JOHN J. PONCZYNSKI

1008½ South Strong Drive                                                        Phone/Fax: 505.722.5753
Gallup, New Mexico  87301-5967                                              E-mail: jjponc@cnetco.com
 
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
More than 25 years of professional experience in the areas of archaeological survey, testing, and excavation, geomorphic process analysis, stratigraphic mapping and interpretation, environmental studies, and remote sensing. An interdisciplinary academic background includes extensive undergraduate and graduate study in geomorphology and geology, stratigraphy and sedimentology, pedology, hydrology, biogeography and environmental ecosystem analysis, and archaeological theory and method with particular focus on the Southwest. This combination of experience and expertise provides the necessary foundation for effecting contributions to every project stage—from research design, to the analysis and integration of various types of field data, and to final report preparation where larger issues of site formation, context, and preservation often need to be addressed in order to make responsible cultural resource management recommendations in a timely, technically sound, and cost efficient manner that serves the best interests of both clients and regulatory agencies.

EDUCATION
M.A., Physical Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1982.
B.A., Physical Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1980.       

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND CAREER SUMMARY
Self-Employed, 10/2004–present.
     Performed freelance contract archaeological work including record searches and clearance surveys for a  number of Navajo Nation cultural resource consultants/permittees. Also involved in a home-based e-commerce enterprise (Red Mesa Trading Company, Inc.).

Staff Geomorphologist/Principal Archaeologist, Navajo Nation Archaeology Department, Window Rock, Arizona, 6/92-9/2004.
     Conducted geomorphological and soils investigations in support of archaeological surveys and excavations. Also performed archaeological field surveys and record searches, and held primary technical editorship responsibilities. Developed a working understanding of cultural resource protection laws, and specifically of the requirements for inventory and documentation necessary as part of the Section 106/NEPA process.
Supervisor: A.L. Klesert, Director

Geoarchaeologist, Office of Contract Archeology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 10/90-9/92.
     Contracted for the Transwestern Mainline Expansion to direct a remote sensing/trenching program. Also provided geomorphological input to the overall environmental studies component of the project’s cultural resources treatment plan which enabled soil-geomorphic relationships to be considered in broader environ-mental terms that lent themselves to archaeological interpretations involving environmental change, site context, and the effects of geomorphic processes on site distribution patterns.
Supervisor: J. Winter

Geoarchaeologist, Archaeological Services, Inc., Stockton, California, 6/90-10/90.
     Contracted for the Royal King Mountain Project to provide pedologic and geomorphic interpretations