Dr. Herbert D. G. Maschner
Anthropology Research Professor
Senior Scientist and Affiliate Professor, IAC
Idaho State University
921 So. 8th Avenue, Stop 8005
Pocatello, Idaho 83209-8005
Phone: (208) 282-2745
Fax: (208) 282-4944
e-mail: maschner@isu.edu
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Research
- Sanak Biocomplexity Project
- Lower Alaska Peninsula Project
- Kuiu Island Archaeology Project
Center for Archaeology, Materials, and Applied Spectroscopy (CAMAS)
- Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Elemental and Isotopic Analyses (ILEIA)
- ICP-MS and Laser Ablation (LA-ICP-MS)
- Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometry (IRMS)
- X-ray Florescence (XRF)
- Idaho Visualization Laboratory (IVL)
Herbert Maschner is Research Professor of Anthropology, Interim Director and Curator / Division Head of Anthropology at the Idaho Museum of Natural History (IMNH), Director of the Center for Archaeology, Materials, and Applied Spectroscopy (CAMAS), Senior Scientist at the Idaho Accelerator Center (IAC), Head of Graduate Studies in the Department of Anthropology, Associate Editor of the Journal of World Prehistory, and an Executive Director of the Foundation for Archaeological Research and Environmental Studies (FARES). In 2006 he was named ISU’s Distinguished Researcher, in 2011 he was named the Idaho Academy of Science Distinguished Scientist.
Maschner did his PhD at the University of California‐Santa Barbara, his MS at the University of Alaska, and the BS at the University of New Mexico. His primary research interests include using trans-disciplinary data to investigate human biocomplexity and the environment, resource and community sustainability, long‐term human impacts and interactions with marine and terrestrial ecosystems, human ecosystem engineering, Darwinian Theory and evolutionary psychology, warfare and inequality, and global historical ecologies. His museum interests are in virtual museums and repositories, and in the development of integrated trandisciplinary research. Methodologically his interests include 3d virtualization and database construction, historical ecology, elemental and isotopic analyses, geographic information systems and remote sensing, and complex systems analysis. His primary research area is the North Pacific Rim and Western North America, especially the eastern Aleutian region, Northwest Coast, western sub-Arctic, and Idaho.
Maschner’s research has been funded by NSF, NOAA, USFWS, MMS, the USDA Forest Service, the Wenner‐ Gren Foundation, and local agencies. He has been (is) Principle Investigator or co‐PI on ≈$7.256 million in grants, which includes PI on ≈$5.19 million from the National Science Foundation (14 awards). His major works published, in press, or submitted include 2 monographs, 8 edited books (all peer reviewed), 1 edited journal section (peer reviewed), and 87 articles, chapters, and reviews (64 peer‐reviewed). He has organized 29 conferences and symposia, presented or co‐authored 163 conference papers with abstracts, done 72 invited lectures, and written over 40 professional reports. Maschner’s principal research collaborators are Dr. Katherine Reedy‐Maschner, Associate Professor of Anthropology at ISU, and their two sons, Alexander Beowulf and Augustus Dylan.