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Brian F. Smith and
Associates (BFSA) is the only private consulting company in the area offering a wide
range of both paleontological and archaeological consulting services. Paleontological
services include pre-development resource assessments related to permitting requirements
and environmental impact studies; on-site paleontological montoring and mitigation services
for utility trenching, building excavations and mass grading projects; and preparation,
curation, and archival conservation of paleontological materials.
Our principal
paleontologists all have advanced degrees, and have accumulated nearly
60 years of collective experience in the collection, preparation, preservation, and
identification of invertebrate, vertebrate, and botanical fossil specimens from the western United States.
We can offer immediate turn-around times for
research projects and fossil identifications needed to resolve engineering geotechnical
problems (e.g., age of sediments), as well as assembling necessary field crews at a moments
notice for emergency situations.
Paleontological
services include:
- Paleontological field surveys
and resource assessments prior to development (residential, commercial, and municipal
projects).
- Literature and museum records
searches and documentation.
- Paleontological monitoring of
utility trenching, building and high-rise development excavations, and mass grading
projects (e.g., school sites, commercial developments, housing subdivisions).
- Salvage collection of invertebrate,
vertebrate, and plant fossils, including screen washing for microvertebrates if necessary.
- Specimen preparation and
museum-quality curation services;
- Fossil identification as needed to
resolve engineering geotechnical requirements (e.g., ages of faulted sediments).
- Educational and/or informative exhibits
for schools and private developers
- Placement of fossils in major
public institutions or in small local private museums.
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Page last updated on November 26, 2007
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