About: Arlo McKee, Skipper Scott, and Jay Newman
Bio:
Arlo McKee is the current archeologist for the Regulatory Program in the Fort Worth District. He has served in this role for the past 18 months. Previously, Arlo was an archeological reviewer for the North Texas region at the Texas Historical Commission and has worked in the private sector as a consulting geoarcheologist an archeological principal investigator. He’s also currently quite surprised to look over his resume and learn that he’s just passed 20 years as a professional archeologist.
Skipper Scott is a retired archeologist who began his career with TAS (now TARL) in 1973. He worked on sites throughout Texas, then several years in Wyoming during graduate school. His academic work involved physical anthropology and zooarcheology. He began his career with the Corps of Engineers Regulatory program in 1982 as the second archeologist ever hired in the program. Working there 34 years included 22 years of teaching the national training for Sec. 106 NHPA and Appendix C for Regulatory. Work for the Corps of Engineers often involved districts around the country with a wide variety or problematic historic property issues. Since retiring he has concentrated on taking lots of below average photographs of different birds.
Jay Newman is an archeologist with more than 40 years of experience. Jay is retired from the US Army Corps of engineers after a more than 30 year career. I addition to his work with USACE, Jay was an archeological consultant for the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Army and Air Combat Command at Langley Air Force Base. Jay received his PhD from Southern Methodist University in 1996. Jay’s current interests include geology, antique militaria and antique firerams.