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Archaeology, History, & Historic Preservation

Personnel Detail

                 Courtney Cloy graduated with a B.A. in Anthropology from Northwestern State University (NSU), Natchitoches, Louisiana in 2005.  While attending NSU, he participated in a prehistoric field school at the Fish Hatchery site (16NA70) located in Natchitoches, Louisiana.  In addition to the field school at NSU, Cloy also travelled to Conza, Italy, to assist Fulbright Scholar Vincenzo di Giovanni in ceramic analysis for a Classical-Late Medieval archaeological site.  Mr. Cloy meets the standards of the professional guidelines established by the Secretary of the Interior (SOI) for Archaeology and History.

                 After the completion of undergraduate studies, Cloy was originally employed full time with ESI as an Archaeologist in 2006.  He served as a crew chief for a large pipeline project in Arkansas and as a field technician on several smaller projects in Louisiana and Mississippi.

                 After a year with ESI, Cloy took a brief hiatus from archaeology and then enrolled in the Heritage Resources graduate program at NSU in 2008.  The multidisciplinary program dealt with all aspects of cultural resource law, including archaeology, historic preservation, historic document research, oral history, and cultural anthropology, while providing emphasis in areas chosen by graduate candidates.  Cloy’s studies focused on archaeology while his thesis utilized historic document research, GIS, geophysical survey, archaeological survey, artifact analysis, and archaeological conservation to locate the remains of an abandoned nineteenth-century hotel in central Louisiana.

                 While enrolled in graduate school, Cloy was a research assistant with the NPS at the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT) for one academic year, a summer intern with the US Forest Service (USFS) in the Kisatche National Forest, and a research assistant with the same National Forest for one academic year.  While at NCPTT, he assisted the Director of Archaeology and Collections in a comparative analysis of robotic and conventional total stations and their applications for archaeological mapping.  While working as a summer intern, Cloy carried out a Phase I survey in the forest, trained and supervised a three person crew, and began preparing documentation for the field report of the survey.  While serving as a graduate assist for the USFS, Cloy conducted historic document research on a World War II era U.S. Army Camp for future interpretive and recreational purposes.

                 After the completion of graduate studies, Mr. Cloy rejoined ESI as a Project Manager.  Since that time he has worked on the BP Oil Spill Response team as a SCAT (Shoreline Cleanup Assessment Technique) Archaeologist.  While on this project, Cloy has performed archaeological reconnaissance, survey, and monitoring.  In addition to these surveys, he assisted in three geophysical surveys (using a magnetic gradiometer), was the field director for the groundtruthing phase of the work at one site, and co-authored the report for that survey.

                 Since mid-February, Cloy has served as a project director for the archaeology branch of the Oil Spill Response.  This position has required coordinating logistics for field archaeologists, reviewing Shoreline Treatment Recommendations (STRs), and making recommendations to Federal, State, and Tribal representatives concerning cleanup activities along oiled areas of the Louisiana Gulf Coast.

Project Manager

E-mail: esi@earth-search.com

Courtney B. Cloy, M.A.

Phone: (504) 947-0737