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Paleontological Resources Services

Redtail Consulting owner/principal project manager Anna Buising, PhD, PG brings extensive experience overseeing, peer reviewing, and preparing paleontology technical studies and reports for a wide range of infrastructure and development projects.
Anna was involved in paleontological resources support for the California High-Speed Rail Program from 2011 through 2017, including assisting the High-Speed Rail Authority with updates to their systemwide measures for paleontological resources protection and, before that, serving as a senior technical advisor for the Authority’s statewide paleontological resources methodology. In 2021, she was an invited peer reviewer for revisions to the paleontology chapter of the Caltrans Standard Environmental Reference. She has substantial field experience in the greater San Francisco Bay area and western Central Valley, the White-Inyo Range (where she taught geology field camps for a number of years), the lower Colorado River corridor and western Arizona, the central California coast, and the Channel Islands.
Additional example paleontology projects include
  • Construction phase paleontology services, Newman Environmental Wetland System – City of Newman
  • Peer review, advising, and EIS support, Southern California Edison Control-Silver Peak 55 kV Transmission Line Project, Inyo and Mono Counties – Panorama Environmental / Horizon Water and Environment / California Public Utilities Commission
  • ​Technical report and IS/MND analysis, Capitol Corridor Newark to Santa Clara Capacity Improvements Project – ICF International / Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority
  • PIR/PER and PMP, SR 237 Express Lanes Phase 2 Project, Santa Clara County– David J. Powers & Associates / Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
  • PER Addendum, US 101 Highway Improvement Project, San Benito and Santa Clara Counties – David J. Powers & Associates / Caltrans
  • Paleontological resources technical report for General Plan Update – City of Santa Clara
  • Technical report, DesertXpress Palmdale–Las Vegas High-Speed Rail Project
  • Numerous additional technical reports for Caltrans and municipal clients