Back to Evelyn and Bob Back to Rupestrian CyberServices home page Evelyn Billo (formerly Newman) Rupestrian CyberServices founder and CEO 3644 N. Stone Crest Street Flagstaff, AZ 86004-6811 928-526-3625 ebillo@infomagic.net
Evelyn F. Billo, CEO
Founded Rupestrian CyberServices in 1997 to provide technical services to rock art site managers and others. Services include rock art site recording, high resolution photography and digital image enhancement, linking images, to maps, scanning and archiving research materials, comparing archival images with current rock art condition, image database creation, and production of multimedia projects for education or management.
Major contracts and grants in past decade: Rupestrian CyberServices has provided rock art recording services including mapping, photographing, and assessing rock art condition for the:
• Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Yuma Field Office: Sears Point, Arizona in progress 2008-2011
• Glen Canyon National Recreation Area/Vermillion Cliffs Alliance, Colorado River between Glen Canyon Dam and Lees Ferry, Arizona, 2010
• Navajo Nation Historic Preservation Department (NNHPD) Glen Canyon Adaptive Management Program, 2010
• Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) Big Springs State Park, Texas, in association with Dr. Johannes Loubser, 2009
• National Park Service (NPS) Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico, 2006-2009
• TPWD Devils River State Natural Area, Texas, 2008-2010
• TPWD Seminole Canyon State Park and Historic Site, Texas, 2003-2004
• U.S. Army, Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, Colorado, in association with Dr. Lawrence Loendorf, 2001-2005
• NPS Lava Beds National Monument, California, 2004
• NPS Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona, in association with Dr. Lawrence Loendorf, 2000-2003.
Additional projects:
• Starting in 2009, RCS has provided high-resolution Gigapan imagery to Shumla School, Carlsbad Canyon National Park, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Navajo Nation Historic Preservation Department, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (Hueco Tanks State Historic Park), and the Lincoln National Forest.
• RCS assessed wildfire impacts to rock art sites near Winnemucca, Nevada and New Castle, Wyoming for the BLM.
• Innovative panoramic photography of Desert View Watchtower murals in Grand Canyon National Park provided to Hopi Iconography Project at the Museum of Northern Arizona.
• Recorded rock art sites, created maps and GIS databases with rock art images linked to GIS or Acrobat files for Coconino National Forest, Arizona (San Francisco Wash), for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (Hueco Tanks State Historic Site), and for the DuBois, Wyoming Museum (Wind River area).
• Created interactive CD for museum use at Deer Valley Rock Art Center, Phoenix, Arizona and for the Kaibab National Forest (Keyhole Sink), Arizona.
• Provided image enhancement assistance to Jean Clottes, director of the Chauvet Cave research project in France, Matthias Strecker, SIARB at sites in Bolivia, Museum of Northern Arizona Hopi Iconography projecct, and Montezuma Castle National Monument, Arizona, among others.
Awards, (shared with Robert Mark), American Rock Art Research Association's Oliver Award for Excellence in Rock Art Photography, 2002, & the Conservation and Preservation Award, 1999.
Volunteer Positions:
• Research Associate in Anthropology, Museum of Northern Arizona, 2007 to present• Member of team that recorded rock art at Picture Canyon, AZ in support of it’s nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. Site placed on National Register, 2008
• Guest Curator (with others) of Stories on Stone Rock Art of the Colorado Plateau Exhibit at Museum of Northern Arizona from June 2005 through May 2006.
• Practitioner Associate for Northern Arizona University Anthropology Department (2002-present).
• Navajo Nation Historic Preservation Department Permit to study rock art in the Chinle Wash watershed and provide photographic documentation.
• Rock art recording project in BLM Paria Wilderness, (2000).
• Team leader with the Arizona Archaeological Society Field Schools at Anderson Pass (1999 & 1998), Dead Man Wash (1997), and Red Tank Draw (1996).
• Rock Art Foundation field school and site survey work, Pecos River area, Texas, 1997
• Multimedia CD completed in 1995 for the Archaeological Conservancy to assist them in mapping and managing their Rocky Hill rock art site in Tulare County, California.
• Helped record rock art of Chitactac-Adams Cultural Historic Park, Santa Clara County, California. Member Citizens Advisory Committee for Chitactac Adams from 1990-1995, working closely with Ohlone Tribal members and park planners.
• Member Citizens Advisory Committee for Henry W. Coe State Park from 1985-1995; helping with the archaeological resource inventory at the second largest state park in California.
Thirty years experience recording rock art worldwide on 35-mm slide film and digitally. Concern with image-degradation in private research materials led to developments of image enhancement techniques using Photoshop that are now standards in the field. Concern for site conservation led to multimedia services that combine precision GPS, GIS, digital images, 360-degree panoramas, QuickTime Virtual Reality, Gigapans, D-Stretch, 3-D imaging, pXRF, and CD/DVD technology.
Archive activities include scanning research slides, drawings, and photograph collections of individual rock art researchers, creating image databases, and archiving images and data to CDROM or DVDs as appropriate.
Rock art site protection and activism
• American Rock Art Research Association’s immediate Past President, former Vice President & Board member. Member ARARA Archive and Conservation and Preservation Committees.
• Vice President: Arizona Archaeological Society, Northern Arizona Chapter 2002-present; Board member 1997-2002. Project Director AHC Grant for Picture Canyon Plateau Issue, 2010.
• Member, Picture Canyon Core Group 2005- present
• Vice president: Santa Clara County Archaeological Society, 1990’s
• Certified Rock Art Recorder: Arizona Archaeological Society. Since 1997
• Member: SAA, AIA, URARA, ESRARA, AURA, SARARA, SIARB, INORA. Founding member: BARARA, RAF, and NRAF.
• Listed in Who's Who in Rock Art, 1996 edition.
Publications and Presentations: Rock art publication bibliography with Robert Mark is on our website. www.rupestrian.com
Previous Employment: Twenty-six years with the US Geological Survey as a Digital Mapping Consultant and Computer Specialist.
Education: Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics: New Mexico State University, 1965.
Selected Publications
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