed into law the Butterfield Overland National Historic Trail Designation Act. Mary worked as a volunteer to design the StoryMap as part of the requirements to complete a GIS mentorship offered through the Arizona Geographic Information Council (AGIC)....

SRI was part of a team who recently received third place in the Mark E. Mack Community Engagement Award for our work on History Colorado’s Native American Boarding School Research Program. This Award honors individual researchers or research project teams who exhibit outstanding best practices in community collaboration, engagement, and outreach in their historical archaeology and heritage preservation work.

SRI conducted geophysical work at the Old Fort Lewis Cemetery, in addition to...

Congratulations to Terry Majewski of SRI for being awarded the Carol V. Ruppe Distinguished Service Award for her decades of dedicated service to the SHA in multiple roles, including as a Director, President, inaugural Chair of the Academic and Professional Training Committee, co-founder and organizer of the Past Presidents Student Reception, and Chair of the Awards Committee!

In addition, SRI team members from our Colorado and Albuquerque offices, along with History Colorado, were part of a...

Statistical Research, Inc. (SRI) is so excited to be a part of this year’s International Archaeology Day at Red Rocks! In addition to discussing archaeology, the business of archaeology, and all things history, we will have Maeve Herrick, our local geophysical Project Director, on hand to discuss applications, methods, facts, and fictions about geophysics and their use in historic and archaeological contexts. SRI’s Sarah Rothwell will also be there making pottery, so make sure to...

The American Cultural Resource Association (ACRA) recently held its annual conference in Indianapolis. SRI’s Dr. Teresita Majewski was presented a Presidential Award at the conference for her strong leadership role in the ACRA salary survey, which is an essential tool to understand not only salary information across the United States, but also the composition of the workforce.

Congratulations to Terry on this well-deserved award!

SRI-Alaska, a woman-owned and related entity of Statistical Research, Inc. (“SRI”)-a global provider of cultural resource management services-is proud to announce the purchase of Northern Land Use Research Alaska (“NLURA”). Founded in 1991, NLURA has a long history of helping clients navigate state and federal archaeological compliance requirements by providing cultural resource management, geospatial, and analytical services throughout the state of Alaska.

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SRI was recently at the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) conference in Portland! Our staff organized sessions, presented papers and posters, and worked the booth. In the photo you see two of our senior staff - Phil Leckman and Billy Graves - studying LIDAR data with their colleague, Kelly Jenks, a professor at New Mexico State University. We’ll look forward to seeing you all next year in New Orleans at the SAA meeting!

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SRI’s Teresa Gregory is to give a webinar on the practical archaeological applications of GIS to membership of the Society for American Archaeology later this week! Check out the link below for details!

https://www.saa.org/career-practice/continuing-education/event-details/2022/10/20/seminars/gis-and-archaeology-real-world-examples-of-how-gis-can-benefit-archaeologists

On Sunday, April 3, 2022, John Douglass (SRI) and Susan Chandler (Alpine Archaeological Consultants) organized and chaired a symposium at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Chicago focused on the origins of the CRM industry. The founders of nearly a dozen pioneering firms still in existence today, along with discussants (some representing the next generation of owners), discussed the origins of their firms and the industry itself, the trials and benefits of doing CRM...

SRI is pleased to announce that Bonnie Gibson has joined SRI as a Regional Director and has opened up SRI’s Colorado office! Located in Fort Collins, our newest office will serve the Mountain region and our important clients there.