PaleoServices provides complete paleontological resource
services. These services include: resource
assessment of property (residential, commercial and public)
relevant to permit compliance requirements under the California
Environmental Quality Act (CEQA);
full mitigation programs (monitoring,
salvage, fossil preparation, and technical report production)
designed to reduce adverse environmental impacts; and professional fossil
curation and storage.
Collectively, PaleoServices staff has
over 200 years experience in paleontological resource mitigation.
In the more than 24 years that we have been providing professional paleontological services, we have never caused any extended
delays on grading projects and have never experienced any
notable injuries of field personnel.
Clients of PaleoServices include
residential developers, municipal development agencies, and
excavation contractors from San Diego, Orange, Riverside
and Imperial counties. We have also provided paleontological
consulting services to Caltrans on many roadway projects.
Thousands of significant fossils have been salvaged from
these projects by our dedicated team. These fossils are now
permanently housed at the San Diego Natural History Museum,
where many are, or have been, on public exhibit. Without
professional preservation and storage, these fossils would
be unavailable for study and display.
It is this focus on the educational and scientific value
of fossils and their permanent conservation that separates
PaleoServices from other providers of paleontological resource
service.
With a rich history serving southern California, a knowledgeable
and dedicated staff of experts, and an extensive client base,
PaleoServices is the right choice for your resource assessments,
construction mitigation, and fossil curation and storage
needs.
Our Valuable Paleontological
Resources
Paleontological resources (i.e., fossils) include the remains
and/or traces of prehistoric organisms and are the primary
source of evidence about the biological history of our planet. Fossils are typically buried in layered sedimentary rocks
and can only be collected and studied when those rocks are
exposed at the Earth's surface in either natural or man-made
exposures.
The conditions responsible for creating artificial exposures
of sedimentary strata can also be responsible for the destruction
of paleontological resources. Citizens of our state and nation
have determined that because paleontological resources are
an important part of our natural heritage, their destruction
should be mitigated.
Typical paleo mitigation programs include on-site
monitoring of active excavations, discovery and recovery
of exposed fossils, transportation of recovered specimens
to a professional preparation/conservation laboratory, laboratory-based
preparation and curation of recovered fossils, and permanent
storage of curated fossils in regional repositories/museums
where they are available for present and future generations
of citizens, students, and professional scientists.
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