Curriculum Vita
Steve Swanson
Department of Anthropology
(480) 965-7545
office
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Education
Professional
and Research Positions
Supervisors: Dr. Charles Redman and Dr. Stuart Fisher
Student co-director/co-organizer of NSF IGERT urban ecology program at ASU. Responsible for facilitating collaboration, organizing and leading annual urban ecology seminars, planning and evaluating group activities, including brown bags, workshops, and field trips.
Supervisors: Dr. Charles Redman and Dr. Stuart Fisher
Senior member of interdisciplinary group researching urban ecology in the Phoenix Basin, building collaborative skills along with members of 5 other disciplinary departments.
Supervisors: Dr. Charles Redman and Dr. Stuart Fisher
Junior member of interdisciplinary group
researching urban ecology in the
Principle Investigator with Dr. Michael Barton of ASU, designed and organized a field research project in the
Supervisor:
Dr. Arleyn Simon
Responsible for upgrading, maintaining and
repairing a heterogeneous network of 15 Windows 95, 98, NT and Linux PC’s, and
for maintaining access of workers to MS Access database maintained by SQL
Server. Initiator and
coordinator of project to convert legacy, CAD-based regional, site, and feature
maps into GIS coverages for spatial analysis and data serving and management. Established a GIS and
Visualization lab area at ARI to facilitate communication between researchers
learning and using GIS for archaeological research.
PI: Dr. Barb Roth
Responsible for mapping extensive pithouse site,
including surface collections, locations of depressions and detailed elevation
values, and tying local datum into the UTM grid, using GPS units and a transit.
8/98-5/99 Fellow, ASU Archaeological Research Institute and
Supervisors:
Dr. Charles Redman, Dr. Arleyn Simon and Dr. Peter
McCartney
Developed methods for reconstructing prehistoric
ecological landscapes for the Phoenix Basin using remotely sensed satellite
data, a suite of landscape based GIS data, and GPS collected vegetation data,
in conjunction with climatic and paleoclimatic data. Provided training in the use of Trimble
mapping quality GPS for field data recording to LTER faculty and student
researchers, and developed a tutorial for getting data from the GPS into GIS
coverages and databases.
5/98-7/98 Lab Director & Head Teaching Assistant Eastern Mimbres
Archaeology Project.
Supervisors: Dr. Michelle Hegmon and Dr. Margaret
Nelson
Organized
and directed field laboratory during excavations as lab director; oversaw
student education needs as head teaching assistant; excavated and directed
students in excavation of room in a Classic Mimbres roomblock.
8/97-5/98 Research Associate, ASU Archaeological Research Institute.
Supervisors:
Dr. Arleyn Simon and Dr. Peter
McCartney
Wrote scripts to automate updating AZSITE GIS database;
started development of WWW-based GIS interface to archaeological (RPMS) data. Converted legacy (1980s era) archaeological data from La Ciudad
into contemporary MS Access database and GIS coverages.
8/97-12/97 Student Intern, Arizona Department of Environmental Quality.
Supervisor:
Richard Schiller
Volunteer in GIS department at ADEQ, worked on ArcView GIS
interface to ORACLE groundwater contamination database for the department’s
hydrologists.
8/96-5/97 Staff Archaeologist,
Supervisor:
Dr. Robert Brooks,
Staff member of the
Community Assistance Program, assisting companies and individuals in Section
106 compliance.
Analyzed existing documents and performed numerous pedestrian surveys
(including shovel testing) to assess impact of public and private projects on
the state's cultural resources. Responsible for entry of
archaeological site data into SAS database and National Archaeological Database
(NADB).
6/96-8/96 Crew Chief, Reconocimiento Regional Paquimé.
PI's: Dr. Paul Minnis and Dr. Michael Whalen
Organized research
project to investigate one of RRP's three research questions for the summer. Duties included leading survey crew in
locating and recording prehistoric communication and other archaeological
features near
10/95-6/96 Research Assistant, Oklahoma Department of Transportation.
Supervisor:
Robert Bartlett
Assessed significance of
recorded archaeological sites along highway right-of-ways, prepared forms and
maps of those sites for entry into statewide GIS database.
5/95-8/95 Crew Member, Reconocimiento Regional Paquimé.
