Date of Birth:	10 July 1948
Birthplace:	San Diego, California
Citizenship:	U.S.A.
Work Adress:
	Environmental Protection Division Ecology & Air Quality Group Work Telephone: (505) 665-9149 ENV-EAQ, Mail Stop J978 Work Fax: (505) 665-8855 Los Alamos National Laboratory Work E-mail: wbmasse@lanl.gov Los Alamos, NM 87545, U.S.A.
Education:	B.A. in Anthropology, Stanford University, 1971 M.A. in Anthropology, University of Arizona, 1974 Ph.D. in Anthropology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1990
Scholastic	California State Scholarship, Stanford University, 1966-70
Awards and Honors:
	Doctoral Fellowship, Southern Illinois University, 1980-1982 Phi Kappa Phi, 1982 Dissertation Research Award, Southern Illinois University, 1982-83 Outstanding Dissertation of the Year, Southern Illinois University, 1990 Society for American Archaeology Dissertation Prize (honorable mention), 1991
Professional Awards:	U.S. Department of Navy Performance Award, 1992, 1993, 1994 U.S. Department of Air Force Performance Award 1996, 1997 General Thomas D. White Department of Defense Cultural Resources Award (Air Force), 1996, 1999 Marquis' Who's Who in America (2002 Edition-to present)
Professional Organizations:	Sigma Xi Society for American Archaeology American Anthropological Association American Association for the Advancement of Science Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society Arizona Archaeological Council New Mexico Archaeological Council
Work Experience:	Archaeologist, Arizona State Museum (Tucson, AZ), 1973-1977, 1986-1988 Archeologist, U.S. National Park Service (Tucson, AZ), 1977-1979 Field Archaeologist, Hawai'i State Historic Preservation Office (Honolulu), 1988-1989 Pacific Area Archaeologist, U.S. Navy (Pearl Harbor, HI), 1990-1994 Archaeologist, U.S. Air Force (Luke AFB and the Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Training Range, AZ), 1995-1998 Archaeologist, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, 1999-present
Teaching:	Instructor, Aravaipa College of Technology (Central Arizona College, AZ), 1975-1977 Affiliate Graduate Faculty, University of Hawaii, 1991-2000
Professional Specializations:	Agricultural Systems Cultural Resources Management Archaeoastronomy Ecology of Marine Fishes Ceramic Analysis Mythology Chronometrics Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction Cognitive Anthropology Public Archaeology Comparative Religion Settlement Pattern Analysis Cosmic Impact Studies Zooarchaeology

Selected Publications:
1980	Excavations at Gu Achi: A Reappraisal of Hohokam Settlement and Subsistence in the Arizona Papagueria. Western Archaeological Center Publications in Anthropology 12, National Park Service. Tucson.
1981	David R. Wilcox and W. Bruce Masse (eds.). The Protohistoric Period in the North American Southwest, A.D. 1450-1700. Ariz. State Univ. Anthropological Research Papers 24. Tempe.
1981	Prehistoric Irrigation Systems in the Salt River Valley, Arizona. Science 214:408-415.
1984	W. Bruce Masse, David Snyder, and George J. Gumerman. Prehistoric and Historic Settlement in the Palau Islands, Micronesia. New Zealand Journal of Archaeology 6:107-127.
1989	The Archaeology and Ecology of Fishing in the Belau Islands, Micronesia. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
1991	The Quest for Subsistence Sufficiency and Civilization in the Sonoran Desert. In Chaco and Hohokam: Prehistoric Regional Systems in the American Southwest, P.L. Crown and W.J. Judge (eds.), pp. 195-223. School of American Research Press. Santa Fe.
1991	Radiocarbon Dating, Sea-Level Change, and the Peopling of Belau. In Recent Advances in Micronesian Archaeology, R.L. Hunter-Anderson (ed.), pp. 213-229. Micronesica Supplement 2, Univ. of Guam Press.
1991	W. Bruce Masse, Laura A. Carter, and Gary F. Somers. Waha'ula Heiau: The Symbolic and Regional Context of Hawai'i Island's 'Red Mouth' Temple. Asian Perspectives 30(1):19-56.
