Brief Description of Education & Experience
Education:
2015-2007 Washington State University, Pullman Ph.D. program in archaeology (completed to A.B.D. status).
2004-2002 University of Texas at Austin, M.A. in Anthropology.
2001-1998 University of Arizona, Tucson B.A. in Anthropology; Minor in Spanish.
1998-1997 Eastern Arizona College, Thatcher
Experience:
Rigden is an archaeologist based in Westwood’s Minnetonka, Minnesota office, and supports all of the company’s markets as a Principal Investigator of the cultural resource group. He has over 20 years of archaeological experience executing projects in academic, government, and private sector environments. He has conducted fieldwork in Alaska, California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, Texas, Washington, and Wyoming. He has also worked in Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico through the University of Texas-Austin. Native American consultation has been an important part of his career, and he has collaborated with numerous tribes including the Navajo Nation, Northern Ute, the Spirit Lake Sioux, and the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation. Projects that typify Rigden’s experience include oil and gas development, wind and solar energy, waterline surveys, telecommunication industry, and Department of Transportation (DOT) inventories.
His most recent major project experience is in North Dakota and adjacent states where for the past 8 years he has been a Principal Investigator maintaining cultural resource permits with all Federal and State agencies. This experience has provided him the opportunity to manage projects with budgets in excess of three million dollars, and to oversee large-scale Phase III mitigations in the western part of the state. In addition, he has directed numerous smaller scale cultural resource inventories for a variety of pipeline projects (e.g., waterlines, natural gas). Highway surveys and construction monitoring have been another part of his career on the Northern Plains.
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