Andrew Pigniolo is the President of Laguna Mountain Environmental, Inc.  He serves as Principal Investigator/Project Manager and Archaeological Field Director for projects, and is directly responsible for all projects.

Laguna Mountain currently employs two full-time senior archaeologists, three full-time associate archaeologists, two full-time temporary archaeologists, one part-time temporary archaeologist, a full-time lab manager, two full-time temporary lab technicians, a graphic artist and GIS specialist, and an office manager.

Mr. Andrew R. Pigniolo, M.A., RPA
(Principal Investigator and Project Manager)
Andrew@LagunaEnv.com

Mr. Pigniolo received his M.A. in Anthropology, with an emphasis in Archaeology, from San Diego State University in 1992.  He is RPA certified (1992-present) and is on the County of San Diego and County of Riverside lists of qualified archaeological consultants.  He is also qualified for work in the City of San Diego.  As Principal Archaeologist/Ethnohistorian at Laguna Mountain, Mr. Pigniolo manages and conducts cultural resource investigations involving compliance with NHPA, NEPA, and other federal regulations, and with CEQA and other state and local laws.  Mr. Pigniolo has more than 30 years of experience as an archaeologist, and has conducted more than 800 projects throughout southern California and western Arizona.  He has authored numerous technical reports and prepared cultural resources sections of many EAs, EISs, and EIRs for Federal, state, and local review.

Mr. Pigniolo has been involved with a variety of local government contracts and Federal work.  Mr. Pigniolo has received 40 hour HAZWOPPER training and holds an active card for hazardous material work.  Mr. Pigniolo has experience conducting cultural resource investigations for a wide variety of development and resource management projects including tribal economic development projects, water resource facilities, transportation projects, commercial and residential developments, military installations, geothermal power projects, and landfills. He has conducted the full range of technical studies including archaeological overviews, surveys, test excavations, historical research, ethnographic research, evaluations of significance for National Register eligibility, data recovery programs, and monitoring projects.  Mr. Pigniolo works closely with the Native American community in southern California and maintains good working relationships with a variety of community members.

Mr. Pigniolo has extensive experience in the field of biology in southern California, and conducts specialized botany studies. Mr. Pigniolo has taken numerous field botany classes at San Diego State University, California State University Fullerton, the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden, and the San Diego Natural History Museum focused specifically on regional plant identification. He has more than 24 years of botanical field experience and has participated in biological surveys for the County of San Diego, City of San Diego, U.S. Navy, and the San Dieguito River Joint Powers Authority. Mr. Pigniolo maintains an herbarium of reference plant specimens to aid in species identification. For more than 8 years, Mr. Pigniolo has held a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service permit to conduct Quino Checkerspot butterfly habitat assessments and adult surveys. In addition, he has also conducted numerous Hermes Copper butterfly surveys and assessments.

Mr. Robert P. Case, M.A., RPA
(Senior Archaeologist, Principal Investigator, Project Manager)
rob@LagunaEnv.com

Mr. Case received his M.A. in Anthropology, with an emphasis in Archaeology, from the University of California San Diego in 1982.  He is RPA certified (1992 - present), and is on the County of San Diego and County of Riverside lists of qualified archaeological consultants. He is also qualified for work in the City of San Diego. As a Principal Investigator/Project Manager at Laguna Mountain, Mr. Case manages and conducts cultural resource investigations involving compliance with NHPA, NEPA, and other federal regulations, and with CEQA and other state and local laws. Mr. Case has more than 30 years of experience as an archaeologist, and has participated in more than 200 projects throughout southern California and western Arizona for public and private sector clients.   He has authored numerous technical reports and prepared cultural resources sections of many EAs, EISs, and EIRs for Federal, state, and local review.

