Kim Tremaine, Ph.C., RPA

Kim Tremaine is the founder of Tremaine & Associates. She has owned and operated the business for the past 25 years. Ms. Tremaine is a Registered Professional Archaeologist and meets the Secretary of Interior’s Professional Qualifications Standards for Archaeology. She holds a master’s degree in Cultural Resources Management and has advanced to candidacy in the doctoral program at UC Davis. 

She has over 30 years of experience in California archaeology and has directed numerous projects involving compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). 

As Principal Investigator, Kim is responsible for program oversight related to quality assurance/quality control and will work closely with the Project Manager to ensure the requirements of federal, state, and local laws are met.

She has worked with a number of State and Federal agencies including Caltrans, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Army Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Native American Heritage Commission, and the Office of Historic Preservation. For the past several years, much of her energy has been devoted to the study and recording of history and prehistory of Sacramento. 

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ktremaine@tremaine.us, (916) 637-9737

John Lopez, M.A.

Mr. Lopez, a principal and co-owner of Tremaine & Associates, has practiced archaeology in California for the past twenty-five years. He completed his graduate education in Cultural Resources Management at Sonoma State University, researching the application of genetic algorithms and Complex Adaptive Systems to human behavior and archaeological landscape formation. 

Mr. Lopez also contributes much as an accomplished business systems expert and has been instrumental in developing our geophysical capabilities through the creation of a mobilized geophysical technology for conducting subsurface surveys. This technology has been successfully applied around the pyramids of Giza for Ancient Egyptian Research Associates and National Geographic. As early as 2001 he was an invited plenary speaker at the Society of California Archaeology Annual Meeting, where he described a method for rapidly scanning paleo-landscapes for anthropogenic soils using 21st century technologies, in particular, a highly mobile electromagnetic instrument that Tremaine developed and patented for mapping the subsurface.  

Finally, over the years, Mr. Lopez has developed trusting relationships among the many local Native Americans groups which have proved invaluable for helping mediate inevitable issues that arise during long and complex projects.

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jlopez@tremaine.us, (916) 637-9737

Al Schwitalla, M.A., RPA

Mr. Schwitalla is a senior consulting archaeologist for cultural resource management projects, primarily in central California. He has over 30 years of archaeological experience as a CRM archaeologist and is a Registered Professional Archaeologist, meeting the Secretary of Interior’s Professional Qualifications Standards for Archaeology. He has worked as a Principal Investigator, Project Manager, and Archaeological Technician for multiple federal, state, and private cultural resource management companies, agencies, and institutions. 

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​aschwitalla@tremaine.us

Kirby Page-Schmit, M.A., RPA

Mr. Page-Schmit received his Master’s degree in History from the University of Colorado in 2015 and is GIS certified. He has eight years of professional experience in archaeology and is a Registered Professional Archaeologist, meeting the Secretary of Interior’s Professional Qualifications Standards for Archaeology. He is an archaeologist and historian with eight years of professional experience in Bay Area archaeology. He has a wide range of specialized skills including NEPA/Section 106 and CEQA cultural compliance, writing and editing, archival research, and GIS analysis. He also has six years of experience as a lead surveyor on projects throughout California. His work has included both survey, monitoring, and site recordation in East Bay localities such as Mt. Diablo and Mt. Tamalpais State Parks. He also has extensive cultural writing experience for PG&E and National Park Service Projects in the Bay Area, including an archaeological overview of Alcatraz Island. Mr. Page-Schmit has been with Tremaine for the last 2 years, working as a Project Manager and GIS Specialist.

kpage-schmit@tremaine.us

Elizabeth Fernandez, M.A.

Ms. Fernandez is an historical archaeologist with over ten years of professional experience in California archaeology. Ms. Fernandez has a Master’s Degree in Applied Anthropology from San Jose State University and meets the Secretary of Interior’s Professional Qualifications Standards for Archaeology. Her thesis documented a ghost mining town in Sierra County called Brandy City which had flourished during the goldrush.

Ms. Fernandez is responsible for assisting with the implementation of multiple concurrent projects in various stages of completion with experience in construction monitoring, data recovery, and pedestrian survey. She also assists with the consultation of Native American groups/individuals, assists in the preparation of a variety of deliverables, including Phase I Archaeological Survey Reports (ASRs), Extended Phase I (XPI) Workplans, XPI reports, Historic Property Survey Reports (HPSRs), Cultural Resource Mitigation Reports, and DPR record preparation, and conducting records searches. 

As Lab Manager for Tremaine, Ms. Fernandez is in charge of keeping organized documentation of all artifacts recovered during the course of multiple projects. This includes processing, sorting, and identification along with researching, labeling, cataloging, and analyzing artifacts. She also conducts much of the contextual research for Tremaine, which includes analyzing historic sources, primary and secondary documentation, census records, historic maps, aerial photos, and advertisements.

efernandez@tremaine.us

Justin Cairns, M.A.

Mr. Cairns has served as a Field Director or Crew Chief on various field projects and has 18 years of experience in California Archaeology. He has worked at the following facilities: Camp Roberts Army National Guard Training Facility and East Garrison in San Luis Obispo County conducting block pedestrian surveys of base ranges; Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at Twenty-Nine Palms in San Bernardino County conducting surveys, test excavations, and mapping at 77 archaeological sites on the military base at various training grounds. 

In addition to fieldwork, Justin specializes in faunal bone identification and is an expert analyzing fish remains. His thesis focused on prehistoric foraging patterns, comparing several sites in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. 

Pat MacEwen, M.A.

Ms. MacEwen received her Master’s Degree from CSU, Sacramento in 2013. Her thesis focused on Biological Distance in Prehistoric Populations of Central California and Evidence for the Meganos Intrusion. She specializes in human osteology. During her career, she has exhumed countless burials including mass genocide burials in Macedonia, Kosovo, and Albania.  Pat is also experienced processing crime scenes for the Stockton Police Department (e.g., fingerprints, DNA, ballistic items, shoe prints, tool impressions, clothing, and conducting various, and producing crime scene diagrams). These skills come in handy working cold cases in archaeology. 

Pat has been on board with Tremaine for the past year, working on various projects as an archaeological monitor/human osteologist, soils analyst, providing assistance in preparing DPR site records, and preparing monitoring plan/research designs.

pmacewen@tremaine.us

Vitaliy Selyuzhitskiy, A.A.

Mr. Selyuzhitskiy has more than 8 years of experience in several spheres of specialties including pre-excavation planning, archaeological excavation, GPS/GIS mapping, remote-sense technologies application, 3D software, data analysis, the application of electromagnetic induction to map subsurface features using non-intrusive methods for use in crop fields, orchards, historical cemeteries and levees, AR/VR, Aerial Drone Imagery, Adobe Photoshop, ESRI, and Trimble navigation equipment. 

Mr. Selyuzhitskiy has an A.A. from Sierra College in Rocklin, with extensive training in ArcView, CADD, and a background in geology, archaeological survey, and excavation. He is also the lead geophysical technician in the field, having extensive experience in topographic map reading due to his U.S. military training, as well as tactical site exploitation training focused on identifying, collecting, and recording evidence of crime scenes. He is versatile in the use of Trimble GPS equipment, both handheld, as well as base station and rover, mapping any cultural resource features, and also prepares map figures for deliverables.

vitaliy@tremaine.us