Professional Qualifications Meets Secretary of Interior’s Professional Standards for Archaeology (36 CFR, Part 61, Appendix A)
Register of Professional Archaeologists
Oregon “Qualified Archaeologist” per ORS 390.235(6)(b).
Qualified ODOT Cultural Resource Consultant
CertificationsHAZWOPER 40-Hour
Professional MembershipsAssociation of Oregon Archaeologists (Board Member, 2024-Present)
Association for Washington Archaeology
Nevada Archaeological Association
Megan McGuinness, M.A., RPA
Senior Archaeologist
Education2020, B.A., Anthropology/Sociology, Minor in Native American Studies, Eastern Oregon University
2022, M.A., University of Nevada, Reno
Megan has been active in cultural resource management since 2017. Her experience includes conducting and leading cultural resource surveys, testing and recommending National Register eligibility, cultural resource monitoring, and excavation in compliance with Section 106, NEPA, and state statutes and executive orders. Megan has managed and worked on several projects, mainly in Oregon, in addition to Washington, Nevada, Utah, and California.
Megan’s duties have included preparing for the field and managing crews, preparing cost estimates and proposals, managing fieldwork and deliverable schedules, communicating with clients, agencies, and tribal representatives about projects, and preparing technical reports.
Megan has authored and co-authored numerous technical reports and regularly presents posters and papers at professional conferences. Her research interests include human subsistence and settlement patterns in the Great Basin, geoarchaeology/site formation processes, and lithic use. Megan continues to research, listen, and learn more acceptable approaches to finding the balance between working in cultural resource management and working with the Tribes whose lands these projects take place on.