Mr. Case has completed the HAZWOPPER training and holds an active card for hazardous material work. He has also completed the 10-hour OSHA Safety Management training conducted by the City of San Diego Water Dept. Mr. Case has experience conducting cultural resource investigations for a wide variety of development and resource management including tribal economic development projects, water resource facilities, transportation projects, commerical and residential developments, military installations, geothermal power projects, and landfills. He has conducted the full range of technical studies including archaeological overviews, surveys, test evacuations, historical research, evaluations of significance for National Register eligibility, data recovery programs, and monitoring projects. Mr. Case works closely with the Native American community in southern California and maintains good working relationships with a variety of community members.

Mr. Jose "Pepe" Aguilar
(Senior Archaeologist, Crew Chief, and City of San Diego Qualified Archaeological Monitor)
pepe@LagunaEnv.com

Mr. Aguilar is an Associate Archaeologist at Laguna Mountain.  He oversees various activities in the field, as well as providing office and laboratory support for cultural resource projects. Mr. Aguilar received his B.A. in Anthropology, with an emphasis in Archaeology, from the University of California San Diego in 2001.  He currently completed his M.A. in Archaeology at San Diego State University focus, and received an outstanding graduate student award.  He is a qualified archaeological monitor in the City of San Diego.  Mr. Aguilar has more than 9 years of experience as an archaeologist, and has participated in more than 50 projects in the southern California region.  His archaeological investigations have been conducted for a wide variety of development and resource management projects including transportation projects, military installations, commercial and residential developments, and utility monitoring. Mr. Aguilar has served in a variety of archaeological tasks including field supervisor, osteological analyst, archaeological surveys, test excavations, data recovery programs, and various monitoring projects.

Ms. Natalie Brodie
(Associate Archaeologist, Graphic Designer, and City of San Diego Qualified Archaeological Monitor)
natalie@LagunaEnv.com

Ms. Brodie is an Associate Archaeologist at Laguna Mountain. She provides field, office, and laboratory support for cultural resource projects, as well as providing graphics for all related projects. Ms. Brodie received her B.A. in Anthropology, with an emphasis in Archaeology, from the University of California San Diego in 2002.  She is on the City of San Diego’s list of qualified archaeologists and has more than 5 years of experience as an archaeologist.  She has participated in more than 40 projects throughout California, as well as working in Jordan.  Her archaeological investigations have been conducted for a wide variety of development and resource management projects including transportation projects, military installations, commercial and residential developments, utilities monitoring, and historic building rehabilitation monitoring.  Ms. Brodie has served in a variety of archaeological tasks including co-author of archaeological technical reports and environmental impact assessments, laboratory supervisor, marine invertebrate analyst, archaeological surveys, historic buildings recordation, test excavations, historical research, data recovery programs, and various monitoring projects. Ms. Brodie also participates in biological studies holding a permit through he US Fish and Wildlife Service to survey for the endangered Quino Checkerspot butterfly.

Ms. Sarah Farmer (Associate Archaeologist and City of San Diego Qualified Archaeologist)
sarah@LagunaEnv.com

Ms. Farmer is an Associate Archaeologist at Laguna Mountain Environmental and provides field, laboratory, and administrative support. She received her B.A. in Anthropology from the Univeristy of California at Los Angeles, and participated in the U.C.L.A. Anthropology Honors Program and graduated magna cum laude. She has over 5 years experience as an archaeologist, is on the City of San Diego's list of qualified archaeologists, and has worked on more than 35 projects throughout California. She has conducted archaeological studies for a wide variety of development and resource management projects including utility and water projects, historic building rehabilitation monitoring, and commercial and residential developments. Ms. Farmer has participated in a range of cultural resource studies including archaeological surveys, test excavatons, data recovery programs, various monitoring projects, and historic buildings recordation. In addition, Ms. Farmer has a background and training in both prehistoric and historic data recovery and analysis. She is also a current member of the San Diego County Archaeological Society. Ms. Farmer recently received her permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as an independent investigator in the endangered Quino Checkerspot butterfly study.

