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Lic. Elías Alcocer
Lic. Elías Alcocer Puerto received an undergraduate degree in Cultural Anthropology from the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán. He is a recent graduate of the Mérida-CINVESTAV masters program in Human Ecology and is currently a professor at La Universidad del Oriente in Valladolid, Yucatán. He continues to maintain research interests in the areas of cultural tourism and eco-tourism in the Peninsula.
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 Dr. Jason Barrett
Dr. Jason Barrett is an adjunct professor in the Department of Anthropology at Texas A& M University and an archaeologist with the Texas Department of Transportation (jwbarrett@gmail.com). His archaeological experience includes work in Belize, Mexico, New England, Texas, and American Samoa. He is a lithic resource specialist and his research interests include political ecology, landscape archaeology, resource distribution networks, lithic technology, and ancient warfare. His dissertation explored the role of first-occupancy rights and strategic resource management in the development of social hierarchies in the Blue Creek community.
Jason has conducted excavations at stone toolproduction workshops and residences at the upper northwestern Belize sites of Bedrock and Bajo
Vista, as well as the recently discovered site of Nojol Nah. This
research has shown that lithic resources were significantly depleted in the
region by the Terminal Classic period. He and Bruce Dickson currently lead our
ongoing excavations at Nojol Nah.
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Dr. Grace Bascopé
Grace Lloyd Bascopé (gbascope@airmail.net) received her Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology from Southern Methodist University with a specialization in Medical Anthropology. She has taught numerous physical and cultural anthropology courses at Texas Christian University. She has conducted numerous studies in an indigenous community in the central part of the state of Yucatán, México for almost 20 years and ran the TCU ethnographic field school there. She has also worked in Honduras, South America and Jamaica. In Yucatán she worked with David Freidel and the SMU/Selz Foundation when they excavated a portion of the large ancient city of Yaxunah. She is the author of The Household Ecology of Disease Transmission: Childhood Illness in a Yucatán Maya Community and several articles and chapters on her research in Yaxunah.
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 Dr. Tim Beach
Dr. Tim Beach (beacht@georgetown.edu) is the Director for the Center for the Environment and Associate Professor of Geography at Georgetown University. Tim is known for his work with soils in the Maya area and Turkey. He and Sheryl Luzzader-Beach have been working with the soils and agricultural systems at Blue Creek since 2000.
In 2009 Tim & Sheryl received major support to continue
their work for the next three years from the National Science Foundation.
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Dr. Steve Bozarth
Dr. Steve Bozarth is a Research Professor of Geography at the University of Kansas. Dr. Bozarth has been studying microbotanical materials (polle and phytoliths), agriculture and ritual at Blue Creek for the past decade (sbozarth@ku.edu).
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 Bill Brown
Bill Brown is a graduate student at the University of New Mexico with excavation experience in the US ,Europe and Latin America. Bill has led or
co-led excavations at Nojol Nah and Bedrock and handles analyses of human
remains.
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Dr. Bruce Dickson
Dr. Bruce Dickson is a professor in anthroplogy at Texas A& M University with field experience in the united States, Africa and Europe. One of his recent publications is Ancient Preludes: World Prehistory from the Perspectives of Archaeology, Geology and Paleoecology. (3rd Edition). Eddie Bowes Publishing, Inc., Dubuque, Iowa (2004). (dickson@tamu.edu)
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 Pieta Greaves
Pieta Greaves was the laboratory director at Blue Creek from
2005 until 2008 and holds degrees in Archaeological Conservation from the University of Wales. When not in Belize, she works in the CRM industry in the United Kingdom and Egypt (jindiana@hotmail.com).
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 Dr. Thomas Guderjan
Tom Guderjan is President of MRP and Director of the Blue
Creek project and a faculty member at the University of Texas at Tyler. His recent book, The Nature of an Ancient Maya City: Resources, Interaction and Power
at Blue Creek, Belize. University of Alabama Press (2007), summarizes much of the work done at Blue Creek. (tguderjan@uttyler.edu)
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 Colleen Hanratty
Colleen Hanratty is a doctoral candidate at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. She has done archaeological work in the southeastern and southwestern US, Mexico, Peru and Belize. Her doctoral research is on the elite residences of Blue Creek.
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 Gail Hammond
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 Dr. Sheryl Luzzader-Beach
Dr. Sheryl Luzzader-Beach is an Associate Professor of Geography at George Mason University. She and Tim Beach have been working with soils and agriculture at Blue Creek since 2000 (slbeach@gmu.edu).
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 Jacquie Martinez
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 Greg Mastropietro
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 Tim Preston
Tim Preston has been involved with the Maya Research program simce 2001 when he joined us as a volunteer. During that time he has worked on MRP projects in Belize, Mexico and Peru, both as a volunteer and as a staff member.
In 2007 he earned a Masters degree from San Francisco State University based on excavations he performed in the Rosita community, an outlying settlement linked to the Blue Creek site core. In 2010 Tim will continue his ongoing excavations of an elite residential courtyard at the site of Chum Balam-Nal. His research focusses on the nature of a Maya city and how the different residential neighborhoods relate to the site core.
If you are interested in talking to Tim about his research, or if you would like to work along side him, feel free to send him an email (chacbalam@gmail.com).
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Stephen Reichardt
Stephen is an archaeologist, GIS specialist, and
physical anthropologist with the cultural resources group at EcoPlan, an
environmental consulting firm in Arizona. He received his Masters in Physical
Anthropology from Arizona State University in 2000.
His current interests focus on computer based cartography, spatial analysis, design and creation of GIS databases, and the
application of GIS technologies in archaeology and cultural resource management.
Stephen’s future research will examine burial
practices at Blue Creek. (sreichardt@ecoplanaz.com)
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Bob Warden
Bob Warden is the Director of the Center for Archetectural Heritage at texas A& M and leads a digital recording project. Bob has previously dealt with WWII battle sites in France, French cathedrals and Puebloan materials in Arizona.
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Marc Wolfe
Marc Wolfe, our project surveyor, has spent many years mapping Maya sites in Belize, Guatemala and Mexico. Currently he is mapping the sites of Nojol Nah and Grey Fox
and will be remapping parts of Blue Creek in 2010 (gwe@mindspring.com).
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