Back to Evelyn and Bob Back to Rupestrian CyberServices home page Robert K. Mark, Ph.D. Chief Scientist at Rupestrian CyberServices 3644 N. Stone Crest Street Flagstaff, AZ 86004-6811 Phone (928) 526-3625 e-mail: rmark@infomagic.net
Employment
Rupestrian CyberServices (1998 to present) US Geological Survey (1974-1997) UCLA Dept.of Earth and Planetary Science (1971-1974)
Education Stanford University Geology Ph.D. 1972 Stanford University Physics/Math MS 1969 City College of NY Physics/Math BS 1964
Arizona Archaeological Society Rock Art Recording Field School (1998) Apple QuickTime Virtual Reality (QTVR), Apple Developer University (1996) ARCVIEW & Avenue Programming, ESRI (1995) Archaeometry, Stanford Univ. Continuing Education (1995) What's new in ARC/INFO 7.0 (1995) Introduction to ARC/VIEW (1995) Spatial Modeling (1994) Overview of ERDAS IMAGINE (1994) Customizing ARC/INFO with AML (1994) Introduction to ARC/INFO GRID (1991) and Advanced ARC/INFO (1992) Training in archaeological site protection (National Park Service, 1989) Rock Art Site Management and Protection (Getty Conservation Inst., 1989)
Digital image enhancement, GIS, statistical modeling, and multimedia techniques are applied to rock art studies, site management, and public education.
Research Associate, Museum of Northern Arizona
Practitioner Associate, Dept. of Anthropology, Northern Arizona University
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Geological Society of America, American Anthropological Assn., American Geophysical Union, Sigma XI, American Rock Art Research Assn. Conservation Committee, Utah Rock Art Research Assn., Eastern States Rock Art Research Assn., Australian Rock Art Research Assn., Southern Africa Rock Art Research Assn., Society for American Archaeology, Arizona Archaeological Society, Archaeological Institute of America, and National Assn. of Photoshop Professionals.
In Who's Who in Rock Art, a worldwide directory of specialists / scholars in the field of rock art, 1996.
Oliver Award for Excellence in Rock Art Photography 2002
ARARA Conservation and Preservation Award 1999
• Sears Point in Arizona, in progress through 2010 (Three-year project mapping and documenting over 1500 panels for BLM.)
• Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico, in progress through 2009
• Devils River State Natural Area, Texa.s in progress through 2009
• Seminole Canyon State Park and Historic Site, Texas
• Lava Beds National Monument, California
• Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona.
Additional projects
• Assessed wildfire impacts to rock art sites in Nevada and Wyoming for the BLM.
• Innovative panoramic photography of Desert View Watchtower murals in Grand Canyon National Park as part of the Hopi Iconography Project with the Museum of Northern Arizona,
• Recorded rock art sites including creating maps and GIS databases with linked images of rock art at
• Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, Colorado
• Coconino National Forest, Arizona
• Hueco Tanks State Historic Site for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
• Wind River rock art for the DuBois, Wyoming museum
• Produced interactive educational CDs for
• Deer Valley Rock Art Center, Phoenix, Arizona
• Kaibab National Forest Keyhole Sink rock art site, Arizona
Selected Publications
Over twenty scientific publications dealing with diverse aspects of rock art, site documentation, conservation, and management. Two multimedia CDs produced. One contains Quick Time Virtual Reality rotatable images of the planets. Another contains a 360-degree panorama of a public rock art site with close up images linked to hot spots.
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