1995	The Celestial Basis of Civilization. Vistas in Astronomy 39:463-477.
1996	Linda M. Gregonis, and W. Bruce Masse (eds.). Alice Hubbard Carpenter: The Legacy and Context of a Southwestern Amateur Archaeologist. Special issue of the Journal of the Southwest 38(3):241-386.
1998	W. Bruce Masse and H. David Tuggle. The Date of Hawaiian Colonization. In Easter Island in Pacific Context: South Seas Symposium. C. M. Stevenson, G. Lee, and F. J. Morin (eds.). The Easter Island Foundation Occasional Paper 4, pp. 229-235.
1998	Earth, Air, Fire, & Water: The Archaeology of Bronze Age Cosmic Catastrophes. In Natural Catastrophes During Bronze Age Civilisations: Archaeological, Geological, Astronomical, and Cultural Perspectives, B.J. Peiser, T. Palmer, and M. E. Bailey (eds.), pp. 53-92. British Archaeological Reports International Series No. 728, Archaeopress, Oxford.
2000	The Living Sky. California Wild (California Academy of Sciences) 53(4):36-38.
2004	W. Bruce Masse, Linda M. Gregonis, and Mark C. Slaughter. Corridor, Frontier, Melting Pot, or Autonomous Systems?: The Lower San Pedro Valley, AD 600-1275. In The Archaeology of a Land Between: Southeastern Arizona in Prehistoric and Historic Context, H.D. Wallace (ed.). Amerind Foundation, Inc., Dragoon, AZ. [Ms. in revision for publication].
2004	Elder Brother's Creations. In Fragile Patterns: The Archaeology and History of the Arizona Papagueria, J.H. Altschul and A.G. Rankin (eds.). Tucson, AZ: SRI Press. [In press].
2005	W. Bruce Masse and Robert Soklow. Dark Suns and Black Times: The Cultural Response to Solar Eclipses in the Ancient Puebloan Southwest. In Current Studies in Archaeoastronomy: Conversations Across Time and Space, J. W. Fountain and R. M. Sinclair (eds.), pp. 47-68. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.
2006	W. Bruce Masse, Jolie Liston, James Carucci, and J. Stephen Athens. Evaluating the Effects of Climate Change on Environment, Resource Depletion and Culture in the Palau Islands Between AD 1200 and 1600. Quaternary International 151:106-132 (special issue on Dark Nature).
2006	W. Bruce Masse, and Fred Espenak. Sky as Environment: Solar Eclipses and Hohokam Culture Change. In Environmental Change and Human Adaptation in the Ancient Southwest, D.E. Doyel and J.S. Dean (eds.), pp 228-280. Salt Lake City, Univ. of Utah Press.
2006	Diana L. McPherson, W. Bruce Masse, and Kautchang Vince Blaiyok. Unusual Predatory and Aggressive Behaviors of Black-tip Reef Sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus) and Jacks (Carangidae) in the Palau Islands, Micronesia. [Prepared for submission to Environmental Biology of Fishes].
2007	The Archaeology and Anthropology of Quaternary Period Cosmic Impact. In P. Bobrowsky and H. Rickman (eds.) Asteroid/Comet Impacts and Human Society. Springer, Berlin. [In press].
2007	W. Bruce Masse, Elizabeth W. Barber, Luigi Piccardi, and Paul T. Barber. Exploring the Nature of Myth and its Role in Science. In L. Piccardi and W. B. Masse (eds.) Myth and Geology. Geological Society of London. [In press].
2007	W. Bruce Masse and Michael J. Masse. Myth and Catastrophic Reality: Using Myths to Identify Cosmic Impacts and Massive Plinian Eruptions in Holocene South America. In L. Piccardi and W. B. Masse (eds.) Myth and Geology. Geological Society of London. [In press].
n.d.	W. Bruce Masse, Rubellite Kawena Johnson, and H. David Tuggle. Islands in the Sky: Traditional Astronomy and the Role of Celestial Phenomena in Hawaiian Myth, Language, Religion, and Chiefly Power. Univ. of Hawaii Press, Honolulu. [Under contract. Ms. in preparation].