Mr. Frank Dittmer
(Associate Archaeologist and City of San Diego Qualified Archaeological Monitor) frank@LagunaEnv.com

Mr. Dittmer is an Associate Archaeologist at Laguna Mountain, providing valuable field, office and laboratory support. In 1991 he received his B.S. in Anthropology from the University of California, Riverside with a concentration in Californian and southwestern Archaeology. His interests include Lithic technology, ceramic analysis and historic archaeology. Since 1990, Mr. Dittmer has participated in numerous archaeological field projects and various cultural resources studies throughout southern California including Riverside, San Bernardino and Imperial County and the Lower Colorado River area. Mr. Dittmer also participates in biological studies holding a permit through he US Fish and Wildlife Service to survey for the endangered Quino Checkerspot butterfly. He is certified to survey for the Flat-tailed Horned Lizard recently participating in field training through the BLM, El Centro office. The species was proposed for listing as a threatened species by the US Fish and Wildlife Service on November 29, 1993 due to increasing human activities which have resulted in a 34 percent conversion of the lizards native habitant.

Mr. Dittmer also participated in extensive monitoring activities for the SDG&E Sunrise Powerlink Project and is also a city certified monitor of the City of San Diego.

Ms. Carol Serr
(Associate Archaeologist, Lab Director)
carol@LagunaEnv.com

Ms. Serr received her B.A. in Anthropology from San Diego State University in 1978 and has more than 30 years of experience as an archaeologist, laboratory supervisor, and technical illustrator. She has been involved in archaeological investigations in southern California and far western Washington, but her focus is primarily within San Diego County. Carol performs supervision of laboratory procedures and personnel, analysis of prehistoric artifacts and marine shellfish remains as well as historic refuse collections. Her work also involves preparing summary and detailed data tabulations, and contributing the artifact description sections of technical reports. Her field experience includes over 15 years of fieldwork including supervising surveys and testing and data recovery excavations, for which she produced technical reports. Carol has supervised laboratory procedures and artifact analyses of recovered collections since 1993, with a specialty in both flaked and ground stone artifact analysis. As a technical illustrator for more than 14 years, she illustrated a wide range of prehistoric and historic artifacts, and documented pictographs, rock alignments, and milling features.

She also has 10 years of experience processing historic materials, and has been involved with researching twentieth century bottle making companies and the markings they used on their containers with an emphasis on date code marks. She is a contributing author on over 20 bottle mark articles published in several magazines and a 2009 Historical Archaeology journal issue (copies of these can be accessed through the Society of Historical Archaeology bottle webpage: www.sha.org/bottle/References.htm).

Ms. Serr has served on the Board of Directors for both the San Diego County Archaeological Society and Spring Valley Historical Society for more than 10 years; and is newsletter editor for the latter.

Mr. Douglas La Rose
(Associate Archaeologist)

Mr. La Rose is an Associate Archaeologist at Laguna Mountain. He graduated with high honors from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a B.A. in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Mr. La Rose is both a California archaeologist as well as an applied environmental anthropologist. At Laguna Mountain he provides part-time field and laboratory support, and has participated in numerous archaeological and cultural resource projects in the southern California area. Mr. La Rose also undertakes research on the exchange systems of prehistoric southern California, as well as Spanish-Kumeyaay interactions during the proto-historic and historic periods. Mr. La Rose has also worked in Peru, the Solomon Islands, Burkina Faso, and regularty conducts ethnographic research in the Republic of Ghana. He is currently finishing his M.A. in Cultural Anthroplogy at San Diego State University.

Mr. Robert Bolger
(Associate Archaeologist)

Mr. Bolger is a graduate of University of California at Berkeley, with a B.A. in Anthropology. He has done field work in South America, Northern and Southern California, Arizona and Mexico. He is highly interested in the incorporation of technology into archaeological methodology and has been working with digital video production for preservation of archaeological resources and digital media networks for site preservation since 2004.  Recently, he has begun working to better utilize aerial photography and aerial survey for archaeology with the hopes of integrating GPS, GIS and digital media (such as pictures, video and 3-D models) into a single, comprehensive digital site model.

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