Archaeology
Special Interest Group

Biographies

Jeffrey T. Clark, co-chair for the Internet2 Archaeology SIG, is Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Emergency Management at North Dakota State University (NDSU), where he has been a faculty member since 1983. He received his bachelor=s degree from the University of Michigan (1973) and worked for a number of years in contract archaeology. He earned his doctorate in 1987 from the University of Illinois. His research specialization is archaeology, but over the years he has also taught courses covering cultural anthropology and physical anthropology. While he has worked extensively in North America, his primary research emphasis is Oceania. His research interests have dealt with such topics as historical archaeology, paleo-environmental changes, settlement patterns, geochemical studies of artifacts, the role of cognitive models in human behavior, the impact of malaria on Pacific colonization, and other issues. In the late 1990s, his research interests turned to computer applications for archaeology. Since that time, his research projects have been multifaceted: virtual environments for education, including computer games; virtual exhibitions for museums; 3D modeling of artifacts; and the development of Internet-accessible databases. He is Direoctor of the Archaeology Technologies Lab (ATL) at NDSU, and he has been active in Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) for many years, and in 2006, he brought the international CAA conference to the U.S. (Fargo, ND) for the first time in its history. In 2007, a North America Chapter of CAA (CAA-NA) was formed, which he chairs.
           

Greg Palmer, co-chair for the Internet2 Archaeology SIG, has been in the field of communications industry since 1980 working for companies such as Okidata. In 1988 he received a business degree in Operations Management from LaSalle University. In 1990, he collaborated with the Okidata Japanese parent company, OKI Electric, to build an international network that included Japan, Thailand, Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Following ten years of service with Okidata, Greg took the position of Director of Campus Computing at Drexel University in Philadelphia. At Drexel, he wrote, and received, a grant from the National Science Foundation for connection to the vBNS national backbone. Next, he took a position in Europe working at Christian Dalloz, Ltd, a French company that manufacturers and distributes personal safety products as Director of Operations where he was responsible for coordinating connectivity and local LAN support for 42 sites worldwide. After the better part of six months, he chose to return to the academic community at the University of Pennsylvania as the Director of MAGPI to create a financially self-sustaining high performance Metropolitan Area Network in the Philadelphia region dedicated to the research and education community.