Meet Jeremy McFarland

Lower Thirds Title: Ph.D. Student of Anthropology

Jeremy, a Ph.D. student at the University of Nevada, Reno, working under Dr. Chris Jazwa, acquired his B.A. in anthropology from Humboldt State University. With over five years in cultural resource and heritage management along the Pacific Northwest and Northeastern California he has a knowledge of prehistoric and historic archaeology along the Pacific Coast. In addition to this knowledge base, he completed a geospatial minor and advanced geospatial certificate which has allowed him to apply remote mapping techniques to his research which relates to abalone middens in the North Coast, specifically the Kings Range. This research project he has coined “The Elusive Abalone: A Pilot Study to Investigate Site Distribution within the King Range National Conservation”. This research contributes to the larger picture of trying to document abalone sites of the past to apply knowledge from previous environmental conditions to our current environment. He is interested specifically in the relationship between abalone, human foraging behavior in the intertidal, as well as the environment overall.  

Link to Jeremy’s Student Page: https://www.unr.edu/anthropology/faculty/jeremy-mcfarland