Located and recorded archaeological sites funded
by an NSF grant as a member of a four person survey crew in northern
9/94-5/95 Archaeology Lab Supervisor,
Supervisor:
Angela Linse
Organized and supervised student volunteers in
analysis and write-up of excavated materials from summer field season for
inclusion in report submitted to US Forest Service.
6/94-9/94 Assistant Crew Chief, University of
Director:
Angela Linse
Supervised student crews
in survey and excavation of Mogollon habitation and agricultural activity sites
near
11/93-2/94 Crew Member,
Director:
Dr. John Hoffecker
Member of survey crew,
examining, recording and assessing importance of historic and prehistoric
archaeological resources on McChord Air Force Base under contract from the
Department of Defense.
6/93-9/93 Crew Member, University of
Director:
Angela Linse
Member of crew excavating at
2003-04 NSF Dissertation
Improvement Grant: $11,800
2003 NSF IGERT International
Travel Grant: $11,500
2001-04 ASU IGERT Fellow,
CES: $67,000
2000-02 Co-PI,
1998-99
Legacy Effects of
Prehistoric Farming: Isotopic Analysis of Maize Grown in Sediments from Hohokam
Fields. Paper presented at the 6th Annual CAP LTER Poster Symposium,
Documenting Prehistoric Communication Networks: A Case Study in the Paquimé Polity. American Antiquity 68(3):753-767. 2003.
Mimbres Pithouse Dwellers. Archaeology Southwest 17(4):3. 2003, with Mike Diehl.
Time, Space and Stability: Investigating Landscape
Responses to Climate Variability in the Southwest, poster presented at the Third Annual CAP LTER Research
Symposium,
Where are the
Villagers? Contesting the Scale and
Organization of Mogollon Pithouse Settlements, paper presented at the Sixty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society for American
Archaeology, 2001.
Land Use History and Environmental Impact in the Blue
River Watershed, Arizona: Report of the
2000 Blue River Archaeological Project,
submitted to the
GIS as a Tool for
Integrating and Rejuvenating Archaeological Databases in Spatial Contexts, poster presented at the Sixty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the
Society for American Archaeology, 2000.
Community
Occupation and Abandonment During the Mogollon
Pithouse Periods, poster presented at the
Southwest Symposium,
A GIS Analysis of
Fire Signaling Features in
Investigating
Vegetation in the
EMAP 1998 Field
Report: Classic Mimbres Occupation and Abandonment at Unit 31, LA 37767, document on file at
EMAP 1998 Field
Report: "Other" Artifacts Laboratory Report, document on file at
Atalayas of
Paquimé: A GIS Analysis of Prehistoric Communication Features, MA Thesis, Department of Anthropology,
Cerro a Cerro: A
Regional Fire Communication System at Casas Grandes. Paper Presented at
the Ninth Mogollon Conference,
.
Service
ASU
Association of Anthropology Graduate Students, Co-President 2000-2001
ASU
Archaeology Subdiscipline Representative 1999-2000
AAA
National Association of Student Anthropologists, Treasurer 1999
ASU
Association of Anthropology Graduate Students, President 1998-1999
ASU
Association of Anthropology Graduate Students, Secretary 1997-1998
OU
Anthropological Library, Founder and Chair 1996-1997
OU
Anthropology Graduate Student Association, Parliamentarian 1996-1997
OU
Graduate Student Senate, Anthropology Representative 1995-1996
UW Roy
Webb Anthropological Library, Secretary 1993-1995
UW
Student Government Representative for Anthropology 1993-1994
Research
Interests
My
dissertation research examines the social and ecological consequences of
village formation and the development of agriculture in the greater
Skills
& Training
Laboratory:
Primary training in archaeological palynology, geoarchaeology and faunal
analysis, with a minor in Plant Biology through the IGERT program.
Analytical: Proficient in statistics, with an emphasis on
applying multivariate, time-series, and spatial analytical techniques to
archaeological, ecological, and climatic data.
GIS and Remote Sensing: I have several years of experience with the application
of geographical information systems and remotely sensed satellite data to
archaeological research, including the development and maintenance of a GIS lab
at ASU, and the maintenance of related hardware and software. I have had extensive coursework in the
analysis, application, and theory of GIS and remotely sensed data, which have
been important tools in my thesis and dissertation research.