Jerome King, M.A.
Jay attended the University of California, Santa Cruz for his undergraduate degree, graduating in 1991, and Simon Fraser University for his master’s degree, graduating in 1997. He has worked at Far Western since 1999, where he has served as GIS Coordinator as well as a Field Director/Principal Investigator. In the former role, he has completed a number of landscape-level sensitivity models and geoarchaeological studies, sample survey designs, large-scale cultural resources data-acquisition and maintenance projects, as well as consulting and custom application development. As an archaeologist, he has worked on a large number of survey, testing, and data-recovery projects throughout California and Nevada. His work with Jeff Rosenthal and Jack Meyer on the geoarchaeology of the southern Santa Clara Valley, subsequently published by the Center for Archaeological Research, Davis Series, received the 2005 Preservation Design Award from the California Preservation Foundation.