Maschner, Herbert D.G.

Herbert Maschner is Research Professor of Anthropology, Interim Director and Curator/Division Head of Anthropology at the Idaho Museum of Natural History (IMNH), Director of the Center for Archaeology,  Materials, and Applied Spectroscopy (CAMAS), Senior Scientist at the Idaho Accelerator Center  (IAC), Head of Graduate Studies in the Department of Anthropology, Associate Editor of the Journal of World Prehistory, and an Executive Director of the Foundation for Archaeological Research and  Environmental Studies (FARES). In 2006 he was named ISU’s Distinguished Researcher, in 2011 he was named the Idaho Academy of Science Distinguished Scientist.

Maschner did his PhD at the University of California‐Santa Barbara, his MS at the University of Alaska, and the BS at the University of New Mexico. His primary research interests include using trans-disciplinary data to investigate human biocomplexity and the environment, resource and community sustainability, long‐term human impacts and interactions with marine and terrestrial ecosystems, human ecosystem engineering, Darwinian Theory and evolutionary psychology, warfare and inequality, and global historical ecologies. His museum interests are in virtual museums and repositories, and in the development of integrated trandisciplinary research. Methodologically his interests include 3d virtualization and database construction, historical ecology, elemental and isotopic analyses, geographic information systems and remote sensing, and complex systems analysis. His primary research area is the North Pacific Rim and Western North America, especially the eastern Aleutian region, Northwest Coast, western sub-Arctic, and Idaho.